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Friday, May 07, 2004
balls also to the wall
"The higher ups, on the other hand, appear to have realized fairly quickly that exposing the abuses at Abu Ghraib would draw global attention to the entire system - Gitmo, the prisons in Afghanistan, their entire kinder, gentler gulag archipelago. So it looks like they adopted a strategy of letting the CID investigations run their secret course, while allowing Taguba's report to sit on the bureaucratic shelf.
The photographic evidence, however, couldn't be controlled -- the gang should have seen that from the start -- and somebody (Taguba?) became so angry about the way the report was being buried that they leaked it to Sy Hersh. The stonewall crumbled."
Thursday, May 06, 2004
familie affair
"On "Brother is to Son", all the special-ness that the full band brought to previous Danielson albums is fully present. The earnest vocal chirp of head Danielson himself is still there, not to mention the empassioned and punk-inspired hard strum of his acoustic guitar. He still leads his folk jamboree through the familial boy-girl harmonies as the banjos, bells, piano keys and jaw harp all teem with kinetic energy, like a deconstructionalist jug band led by a man who follows in the bold footsteps of Sun Ra, Don Van Vliet and Johnny Lydon as a truly original art terrorist."mp3 things against stuff from brother is to son
mp3 daughters will tune you from brother is to son
the unicorns
"In that sense, they rival The Shins, or The Magnetic Fields, or any of the innumerable indie touchstones, but what truly sets Who Will Cut Our Hair apart is the near-total absence of traditional verse/chorus/verse framework in their songs; to nail beautiful, memorable lines with such remarkable ease is a feat unto itself, but to do so in essentially formless compositions is a different class of achievement entirely. Songs shift effortlessly from segment to segment, never relying upon the crutch of repetitive composition to create the illusion of a powerful hook. That's not to say that motifs aren't revisited throughout a song, but elementary concepts of A-B-A structure are abandoned in favor of brilliant, sprawling whole-song compositions."mp3s tuff ghost and les os
of of
"Of Montreal's long-out-of-print, high-ticket-eBay-item album "Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse" is now available through Polyvinyl as a re-issue. Prior to "Satanic Panic in the Attic," "Coquelicot's..." concept, arrangements, and artwork (a whopping sixteen page booklet featuring paintings by David Barnes) was described as Of Montreal's most ambitious album in terms of scope and quality."reissue mp3 good morning mr edminton
new mp3 disconnect the dots
depeche mood
"Musically, (Patrick) Wolf sees himself as a 21st Century folk artist, which includes playing viola, accordion, and ukulele as well as his trusty laptop by his side. With laptop, the folk artist can go ANYWHERE and record, from a city squat to a forest cabin. The result is a mixture of haunting melodies, beautiful strings, glitch core beats, cut up field recordings, and passionate singing and lyrics. His musical influences include: Joni Mitchell, Meredith Monk, The Pixies, Vashti Bunyan, Chet Baker, Lucia Pamela, Pierre Boulez, PJ Harvey, Osvaldo Golijov, Digital Hardcore Recordings, Bjork, Clara Rockmore, John Cale and Nico."streams london calling 2003
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the shins
iron and wine
short wave
throwing muse kristen hersh gets in touch with her inner cobain with her 50 Foot Wave project.
rat race
"Formerly known as Cherry, this NYC duo is already familiar to hipsters from touring with Interpol. (In fact, Interpol's Paul Banks occasionally guests on guitar.) Ratatat's founders, Mike "Snake" Stroud and Evan ''E*Vax" Mast, have been making music out of a Crown Heights apartment in Brooklyn since 2001, their unique sound born of a combined love of Jay-Z, The Rolling Stones, Timbaland, and Beethoven. Mike is one of New York's best guitarists and has spent his time touring the world with Ben Kweller and Dashboard Confessional; Evan has been producing music as E*vax for the past few years. Now back in their bedroom studio, the pair have made a sing-along record, just without words. While dance music is trying to re-invent itself and rock is returning to its roots, Ratatat seem to make a happy mess in both fields."mp3 seventeen years
magic acts
"One of the advantages of being almost as tall as Muggsy Bogues is being able to sneak to the front pretty easily even in a packed house - and I must say that the kids there to see Mira and and the other "complicated" bands on the bill were amongst the nicest I've ever come across. To the music - White Magic sounds kinda like what Qix*o*tic would be if it was just Mira's parts. She plays both the keys and guitar and performs each song with a depth and poignancy that echoes 'White Rabbit" under water on shrooms in December. Well, to me at least."mp3 one note from through a sun door
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new lali puna streaming and quicktime vid