Found this:
Space-y, shoe gaze-y little number I put together some time back. Left pretty much everything up to chance and was very pleasantly surprised with all the different sounds that came out. Happy New Year everyone!
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Thanks Sara, for pointing out:
British rockers The Kooks almost broke up following the shock departure of their bassist earlier this year. The band were stunned when founding member Max Rafferty walked out due to illness in October.
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Priscilla sent us a link to this:
Melodic, slightly exotic, wistful surf music from Hell. I was in a band called the Brimstones for a long period of my life. Right before we parted ways, we recorded a bunch of stuff that never really saw the light of day. I like you guys at mefi […]
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Interesting:
2007 is almost in the books. Hooray! (No, seriously, get it out of our faces.) Before we go, let’s squeeze in one last list with a look back at the 20 most popular posts from the last 365 days:
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Harold emailed us this:
Jon Bon Jovi is so content with making new albums and touring that he doesn’t need chart success to make him happy. The Bon Jovi rocker admits the band will never be as popular as they were in their 1980s heyday, but they don’t care as long as they can continue to […]
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Kevin emailed us this:
Our year-end countdown ends with a pair of songs that are, when you get right down to it, pretty much polar opposites of one another. But we wouldn’t have it any other way.
1A. Violet Vector And…
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Kent emailed us this:
In what’s fast becoming a Stereogum tradition, we’ve once again conspired with master bootlegger team9 for a celebration of the year in singles. Of course “the year in singles” is a loaded term coming from us — relatively massive as they are, Arcade Fire, M.I.A. and Band Of Horses aren’t exactly Hot […]
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This is an interesting post:
Since it’s the last day of the 12 Days Of 90s Emo, which is probably the 15 Days Of 90s Emo Counting Weekends at this point, and the already loose definition of the genre has been all smooshed and…
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Frank sent us a link to this:
This is a rethink of a song <a href="http://music.metafilter.com/907/Lazlo-Buddy">I posted earlier this year</a>. This is part of a new series I'm thinking of doing in which I rework all of the songs I've written about depression, death, and alienation and gear them towards the largely untapped stairstepping/Indo-Row/aerobics classes […]
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Found this:
It is with the heaviest of hearts that we ring in the new year by reporting that Kate Richardson, Idolator’s fearless (and generally put-upon) intern and world-renowned compiler of YouTube tributery,…
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