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Manishevitz

Manishevitz: The Pedigree Of A Voice That Wakes With Bunny Hills Trapped In It

28 February 07

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When The Shins’ got some phat McDonalds Corporation money for allowing the often-attacked fast food chain to use “New Slang” in one of its television spots, lead singer James Mercer said that the money is what allowed him to buy a house. Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello should be able to buy a house apiece and a fleet of yachts with all of the money they must be shagging from the many advertisement uses of that darned Postal Service record. While not the same kind of riches as the aforementioned examples, Chicago’s Manishevitz got enough money from a 30-second snippet of their song “Beretta” playing on “The O.C.” that it make’s the follow-up to 2003’s City Life already bought and paid for before it’s even sold a copy. That’s a good thing. A great thing. It’s also a very strange thing because bands such as Manishevitz aren’t usually on the tips of the tongues of those tender-assed teen soap operas, where all the high school-aged kids are promiscuous and all of life’s lessons are triggered by the swells of Snow Patrol songs and cutting to a scene on the beach typically requires a shot of The Starting Line or any old Eve 6 quotient. The very idea that a band like Manishevitz is making a record on “O.C.” greenbacks is paranormal.

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My shoes ain't that good

28 February 07

37.3 - François Virot - My shoes ain't that good
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PUSA lasso'd

Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America Gets Lasso'd

27 February 07

No matter where you are right now, you’re probably cold or you were cold just moments ago before you wrapped yourself in a blanket and threw a muffler around your neck. There’s always been a considerably strong thawing power associated...

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Erin McKeown review

Erin McKeown: Taking You To A Smoky Ballroom After Midnight

27 February 07

For all the nostalgia people my age seem to have for an era that ended long before they were born, wearing its clothes and buying its records — it’s remarkable that a concerted effort hasn’t been made to resurrect “vintage”...

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Weiner story

Borat: And Other Important Wang Exposures Of Our Recent Times

26 February 07

There Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes was, caught in a stance reminiscent to the one by a sasquatch in the hoaxed Bigfoot photograph taken in 1967 by rancher Roger Patterson, letting his meat hang out on a Las Vegas stage –...

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Tokyo Police Club

Tokyo Police Club: They Get Their Nerves Of Steel Where They Get Their Crystal Balls

25 February 07

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Oh, to be young and skeptical of angry robot masters again. Or maybe it’s for the first, exhilarating time – when Ray Bradbury’s crazy, futuristic symbiosis of man and machine rears its galvanized head, bringing to life the same frightening condition that George McFly was faced with in “Back to the Future.” With Marty McFly dressed up in a radiation suit, impersonating Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan and threatening his future father with ear-bleeding heavy metal music, the comic books had come to life. What those comic books then and now neglect to have, however, is an unflappable backbeat to help all those sci-fi junkies dance just a little bit. Canadian foursome Tokyo Police Club, denizens of the young side of things, should be college (sorry, university) students somewhere, getting into bars legally for the first time and mastering the fine art of term paper procrastination. Instead, they find themselves never-endingly out on the hard road with the likes of Art Brut, Cold War Kids and others, continuing to develop a sound that capitalizes on short bursts of energy, fast-twitch muscles and lyrics that gravitate toward a future that involves children handcrafting spaceships by fluorescent light when they should be sacked out with their stuffed animals hugged tightly. The band’s debut EP A Lesson In Crime is infuriatingly too brief. It zips by like a hummingbird, with just a swift trail of gusty, extra strength rock and roll that could set a pot of water boiling on contact. Their songs throw flares of power in every direction – but mostly into your kitchen – like flash floods. They swell as a calm day cooks up a weather event, then pour out and overflow the banks of the songs when the heavens are cracked open like eggs.

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A Week With Deerhoof's "Friend Opportunity": Day 2

23 February 07

Deerhoof was finishing Friend Opportunity last year at the same time that a school in Maine was putting together a ballet inspired by the band’s Milkman record. What’s that matter, I guess. At the same time, it’s hard not to see this newest disc as a less frightening album than Milkman was.

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Earl Greyhound live review

Earl Greyhound: Stadium-Bound And Headphone Ready

22 February 07

Live at Glasslands, Brooklyn
Fact: The dancing soul knows no curfew. Taking the stage just after midnight, Brooklyn electric blues-revivalists Earl Greyhound lit rust-flecked Glasslands aflame. Twas’ a night in which local hipsters were stretched and slashed, quartered and put...

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Daytrotter Best of 2006

Finally!! Daytrotter’s Official Baker’s Dozen (Plus Uno) Best Albums of 2006

22 February 07

I don’t make lists. But I know people who do. They are happy people with an order in their lives that I’ll never know. But it happens once a year that everyone I don’t know — every publication and every...

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Casiotone For The Painfully Alone: A Crystaline Uneasiness On A Winter's Night

22 February 07

There’s something epic about walking through the snow. Your single-minded goal is to get to work, but that takes a backseat to plotting your path down the sidewalk, negotiating previous footsteps and eyeing black ice. It’s cold, this hopscotch is...

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