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- the walkmen, “in the new year”
Holy crap. I am so excited for the Walkmen show this Saturday at the 930. You & Me is already at least my second favorite album (after Everyone Who Pretended to LIke Me Is Gone) and is making a good run at #1. SO. EXCITED. Jeremy H passes along a video (after the jump) of [...]
03 Sep 2008 
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- the now explosion
In 1968, broadcaster Bob Whitney experimented with a new program that would play Top 40 singles with a continuous video feed. The result was The Now Explosion, a show a lot like the weekly Top 40 shows of Casey Kasem and Rick Dees. The show recorded in Atlanta and broadcast on WATL-TV. A young Ted [...]
18 Aug 2008 History, Music; no comments. permalink
- wes anderson and jason schwartzman shop for CDs and DVDs
YouTube – Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman Shop for CDs and DVDs. Pretty sure I’d be deep in debt after such a shopping trip.
17 Aug 2008 Music, Pop Culture & Memes; no comments. permalink
- music to self medicate to
I know I sort of abandoned the top10. But for the moment…a third of a liter of gin, a half-flask of Dewar’s, and this is what I have to show for it*: 1) Canadian Girl • You & Me • The Walkmen 2) Endless Shovel • Out of the Shadow • Rogue Wave 3) The [...]
14 Aug 2008 Music; no comments. permalink
- aimee mann, “freeway”
From Aimee Mann’s latest album, @#%&! Smilers: Bonus for readers of Something*Positive: the real T-Bob is the bare-scalped fellow in the above video.
09 Jun 2008 Music; no comments. permalink
- perhaps the best bollywood cover ever
Classic Bollywood liked to copy American songs with reckless abandon. (Today, they just copy pathetic Casio keyboard beats and rap in “muscle” shirts.) Indeed, I probably heard “Mere Jaisi Hasseena” (Armaan, 1981—so hot) before I heard the song it covered (“When You’re In Love With a Beautiful Woman”, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, 1978). [...]
23 Apr 2008 Music, Nerdery & Sundry; one comment. permalink