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New Favorite Band

Today’s Vegetable:
Come On Up Here Where I Can See You

November 10, 2009

New Favorite Band alert!
I know I tend to throw the word “adorable” around this joint a lot, but really, look at this photo — what else could I say?
But the Middle Ones are more than just adorable — they’ve got the depth and bite that run throughout all of my favorite at-first-glance-gentle British pop.
Their debut [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
Laying To Rest Every Goddamn Good Thing We Had Ever Had

September 8, 2009

I don’t know what they’re putting in the beer and bocce balls in Portland, but it’s caused to sprout the finest punk-rock record I’ve heard in years. A Rhythm In The Cages by the Taxpayers has got the goods, I promise — in all shades of rock, country, and baritone fucking sax.
Plus, they’re there for [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
From That Day On, His Unpopularity Became Unremittingly Relentless

September 1, 2009

I tried to think of some flowery words to put here, but the only thing I feel inside when I listen to Joe Gideon & The Shark is GODDAMN THAT’S REFRESHING. Then I wonder how I ever enjoyed other kinds of music. Their debut full-length Harum Scarum is righteous, righteous, righteous.
Excellent for all ages, but [...]

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Bye-Bye To The Too-Good-To-Be-True Kind Of Love

August 21, 2009

As long as we’re talking about lanky frontmen who sing like preachers, let me drop some English about  my new favorite band, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes.
Pretty much all I need to tell you is that they’re a twelve-person band with a Jesus-Freaks-in-the-desert thing goin’ on, and you’ll understand how I fell so hard [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
If Not Today, Then Maybe Tomorrow

August 18, 2009

Hot damn, dear hearts, somethin’s in the Swedish water.
Much in the way that people moved to San Francisco in the late 60s to be hippies, or moved to Seattle in the 90s to be goatees, I’m moving to Sweden to be a pop genius.
Yet another stellar release on Gothenburg’s Sincerely Yours, jj’s jj n° [...]

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Oh Have You Ever Felt So Goddamn Strong

July 7, 2009

New favorite band alert!
Last week I was puttering about the house with the ol’ DirecTV/XM/Sirius music thingy tuned into XMU (because I like “college” music). I got to enjoy the commercial-free mostly-good music for about three songs before there was an ad for some band called Passion Pit that was coming in to host a [...]

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You’re Not Gonna Make It Unless You Really Really Want To

June 3, 2009

New favorite band alert!
Your honor, please allow me to submit exhibit A:

Secondly, songs about making breakfast! And Bigfoot!!!
And then the last exhibit, although if you weren’t excited about the first two I’m not really sure what else I can say, is that they are great!
Also, song titles like “Everyone On Earth Should Always Adopt A [...]

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