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Art Brut

Today’s Vegetable (Covers Week!):
Even Though It Felt Soft At The Time
(an Eddie Argos Spectacular)

January 27, 2010

Art Brut has such a particular sound that one wouldn’t necessarily assume they would adapt well to covering others’ songs.  One learned otherwise on their last tour:
Art Brut: “The KKK Took My Baby Away” (Schuba’s, Chicago 6/8/09)

…so you say, “Sure, the Ramones. That fits OK. But what else could they do?”
Splabam.
Art Brut – Catch from [...]

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Double Love Hangover:
Art Brut at Café Du Nord, Oct. 30
Dirty Projectors at Bimbo’s, Nov. 1

November 2, 2009

Now that’s a set of bookends.
Used to be a band toured in support of an album. But with the industry working the way it does nowadays, more bands seem to be releasing albums to support their touring. Live performances have always been a better financial deal for the bands anyway (unless you’re Jens Lekman), and [...]

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Cool Your Warm Jets, Brian Eno

May 7, 2009

Hey! New Art Brut!
Eddie Argos sings about things that millions of people have thought or experienced. Still, he always seems to be the very first person to actually write a song about it.
I had a hard time deciding between this song and the song where he’s freaking out about how he only just now found [...]

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The Way The Whispers Bit Like Fangs In The Last Hour Of The Party

November 7, 2007

So the Art Brut/Hold Steady show was pretty motherflippin’ sweet. Do you know what those bands have in common? No, not shouty lead singers. I hadn’t actually noticed that. They’re both bands that sing about being in a band, which I love.
But The Hold Steady also mentions their own band name in [...]

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Is It So Wrong?

August 30, 2007

Thousands of years of humans making music, and I think this might be the very first song about this subject. Way to go, Eddie!
This has happened to me two times that I can recall. Tomorrow I’ll post at least one of the songs.
Art Brut – Pump Up The Volume from It’s A Bit [...]

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