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Down on the farm | Glastonbury 2008 | guardian.co.uk Music

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:18:16 EDT

Big stars get back to nature at Glastonbury every year, but what do they really know about country life? Could they milk a cow, make hay or ride a horse? To find out, G2 set up its own miniature farmyard backstage and Laura Barton went wild with everyone from Franz Ferdinand to Shakin' Stevens

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'The Book of Getting Even' by Benjamin Taylor - Los Angeles Times

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:17:44 EDT

Of cosmology and so much more: In this novel, three young people come of age in the 1970s amid the discord of their families.

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opbmusic.org - Studio Performance: Perhapst

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:15:27 EDT

Probably best known for his current gig as Decemberists drummer, John Moen's musical vita reads like a who's who of indie music over the past fifteen years or so. After co-founding the Dharma Bums in 1987, he went on to play with the likes of Elliott Smith, Heatmiser, and Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, among others, in addition to fronting The Ma

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Dressing Sharp and Feeling Dull: Fight Week: Jay Farrar vs. Jeff Tweedy

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:15:18 EDT

One time my friend Dan and I spent a train ride to the city arguing over which US President would win in a Battle Royal. I chose Washington. I think he chose Teddy Roosevelt. He was probably right. He usually is.

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Terrastock 7 | Backseat Sandbar

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:14:24 EDT

Terrastock started kicked off Thursday night with some of our Favorite local bands, The Photographic and Parlour, along with Elephant Michah, Dead Maids and Hush Arbors (the last three of which I missed). After both The Photographic and Parlour though, the shockingly large crowd for the first show and Thursday night of the Festival, the 80% out-of

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Slant Magazine - Pragmatic Romance: An Interview with David Berman

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:11:55 EDT

Though he says otherwise, it's hard to think of an American songwriter as admired by fans and critics as David Berman. His band, Silver Jews, has often lingered in the shadow of the more popular Pavement (since the band featured Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich, Silver Jews were frequently written off as just a Pavement side project), but Berman

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Green Sci-Fi from Bacigalupi's 'Pump Six' : NPR

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:10:31 EDT

Sci-fi writer Paolo Bacigalupi uses real environmental science as a starting point for his stories. His collection, called Pump Six, describes a near future where massive droughts create a black market for calories.

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Slant Magazine - 2520: The 25 Greatest Electronic Albums of the 20th Century

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:09:47 EDT

Five years ago, Electronica was poised to save us from the grungy din of a dying Alternative and an increasingly formulaic Hip-Hop. Detroit and Chicago had become adjectives, Prodigy and The Chemical Brothers were storming the charts, mainstream magazines began running monthly "What You Need To Know About Jungle" articles, and DJs like Pa

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Lexington | The politics of hip-hop | Economist.com

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:09:21 EDT

WRITING about music is like dancing about architecture," intoned Elvis Costello, a pop star. So a columnist approaches the subject of hip-hop (which includes rap) with caution. One cannot hope to capture its sound or fury on the page. Instead, Lexington will ask what it signifies.

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How Foreigners See America - American Pop Culture - Esquire

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:00:48 EDT

Chuck Klosterman goes to Germany to teach a class. His students teach him a lesson about how the world views us.

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50 songs to make you dance - Telegraph 50 songs to make you dance - Telegraph

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:00:40 EDT

The Telegraph's music critics pick their top 50 tunes to get you onto the dancefloor

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Michigan's inaugural Rothbury festival aims to find its niche | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:57:51 EDT

Maybe it's the result of tightening economics in the concert industry. Perhaps it's a reflection of our changing music tastes. Maybe we're just finally catching up with Europe. Advertisement

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BBC - Newsbeat - Music - Glastonbury buzz bands rated

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:56:24 EDT

Measuring about two miles from end to end and with more than twenty stages, Glastonbury is just too big to be able to see everything. With most of the attention focused on artists like Jay-Z and Amy Winehouse, Newsbeat has been taking a look at five very different performances you may not have read about.

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Five questions for . . . The National | Metro.co.uk

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:47:42 EDT

Matt Berninger is the frontman of Brooklyn indie-rockers The National. Preceding their summer dates in the UK, the band released The Virginia EP and A Skin, A Night, a film by French director Vincent Moon.

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Liz Phair | Pitchfork

nicholas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:47:35 EDT

Liz Phair is spending most of 2008 living in the past. She's composing music for the potentially controversial CBS show "Swingtown", about sex, marriage, and key parties in the 1970s. In addition, Phair has been readying the reissue of her gutsy, glorious 1993 album Exile in Guyville, which she is playing in its entirety in acoustic shows

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