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07/11/2008

ICYMI: Indie Bands Need Inspiration, New Sigur Ros Remix, AITA No Age Philly Show Review + More

ICYMI: Indie Bands Need Inspiration, New Sigur Ros Remix, AITA No Age Philly Show Review + More

We know you don't always have time to sift through a million music blogs and sites, so we thought we would help you guys out a little and link to some of the things that you may have missed. Check out some of the stuff we found interesting this ...

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Posted by Michael on 07/11/2008 4:22 PM EST in General | Permalink

06/17/2008

Go to This: Philly Popped! Festival with Dan Deacon, Crystal Castles, Vampire Weekend, Slick Rick, Daniel Johnston and More!

Go to This: Philly Popped! Festival with Dan Deacon, Crystal Castles, Vampire Weekend, Slick Rick, Daniel Johnston and More!

This coming weekend (June 20th-22nd) will be an awesome one for music heads here in Philly. Popped! Philadelphia Music Festival will be hosting some rad bands over the course of 3 days. Whoa! Check out Saturday's line-up at Drexel: Vampire We ...

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Posted by Michael on 06/17/2008 3:53 PM EST in General, Events | Permalink

06/06/2008

VISUAL NOTES: Art In The Age Music Round-Up

VISUAL NOTES: Art In The Age Music Round-Up

This week's VISUAL NOTES features a weekly round-up of musings on fine art, design, musicians/bands, and related news. Each week I really do delight in scouring the internet for cool marriages of art and music. This week, however, a whole slew o ...

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Posted by Robin on 06/06/2008 5:24 PM EST in Editorial, General, Visual Notes | Permalink

03/18/2008

Slade Vs. The Monkeys - The Finest in Rock Caricatures

Slade Vs. The Monkeys - The Finest in Rock Caricatures

High fives all around to Goner Records for publishing Slade vs. The Monkeys, 50 pages of phenomenal, laugh-out-loud musical caricatures drawn by the artist Crowbar. Look at some of these illustrations- they are brilliant!

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Posted by Emily on 03/18/2008 12:53 PM EST in General, Highly Recommended | Permalink

02/25/2008

VISUAL NOTES: Album Covers Inspired by Famous Paintings

Currently in storage at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

If you are a band planning to release an album, and you're lacking in visual artist friends...look no further than the closest art museum! I spotted a photo of a Bow Wow Wow album cover in an new edition of The Oxford History of Western Art t ...

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Posted by Robin on 02/25/2008 12:14 PM EST in General, Visual Notes | Permalink

02/14/2008

Showin' The Love: Valentine's Day Blog Round-Up

Showin' The Love: Valentine's Day Blog Round-Up

Since it's a day to be all mushy and crap, we figured it would be appropriate to show our affection to the blogs we love by posting links to their Valentine's Day related posts. So here we go: • Head over to Art in the Age's Blog for a V-Da ...

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Posted by Michael on 02/14/2008 6:47 PM EST in General | Permalink

10/31/2007

The Top 5 Strangest Deaths in Rock and Roll

The Top 5 Strangest Deaths in Rock and Roll

Here are my personal picks for a Zombie Dream Team - rockers who met surprising, creepy, and just plain gruesome ends:

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Posted by Robin on 10/31/2007 3:46 PM EST in Rock, Editorial, General | Permalink

10/15/2007

Breakfast at Sulimay's: A Fresh Perspective on the Music Review

Breakfast at Sulimay's: A Fresh Perspective on the Music Review

Ever tire of reading Pitchfork? Every wonder what your grandparents think about the music your currently listening to? Go no further, our friends over at Woodshop Films have what you’ve been looking for. Breakfast at Sulimay’s brings AARP me ...

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Posted by Brad on 10/15/2007 3:27 PM EST in YouTube, General | Permalink

10/09/2007

The Music Industry: On the Cusp of Monumental Change?

The Music Industry: On the Cusp of Monumental Change?

With Radiohead announcing last week that they would be releasing their new album, In Rainbows, and allowing people to pay however much they wanted for it, the inevitable question arose: do bands with an established audience, or even ones without ...

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Posted by Michael on 10/09/2007 11:22 PM EST in General | Permalink

10/08/2007

Tired of Checking a Million Sites to look for shows in your area?

Tired of Checking a Million Sites to look for shows in your area?

Check out Bands in Your Town. This new application finds your location automatically and then displays all the artists playing shows in your area within a given time period. The particularly nice thing is that you can sort the results by date, d ...

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Posted by Michael on 10/08/2007 10:37 AM EST in General | Permalink