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Black Keys Streaming Boycott

I can tell you right now that I have actually purchased more music and looked up more bands to see live since using Spotify. I am listening to more types of music, rediscovering stuff I had forgotten I loved and searching for tour dates.

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Michael Jackson Glee Episode

The big buzz is usually the song list for a particular episode and a ‘leak’ of the Michael Jackson episode is causing more rumble than a royal wedding dress. The last thing I care about is what songs a weekly sitcom is going to karaoke, but I suppose I am in the minority.

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Music As Mood Enhancer

I’m listening to Kurt Vile as I wrote and I am not certain that is a good thing at all. “Music like scent has an immediate neuro pathway that can bypass your thinking brain and effect your emotional state.”

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Now Is The Winter Of Our Discontent…

now it’s all over, like a telescopic love seen from a distance, always in the rearview mirror and stuck in this eternal present. It is alway January and February. The seventh year of a marriage, the cold, blustery boring part of the year

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MFT 1-3-12

Mike “A Wombling Christmas” Batt wrote this song for Art and it feels like a thematic contination to Simon’s “The Only Living Boy In New York” , there is also a sense of AOR Beach Boy-y updated. “It’s not the sun you’re trying to find, something else is on your mind…”

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Katy Perry's Divorce and Religion

However her whole life and career are hypocritical, and writing about this insignificant celebrity misstep is just another occasion to point out how religious people can be beyond insincere and just plain fraudulent.

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Pick Concerts Week Of January 2nd, 2012

a great country crooner, on a farewell tour after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Of all Alzheimer’s insidious torture, at least it is slow enough for us to get the opportunity to see him him one last time. Saturday at Town Hall.

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UK Top 10 Singles, January 7th, 2012

I can’t take Coldplay at any priceand even by their standards “Paradise” is a dog. A very popular dog. Coldplay are middle class boys like Blur only without anything close to Blur’s coolness quota, they are pristine bedwetters and uber good guy pop egotists.

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MFT 1-2-12

Drake in the past, Florence in the present, Laura in the future. Drake is trying to survive a relationship on the skids, Laura is ruminating the price for lying and Florence just wants to get over a hangpver. This is apt stuff for New Year’s Day: the place the present meets the past and the future.

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H.F.T. 01/01/12

Happy New Year Fools. Yup, its that time again, all those lame resolutions you’ll never carry out a fridge full of healthy shit you’ll toss in a week and a week of torture trying to prove it wrong.

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"My Valentine", Paul McCartney Reviewed

Paul McCartney has fans that will rip your lungs out and kick them down the road if you say the slightest negative word. So how bold am I to just jump right in here and take a stab at this Soundcloud offering from Pauls forthcoming album?

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The Academy Was…

It’s painful to see that the band still updates their Facebook page every once and a while because it sparks the feeling that I just want them back together, and now.

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Van Halen With Lee Roth Rehearsing At the Roxy, LA

Sammy Hagar revealed to Rolling Stone that the new album will not be as fresh as expected, but will actually contain ‘old outtakes from the old days. I mean, stuff from before I even joined the band’, and that ‘Ed and Dave didn’t actually write new songs’.

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Brooklynvegan Invade Chicago

BV is not really music criticism, they are unwilling to get their hands dirty, but they break music story after music story and are completely invaluable when it comes to supporting local bands

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MFT 12-31-11

A song that is your golden ticket to simply be yourself. Think about it, we spend so much time hiding what we feel- this song is your free pass to letting it all out. The end result being we are loved by those who matter for just being ourselves

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And Your Bird Can Dance

Researchers think that parrots’ dancing skills come from their talent for mimicking the sounds of their surrounding, which made them develop a very good coordination between their excellent sense of hearing and their motor functions

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Sinead Smokes The Blokes

O’Connor stated they had “made a mistake rushing into getting married,” and added that her husband, who she called a “wonderful man” who she loved very much, had been “terribly unhappy.”

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"Lua" by Bright Eyes: A Retraction

The lyrics are so ridiculously amazing that it makes you just want to hear them over and over again, with the gentle guitar and Oberst’s whispery yet strong voice makes it driving and attention grabbing, yet still calm and emotional.

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The Great Mastodon Swindle

i’m not interested in hearing any shit talk about ebay or Germans. it’s really just the PRINCIPAL that i’m fighting for. to not let these things just go. maybe someday you will be in the same situation and be able to DO something about it.

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MFT 12-30-11

The most bizarre kids song of all time. The titular bull’s biggest ambition was to be part of a bullfight and be stabbed to death by Spanish guys. The moral is… actually, I’n not sure what the moral. dates from 1959, so I guess that might explain it.

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