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Music: Judging a Record by its Totally Super-Wack Cover

Rawk out for the lord!
I found this awesome site today Show and Tell Music . There is still some construction going on so pardon their appearance but it’s loaded with cool thrift store record cover art and info. Site mastermind Will (no last name) describes the site as “first & foremost as an archive/orphange [...]

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You Tube: Which Doobie UB? Michael McDonald Meets Raj, Rerun and the Gang

Enjoy this “treat” from YouTube in which the What’s Happ’ning gang meet up with demographic opposites The Doobie Brothers in marketing nirvana. The message? File sharing…er… home taping is killing music. Enjoy the edutainment.

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Music: The Best Albums of the 00s 25- 1

25.Black Francis – Bluefinger
Reviving the Pixies seemed to re-spark a hunger for Black Francis (aka Frank Black) so much so that he reverted to his previous moniker and dropped a blazing solo record that was the equal of his best work solo or otherwise.  This is no Pixies self-imitation though – Black uses all the [...]

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Music: The Best Albums of the 00s 50-26

50. Girls – Album
Girls marvelous debut album is reminiscent of Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted in how it transmutes standard indie sounds into something irresistibly their own through sheer talent and force of will.

49. Outkast – Stankonia
Outkast spent much of the decade bidding to be the new Prince, or at least Andre 3000 did. They nearly [...]

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Music: Best Albums of the 00s 100-76

100. Regina Spektor – Begin To Hope
Regina Spektor continues to stride the fine line of what radio programmers call AAA (alternative for old folks) and quirky indie – ans she never did it finer than on this record which coupled poppy keyboard driven tunes with weird New York boho lifestyle observations.

99. Deerhunter – Microcastle
Deerhunter’s second [...]

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