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Archive for January, 2007

A link to Peter Bjorn and John’s performance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien was recently posted over at Gorilla vs. Bear and those commenting on it seem to lean towards suggesting that the performance was that of a poor one. However I believe it to be more along the lines of what was [...]

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Since the release of 2003’s Skull Ring it has seemingly become cool again to be Iggy Pop. The band’s backing him on the album, Green Day The Trolls and Sum 41, had heaps of cred with with kids on the street and since then Mr. Pop has recorded with the likes of Peaches and [...]

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Animal Collective “People EP”

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Animal Collective are at such a stage in their career which its members can take liberties with its fans, this is no better reflected than with the band’s People EP. Its three studio tracks deliver a fully functional prog rock interpretation clouded with futuristic overtones all seemingly set in a time when it is [...]

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Despite last year’s surge in reunited bands releasing new material 2007 may prove far more important with releases by terrific bands including Dinosaur Jr. and The Stooges returning to the studio (and inevitably the stage). The band recently released a new track from its upcoming album The Wierdness entitled “My Idea of Fun.” [...]

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My initial listen to the band back in August left me fairly intrigued as the band was oddly familiar and filled in a hole left by bands such as Animal Collective who hadn’t released any material since 2005’s Feels. Though Annuals weren’t as abstract, the band offered an odd brand of indie rock which [...]

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What a complete 180° Nellie McKay experienced in 2006. An eagerly anticipated album of completed material put on the shelf only to see the light of day in the later stages of the year resulting in Pretty Little Head fulfilling many of her fan’s wildest dreams. This performance allows McKay the luxury of [...]

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Deerhoof “Friend Opportunity”

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

It used to be that Deerhoof made little to no sense to the average listener and lived within the outskirts of musicianship. But with a sly shift towards the sound developed for Friend Opportunity, the recently dubbed trio (resulting from Chris Cohen’s departure) has now embraced a sound that was once never imagined when [...]

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Not sure if you’ve heard, but The Shins are huge. On the heels of the band’s successful performance on Saturday Night Live the band is rumored to have sold some 90,000 copies of its recently released Wincing the Night Away in its first week. This would make the album Sub Pop’s biggest selling [...]

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Though much of the news concerning the pre-confirmed line-ups for Bonnaroo and Coachella set the internet on fire last week with names being thrown around including Tom Waits, Björk, Pearl Jam, The Arcade Fire, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Rage Against the Machine much of the confusion has settled down and the initial hype [...]

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I suppose the college freshman in me really wants to see this movie as I’m sure it will be irreverent, ridiculous and pretty much a downright laugh-factory. I haven’t watched the cartoon much for quite some time but in its prime I was a huge fan. And rightfully so - what [...]

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Capping off a week in which the latest album Here & Now debuted at #52 on the Billboard 200 America has to be feeling pretty good about itself. The James Iha (pictured above) produced album, which features Ryan Adams, Ben Kweller, Ira Elliot and Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Jim James and Patrick Hallahan (My [...]

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It’s typical for most press releases be cast aside but this is most certainly a case all unto itself and deserves an opportunity to be heard (read), “Philadelphia, PA. – NYC electropunk outfit Mindless Self Indulgence has been asked by iTunes to change the genre that they are filed under. Presently MSI is [...]

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Not too long ago a fairly rad dude pointed out to me the graces of The Hold Steady and explained the band’s live show as having the most energetic crowd participation that he had seen in recent memory. I took that to simply mean that I had made a huge mistake by not checking [...]

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Kaiser Chiefs: Album, Tour & Video Update

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

One of Culture Bully’s favorite’s of 2005, the recently Coachella-confirmed Kaiser Chiefs return in late March with Yours Truly, Angry Mob, an album that has a lot to live up to after the band’s successful debut, Employment. The first single has already been circulating and sounds as though a typical modern rock radio track [...]

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It has been roughly a decade since my interest in Van Halen plateaued; Van Halen mind you, not Van Hagar. I was young, I was innocent and I was just learning the ropes of rock and roll. Having had recently picked up No One Here Gets Out Alive, the acclaimed Jim Morrison biography, [...]

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