NYT covers the Apple effect after an indie band gets picked for the background music of an iPod commercial. Not exactly news or mind blowing, but worth reading. (via the Music Slut)

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Oh, this is maddening. The woman who killed three Chicago musicians, including Silkworm’s Michael Dahlquist, is being released from prison after serving less than half of her eight-year sentence. According to the Chicago Tribune [via Pitchfork], this is how she’s getting off so easy: “Sliwinski’s time in prison was reduced by a sentencing law that […]

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This poster by Martin Dominguez charts each instrument second by second in Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Man, designers are all over this song lately.

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NYT profile on MBV post-ATP. “Loveless” was difficult and expensive to make. Its songs are filled with emotional turmoil and enveloped in otherworldly sounds that had Mr. Shields recording in studio after studio, perpetually dissatisfied. The album’s cost has been estimated at £250,000, about $458,000, which helped to bankrupt its independent record label, Creation. “It […]

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Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has responded to erstwhile bandleader Damon Albarn’s premature claim that “Blur is over.” Who knows what the fuck is going on in these guys’ heads, but it’s interesting to see Graham actually defensive about Blur’s future. That’s progress.  It’s probably just a pissing contest with Damon, but if it leads to […]

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There’s a whole line of them. WTF?! I’m so perplexed by this sort of thing. I mean, time was I loved Stephin Merritt as much as the next vaguely gay indiepop twee/twugster, but I’d be hard pressed to buy, let alone wear, shoes inspired by the man I once put on the lyrical pedestal. Tres […]

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Since her relatively low-maintenance days as bassist and lead singer of Velocity Girl, Bridget Cross has mapped out an impressive life trajectory, as this Juneau Empire article details. If you’re old enough, you may know her best as bassist and some-time singer for Unrest, the pioneers of the D.C. indie rock scene from the early […]

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