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New Album Review: Nature by Flotation Walls

Nature, the debut album from Columbus, Ohio group Flotation Walls, hasn't stopped playing for me since I got my hands on the disc last week.

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Springsteen hits album due via Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart will be the exclusive U.S. retailer for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's "Greatest Hits," which will arrive Jan. 13.

The Decline of Fake Lesbianism in America

This is just kinda funny. You gotta love Coilhouse.

New iPods! - A Brief Review of Today's "Let's Rock" Apple Event

Apple Press Events are like quarterly christmases for the legions of devoted fans - I number myself among them - who can't get enough of the Apple Magic.

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The Artist in Profile: 24 Years of Nick Cave

On October 1, I'm going to make a trip up to Toronto to catch Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as they cross the continent on their Dig!!! Lazarus, Digg!!! tour.

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Concert Review: Tom Waits, Columbus Ohio, 6/28/2008

This past weekend I had the rare opportunity to witness a performance by the one and only Tom Waits.

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Tom Waits Interviews Self (Full Text)

This just popped into my inbox from the publicist of Tom Waits. Apparently it's going to appear on tomwaits.com soon but it's not there now and I want to get it out as fast as I can, so I'm reprinting it.

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Tom Waits - Press Conference - Glitter and Doom Tour

Always one with a touch for the dramatic, Tom Waits announces his 2008 summer tour with a Youtube press conference. Check it out, I guarantee you will smile. :)

Battlestar Galactica: Leitmotifs and Bob Dylan

"So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late... But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. "No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke...

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Press Play: A Review of The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely

Here's one we didn't see coming - The Raconteurs went into the studio early this month, took like a week to record a new album, rushed it to press and quietly announced it a week before its release.

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Rewind: PJ Harvey's "Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea"

Everyone has those albums that they can put on at any time and in any mood and just enjoy them. I've certainly got a few - Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?", Weezer's "Blue" album, the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, the list goes on.

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Artists in Profile: Flotation Walls

In the world of American indie-rock Columbus, Ohio isn't exactly on the radar of most people looking for up-and-coming bands.

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Movie Review: Once

Once just came out on DVD yesterday and unless someone speaks up it may fly under your radar. It didn't get a whole lot of press during its limited theater run and I had to dig to find out when it was coming out on disc.

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Old Album Review - David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World

It seems to me that everyone has a different favorite David Bowie album. Sure, we all love Ziggy - but the magic of Bowie seems to be that he is able to speak to each of us in our own language.

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New Album Review: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand

You know who they are. Robert Plant, the former front man for golden-age icons Led Zeppelin, is a household name.

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Old Album Review - The White Stripes, De Stijl

Rambling Introduction We all remember music in late 2001/2002 - Nu Metal was still being treated with inexplicable respect, Weezer had publicly announced that they would henceforth suck, Avril Lavigne had burst onto the scene with all her antiestablishmentarian Candian punk rawk  …

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Review - The White Stripes, Icky Thump

So the White Stripes finally released their latest effort, Icky Thump, on June 19. I held off for a while reviewing this because quite frankly I had no idea what I thought.

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Dancer vs. Baby - You Have To See This

I don't normally seed youtube videos, but... give it a look, you won't regret it ;)

Is Tinariwen the greatest band on earth?

For rockers and rappers of a certain stripe, a hard-bitten back story is an indispensable part of their mystique and a bold-face item in their press releases.

Confession from a Newly Opened Mind

I am generally not one to hold grudges. Given time (and usually a fairly short amount of time at that) I will generally forgive people for all but the most heinous transgressions.

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Artist Profile - Regina Spektor

Ok, so, I know Regina Spektor is this big up-and-coming major-label piano-pop idol type person, right, so I know writing this may cost me some street-cred with the indie crowd.

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Artist Profile - Leonard Cohen

Every once in a while, someone around here writes a thread about people's favorite music or things they find sacred or something along those lines. Always there are interesting responses - and always, someone brings up Leonard Cohen.

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