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Taking Time To Make Time, Making Time To Be There (in other words, see you soon)

March 11, 2010

Time to air out the Vegetable drawers and reacquaint myself with the world. Back on Monday the 22nd with music to slap your hamhocks to.

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Hey, Don’t Miss This:
Yo La Tengo Perform Covers Of Your Choice Tonight For WFMU

March 5, 2010

The wickedass, free-form, and listener-supported WFMU is in the middle of its marathon fundraiser, and tonight at 8-11PM Eastern (that’s 5-8PM Pacific, stoners) they’ll be playing the cover requests of folks who pledge at least $100 to keep the dream alive. Tune in at wfmu.org.

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Noise Popped! Friday 2/26:
John Vanderslice / Nurses / Honeycomb / Conspiracy of Venus @ Swedish American Hall,
Spencey Dude & The Doodles / Weekend @ Bender’s

March 1, 2010

Phew, holy crow. You can have one of those “this is why I go out to shows” nights any time of the year, but to have three nights like that in a row, you probably need an assist from a festival. Noise Pop packed the weekend with great music and made it hard not to [...]

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Noise Pop 2010 Preview:
The Undercards

February 24, 2010

Noise Pop Death March begins!
What with all the head-turning headliners, it can be easy to miss one of the major highlights of Noise Pop: loads of interesting openers. This is where you find the gems — these are no random acts thrown on by the label or venue, each show has like three opening bands [...]

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San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival On Now!

February 18, 2010

Crap, dudes, I caught too caught up watching curling and thinking about Chris Collinsworth’s pocket square to shout out about the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival, which started last Friday.
It runs through Sunday, so there’s still plenty of time and plenty of action, though — tonight we’ve got local bluegrass stalwarts High Country & [...]

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Tell Me Do You Stand By Yo-hore Ma-a-n? [video]

January 19, 2010

Hot Chip: still masters of the chorus, still sweet.
“One Life Stand” (their album One Life Stand comes out Feb. 9)

They’re playing the Fox in Oakland on April 16. With the xx — y’all betta reckanize!

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*sigh* So Long, Jay

January 13, 2010

You should have stuck around for another 29 years. It was gonna be great.
Jay Reatard: “It’s So Easy”

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Hello Vegetables Christmasstravaganza!
7 Songs To Keep Your Yuletide Hella Bright

December 22, 2009

Holy crap, dear hearts! It’s December 22nd! I’d better slide you some top-notch Christmas music to make sure your holidays is filled with those things which are awesome.
IN TIME, THE LORD WILL RISE
‘Round these parts the greatest contemporary Christmas musician is considered to be Sufjan Stevens, who put out five EPs of Christmas music from [...]

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Excuse Me, Miss, I Think You Dropped Something:
The Greatest Albums Not Making Enough “Best Of 2009″ Lists

December 21, 2009

It’s year-end best-ofs time, and there are hundreds of lists (themselves listed at Largehearted Boy) out there for the mining. This year’s themes seems to be:

working hard to convince yourself there are better albums than Merriweather Post Pavilion,  just so you don’t appear to be following the crowd
taking the Decemberists and Andrew Bird for granted
either [...]

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See You Monday

December 9, 2009

Taking some well-deserved personal grooming time … back Monday for some end-of-the-year wrap-up shenanigans!

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