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Top Albums of 2008: Part 6, 15-11

—— 15) Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night (Slumberland) This is the kind of album that takes a few listens before it opens up and you really start appreciating how good it is. Like the Vivian Girls, this is on a post-punk, early twee tip, but nowhere near as sweet and bubbly. In fact, singer Brad Harget’s deep baritone keeps things rather sullen, no matter how upbeat the music gets. Imagine Ian Curtis fronting a Nuggets-era pysch-pop group, using the Jesus & Mary Chain’s audio equipment

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Saliva, Cinco Diablo

Southern rock returns, Saliva style.  Memphis rockers Saliva release their fifth album “Cinco Diablo” on Island Records December 16, 2008.   “Cinco Diablo” is the follow up album to “Blood Stained Love Story”, which was released in January 2007 and featured such hits as “Ladies and Gentlemen” and “Always”.  Saliva’s debut album “Every Six Seconds”, released in 2001, was recently certified double platinum by the RIAA, and featured hits like “Click Click Boom” and more. “Cinco Diablo” brings a d

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Creating a Grunge Rock Poster

Preparation: You will need a beautiful guitarist from Mjranum Stock, Vector Speakers from Thegoldenmane and New York Sinatra from Antoine Mallet. Click here to download Guitarist. Click here to download Vector Speakers. Click here to download New York Sinatra. All rights of these resources belong to their respective owners. Step 1a - Cropping Figures: Create a document with size 800×600 pixels. Open up Oh Yeah 3 and crop out the figure using the Filter >

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The Folkier Side of Evan Dando: Covers of Whitney Houston, Big Star, Metallica and more

  The kids in my tiny uberliberal prep school loved The Lemonheads before they were cool, and as more than just local heroes — the band had been formed in the same hallowed halls, and the oldest of our peers could still remember their presence among us. The music was perfectly adolescent, too: raw and visceral, full of feedback and fuzzy guitars; it wasn’t much more ragged than our own amateur output, and it came complete with frontman Evan Dando, who presented a grungy kind of everyteen cha

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‘Christmas Carol’s’ Lotorto discovers the joys of weekend commuting

  Hal Landon, left, prepares to play Scrooge for the 29th consecutive time. Stage manager Jamie Tucker, right, makes the trains run on time in the rehearsal room. Here’s the fourth in a series of blog entries from actor Louis Lotorto, who’s participating for the first time in South Coast Repertory’s 29th annual production of “A Christmas Carol.” I like rehearsing on the weekends at SCR because my commute is only 55 minutes and there are less cars on the road.  The drive down to the theat

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Rock n’ Racquets?

A SPECTACULAR, EXPENSIVE NIGHT OF TENNIS, MUSIC If you like tennis and washed-up grunge musicians, then boy have I got something for you. Apparently, on Dec. 13, the Columbia Convention Visitors Bureau and Newberry College will sponsor “Rock n’ Racquets” at the Colonial Life Arena featuring former Bush lead singer Gavin Rossdale, two big name tennis players, and a couple of people I’ve never heard of. America’s #1 player, Andy Roddick, is joined by 2008 US Open Champion Serena Williams as

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"Equal time"

From the state that gave us grunge rock, Nike shoes, Microsoft's home offices and Mt St Helens, I give you some new "tolerance:" OLYMPIA, Wash. -- An atheistic sign is included in the state Capitol's holiday display that includes a holiday tree and a Christian nativity scene. The sign, a new addition this year, is sponsored by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. The sign reads, "Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds." Annie Laurie Gaylor, foundation

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stephen malkmus plays neumo’s saturday, win tickets today

photo via stephen malkmus [myspace] Once upon a time there was a band called Pavement that gave college indie-rock geeks (before being an indie rock geek was a primetime drama character trait) something to obsess over in the nineties that wasn’t grunge. Now, of course, they have faded into the mists of record shop legend, but frontman Stephen Malkmus lives on with his merry band of heroes, the Jicks. Who, by the way, feature one Janet Weiss of Sleater-Kinney fame on drums. They’ll brin

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Morning Cup of Links: Fugitives at Large

Why going “Made in the USA” for a week left Nicole McClelland hungry, broke, and half-naked. Buying American is a lot more difficult than you would think. * Stack the Memory by the Sniper Twins is nerdcore rap to the max. What worries me is that I can actually understand about half of it! * Top Ten Fugitives That Were Never Caught. If you see these men, there could be a reward in it for you. (via Unique Daily) * 10 Facts About Diamonds You Should Know. These are in a addition to what you

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The 10 Best Things You May Have Found Back At Home On Thanksgiving Break

Are you back from Thanksgiving break yet? Well, if you visited your parent’s house (we’re assuming you’ve moved out) over the holiday, there’s a chance you went into your old bedroom or the basement or the attic and rummaged through some of your old crap. We’ve talked to enough people to know it happened. Well, here are the 10 best things you may have found back at home on Thanksgiving break. 10. Photos of Yourself With Hilariously Outdated Hairstyles You’ll Be Able to Upload to Your

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TV Review: Californication Goes ‘In Utero’

Californication, Showtime, Airs Sundays 10pm E/P Episode: “In Utero” (Season Two, Episode Ten) Synopsis: While Hank nervously awaits the results of his biopsy, he reflects on his relationship with Karen, and we flashback to the beginning of their stormy union — an event that coincides with the tragic overdose of a famous grunge rocker. Meanwhile, Daisy tells Charlie that she’s moving out, but Charlie doesn’t want to let her go. Review: For the second time this season, Hank finds himself in a

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Tuesday 12.02.08: VIOLENT SOHO (from Australia)

Violent Soho || Watch 2008 has already been a huge year for the four piece, having toured almost non stop with a bunch of other Aussie acts, including their current jaunt with The Mess Hall. June saw the release of their debut album, “We Don’t Belong Here”, which has been causing quite the stir among music fans and critics alike. It’s a dirty, relentless rock affair that doesn’t skip a beat from opening track “Love is a Heavy Word”, which has been a Triple J favourite. While the band’s ear

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Lissy Trullie interview + FREE MP3

Lissy Trullie is a musician based in New York City. Having played around with various lineups in the last couple of years, in 2008 she solidified her band. The past few months have seen her compelling songwriting and on point live performances steadily gain attention and fans around the city. Download “Self Taught Learner” MP3 Time Out New York remarked that “Her dangerously cool tunes, which mash up dancey new wave, ’60’s girl-group sounds and the softer side of the Velvet Underground, hit

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heute-und: GPOYCD’s. A little personal music history… 1985-1993...

heute-und: GPOYCD’s. A little personal music history… 1985-1993 = Young Simon, no money, older brother, older cousins, older neighbours. This meant I listened to hair metal, thrash metal, grunge, and hard rock, 90% of which was straight from LA. It’s this time that I look back upon most fondly, if you can’t tell by my haircut/hair obsession. 1993 - 1997 = Musically absent Simon. I don’t know what happened here, but I did get into Irish folk music/Irish Dancing (I won medals, so fuck you)

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SOMETHING INTERESTING

Famous Last Words Published on 9/28/2006 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. Francisco ("Pancho") Villa I'll be in Hell before you start breakfast! "Black Jack" Ketchum, notorious train robber Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies. Voltaire (attributed), when asked by a priest to renounce Satan Get these fucking nuns away from me. Norman Douglas Don't worry...it's not loaded... Terry Kath, rock musician in the band Chicago Transit Authority as he put the g

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Top 100 Albums of the Decade: #32 Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain

Top 100 Albums of the Decade list will be posted over the course of 100 days. On September 23rd, we will post one album and continue every day until December 31st, when we will unveil our #1 album of the decade! Please read our introduction to learn about our nominating and ordering process. #32 Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain When you’re an artist that takes on a new moniker with each new album, it’s pretty safe to assume that you do exactly whatever the hell it is that you want to do

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P Street Beach

I have probably seen David Bromberg in concert five or six times. The first time was at the "P Street Beach" in Washington, DC. I was maybe 18. Can't remember. "P Street Beach" was and still is I guess a part of Rock Creek Park. A small section of the park near P street where people congregated to catch some rays and get wet in the creek just after it ran under P Street. I remember an overused area of threadbare grass, a few trees, and a bandstand. Just one of the many small gullies of nature th

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Sweet Memories

I was browsing through iTunes the other day and came across a mention of Matthew Sweet’s 1995 album 100% Fun, which happened to be one of the first CDs I bought as a teenager. To my frustration, I no longer seemed to have the album anywhere, but I really wanted to hear it again, so I broke down and bought the digital copy after a few days of vacillating. It’s so great! The “power pop” sound of this album didn’t really fit in with the alterna-grunge vibe of the mid-’90s, and that might be one

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Grunge Rock, Videos, Movie Previews

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Twilight Drive

JENNIFER JOHNSON: TONIGHT AT JAZZBONES >>> In mid 2007 bass player Vinny Beatty talked about his newest project after the demise of Never Quiet Never Still, Beatty’s former band that did really well in the Northwest. He said that he was getting some guys together to do some new stuff. This passing comment was followed by another, months later, when Beatty nonchalantly stated Twilight Drive, his newly formed band, was going to be “sorta indie rock, pop, grunge, with a lot of energy. B

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