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Hoops and YoYo Ruin Christmas

The music in the repair scene is pretty dang snazzy. A Blink 182 sorta Mark Hoppus pop punk beat. Its funny as I watched I thought it was going to be New Found Glory or something. Instead I wait til credits and find its… Parry Gripp.

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Ryan Adams Performing With Laura Marling

I wonder whether Adams will venture into heavy metal again,… since I caught a little discussion on twitter between him and Vacation Vinyl a few days ago; Adams, regretful to have missed a performance in the store, was saying he was ‘at the studio all week every night’

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MFT 11-27-11

1. Snowflake – Kate Bush – As poets go, she is no Emily Bronte, “Wuthering Heights” notwithstanding, and on cold paper, her artistry, all horses walking thru snowdrifts, is a naturalists Patti Smith. But when she sings em they feel like they are revelealing the place where heat is cold.

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"A Very Gaga Thanksgiving" Reviewed

the entire show is squirmy unwatchable and sad. It’s like a trainwreck. How could Gaga be uncool and counter-culture at the same time? It is like performance art, the theater of the real and only she is in on the joke.

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"Runaway", Silverstein vs Kanye West

Leave it to Fearless Records for assigning this beauty to Silverstein.a Canadian post hardcore band whos been screaming since 2000. I have to stop a moment for some Silverstein appreciation? Shane Told has a beautiful voice

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Warped Tour 2012

Now until December 11, you can buy tickets to your local show at a discounted rate. Less than the cost of upcoming presale and they’re specially designed collectors item tickets

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MFT 11-26-11

Ghosts – Laura Marling – For the most part, I find Marling’s charms real but limited. I wish the songs were, how you say, catchier. Except this one, With its galloping hooves drums and hooky “ghosts” repitions, it is an economic revelation of romantic disappointment

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The Macys Parade: New York City

I hate crowds and people annoy me so jam me into a crowd of sniveling kids and its a recipe for homicide. This year was best of all as I became separated with no money, no credit card, no gloves and a half dead cell phone

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Missy Elliott Is Not Dead

Poor Missy has had not one but TWO episodes on Twitter announcing she had died. What a creepy event especially when it gets blasted all over the internet. Maybe she needs to tour or release new material to prevent the death hoax epidemic.

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Henry Rollins Hosts Charity Concert

The show will be a benefit concert and all proceeds will go to Drop In The Bucket, a Los Angeles-and-Uganda-based organization, that constructs wells and sanitation systems in sub-Saharan Africa in order to provide clean water to populations

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UK Top 10 Singles, Week Of December 3rd, 2011

Rihanna is a strange woman, so young and bruised, so sure and defensive, there is something messy about her and there is something messy about this song. I’m a little surprised it is as popular as it is, it is a downbeat Drake like ballad that changes direction and becomes a dance anthem

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MFT 11-25-11

Someday Soon – Judy Collins – In the late 70s I used to work in a bar on East 39th and we had a folk singer who played for tips and this song always got a ton of money. As much a teen fantasy as anything Swift has ever come up with and a reminder of a time less innocent

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Thursday on Hiatus

“Thursday will be playing our final shows, starting tomorrow night and ending with our tour in Australia. We would love to see you all one more time. So please, if we’re near your city, come out and have fun with us.

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Gruff Rhys' Atheist Xmas EP

The EP is described as ‘an unholy trinity of three turkey-free new tracks for the festive season’, and the three songs successively as a ‘Motown-tinged’ in which ‘Gruff is re-imagining the ‘Winterval’ through the semi-melted eyes of a nuclear holocaust survivor’,

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Rap Video Promotes Scientology

The hip-hop music video is a four-minute long advertisement for the cult, said to be intended for internal church use. It sounds like your regular, basic, generic synth-rap song, with bad breakdancing and is thought to be the title track of ‘Dauntless, Defiant and Resolute’ by artist Chill E.B.

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Gobble Gobble HEY!

Unlike most of you fools I show my appreciation to those who deserve it on a daily basis. I have good manners and always take time to thank people.

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MFT 11-24-11

All I Want – Joni Mitchell – What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving then with a Canadian national treasure. A love stoy about a thwarted desire cradled in a melody awash with hope.

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New Kate Bush Video

“Fifty Words For Snow” a cute Eskimo themed ditty if youre so inclined to abstract. Head over to NPR, those highbrows are toasting it with Perrier and wearing sweatervests about it. Me? A bit to ethereal a little too ‘hipper than you’

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New Regina Spektor On The Horizon!

“I’m very excited to say that this summer I recorded a new record with Mike Elizondo in L.A. It’s been finished for a little while,but I had no idea when it would be out in the world until now”

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MFT 11-23-11

Runaway – Silverstein – No they don’t speed or punk Kanye West’s masterpiece. They re-arrange it for guitar and change it from a rap song to a pop song of the first order.

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