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Archive for September, 2006

Choose Your Own Album Giveaway: Day 22

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Welcome to the Culture Bully: Choose Your Own Album Giveaway! This is a unique contest which will see a winner once a day, every day in September! What’s the catch? There is no catch. All you have to do is choose your own album!

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Bad Brains: Live CBGB 1982 Update

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Thanks to AOL Indie for giving me the low down on the upcoming release of Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 in which features some of the songs performed over three nights beginning Christmas-eve 1982, all of which helped celebrate and kick off the American Hardcore Festival. Typically I look at Bad Brains as one [...]

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy is pretty much everybody’s favorite guy. He’s Drunkard’s favorite dude. Daytrotter’s all about him. And even Pitchfork is giving it up. Like I said, he’s pretty much everybody’s favorite guy. But, Idolator asks…shouldn’t Andrew WK be your favorite guy? I say yes. I’ve said it [...]

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Choose Your Own Album Giveaway: Day 21

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Welcome to the Culture Bully: Choose Your Own Album Giveaway! This is a unique contest which will see a winner once a day, every day in September! What’s the catch? There is no catch. All you have to do is choose your own album!

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Duane Andrews “Crocus”

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Acclaimed East-Coast folk instrumentalist Duane Andrews’ recent offering, Crocus, represents a shift towards further defining himself as a tangibly diverse musician. Throughout there are flirtations with ragtime, a variety of waltzes and boggy jazz lullabies, all proving Andrews to be either a glutton for genre-defying mood shifts or simply a wonderful musician. Crocus [...]

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Neoclassical Roots: Daniel Heffner

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Daniel Heffner is a unique musician whose style sounds something like a busker playing to an upwardly mobile house of philharmonic-going spectators is exactly that. Heffner, who built his craft from a young age, has in fact played as an opener for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; but don’t let that sway you, his roots [...]

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Busk or Bust: Rodrigo y Gabriela

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, a pair of guitar masters, have played to a vast company of dynamic fans whose typical favorites range from that of metal to bossa nova, all of which helped them take top position on the Irish music charts earlier this year. Sounds strange? Yes. Brilliant music? Absolutely. What is absolutely [...]

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Choose Your Own Album Giveaway: Day 20

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

Welcome to the Culture Bully: Choose Your Own Album Giveaway! This is a unique contest which will see a winner once a day, every day in September! What’s the catch? There is no catch. All you have to do is choose your own album!

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In all honesty in most all cases since Rushmore I haven’t had much taste for Jason Schwartzman. His awkward role in the comedic Slackers creeped me out rather than making me laugh (with him) and I Heart Huckabees completely missed its mark. His role in Sophia Coppola’s upcoming Marie Antoinette: The Party That [...]

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Building a lively reputation for the band in its native Australia, The Grates found great success including nods from Australia’s national radio station Triple J and the Australian Recording Industry Awards (ARIA). The band is completing the North American leg of its current tour which corresponds with its album’s recent release in the States. [...]

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Choose Your Own Album Giveaway: Day 19

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Welcome to the Culture Bully: Choose Your Own Album Giveaway! This is a unique contest which will see a winner once a day, every day in September! What’s the catch? There is no catch. All you have to do is choose your own album!

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs on AOL’s The Interface

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Here’s a great acoustic set from AOL’s The Interface featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The most intimate of moments comes during The Rentals’ cover “The Love I’m Searching For,” I suggest you check it out.

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Choose Your Own Album Giveaway: Day 18

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Welcome to the Culture Bully: Choose Your Own Album Giveaway! This is a unique contest which will see a winner once a day, every day in September! What’s the catch? There is no catch. All you have to do is choose your own album!

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Choose Your Own Album Giveaway: Day 17

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Welcome to the Culture Bully: Choose Your Own Album Giveaway! This is a unique contest which will see a winner once a day, every day in September! What’s the catch? There is no catch. All you have to do is choose your own album!

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InCureable: Roger O’Donnell

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

One time member of such bands as The Psychedelic Furs, Thompson Twins, Berlin and The Cure, Roger O’Donnell branches out further into abstract electronic with his solo debut The Truth In Me. It seems strange that after so many years through so many musical opportunities, O’Donnell now views that his truth is infact unspoken [...]

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Domestic Credibility: Asobi Seksu

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

There’s a point where it becomes hard to keep up with much of what is considered credible music, domestically, let alone that of music worldwide. In this situation I find myself greatly appreciative of an email introducing me to Asobi Seksu. Though it be through the form of a remix, by Cassettes [...]

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How many times can a cover band reinvent itself? In the case of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes the answer would be infinity, duh. The band pulls me in because the Gimmes always, always play music that is genuinely fun to listen to. I saw them play a brief set in [...]

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Choose Your Own Album Giveaway: Day 16

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Welcome to the Culture Bully: Choose Your Own Album Giveaway! This is a unique contest which will see a winner once a day, every day in September! What’s the catch? There is no catch. All you have to do is choose your own album!

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Reviving underground eminence with his recent ragtime/hip hop set, Wu Orleans, Boston based bootlegger Bob Cronin, aka dj BC, takes a tip from his past releases and once again changes the ever shifting view on what is possible within the confines of mash-ups. Cronin established himself within the mainstream with his release of The [...]

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Choose Your Own Album Giveaway: Day 15

Friday, September 15th, 2006

Welcome to the Culture Bully: Choose Your Own Album Giveaway! This is a unique contest which will see a winner once a day, every day in September! What’s the catch? There is no catch. All you have to do is choose your own album!

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