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Entries from January 2006

MP3 Dump

January 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Here are some suggested MP3’s courtesy of our good friends at Filter Magazine. There’s some good stuff here, so check it out.
Magnet: “Hold On”
from “The Tourniquet” in stores February 14th.
The Sounds: “Painted By Numbers”
from “Dying To Say This To You” in stores March 21st.
Devics: “Come Up”
From “Push the Heart” in stores March 7th.
The Subways: […]

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Tags: Music - News

Sonata Arctica - Heavy Metal Tuesday!

January 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment

If you’re a fan of heavy metal, you’re in luck tonight. The Finnish prog metal quartet Sonata Arctica play Star Central tonight for an 18+ show.
Local metal group Visideon and Omaha metalists Cellador open. Music starts at 7:30 p.m.
Here’s a brief description from AllMusic.com:
Sonata Arctica specializes in a soaring, orchestral variation on European heavy […]

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Tags: Music - News

Universal Music Poland Combats Piracy With Cut-Rate Discs

January 31st, 2006 · No Comments

From Digital Music News today:
The Polish division of the Universal Music Group has recently adopted a new method for defeating piracy. The company is drastically dropping the price of its CDs, by 30 percent in many cases. “It was the natural thing to do, because CDs aren’t selling and clients aren’t accepting the price,” said […]

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Tags: Music - News

Two Gallants : What the Toll Tells

January 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Two Gallants
What the Toll Tells
Available: February 21
Label: Saddle Creek
Wow, I’ve got a lot of albums to get through after my brief vacation, and I must say I can’t stop listening to Two Gallant’s second album, What the Toll Tells. After much thought, I’ve decided the San Francisco twenty-something duo of Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel […]

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Tags: Music - Album Review

New music Monday

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

For The Season
The Gris GrisBirdman Records

Buy at iTunes Music Store

Download the mp3 of “Year Zero“

The Black Angels
The Black AngelsLight In The Attic

Buy at iTunes Music Store

Download the mp3 of “Black Grease“

High Expectations/Low Results
FauntsFriendly Fire Recordings

Buy at iTunes Music Store

Download the mp3 of “Will You Tell Me Then“

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Tags: MP3s

Bubble : Steven Soderbergh

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

“Dreamworks, Carmike and Mel Gibson be damned!” That’s what the folks at Magnolia Pictures said this weekend as they laughed themselves to the bank on Steven Soderbergh’s indy latest film, Bubble, which coincidentally stars nobody you’ve heard of, probably isn’t playing at a theatre near you, and was released via DVD the same weekend as […]

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Tags: Film

Death Cab and Darkness news

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

From e-mails this week:
Death Cab for Cutie has just released the first video from “DIRECTIONS,” an innovative anthology of 12 short films inspired by each song on the band’s acclaimed album PLANS. Every song, including the hit single “Soul Meets Body” and the upcoming follow-up “Crooked Teeth,” will be delivered by a different […]

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Tags: Music - News

Monkeycube in your face, sucka

January 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Check out this post from Monkeycube featuring some delicious tunes from Talking Heads, Morphine and Meghana Bhat. YES!

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Tags: Uncategorized

Sundance Film Festival 2006

January 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments

So after a whirlwind week in NYC last week, I hopped a plane straight for Utah to work the Sundance Film Festival for a client in one of 49 VIP lounges reserved for Celebs, producers and media.
And although only in the actual lounge for a few hours each day, we were able to meet a […]

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Tags: Film

PerfectPorridge in the News

January 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

I was interviewed for this story in the Pioneer Press about three weeks ago and forwarded Julio the majority of these links. We were pleased to be included in the sidebar of local Web resources!
Here’s the info from the sidebar with hyperlinks…

Here are more local sites with in-depth information on food, drink,
music, literature, neighborhoods, […]

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