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john darnielle, national treasure

and the hits just keep on coming.

if you don’t already know about the mountain goats, you should. some day i’ll explain why i think john darnielle, who for all intents and purposes is the mountain goats (though he would likely take umbrage at that, graciously sharing the goatness, as he does, with his [...]

april was the coolest month

i had a birthday and got to see one of my favorite bands.

so much has been written about the decemberists and so much of it has been laudatory. rightly so, in my opinion. so, at the risk of sounding like a broken mp3, i’ll add a bit to the heap of praise.

the [...]

meat the puppets

every now and then something rends the time-space continuum to such a degree that you have to slap yourself silly just to make sure you haven’t suddenly fallen into an alternative universe or mistakenly downed a quart of robitussin.

such was the case when i saw a listing back in april for a show [...]

hang me up to cry

i’m so pissed off at the pathetic weak-willed democrats we have in congress that i need to blow off a little steam here by posting some wonderful moments from recent shows i’ve attended. if we can’t get change from our elected leaders, let’s at least get it from our musicians.

i’ve got quite a [...]

hyperlinkous? not so much

on february 8th of this year, the reclusive mark linkous came to town with his band, sparklehorse, and delivered what might be described as a sonic dose of lithium. linkous’ battles with depression and substance abuse are legendary amongst the indie-literati; as a result, he’s only released four full-length sparklehorse albums in the past [...]