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MMFRR#12 -- Three Star Seed
Often, in lieu of actual people wanting to be my Myspace friends, I get piles of friend requests from bands and musicians attempting to get me to check 'em out/attend their shows/join their street...
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A Bipedal Christmas
The best way to retain readership is to post sporadically and with little fanfare, right?Anyway, Christmas has thrust itself upon us. Instead of whining about over-commercialism and the pressure to get...
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The Goods of '08
For better or worse another calendar year has come to an end and now we turn our thoughts backward. There was some good music, there was lots of bad music, and there was much more I completely missed....
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The Letter T
In this series I spotlight five bands and/or artists whose names begin with the same letter. I try to feature active (or recently active... it's hard to keep current with all the break-ups) performers...
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2005
It's far easier to pick five great songs from the 1950's when there were only, like, ten albums released every year (half of which belonged to Frank Sinatra) than it is to choose five great songs from...
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MMFRR#13 -- The Lakeside Is For Killers
Often, in lieu of actual people wanting to be my Myspace friends, I get piles of friend requests from bands and musicians attempting to get me to check 'em out/attend their shows/join their street...
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il Buono, il Brutto, il AlbumArto: Tim Buckley
il Buono, il Brutto, il AlbumArto.Take a band. Take its album cover highlights. Take its album cover lowlights.Swish it all around in your mouth. Comment.Tim BuckleyI must be a sucker for live images...
View ArticleKathleen Edwards, Hunting Horns, 2/9/09 @ Aeolian Hall, London, ON
I've been wanting to see Kathleen Edwards for a long time. She tours constantly and even lives less than a couple hours away from where I do, but I've never had a good opportunity to attend one of her...
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Happy Valentine's Day
It's a great day for those of us in love.And for all you other suckers...there's always next year.Valentine's Day = the Chicago Cubs of holidays.The Status - Happy Valentine's Day
View ArticleJesper Norda Update
If you enjoyed Jesper Norda's Little Ones EP as much as I did (it was amongst my favorite releases of '08) then you'll be happy to know he has posted some new material, We Have the Guts EP, available...
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2000
The year 2000 does not seem like such a long time ago... and yet it was! Nine years have passed since the Y2k scare, since we exited the 1990s, since Bush, Jr., first entered the White House. A lot...
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The Bipedal blog is being resuscitated for an end-of-the-decade send-off.Stay tuned.
View Article2000-2009:110-101
The span between 2000 and 2010 were, historically, a peculiar set of years. This was my generation's decade and appropriately they were, event-wise and life-wise, culturally and personally, highlighted...
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100) Hopesfall - The Satellite YearsThough a far-cry from Frailty of Words and No Wings to Speak Of, The Satellite Years is still full of melodicore goodness. "The Bending" continues to be one of my...
View Article2000-2009:90-81
90) Damien Jurado - On My Way to AbsenceMusically this sounds like a positive album. Jurado softly croons through most of the songs, lulling the listener with acoustic guitars and reserved pianos and...
View Article2000-2009:80-71
80) Kathleen Edwards - FailerEdwards' first full-length commercial release is about as good as debut albums get. Full of fictional (?) first-person accounts and nuggets of what are presumably bigger...
View Article2000-2009:70-61
70) Junior Boys - So This is GoodbyeMore Canadians! Electronic music always seems best when it is composed by duos. While techno, house, and trance have a tendency to lull its listeners into a......
View Article2000-2009:60-51
60)As I Lay Dying - Frail Words CollapseI remember when I first heard "94 Hours" I nearly soiled myself. Like, literally. The volume was up really loud, and those bass blasts... Anyway, solid crunchy...
View Article2000-2009:50-41
TOP 50, EVERYBODY!50)Further Seems Forever - The Moon is DownPre-DC Chris Carraba on vocals + post-Strongarm band members = passionate rock 'n' roll. The Moon is Down takes me back to a time of musical...
View Article2000-2009:40-31
In this ten:3 Canadian-based bands1 Brazilian-based band2 Japanese front-women1 pair of Italian twins1 SwedeThe rest are just American leftovers.40) Crystal Castles - Crystal CastlesListening to...
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