and if i have depressed you already

then i will brighten up your day with The Rapture. i heard this album got good reviews and i gave it a half hour listen to on my drive to work this morning but i'm not hooked. it's possible something will click between me and this album but i believe my love affair with The Rapture died years ago. meh... you be the judge.



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know your history

emo was not always pretty boys from long island with girl problems, a collection of tight-ass witty tshirts and really nice hair. no...it was grittier than that. the emo we had in the early 2000's was the shit you drove down ocean pkwy singing to at the top of your lungs with all your friends. the emo of the mid 90's is that of brooding, off-key, sit in your room and drain yourself of all emotion type music. Mineral is one of those early emo bands that i still to this day sit and pout to. it's really great shit. really.



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well...if pitchfork says so...

blah blah blah pitchfork listed Washed Out under their "best new music" page and so i therefore feel the need to share it. i gave it a listen maybe...twice? it's not work music. maybe it's book reading music. if it was book reading music, i wouldn't know since i left my kindle at my father's house. don't get me wrong. i read books - kindle or no kindle. the problem is i'm right in the middle of 2010: Odyssey Two and i just can't abandon one book in the middle and switch over to another. it just doesn't work that way for me. this is what everyone is all of a sudden hard for..."indie electro groove". when will the chain of genre names end and we can start making up new names? there has to be a tipping point here right?



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i was searching for inspiration and got sideswiped!

cats on scanners! absolutely genius. my 20 lbs cat may just as well break my scanner so i will avoid any contributions but i've realized how great scanner can be for artwork. when the copy machine rolled out there were hoards of experimental use (one being the classic ass-scan). similar to the copy machine, the scanner brought on it's own onslaught of artwork. however i feel that we've become so accustomed to these machines that we forgot just how much fun they really can be. by what i can only deem as a mistake, someone has reignited the fun and abstract excitement that can come from a cat and a scanner. bravo!! bravo!!

Don't let a tummy ache keep you down.

Think of the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan running straight through the middle of Cape Cod, MA. That's what I'm feeling right now as well as mildly ill from leftovers from last night.

and as a bonus

released on august 30th, 2011 (wait. that's the future isn't it? ya see i'm good like that...) i present to you the new Beirut album! according to Zachary Condon (ie: Beirut) the new album is recorded, managed, and released under his own Pompeii Records in order to preserve recording rights. not a bad way to do business eh? as always the album features Beirut's iconic uniquely exciting, romantic and dramatic sound which i honestly do not think you can find elsewhere.



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everything is made in china

formed in moscow in 2005, little did this band know what china's GDP growth would be like only 6 years from then. incredible. regardless of the fact that america has become strictly a managerial society - this band is still something to appreciate. released in 2009, Automatic Movements has remained a favorite album of mine. labeled as indietronica, their inspired by bands like mogwai, BSS, radiohead. considering this is their latest release, you would think they may have broken up. according to my research they are still actively playing shows - most recently being the Kazantip Festival. ya i haven't heard of it either but it's apparently a big deal in... Ukraine. doesn't look like they will be in the states anytime soon but i'm certainly you'll see me gushing over it the minute they book a show.



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