Annuals
Be He Me
Label: Ace Fu Records
Release Date: October 17, 2006
Chapel Hill, N.C.’s Annuals are getting some pretty major blog buzz these days.
Annuals is an experimental indie group led by 19 year-old Adam Baker, who we’re told shouts, freaks out, spits and wears a bizarre choir uniform onstage. Modern day comparisons to Animal Collective, Broken Social […]

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Dustin O’Halloran
Piano Solos Vol. 2
Label: Filter U.S.
This week, L.A./Italy’s Dustin O’Halloran, co-founder of the uber-beautiful Devics, released an instrumental work - aptly titled, Piano Solos Vol. 2.
As you can guess, it’s filled with solos of the piano variety and is the second collection of such. Not having heard Vol. 1, we had no frame […]

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Captain Black Heart
Captain Black Heart
Label: Fifty8 Records
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MP3: “Needle” (MP3, 192kbps)

The Baldwin Brothers
Return of the Golden Rhodes
Label: TVT Records
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MP3: “Leave the Past Behind” (MP3, 192kbps)

the Scattered PAGES
Lazy Are The Skeletons
Label: Three Ring Records
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MP3: Alice to Wonderland” (MP3, 192kbps)

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Cold War Kids
Robbers and Cowards
Label: Downtown
Release Date: October 10, 2006
Indie rock music is at a crossroads right this very minute. Everyone’s ripping off Modest Mouse, the Decemberists are on a major label and Death Cab stopped trying to be original two albums ago.
But in the meantime, here come Fullerton, California’s Cold War Kids, […]

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Lost in Yonkers
Neil Simon
Guthrie Theater
We highly enjoyed Friday’s Guthrie Theater presentation of Neil Simon’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Lost in Yonkers.
Set in a borough wrought with gangsters, henchmen and air-conditioned movie theaters around World War II, the seven character story follows the crisis and resolution of one family over the course of […]

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Scissor Sisters
Ta-Dah
Label: Universal/Motown
Scissor Sisters knows there are worse things than reimagining their favorite groups from Studio 54, and the New York group has come a long way from their breakout “Comfortably Numb” cover.
Ta-Dah picks up where the group’s self-titled debut (2004) left off. From Bee Gees to the Beatles, B-52s to Blondie, and a […]

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MSRP
One Hundred Fold Origami Meteor
MSRP have coined their own genre - “rave-metal.” Part industrial electronica and part nu-metal, the Minneapolis group’s debut, One Hundred Fold Origami Meteor, brings together all the best aspects of Mindless Self Indulgence, Static-X and Paul Oakenfold.
The group plays the Burnsville Garage on Saturday, October 7.
We sat down with MSRP to […]

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Minneapolis’ Ryan Branstner, co-founder of Plasmatic Brain Spasm, has a new side project called 2NoHo filled with driving electronica, feel good beats, ambient interludes and a wealth of what we like to call “eary goodness.”
The CD release show is Thursday, October 5 at Nomad World Pub complete with projections of the Armenian film The […]

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Hit & Mrs.
100 Under 60
The new (old) project from Minneapolis’ Heise Brothers (Listen & Learn, Munkeyjuice’s Fatty Arbuckle’s Coke Bottle) is 100under60.com
Under the name Hit & Mrs., the group has released a unique web-based album called 100 under 60, 100 songs under 60 seconds each. I’d like to think most musicians have this many musical […]

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Dýrđin
Dýrđin
Label: Skipping Stones Records
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MP3: “Popp & Co.” (MP3, 192kbps)

Make Believe
Of Course
Label: Flameshovel Records
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MP3: “A Song About Camping” (MP3, 192kbps)

Time Toy
Fly Swatter / Ice Water
Label: Iron Horse Records
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MP3: “Daddy Crisp” (MP3, 192kbps)

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