Notes of a Defeatist

Having been a long time complusive music, movie, and book consumer, my new job at a used book store continues to educate on the ways of the buying public. While some of my co-workers and I enjoy the hunt, most of our customers want their copy of Eat, Pray, Love, that moment and more shockingly most [...]

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Radiohead inspired music:

 Us Placers—CRS


 Rodeohead—Hard ‘N Phirm with forty six seconds of an introduction by John Peel.


tags technorati : Radiohead, music, John Peel, Hard ‘N Phirm, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Jamie Hernandez

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The Black Keys played on NPR’s World Cafe1 about their career path thus far. One exciting thing on the horizon—a collaboration with recent Grammy winning Bluesman Ike Turner2 on their forthcoming album which is being produced by Danger Mouse.



tags technorati : The Black Keys, Blues, music, Ike Turner, Danger Mouse, NPR

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Some long awaited good news.

From Billboard:

As first reported by Billboard last November, a collection of unreleased music from late singer/songwriter Elliott Smith will be released this spring. “New Moon” rounds up 24 tracks recorded between 1994-1997. The project is due May 8 via Kill Rock Stars and will also be available as a double vinyl [...]

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Forget the Grammys.

Forget St. Bono and all of U2, their five phonograph shaped statues, rewarded for their most mediocre and undeserving album of their iconic career.

Forget Gwen Stefani, nothing but eye candy without her bandmates, even if someone told her she could be a “solo artist”.

Forget Kelly Clarkson and her mass produced pile of shit [...]

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One of my favorite blues musicians, R.L. Burnside died Thursday.

Born in Mississippi in 1926, R.L. spent much of his young adulthood sharcropping. A guitarist, singer, and songwriter, he began playing in the 1950’s. Burnside, learned the guitar from his neighbor Fred McDowell and developed a heavily rhythmic orientated style played with a slide. Up [...]

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