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Music news is back, whether you like it or not
Music news is back...It's something TK and I started over at Pajiba, and it's something the team as a whole will be continuing here at TMITM. Let's get it started...The reunited duo of Slug...
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Seriously, though. What Did I Expect?
Boys Like Girls: Love Drunk[Columbia/Red Ink]Okay, hang on a second. I'm confused. What did I just hear?Let's back up for a moment. A few years ago, a friend introduced me to a band called Boys Like...
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Taken By
Taken By Trees: East of Eden, 2009 [Rough Trade]Taken By Trees is the musical alter ego of Victoria Bergsman, the warmly wispy-voiced ex-singer of Swedish pop-combo The Concretes - and this album, East...
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Come Together
Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson: Break Up [Atco/Rhino]Historically, when a popular young actress like Scarlett Johansson decides to break into the bright, shiny world of music, the results usually fit...
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Bread sucks. I love cheese. What?
My Favorite Middle EightsI've written a few songs in my day. Songwriting isn't easy. I've learned, though--both from my brief foray into composition and from my lifelong obsession with pop music--that...
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Music News: A collaboration you might not have seen coming
Finally some "piss in my pants with excitement" music news. Let's be real here. Most of the music news I report here is ho-hum. This right here is mind-blowing. The Black Keys are producing and...
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Our Favorite Album Covers
Much like a musician who is part of a band but also releases solo material, I'm sort of glad we saved this post for this site as opposed to Pajiba. Of course, maybe if we woulda posted this on Pajiba,...
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Atyipcal
Mute Math: Armistice[Teleprompt/Warner Bros.]The first thing you need to know about Mute Math is that lead singer Paul Meany plays the keytar in concert. Don't even try to tell me that's not...
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Stop It.
Muse, The Resistance [2009][Warner Bros./Helium 3]A true resistance movement, in the classical sense, does more than just overturn the status quo. A truly influential resistance is one that stands for...
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Sunny Day Real Estate: Grown Up Emo Kids and Car Seats
"One day, we're going to be 40. And it's going to happen like that," my fiancee said with a snap of her fingers as we surveyed our surroundings this past Wednesday evening at First Avenue here in...
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Music News: Again
In Minneapolis-based music label Rhymesayers news, P.O.S. just finished up three tour dates on the West Coast with punk band Bad Brains. He is continuing his tour in Europe right now, and will be back...
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This album is like a carefully constructed sloppy outfit; a carerected slopfit, if you will. You know exactly what I'm talking about: the kind of outfit that a [insert emo/hipster/etc. stereotype]...
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She'll Kiss You Like a King and You'll Love It.
A Fine Frenzy: Bomb In a Birdcage[Virgin Records]That song says pretty much everything I'd need to say about A Fine Frenzy's (singer/songwriter/pianist Alison Sudol) second release, Bomb In a Birdcage....
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Music News: From treadmills to Purple Rain
OK Go shot to fame after their clever treadmill video for "Here It Goes Again" in 2006, but had been around for much longer prior to that. With about seven EPs under their belt and two full-length...
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Super Duper
Monsters of Folk, Monsters of Folk (Shangri-La Music/Rough Trade) Few things instill a greater mix of anticipation and trepidation in music fans than a supergroup. We hype them to a god-like status...
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I was lucky enough Tuesday night to be treated to a rather impromptu (for me, anyway) mini-concert as well as a thank you song from two different artists, one of whom I was already a fan of, and the...
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Fly, Fly, Fly.
Mae: (m)orning[Cell Records]Well. Look who didn't do his research.I've been a fan of Mae (short for Multi-sensory aesthetic experience) for quite a while now. After their last release (2007's...
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Juliette Lewis: Terra Incognita[The End Records]Here's a question for you: if I spent pretty much the entire length of this album pondering just how crazypants Juliette Lewis must be, does that make me...
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Singing Without Lyrics, or At Least That's What it Sounds Like
I often feel like I don't listen enough to the words. When I take in a song, I absorb its melodies, its textures, and its structure. It's just what my ears/brain naturally do. This is probably the...
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Music News: Re-re-re-remix
Indie darlings Passion Pit and Chairlift met backstage at Bonnaroo this summer, developed a friendship and have since created remixes of each other's songs. Chairlift remixed Passion Pit's "To Kingdom...
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Tea and Bloody Crumpets
Doors for the Emilie Autumn show were supposed to be at seven. They weren't. It was much closer to eight. My compatriots and I stood around in the autumn chill and the spitting rain shivering and...
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Miles and Miles to Put It Back Together
I turn 41 today. I definitely don't feel 41. I maybe feel more like I did when I was in my mid-20s. Luckily, I don't have aching parts of my body. I still don't wear glasses, or really need to,...
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In the Dynamite Jet Saloon
On a recent trip to Minneapolis, I met up with an old friend. Beers were opened, guitars were brought out, and my friend mentioned that he had a Dogs D'Amour album that he had found, which included a...
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My Life with Blondie
I remember as a kid first hearing "Heart of Glass" on the radio. I would have been 10 at the time and I had a single speaker mono radio with a tape player my dad brought back from one of his TDY...
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Summer Albums: Exit...Stage Left
I was 12 and entering the 7th grade when I moved to Germany. I was well versed in Top 40 hits but then I met Gilbert. I’m sure everyone can point to a few people who influenced them in the music...
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