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Kanye West  is undervalued. Yes, I’m serious – consider that he is on a run of albums (4) of such incredible output (both commercial and artisitic) that realistically the only comparisons that exist are The Beatles and Rolling Stones. No other acts I know of can lay claim to 4 number 1 albums over...
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Last night I flipped on The Colbert Report to find that cult art-rock forefathers, Devo, were performing on the show. To this point I had forgotten that their new album, and first in two decades, was out this week and that Devo was once again alive. While I’ve yet to judge the album itself,...
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I hate forced sequels. Spider-Man 3…Jaws 2, 3, 4…Weekend at Bernie’s 2: they all sucked, and they damaged the original successes. So while I feel guilty for the dry spell in Bro and Tell, please know that I still care, and I hope you do too....
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In the U.S. and around the world, today is Record Store Day, where scores of your favorite artists release special vinyl and cd exclusives through the many participating independent records stores. This is a sort of incentive to encourage the survival of independantly owned record stores and what they represent. Ya’ll know I love...
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If you read Pitchfork, Rolling Stone or any other source for music news, in the last few weeks you have probably noticed the repeating headlines about the death of musician Alex Chilton. It is my assumption that few people actually know/knew who this man was. Most have probably wondered why he deserves such attention. On one...
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Even I get a little tired with writing about music, so here is something a little different. Thanks to my Tuesday night art lecture, I have been introduced to a visual artist that goes by the name Blu. In short, Blu is an Italian stop-motion street artist. While I let that soak in, imagine if Banksy, everybody’s...
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The Vancouver Sun (via Hypebot) posted this list of the moneymakers of the decade. For me, there weren’t any real surprises. I guess, the list pretty much sums up the crises of the record industry in the 00’s, if being a figurehead at a Las Vegas Casino makes you the richest artist of the...
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This week Vampire Weekend dropped Contra, their second full length album, after a long and playful campaign that started with the mysterious photo above appearing on major music news sites without explaination. If you’re like me, Vampire Weekend is a Love-Hate relationship, and I’ll explain why in good time. I may contradict myself, no pun...
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Pitchfork’s influential year-end chart translated into a nice infographic showing the artists’ genre and location. It would seem that music is not being made outside the Anglophone world. Hello Africa, tell me how your doing! Get the list on your Spotify here.
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It has been a very prosperous year and I could write pages about my favorite albums of 2009. Instead I thought I would save much of the retreading of music we’ve already talked about, and write more personally on the music I discovered (or rediscovered) this year. More specifically I’d like to focus my...
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