Cuneiform never fails to impress us with a steady supply of brilliant albums. Here’s a new album, by the band that I still haven’t been able to pronounce correctly : Ahleuchatistas. The North Carolina power trio belongs to the increasing number of brilliant progressive math rock albums that I’ve been listening to this year, full [...]

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An excellent return to form by the all powerful Steve Albini, producer of countless milestone albums, this time with his own band Shellac, which has been silent since 2000’s 1000 Hurts. It’s been well worth the wait as “Excellent Italian Greyhound” is aesthetically and musically sublime.
A few days ago I read this at Can [...]

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Today I’m being an mp3blog selecta! Here’s some lovely music that you should be listening to instead of that new buzz band!
* Farben - Live At Sahara Tahoe, 1973 (Little White Earbuds) : glitchy electronica
* Differnet - Perpetual Summer (Homemade Avantgarde)
: ambient/textural
* Mou, lips! - looking for symmetry in the laws of nature (Homemade [...]

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Well, the hipster festival SXSW has begun. The rise of SXSW from a relatively unknown festival (at least for me) 2 years ago and becoming a huge worldwide acknowledged event in 2 years is pretty interesting. There’s probably lots of blogs attending & covering SXSW, but you know I’m not really into most of the [...]

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Today is interviews day, enjoy!

* Some words of wisdom from one of the most influential punk rockers ever, Ian Mac Kaye of Minor Threat/Fugazi and now The Evens.
“But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I’m not critical of people individually.”
“With Fugazi, for instance, we played [...]

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EDIT: I’ve written this 2 months ago, but I got contacted and removed the songs, here’s my review again, and the same songs now the album is out. Support Deerhoof, go to their shows!

Deerhoof, Live at Metro, Chicago; 01-27-07
Deerhoof is currently the #1 group on my last.fm list for the 2 years [...]

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Check these mp3blogs out for some quality stuff :
* Cake on Cake on 3hive
* Andre Toussant - Mi Yiddishe Mama on Moistworks
* New Man Man video on Hate Something Beautiful
* LCD Soundsystem on Culture Bully
* Kurt Cobain - Musical Genius or Rip Off Artist :
an interesting analysis of 3 Nirvana songs and the disputed [...]

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Here’s a new feature, thanks to the wonderful reblog software. I’m using reblog to tend to my mp3blog readership. I’ll be publishing a weekly reblog post featuring the best stuff I found on blogs that week, although if you don’t wanna wait for the weekly update, you can subscribe to the reblog feed, although it’s [...]

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* Let the Deerhoof craze begin again, with a new free download EP from the band full of covers and live songs, get the EP here, the tracklist here, and also watch these 3 videos of Deerhoof singing live. As a quick note, after watching the videos, does anybody think the drummer is a bit [...]

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Hey, look what we have here.. I think I’ve postponed this a little bit too much, because it’s been nearly a month since this remastered release of one of lo-fi indie rock’s defining bands hit the stores, and this is one of the most important albums of the 90s lo-fi heritage so it definitely needs [...]

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