bullet holes in the mailbox

Flatter than a tabletop
Makes you wonder why they stopped here
Wagon must have lost a wheel
or they lacked ambition one

 

James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards
Live In Aught-Three (2004)

1. Saint Mary of the Woods
2. Fraulein O.
3. Red Dress
4. No More Buffalo
5. 60 Acres
6. Rachel's Song
7. Out Here in the Middle
8. Choctaw Bingo
9. Lights of Cheyenne
10. Levelland
11. Max's Theorem
12. I'm Not From Here
13. Too Long in the Wasteland
14. Rex's Blues

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Sincola

"Curve" and "Mystery" recorded live at the Hole In The Wall in Austin, Texas on March 23rd, 1993.

my favorite albums of 2007 so far

Barry. Pure mintit.

The Twilight Sad
Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
"Talking With Fireworks/ Here, It Never Snowed" (listen)


Inspired. Layered. Splendid.

The National
Boxer
"Start a War" (listen)


Hauntingly beautiful.

The National Lights
The Dead Will Walk, Dear
"Swimming in the Swamp" (listen)


Luscious shoegazy goodness.

Thrushes
Sun Come Undone
"Aidan Quinn" (listen)


Dunedin, NY.

My Teenage Stride
Ears Like Golden Bats
"Ears Like Golden Bats" (listen)


Virtuosic revelations.

Andrew Bird
Armchair Apocrypha
"Dark Matter" (listen)


Colorful. Dynamic. Manic.

Frog Eyes
Tears of the Valedictorian
"Reform the Countryside" (listen)



Melodic muscular math-rock.

Battles
Mirrored
"Tonto" (listen)


Mark E.

The Fall
Reformation Post TLC
"Fall Sound" (listen)


Gutbucket garage.

Black Diamond Heavies
Every Damn Time
"Fever In My Blood" (listen)

music is my boyfriend

 

The Hidden Cameras
Mississauga Goddam (2004)

1. Doot Doot Ploot
2. Builds the Bone
3. The Fear Is On
4. That's When the Ceremony Starts
5. I Believe in the Good Life
6. In the Union of Wine
7. Music Is My Boyfriend
8. Bboy
9. We Oh We
10. I Want Another Enema
11. Mississauga Goddam

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parade of wolves

Wolf Parade
Wolf Parade EP (2005)

1. Shine a Light
2. You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son
3. Disco Sheets
4. Lousy Pictures

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future unicorns

The Unicorns
The Unicorns: 2014 (2004)

1. The Unicorns: 2014
2. Emasculate the Masculine
3. Evacuate the Vacuous (Outtake)
4. The Unicorns: 2014 (Demo Version)

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c+cs

 

Crime + the City Solution
Just South of Heaven (1985)

1. Rose Blue
2. The Coal Train
3. Stolen & Stealing
4. Five Stone Walls
5. Trouble Come This Morning
6. The Wailing Wall

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okkervil

 

Okkervil River
Stars Too Small to Use (1999)

1. Kathy Keller
2. The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion
3. Oh, Precious
4. For the Captain
5. Auntie Alice
6. Whole Wide World
7. He Passes Number Thirty-Three

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answering machine music

 

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
Answering Machine Music (2002)

1. Theme From Answering Music Machine (David Hanna)
2. When the Bridge Toll Was a Dollar
3. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Joins the Foreign Legion
4. Cold Shoulder
5. Rice Dream Girl
6. Secrestest Crush
7. A Normal Suburban Lifestyle Is a Near Impossibility Once You've Fallen in Love With an International Spy
8. Baby It's You
9. You Never Call
10. Daina Flores You're the One
11. Beeline
12. I Should Have Kissed You When I Had the Chance
13. Hey Jelly
14. Hotel Huntington Sign
15. It's Winter and You Don't Love Me Anymore
16. Seattle Washington

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Casio Synthesisers 1982-1992

Casio, the Japanese consumer electronics company, was in the professional synthesizer business until 1992. All of their synthesizers were digital, and involved menu driven programming interfaces. The CZ line used what they called 'Phase Distortion Synthesis'. The VZ line used 'Interactive Phase Distortion' and the FZ line were 16 bit sampling units. The CZ line was among the first commercially available MIDI keyboards.

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i've got my band

 

The Radio Dept.
Pulling Our Weight (2003)

1. Pulling Our Weight
2. We Climb the Wired Fences
3. I Don't Need Love, I've Got My Band
4. Someone Else
5. The City Limit

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queen of the surface streets

 

Devotchka
Una Volta (2003)

1. C'est ce la
2. The Oblivion
3. Death by Blonde
4. Queen of the Surface Streets
5. One Last Vow
6. Vengo! Vengo!
7. Miette
8. Ocean of Lust
9. C'est ce la - part II
10. Commerce City Sister
11. La Llorrona

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flip it to the b-side

 

This Microwave World
Red States (2005)

1. December Was a Sham
2. You Are a Riot
3. The Party Line
4. The Year of Living Enviously
5. She's Insecure
6. Death of a Taxpayer
7. Cardinal Sin
8. A Model Life
9. Flip It to the B-Side
10. The Hours

Sean O'Neal - guitar/vocals
Evan Lawrence - organ
Brandon Loe - bass
Erin Mikulenka - synth/vocals
Kevin Bybee - drums



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heartless romantic

 

The Dears
End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story (2000)

1. C'Était pour la passion
2. Jazz Waltz No. 3 in B-Flat
3. This Is a Broadcast
4. Where the World Begins and Ends
5. Heartless Romantic
6. End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story
7. There Is No Such Thing as Love
8. Partir, par terre

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Good Copy Bad Copy

"Good Copy Bad Copy" is a documentary about copyright and culture, directed by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke. It features interviews with Danger Mouse, Girl Talk, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Lawrence Lessig, and many others with various perspectives on copyright.


http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/



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distended

 

Slovenly
Thinking of Empire (1986)

1. Movement
2. Give Him a Sip Cause His Mind's Messed Up
3. Sand
4. Distended
5. Diminished Idol
6. This Is the Big Time
7. Cartwheels of Glory
8. At Sea
9. Inattention
10. Interruptions
11. On the Beach
12. Bleached

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