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The music of Contre Jour

Imagine Cut The Rope meeting Angry Birds Space somewhere in French children's literature, and you're getting close. If you've got a smart phone, you owe yourself a copy of Contre Jour for several reasons,...

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free download: Symptomatic EP, by La Machine

In March we met La Machine, concluding, "Sung through a pulse jet and stripped down to the sub-bass." Their dark-as-a-cave, quick-as-a-Zoloft releases continue with the Symptomatic EP. The title track sets paint-can percussion...

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video: “Same Old,” by Audioley

TMIM regulars are already familiar with Francois Peglau, who has been releasing a track-by-track follow up to The Imminent Failure of since December 2010. His singalong verse, campy wit and upbeat revolutionary politics are...

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video vault: “Snow,” by Pooma

How is this for degrees of separation? Desiree's new Finnish obsession leads us to a month-thence Soundcloud upload of a toddler-aged remix of a five-year old track. It's "Snow," by Pooma, from their...

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profile: John Harrison of Cedar Lines

Sunday, January 29, 2012, 11:45am John Harrison can’t find a kit that he likes. The drum line is already written: a smudged, industrial arrangement that summons Cleveland, not Cincinnati. It would work just fine on its own,...

New Apparatjik – "Electric Eye"

Apparatjik is comprised of Mew's Jonas Bjerre on vocals, Magne Furuholmen of a-ha on guitar and Guy Berryman from Coldplay...

Persistent, errant first impressions

I keep thinking that Patrick's post from Tuesday is titled Coldplay vs. Satan, Case Closed. For the curious, I did a...

Coldplay vs. Satriani, Case Closed

Coldplay has two of three lawsuits settled for their supposed plagiarism of the tune used in "Viva la Vida". First...

Apparently Islam is a Religion of Peace

Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) has officially forgiven Coldplay for ripping off his tune "Foreigner Suite", He even says that he...

"And I feel them drown my name/so easy to know/and forget with this kiss that I'm not afraid to go"

Your history with Jeff Buckley is probably similar to mine. It was late 1997, early 1998.  That great and...

Find of The Week Vol.1 No.13

I have been listening to this album almost non-stop for the past week making it an obvious choice for this...

Coldplay In The Hot Seat

Did you know I wrote "Viva La Vida" about 5 years ago? I did really and so did Creaky Boards...

If Czechoslovakia were still around, and a radio station, it would sound like this.

There are XM Radio People, and there are Sirius Satellite People. But even in this post-merger world, something says...

If it Ain't Broke…

Coldplay is already jumping back into the studio with Brian Eno only 6 months after the release of their double...