PJ Harvey
White Chalk
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Label: Island Records
There are times we don’t mind listening to PJ Harvey stuff –meaning she’s a pretty great songwriter and her material is compelling is presented in the correct setting.
We recently attended the opening of an art exhibit featuring black and white photos of homeless people’s feet presented on […]

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The Blackout
We Are the Dynamite
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Falling Up
Captiva
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Label: BEC Recordings
As far as the Warped Tour crowd goes, we tend to favor the harder, faster, more spirited groups. And we’ll admit, the six metallic troubadours from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales known as The Blackout do their best to balance the screamo […]

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The Aliens
Augie March
September 26, 2007
Varsity Theater, Minneapolis, MN
If you missed The Aliens last night, you best find yourself another galaxy to orbit. We dare say it was in our top three shows of 2007 to-date.
Scotland’s supernatural phantasm, The Aliens, are former Beta Band co-founder Gordon Anderson (lead vocals, guitar), John Maclean (keyboards, backing vocals) […]

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Hey, check out these new releases today:
New York five-piece The GoStation release their debut full-length this week, Passion Before Function. At first listen, it’s kind of a mediocre REM. What do you think?
The GoStation : “All Together Now” (mp3)
Singer/songwriter Alex Brown’s debut, Leaves in the River, under the Sea Wolf moniker is haunting, transcendent and […]

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Athlete
Beyond the Neighborhood
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Label: Astralwerks
U.K. alternative rock quartet Athlete are releasing the follow-up to their UK #1 double platinum album, Tourist. It’s their third studio album this week, and the Deptford boys are calling it Beyond the Neighborhood. Please note, we Yankees don’t spell Neighbourhood with a “U.”
Produced themselves, the disc is […]

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Office
A Night at the Ritz
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Label: New Line Records
Do you like boy on girl action? We’re talking harmonies, people. Yes? Then you’re in luck.
Office, Chicago’s dance punk five piece, have readied their major label debut, A Night at the Ritz, and packaged it with a 19-date tour with Earlimart for the month […]

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Two Gallants
Two Gallants
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Label: Saddle Creek
We’ve given a lot of love to Two Gallants, the indie folk rock duo from San Fran. But we’ve never understood why a band releases a self-titled album as their fourth release. Strange.
Anyway, if you liked What the Toll Tells and their summer EP, The Scenery of […]

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 Wednesday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Coincidentally, one of the PR agencies we work with, PIRATE! PR, recently put together a digital mixtape to celebrate the end of summer featuring many of the staff’s (Brooke/Meredith pictured above) favorite tracks.
No songs about booty, Blackbeard or swashbuckling, but there are some quality tracks here worth checking […]

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Mike Oldfield & Tony Palmer
Space Movie
Studio: MVD Visual
With our readership, odds are you were pretty young or nonexistent when Tony Palmer’s Space Movie was released. Created in 1979 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the moon landing, this was the very first time NASA and The United States National Archive released footage the lunar landscape, […]

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Jesca Hoop
Kismet
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Label: 3Entertainment/Red Ink/Columbia
Once upon a time a wayward Mormon girl found her way into Tom Waits home. “I’ll watch your kids and you give me money,” she said.
“Okay,” said Tom Waits. “But you have to stay five years, and then I will grant you one wish.”
“Okay Tom, but it better […]

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