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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,...

For the rock under-dwellers

by Fred Pounding headache + training is about to do me in + "coworkers" calling in "sick" makes for a pretty...

[Stream]Midlake – The Courage of Others

Midlake is set to release their sophomore album The Courage of Others one week from today. But of course NPR...

NPR on Bowerbirds on NPR

Here. Sorry for the Hit and Run, but not so sorry to say much...

How might this apply to music discovery? How might this apply to music creation?

I've made Seth's Blog a part of my RSS feed for weeks now. It's slim pickings for the music...

It's never where you look. It's when you look.

Some hit and runs: Good Morning Destroyer, which I'll classify as a tMiM Upstart, not a tMiM Exile. Ditto...

In kinda-sorta music news,

...the phrase "don't cry for me Argentina" takes on a second meaning: American Political Scandal. But hell, at...

"Twenty Class A" by The Thread

Download it for free here. Both melodic and industrial. Which is to say both analog and digital. ...

Would Adam Lambert have won American Idol if he had come out some time before the final vote?

Who knows? Recall that I originally wanted him to win, but now I'm glad he didn't. Toss it...

Krist Novoselic for County Clerk

Former Nirvana bassist, Krist Novoselic is running for County Clerk of Wahkiakum (wah-KAI'-ah-kum) County in western Washington. Novoselic is running...

Band name of the week

The Unethical Development of Hopeless Romanticism. That's about all that page has, by the way: a band name. While you're...

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