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Fred Armisen gets an intervention due to his dependence on Intervention.
We went to Jersey, and suddenly we want to ride around in a Prius listening to Jigga.
We can't decide how we feel about Broken Social Scene covering "Love Will Tear Us Apart". It sounds more like Arthur Russell than Ian Curtis - which might be awesome, but we have to give it time to sink in.
Ari Messer of the SF Bay Guardian pays tribute to "five artists who have charted new electronic realms", including Kraut-legends Cluster, and Bernard Szajner, who Messer describes as "somewhere between Brian Eno and Marcel Duchamp."
McSweeney's give us a comprehensive list of places you should go in Europe, and Lonely Planet is shaking in its boots.
Since the upcoming G.I. Joe movie will obviously be better than Citizen Kane, >there will be no need for critic previews.
Foreigner fucks their fans.
The Scowl on the Dean and Britta/Crystal Stilts show.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn says that Tao Lin's indie-press, Muumuu House is "just reacting to the romanticized "State of Things."
Jessica Hopper digs up a 1983 "expose" on the Minneapolis hardcore scene.
Posted on August 07, 2009. More on: broken social scene, cluster, crystal stilts, fred armisen, jay-z, kraut rock, linkage, mcsweeney's, tao lin
i don't know about GI Joe, I don't remember it being so robotic and futuristic. And I will say this much, if Tomas and Zamot are not in it, i am totally booycotting.
— derek on August 07, 2009