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Music: 52.5 Records — Charleston’s Best Record Store

As some of you may know, Cletus and I were in Charleston, South Carolina last week. Across from our hotel was a large record store called Millennium Records. Millennium seems like it was started by someone who saw the movie Empire Records and opened a store to impress Robin Tunney, yet has no real [...]

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Music: New Release Tuesday — What to Expect

Spears: “Guys don’t let me blackout again…oh wait, cool album name alert!”
This will probably be neither the first nor last time that the words “Britney Spears” and “blackout” have appeared in a sentence. But how often has it happened in connection with a new album? Sadly Blackout (the album) is not a concept album in [...]

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The Interwebs: Cool Ass Game Asks — How Many Brain Cells Do You Have Left?

“Dang it! I thought Marquee Moon was in row three…”
Check out this cool game : How’s that short-term memory music geek? Can you match the album covers in time? This was designed by a good friend of mine so show the love!

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Music: New Release Tuesday — AARP Edition

PJ Harvey: Missing guitar, pants, several meals…
This weeks new releases take a decidedly grey tone with acts that boomers love. To wit:
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band’s Magic returns Broooooce and Sil from The Sopranos plus Conan O’Brien’s bandleader and the guy from those mid-80’s Jackson Browne videos (not Darryl Hannah — I ought [...]

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Music News: R.E.M. Nearly Almost Done with New Album

Billboard, the bible of the music biz, reports today that R.E.M. will likely unleash their next album, produced by Jackknife Lee, in the spring of 2008 and that the band is being coy about the sound. See the full article here . I took Mike Mills’ advice and did a search on YouTube for their [...]

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