Dark Night of the Soul

What musical/visual transformer has been created?! As if fans of under-the-radar media could have picked a more odd or wonderful combination, director David Lynch has teamed with producer/musician Danger Mouse and Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse to create Dark Night of the Soul. Read more

Not ScaryDan Suggests: Going to the NPR blog and listening to this live Animal Collective show for free since you didn’t get to see them live because of your lame, lame friends.

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Animal Collective – What Would I Want Sky (BBC’s FreakZone Sessions) mp3

Magnolia Electric Co’s “In the Human World” engages by evoking, its sounds recalling that peculiar American combination of open spaces and rust-streaked, decrepit industrial ruins, its lyrics stirring and opaque:

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HarmlessActually, we couldn’t bring ourselves to go lowcut and trampy today. These songs are past their prime, buzzwise. But they sound good on a Friday as Read more

 

    iTunes, you let me down again. Less than a month after you dropped the fantastic “Walking On a Dream” by Empire of the Sun on me, you deliver this recycled neo-soul hip hop track from Boaz. Boaz? Really? Read more

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Usually I don’t say anything about these pictures my brother does, because I think they stand on their own. Funny, then, that for one I think stands alone quite well, I would feel compelled to break in. This is my favorite so far. The picture conveys more Read more

jakob-dylanThe Wallflowers are touring in celebration of the re-release of a collection of favs from 1996-2005 entitled “Collected: 1996-2005,” and those of you who are planning to spend your summers in Moscow should also plan on (TIP: HEADS-UP) the Wallflowers show in Spokane – June 20, 2009, at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox.  I won’t be here, but I am having my own lil celebration that Jakob Dylan is back behind the band for the time being and not experimenting with the untried-and-not-so-true by hisself.

Perhaps it will go up and not come downMindy, Pender’s wife, showed no interest in even the basic idea of a cruise, but it was a chance to cut her losses. In 4 years of marriage they had camped within 100 miles of home twice, flown to visit Pender’s grandparents in Read more

Infectious, intoxicatingDan suggests you stop what you’re doing. Clear your mind. It’s full of crap. Put on those headphones and listen to ‘Yawny at the Apocalypse’ … and really listen to it. If you think about anything but this song for the 3:39 that it plays, I will use Internet to cut you.

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Andrew Bird – Yawny at the Apocalypse mp3

ddw-whA certain man had two sons. The younger of the two said to his father, Dad, I wish you were dead. Give me my inheritance. The father, whose heart was soft towards his son, divided his things between both his sons, and the younger soon left and went to a far country. There he obliterated the inheritance he’d received from his father, squandering it in profligate living, and soon all of it was gone. Then a famine struck the land he was in, and he found Read more

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