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Review: Be Your Own Pet’s “Get Damaged” EP

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may remember my review in March of Be Your Own Pet's album "Get Awkward." You may remember in my review that I criticized Universal for removing three tracks from the...

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June 25, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (2)

Sound-Alikes?: Creaky Boards Vs. Coldplay and Other "Similar" Songs

Recently Andrew Hoepfner, leader of an indie rock band from Brooklyn, Creaky Boards, noticed that his song, the now semi-ironically titled “The Songs I Didn’t Write,” was strikingly similar to Coldplay’s current number one hit, and ipod-ad staple “Viva La...

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June 20, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (50)

Review: Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends”

Over the last eight years, Coldplay have been extremely popular. They have also been extremely abused in the culture. Somehow they’ve gotten a reputation for being a sappy, “sensitive” band. Chris Martin’s falsetto warble has become the butt of jokes...

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June 18, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (13)

Pop Music: The Best Songs About Dads

This Sunday is Fathers’ Day. In honor of the occasion, I have compiled a list of some of my favorite songs which mention fathers or are about fathers. A lot of thought went into this list. I considered a lot...

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June 12, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (38)

Review: The Ting Tings’ “We Started Nothing”

If you’ve been watching television and you’ve seen one of the latest rounds of ipod commercials, no doubt at some point or another you have heard the Ting Tings’ song “Shut Up and Let Me Go.” What we hear on...

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June 11, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Review: Weezer’s “Weezer (Red Album)” Deluxe Edition

Weezer’s sixth album is much like their first and their third in the way that it’s a self-titled effort differentiated by it’s monochromatic cover. The first album was blue. The third album was green. This one is red. It’s also...

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June 9, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (2)

Review: Aimee Mann’s “@#%&*! Smilers”

Aimee Mann definitely has a formula. Ever since her emancipation from the major label system in the late nineties and her Oscar nominated song work in “Magnolia,” every one of her albums has sounded roughly the same. Tracks are interchangeable...

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June 6, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

Review: Radiohead’s “Best Of”

This week EMI released a “best of” collection, compiling key tracks from Radiohead’s career. But wait! What’s happening here? Repeatedly the band has taken a stand against such collections. In an interview with “The Word,” cited on the British Music...

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June 5, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)