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I just posted a picture of myself with Patrick Stickles in a thread on /mu/ and someone said “Holy shit, it’s the Needle Drop intern.”

Jul 31st

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 7/29/11

Here’s the playlist from last night’s Left of the Dial radio show on WNHU, complete with a youtube link to each song. 1. Sufjan Stevens - “Age of Adz” 2. Broken Social Scene - “Forced To Love” 3. The Format - “I’m Actual” 4. Arcade Fire - “Culture War” 5. Cymbals Eat Guitars - “Rifle Eyesight (Proper Name)” 6....

Jul 31st

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Jul 29th

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Left of the Dial: 6-8 PM on WNHU →

Tune in now! Click the link above to tune in to another live broadcast of my radio show Left of the Dial, which airs on WNHU every Friday night from 6 to 8 PM Eastern time. I didn’t have a show last week because I was in North Carolina on vacation, and now I’m excited to be back in the studio playing my favorite songs for you guys! There is tons of new music on the playlist for...

Jul 29th

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Jul 29th

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slow-riot asked: Actually, that makes complete sense.
Heems hates white people. I can also totally see him making something bad on purpose just to piss people off.

Jul 28th

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prepostmortem replied to your audio post: Song of the Day Number 192 Titus Andronicus -… Literally my favorite song of all time. For good reason.

Jul 28th

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Song of the Day Number 192 Titus Andronicus -...

Jul 28th

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Stream Andrew Jackson Jihad - "Hate, Rain On Me" →

Alternative Press has an exclusive stream of a new song from Andrew Jackson Jihad. “Hate, Rain On Me” will appear on their forthcoming album Knife Man. Purists beware, there’s not much “folk” going on in this particular folk-punk track. On the Who-referencing “Hate, Rain On Me”, blistering electric guitars leads and harmonies take the place of the...

Jul 28th

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on the blog today:

theneedledrop: new mellowhype review new podcast new mac miller video (written by chriscap) new krallice ep (written by chriscap) new remixes from zomby, little dragon, and the beatles new track from machinedrum new mogwai track Check out two more posts I wrote yesterday (both of which were a little out of my comfort zone) up now on The Needle Drop blog!

Jul 28th

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Download Stereogum's Strokes Tribute Album

In honor of the tenth anniversary of Is This It, the generation-defining debut by New York City garage rockers The Strokes, the folks over at Stereogum put together this fine tribute album. STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It features cover versions of all eleven songs on the original record performed by current up and coming bands of diverse musical backgrounds, including Peter Bjorn & John,...

Jul 28th

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“We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97...”

– Morrissey, before singing “Meat Is Murder” at a show on Sunday

Jul 28th

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Weekly Needle Drops: Stream: Uzbeks - Goggles & Flipflops (2010) Originally posted on The Needle Drop HERE Despite what their name might suggest, Uzbeks are not from Uzbekistan. In fact, this five-piece garage punk outfit is actually from Israel. Their LP Goggles & Flipflops was released toward the end of last year, and features a really interesting take on classic, 70s-style punk...

Jul 27th

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Weekly Needle Drops: Stream: Yalls - Yalls Originally posted on The Needle Drop HERE Los Angeles-based producer-singer Yalls makes quirky synth pop music that sounds close to what Baths would be if he spent more time listening to old funk records. Yalls’ new, self-released album is nineteen tracks of manipulated, cartoonified vocals dancing over squawky bass and funky synths. The album’s...

Jul 27th

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Download The New Bomb The Music Industry! Album

Originally Posted on The Needle Drop HERE Former Arrogant Sons of Bitches’ frontman Jeff Rosenstock’s long-running punk project Bomb The Music Industry! has a new album out today. Called Vacation, the album marks a summery direction for the band But lyrically, things haven’t changed much since previous Bomb The Music Industry! releases — though there is less focus politics and punk...

Jul 27th

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Jul 26th

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Anonymous asked: i love you

Jul 26th

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →

Elliott Smith (117) Beach Fossils (32) Red House Painters (29) Bright Eyes (27) Radiohead (27) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Jul 26th

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Video: The Feelies - “Sooner Or Later” (Live at Daniel Street, Milford CT 7.22.11) Back in March 2010, I saw The Feelies play at Daniel Street in Milford, Connecticut, which might have been my first real concert ever. The band played two full sets and I think six encores (!), which amounted to an incredible 2 hour+ show. I had been chatting up the band’s touring tech guy between...

Jul 25th

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Stream New Records From Little Dragon and Bomb The...

Swedish pop sweethearts Little Dragon have a new record coming out called Ritual Union on Peacefrog Records, and it’s really good. If you can’t wait until its release date tomorrow to hear it, the entire record is now streaming over at AOL Music CD Listening Party site. Click HERE to listen to it. Similarly, the new Bomb The Music Industry! album Vacation will be released online...

Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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“Winehouse. Winehouse? Winehouse! That twerp, all eyeliner and lager dithering up...”

– Actor and reformed drug addict Russell Brand, in a surprisingly eloquent blog post regarding his friend, the recently-deceased singer Amy Winehouse. Read my recent review of Winehouse’s career defining final album Back To Black HERE.

Jul 24th

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“Is this Weird Al?”

– My father, listening to The Mountain Goats

Jul 24th

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Jul 24th

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Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (2006)

Like I’m sure countless others have done across the globe in light of her death today, I pulled out my copy of Amy Winehouse’s multi-platinum selling album Back To Black earlier today and spun it for the first time in at least a year. I suppose that in a way, it’s kind of screwed up that it took Amy Winehouse’s death for me to give this album a fresh listen. Although...

Jul 24th

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Jul 23rd

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Anonymous asked: WHY WOULD DELTE MY FAVORITE BLOG

Jul 23rd

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slow-riot replied to your post: Blog Update Goodnight, sweet prince. Deleting that blog was a move that was long overdue.

Jul 22nd

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Blog Update

For those of you who have been following both of my blogs, I just deleted my personal blog “the-great-depression” a few minutes ago. That means that the content of this blog might get *slightly* more personal, but that could end up being a good thing. Of course, all content posted here will remain music-related. For one thing, if you ever want to have a chat or a conversation, my ask...

Jul 22nd

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Follow: "Pet Soundsystem" →

Hey everybody! This is my friend’s brand new music blog “Pet Soundsystem”. I’ve know him on the internet forever and he’s a great guy and an insightful music fan. Hopefully his enthusiasm will motivate and inspire me to start posting more regularly and thoroughly on this blog. If you’ve ever checked the archives, you might have realized that Lewis and his Blog...

Jul 16th

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Anonymous asked: Who was that song by, after Sufjan?

Jul 16th

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holingout replied to your post: holingout replied to your link: Tune In Now! Left… Gotcha, figured I’d be in the right place when SBTRKT came on. Does your voice always pan left and right relentlessly, or is it just me? It shouldn’t be that way.

Jul 15th

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holingout replied to your link: Tune In Now! Left of the Dial: 6-8 PM on WNHU Are you currently playing James Blake or have I come across something completely different? Been meaning to listen in for a while. The past two songs that I’ve played have been “Hold On” by SBTRKT featuring Sampha and “Measurements” by James Blake before that.

Jul 15th

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Tune In Now! Left of the Dial: 6-8 PM on WNHU →

Tune in now! Click the link above to listen to my radio show Left of the Dial LIVE now on WNHU! The playlist for tonight’s show is absolutely stacked, with new music from Cymbals Eat Guitars, SBTRKT, Iceage and many more, along with some older favorites. The show will run until 8 PM Eastern time, which means that I’ll be DJing for the next two hours. The playlist will be posted here...

Jul 15th

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Left of the Dial Radio Playlist - 7/8/11

I just realized that I never got around to posting the playlist to last week’s Left of the Dial radio broadcast on WNHU. Here it is below, complete with a youtube link to each song (when youtube links could be found). Don’t forget that another Left of the Dial broadcast is coming your way LIVE starting at 6 PM tonight. I’ll be spinning tunes I’ve been listening to a lot...

Jul 15th

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the golden ghost: echo-base: sea-fence replied to... →

sea-fence: echo-base: sea-fence replied to your post: I don’t like spotify come @ me coming atcha from every side but it’s just so pointless it is just like my itunes but with music i don’t like ads no scrobbling no bowtie support no menu bar scroller growl looks like hell -… It’s awesome. i used to have to download an album before I bought a physical copy so that I...

Jul 14th

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Video: R.E.M.’s Michael StipeTributes the crew of Atlantis In a heartfelt tribute to the Space Program at NASA, R.E.M.’s frontman Michael Stipe sent a recording up to the Atlantis Shuttle, currently in orbit above Earth. In this video, he sings a few bars of the groups 1992 hit “Man On The Moon” a cappella, offers his thanks and praises for the work that the crew onboard...

Jul 14th

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Jul 12th

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suitcasesuitcase asked: I'm curious about indie pop bands in CT, especially the Hamden scene.. who do you recommend?

Jul 12th

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Anonymous asked: You're not a part of it, you just jumped on the band wagon at the last second. He's been working hard for years to get there, you just happen to have recently become associated with him.

Jul 12th

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