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Pop Songs 07
is a blog by Matthew Perpetua, founder of
Fluxblog, in which he is attempting to write about every R.E.M. song eventually. With the recent release of
Stereogum’s tribute to Automatic For The People,
Drive XV, (free mp3s of covers of every track on the record by a range of indie rock acts) he was asked to write an essay about the album:
Sweetness Followed: 15 Years After Automatic.
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at 7:57 AM on October 16, 2007
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American Lawbreaking.
"This series explores the black spots in American law: areas in which our laws are routinely and regularly broken and where the law enforcement response is … nothing. These are the areas where, for one reason or another, we've decided to tolerate lawbreaking and let a law—duly enacted and still on the books—lay fallow or near dead." The first two entries are
prescription drug abuse and
internet pornography.
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at 7:19 AM on October 15, 2007
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Never Coming Home
is about the families of five young men killed in Iraq.
Slate presents a short documentary that focuses on the bereavement of the parents, or in one case, a brother. This portrait of grief and sacrifice is brought to life through the use of still photography and the recorded voices of family members.
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at 10:31 AM on June 12, 2006
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Adult Swim Fix.
Streaming full-length Adult Swim episodes twenty-four hours a day online. Seven archival episodes will be available at all times, while premieres will continue to debut on Fridays, two days before they appear on-air.
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at 7:16 AM on April 27, 2006
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Naked Melee Armageddon.
You have roughly five seconds before the melee begins to load the screen with as many people as you can. When an alien and a human meet, they fight. They destroy each other with axes, explosions, ninja moves, electrocution, etc. No matter the outcome, both the winner and loser vanish. The only way to win is by outnumbering the enemy. [
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at 1:25 PM on April 13, 2006
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
are a band that, less than a year ago, were making music without the help of a record label, pressing CDs themselves and selling them at concerts and on the Internet. Then the following happened:
June 9: Dan Bierne writes about the band on his MP3 blog,
June 14: Pitchfork Media posts a review of the song "In This Home On Ice",
June 15: Blogger Gothamist posts an interview with the band,
June 20: Blogger Stereogum announces the band's show at the Knitting Factory,
June 21: Gothamist reports that David Bowie was in the audience at the Knitting Factory show, and
June 22: Pitchfork posts one of a slew of reviews of Clap's first album.
Now, they've been named to dozens of
critics 'best of' lists,
they're playing Conan and Letterman, and are about to embark on a new tour. Why choose today to post an article about a band blowing up written in November you ask? Because
their tour kicks off tonight at the 9:30 club in DC, and you can
listen to it live.
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at 6:44 AM on March 8, 2006
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Random Rules
, a new[ish] feature of
the Onion: A.V. Club. They ask a rocker/writer/comedian/whatever to set their MP3 player to "shuffle" and comment on the first few tracks that come up. This probably could have been very
boring, but it actually ended up kind of interesting. See
Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse call Belle and Sebastian a “one-fuckin'-trick pony”. Enjoy
David Cross waxing poetic about R.E.M.’s
Murmur. From the main link, read the description of the raw sexual chemistry that existed between David Berman of the Silver Jews and the actress that played Ginger on Gilligan's Island.
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at 6:01 AM on March 1, 2006
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NPR’s Live Concert Series
site offers recordings of recent live performances by
James Brown,
Sinead O’Connor,
Iron & Wine and Calexico,
Son Volt,
My Morning Jacket,
The White Stripes, M. Ward,
Sigur Ros,
Bloc Party,
The Decemberists, and live tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. ET,
Colin Meloy.
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at 8:05 AM on January 27, 2006
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Katrina Tours!
As has
been widely reported, tours of the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina have begun. What motivates people to engage in "
dark tourism"? Is it harmful or helpful to the region? Is it just plain creepy?
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at 8:57 AM on January 5, 2006
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