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Our Top 50 Songs of 2007: #40-31

#50 - 41 Animal Collective - "Peacebone" Melodic freak trance... The opening encapsulates Strawberry Jam's concept: fuzzed out electronic blurts flailing non-rhythmically suddenly get harnessed into a groove. Then, what follows is a purposefully-rough-around-the-edges song of beauty. Be not afraid. - K. O'Brien Bright Eyes - "Four Winds" What the ...

Monday Mix - 3/8/07

Yeah, I stuck with the fountain photo theme.Wilco - What LightSunset Rubdown - Up on Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral DaysJose Gonzalez - Killing For LoveStars - The Night Starts HereFeist - Inside and OutHellogoodbye - HomewreckerCold War Kids - Saint John

Writing sentences composed only of song titles

...results in sentences that sound like the product of a game of drunken Mad Libs.Ra Ra Riot - Each YearLittle Name - Tracy and IThe Long Weekend - RecordLos Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!Sunset Rubdown - Up on your Leopard, Upon the End of your Feral DaysLe Loup - We ...

Love In The Afterlife

I'm pissed at Spencer Krug. I also think I have a right to be. Why the hell is he releasing a second Sunset Rubdown album before a second Wolf Parade album? Last time I checked, Wolf Parade was a primary project, with Sunset Rubdown being the more self-servicing solo-ish side ...

New Music Tuesday

Today’s new releases are highlighted by a trio of bands putting out their sophomore albums, each of them a follow-up to an exciting debut. Remarkably enough, all three seem to have matured, grown familiar with their sound, and improved on their first records. My favorite has to be Random Spirit ...

Sunset Rubdown - “Random spirit lover”

Huvuden vrids 180 grader. Lealösa kroppar studsar från vägg till vägg. Torkat blod på golvet påminner om en långt gående process och i ett hörn sitter Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Frog Eyes, Swan Lake, Sunset Rubdown) på en sliten stol och ler åt eländet. Det som vi många befarat har ...

Paramedic Who Reported Noose Inside Fire Station Put It There Himself