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Mar 12, 2009
Music

The Hazards of Love

The Hazards of Love, the Decemberists’ new album, is worth an 8.5 or 9.0. Good album, not necessarily spectacular, but very solid. Much more concept-y than The Crane Wife or Picaresque, but not in a bad way. Buy buy buy!

Jan 07, 2009
Music

The Most Unwanted Song

Head on over to the Slog and listen to the song; there’s an embedded music player at the bottom of the blog entry. This thing is totally, awesomely terrible. If you can tolerate it for 30 seconds, listen to the portion from about 5:40 - 6:10. It’...

Sep 10, 2008
Music

Death Cab for Cutie and TV on the Radio

I’m just finishing up lunch, and was spending some time reflecting over the past couple weeks when I realized I never mentioned my day at Bumbershoot on Labor Day. I caught Death Cab for Cutie headlining that night, and was as thoroughly impressed...

Sep 17, 2007
Music

Ticketmaster now owns my soul, half of last paycheck

I seem to have an action-packed Fall lined up for concerts and shows. Over the next couple months I’m going to see: Arcade Fire with LCD Soundsystem - September 24 Interpol - October 18 Spamalot - sometime in October Decemberists - De...

Sep 21, 2005
Music

Kanye' My Homie

Kanye on White People: “Actually, I do not think that (white people) are allowed to use slang until it is at least a year old. If you say a slang word too early, it’s like you’re trying to be black. So as long as the slang is a little played out, ...

Aug 23, 2005
Music

Music

More and more, music is becoming a central part of my life. I scoured a number of used CD stores in lower Queen Anne on Sunday for new stuff. I believe I purchased a total of 11 CDs in all: everything from Oasis, The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cu...