Ready for Summer? Apparently Summerville, South Carolina is a good place to start. Check out the retro summer sounds of The Explorers Club. “The band draws on the soul-satisfying vocal style made famous by the Beach Boys and the Association, and pairs it with arrangements patented by the likes of Phil Spector, the Left Banke […]

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A new release on TEENBEAT? In 2008? From Bridget Cross and featuring Mark Robinson and Phil Krauth? WTF?! I’m not complaining or anything, but WTF?! Time to walk down the Teenbeat memory lane, I guess. (via) Maybe It’s Reno – Gravestones

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“The National as seen through the lens of Vincent Moon of La Blogotheque fame.” (via)

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Chuck Klosterman tells it like it is. “People didn’t stop buying albums because they were philosophically opposed to how the rock business operated, and they didn’t stop buying albums because the Internet is changing the relationship between capitalism and art. People stopped buying albums because they wanted the fucking money. It’s complicated, but it’s not.”

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Get Better, from Re-Arrange Us. (For Pat D.)

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Nice mix of songs that are 2 minutes and 42 seconds long. Including classics like There She Goes, What She Said, Echos Myron and Lovely Rita, among others. (via Wired, Wired’s playlist)

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Merge is giving away The Rosebuds remix album, Sweet Beats, Troubled Sleep (Night of the Furies Remixed). “Night of the Furies contained songs of despair and loss that roused friends of the band to present them with personal reconstructions of these dark tales. The resulting assortment of dance tunes and lullabies delighted Ivan and Kelly, […]

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