October 2008
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This Week in Music
Blue (Donna’s 4-Demo) / Elastica Time Isn’t Kind / Fine Young Cannibals C’mon Every Beatbox / Big Audio Dynamite Country Club Gun / Guadalcanal Diary I Won’t Stand / Insane Jane Dog Eat Dog / Adam & The Ants On The Roof / The Feelies The Way Things Are / Fiona Apple Sunday Morning / The Bolshoi Birth! School! Dole! Angst! / Edson
Oct 26th
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Cordy Lon, Please
I have been trying for some 20 years to find Cordy Lon’s demo tape—they were a sometimes quartet from Athens, GA, early ’90s, and they played some cool music. Think moody cello meets folk angst. Gang of Four meets Nick Drake. On a codeine bender. In Elliott Smith’s basement. Good stuff. Anywho, they put out a cassette tape (maybe 200 copies?) and mine was stolen in 1993 by...
Oct 26th
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Oct 24th
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WatchWatch
Getting Naked in Short Selling by Paddy Hirsch
Oct 23rd
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Not Mary's Dad's Farm
Ah, smog fall is in the air. Time to throw the kids into the Wagon Queen Family Truckster and head up to Burt’s Farm to bask in the warm glow that is Halloween Alpha. Naturally, as it’s a pumpkin farm—and we needed a pumpkin—we purchased nothing. We also stopped by Amicola Falls, if only to remind ourselves why we stopped going there years ago. Timing our leave perfectly,...
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This Week in Music
Between the Bars / Elliott Smith Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood / Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Cool for Cats / Squeeze Natural Blues / Moby Burning / The Whitest Boy Alive Atomic / Blondie Love Will Tear Us Apart / Joy Division Saint Simon / The Shins Going Underground / The Jam God Put a Smile On Your Face / Mark Ronson feat. The Daptone Horns
Oct 19th
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“October: this is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks....”
– Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Oct 17th
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WatchWatch
Credit Crisis as Antarctic Expedition by Paddy Hirsch
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This Week in Music
Geno / Dexy’s Midnight Runners Eardrum Buzz / Wire Seven / The Connells Debaser / Pixies Ana Ng / They Might Be Giants Make A Circuit With Me / The Polecats No. 13 Baby / Pixies Lost Weekend / Lloyd Cole & The Commotions Love Vigilantes / Poi Dog Pondering Better World / The Rave-Ups
Oct 12th
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WatchWatch
Uncorking CDOs by Paddy Hirsch
Oct 10th
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Untangling Credit Default Swaps by Paddy Hirsch
Oct 10th
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“We’re very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and...”
– Derek Smalls
Oct 6th
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This Week in Music
Express Yourself / Charles Wright Rush / Big Audio Dynamite This Charming Man / The Smiths No Guilt / The Waitresses On The Road To Find Out / Cat Stevens Love and Happiness / Al Green I Want You Back / Hoodoo Gurus The Humpty Dance / Digital Underground True Affection / The Blow Cannonball / Brandi Carlile
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“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for...”
– Franklin P. Jones
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