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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,...

"So we sit, wearing headphones and frozen grins, and continue denying that guilty, nagging feeling that actually, in some ways, when you think about it…Radiohead kinda blow."

Few, save for Liam or Noel Gallagher, dare speak this heresy aloud, instead couching it in longings for a "back-to-basics"...

"No. End of discussion."

As for the question that prompts such an answer? "Is the internet stifling new music?" Via BBC no less. The article...

Don't laugh, or it will happen to you

That was weird. Just now driving back from 7-Eleven (executive lunch). Carrollton, Texas. I'm crossing Marsh Lane from the west...

A myriad of little choices

Neither Patrick nor I ran Ironman Wisconsin (it's way out of my league, and Patrick's Ironman isn't until May). ...

"We Listen For You" on The Clues

A dispatch from yesterday caught Patrick's eye:I would like to take a moment to talk about the 10.0 rating...

Someone has clearly drawn my blood while I slept,…

...sent my DNA sample to a lab, mapped it with some 137 data points on three musical axes, stolen off...

Mein Gott im Himmel but rock musicians look like children anymore

I don't like the name of the band (Proximity Effect). I don't like the fact that any one of...

Some of my favorite John Vanderslice tracks…

...are Pale Horse, They Won't Let Me Run, or pretty much anything from his Cellar Door LP. The track...

Use the force, Lukas

When CBS unhappily traded a third season of Rock Star for the unbearable Survivor knock-off Pirate Master, it became clear...

Songs Changed to 8-Bit

Changing a song from a multi-track recording to an 8-bit track is easier than I once thought. Apparently all you...

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