Category: Music
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Thanks to All Songs Considered’s 2005 Holiday Show, I’m obsessed with the LeeVees’ "Applesauce Vs. Sour Cream": Applesauce versus sour creamApplesauce or sour creamIt’s the choice you’re gonna have to makeWhich to put on your potato cakes Applesauce versus sour creamApplesauce or sour cream, nowIt’s the choice you’re gonna have to makeTell your mom to…
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I first learned who Kanye West was as a result of Hurricane Katrina. (Unless you’re a rap fan [in which case you already knew who he was] or were living under a rock in September [in which case your TV reception wasn’t too good], the same may well be true for you–West made waves when…
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I heard a snippet of a song from Rilo Kiley’s The Execution of All Things a few months ago and it really grabbed me. I must have put it on my wishlist, because lo and behold it recently turned up in a stack of birthday presents from my baby. And it kicks ass. Musically eclectic,…
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I picked up a 1 GB iPod Shuffle almost on a whim this weekend. Lord knows I love my 20 GB model to death, but it’s a little too heavy for a shirt pocket or for exercising, it’s expensive enough that I worry about dropping it or losing it, and the battery life isn’t really…
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The mystery is solved. Haywood’s very own Ted Pauly has dropped in to explain why his late, much-lamented band mentioned my obscure hometown, Mechanicsburg, PA, in their memorial site’s "thank you" section: We played one wonderful poorly (nearly un-) attended show at some giant empty hall-ish space (teen dance club) in Mechanicsburg in the late-early-nineties.…
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In their own words, Audioscrobbler… …builds a profile of your musical taste using a plugin for your media player (Winamp, iTunes, XMMS etc..). Plugins send the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song. Every person with a plugin has their own page on…
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Haywood is, well, was one of my favorite bands. And tonight I discover a reference to my obscure hometown, Mechanicsburg, PA, in the "final thanks" section of their memorial site (link’s at the bottom right.) Now, technically, I lived in Hampden Township as a kid, but my mailing address said "Mechanicsburg," and I can attest…
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In 1985, I thought Aimee Mann was a vapid puff of corporate-rock trash and Paul Westerberg was God. Twenty years later, I think Mann’s one of the finest pop artists alive, and I don’t really know what to think of Westerberg, whose post-Replacements output is just barely good enough to keep me interested but never…
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God damn, the Archers of Loaf’s Icky Mettle is a fine disc. How the hell did it escape my attention in 1993? I was listening to the indie rock bands the Archers are commonly compared to–Pavement and Dinosaur Jr. and the like. But I didn’t pick it up until a few years ago, and even…