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clear your schedule: Music websites that aren’t this one

Electroacoustic übersite Fluid Radio has added a user forum to its webzine/record label/radio station/online retailer/photography/iPhone app format. Seriously, for the website you thought already had everything... In our first of two novelty sites, The Best...

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Listen to Andrew Bird’s Film Score for “Norman”

I'll have to admit that I'm a little confused as to what exactly is going on here. Andrew Bird was drafted to compose the entire score for the 2010 film Norman but apparently that score...

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Natacha Atlas responds to Wikipedia

(email|facebook|twitter) The user-driven internet has its issues, to be sure. Natacha Atlas addresses one of them here. It's engaging throughout, but this excerpt reads like an executive summary: --- Wikipedia may have been a good idea...

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Facebook Teams Up With Spotify

Love the new Facebook design or not you have to love the fact that they are finally trying to get music integrated onto the site in a user friendly way. Up til now the best...

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AC/DC: “Have A Drink On Me”

(email|facebook|twitter) Australia produces some great hard rock and some fantastic Shiraz.  So why not combine the two? A Fly On The Wall tells us that AC/DC already has. To wit: The Australian band has entered into...

Of that hypothetical geography between Dallas, Fort Worth, and Denton, Texas

OK, so that’s probably not what they meant, but the name of ensemble is Golden Triangle regardless. Oh, and, do brace for impact:

Their previous three EPs and cassette are all sold out and gone. Their forthcoming debut full length, Double Jointer, is what is happening now. Recorded over a two week period at Key Club Recording Company with producer Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House, Blonde Redhead), Double Jointer has the speed and catchiness of the current garage / weird-punk / lo-fi shit with some profoundly goth under-currents and some no-wave guitar over-currents. The instruments have that good/bad blown out quality and the spectral lady singers are commanding and demanding, all knowing entities. Lead-off track “Cinco de Mayo” starts out with some slow, strummy surf-guitarmanship and gets faster and faster until the dam bursts and in come the siren vocals which sound like the band is howling derisive laughter at you. This is just the beginning, and the feverish tambourine crash-fest continues unabated until the aural house appropriately burns down with a slithering guitar line on epic album closer “Arson Wells.”

Read all about it here.

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