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In April of last year when tracks were starting to roll out in anticipation of What’s the Time Mr. Wolf it seemed as though the Noisettes were attempting to maintain whatever positive publicity the band had incurred during its first years together. The group had released its Three Moods of The Noisettes EP to a […]
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Jack Peñate plays with a careless party-like energy that made the masses love ska, not to fret though as Peñate lacks the trumpet-funk combination that lead to the downfall of ska and its three revivals. His songs, while easily grasped, and are written with such an innocence. “Got My Favourite…” is simply about his favorite […]
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Local Minneapolis quartet The Trimmed Hedges attempt to capture a number of genres throughout the band’s first full length release The Seas Elected, released locally through The Missing Stamp Collective. While the release has a general compliance towards diversity (see: banjo & slap bass) the band finds its strongest moments through the use of synth-forward […]
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While Dave Fischoff is just one of many talented artists on the recently released SC100, his leanings further into the electronic in recent years allow him to stand apart from the others on Secretly Canadian’s landmark hundredth album. Current roster-mates such as Songs:Ohia, Danielson and Jens Lekman join Fischoff to celebrate the label’s accomplishment with […]
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It might be obvious, but Collective Soul used to release really good music. For the most part though, this came to an end around March of 1995… after that, the band’s releases became scattered (at best). I can still remember listening to the local rock radio station’s yearly wrap-up in 1997 and hearing “Precious Declaration” […]
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A video featuring Common alternating between a white tuxedo and a “robot is the future” t-shirt, Lily Allen in a spacesuit and Jeremy Piven in an ultra-brief finger pointing cameo…not necessarily the makings for best video ever, but by no means a bad video. [This post was first published by Culture Bully.]
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On the heels of the recent internet phenomena that was The Landlord comes this set of clips staged at USC where strength coach Chuck Berry (Farrell) examines and prepares Ryan Kalil for the NFL draft. Speaking of football, personally, since the sport’s finest icon called it a career in May of 2006 I have been […]
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As an outsider looking in on the local Twin Cities music scene one may be left with a simplistic look as to what it is that The Cities and their modern artists have to offer. But aside from conversations surrounding Hüsker Dü, The Replacements or even Tapes ‘n Tapes what does the rest of the […]
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The latest Majestic Twelve video introduces spacemen, aliens and robots in conjunction with a new edit of the fantastic song “Break It and Breathe.” The track is hidden on last year’s Schizophrenology, but it holds one of my favorite lines from the entire album, “We rock our local bar, we’re far from famous man but […]
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VBS recently produced a short series which followed director Spike Jonze through London as he discussed a variety of issues with Maya Arulpragasam (aka M.I.A.). After showering the star with gifts (finger nail stickers and stick-on eye lashes) Jonze and M.I.A. headed to “the asshole of London,” meeting up with the first person to sign […]
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Alright, I know what you’re thinking…enough with the CSI: Miami references, already, am I right? But for serious, Dave Hill’s upcoming series for the Mojo Network entitled The King of Miami is going to change some lives and I just wanted to give a few kind hearted souls the heads up. The premise: Dave changes […]
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So…would you? Cause it is, kind of. Last May I asked “whether or not stoner rock can flow seamlessly into a melodic pop-guitar crunch;” the answer which was obvious at the time was yes, indeed, and the perpetrators of this unusual output are none other than Delaware’s two-piece The Sky Drops. The band is kind […]
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Peter Beste, one of the brightest photographers in all of music, served as producer for this Vice production surrounding Norwegian black metal and in particular Gaahl of the band Gorgoroth. It is as beautifully shot a piece as it is frightening. Gaahl has served imprisonment on numerous occasions for assault and in this short series […]
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If I had a nickel for every time College Humor helped make me laugh while I was in college, well…let’s just say I’d have a sack full of nickels, literally. Since then a while has passed and I suppose too so has my interest in the site. That being said there’s a set of short […]
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Anyone with any remote sense of what’s going on in hip hop knows that El-P’s March release I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead is one of the decade’s most innovative and essential releases within the genre. That being said Christian Hoard, one of the cheeky aficionado’s at Rolling Stone, concluded “If you’re into nodding your head […]
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In a little under a month it is expected that at least a few riots are to be started in Stockholm to commemorate the release of Dungen’s forthcoming Tio Bitar release. Why? Have you never seen a football game on television? The kids get crazy and flip cars over because of improper use of yellow […]
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After receiving Charlotte Gainsbourg’s 5:55 from a friend back in January I sat on it for a while; much was going on, and exciting times meant that it became easy to overlook many substantial releases that the year was readying. Only casually listening to the album once or twice over the next two months little […]
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Bob Castrone over at BWE shared a Will Farrell clip yesterday which within a matter of minutes made me go from suicidal to miserable to sad to happy to really happy to wow-I-didn’t-know-I-could-be-this-happy…just to reiterate – it’s pretty funny. I’ve come to understand that most good things in life are associated with one of two […]
Published in Culture Bully, The Blog. Tags: Live, Music, Twin Cities.
It’s not often that a band plays its set exclusively for one particular person at a show. One person crammed in amongst the rest of an over-sold audience. One person amongst many in the humid, low-ceiling showcase of The Entry. That and it’s hard to honestly believe that the now mythical band from the UK, […]
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Call me crazy but II, the sophomore release by The Presidents of the United States of America, is arguably a better album than the group’s 1995 self-titled debut. Self, let’s argue: Me2: Horse Apples! PUSA (which is what the band’s 1995 release will be called from hear on out) had a far better selection of […]
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Aspiring MCs could prosper from modeling themselves after the likes of New York-based producer/MC Aesop Rock, though doing so would most definitely have negative effects on the global market for gold and platinum grillz. The Boston University graduate recently released the latest in Nike’s Original Run series, titled All Day, which follows last year’s releases […]
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Type O Negative is the type of band that people—often, young adults who were furiously trying to find an identity—listened to when they wanted a taste for a gothic lifestyle without necessarily giving it the old college try. The band is fairly accessible, its landmark 1993 release Bloody Kisses went platinum and its 1996 follow-up […]
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Has it ever crossed your mind how bands like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin released albums so frequently and so consistent that it absolutely crushes the modern three year turn around many bands consider safe? It seems that Clutch has put an album out every year since the mid 1990s (though while not entirely […]
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As an outsider looking in on the local Twin Cities music scene one may be left with a simplistic look as to what it is that The Cities and their modern artists have to offer. But aside from conversations surrounding Hüsker Dü, The Replacements or even Tapes ‘n Tapes what does the rest of the […]
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The album that had the greatest influence on the way I listen to music is Social Distortion’s 1998 live album Live at The Roxy. It isn’t entirely important for its musical influence, as I’d already been a fan of the band for a number of years and was quite familiar with the songs before purchasing […]
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Chris DeLine, 2006 alumnus, has been busy since graduating from BVU. Between being mentioned on VH1’s Best Week Ever website and writing for Esquire, DeLine has been developing his blog CultureBully.com. He started the blog while at BVU and since then has developed it into the blog it is today. The blog has begun to […]
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Why is there air; or for that matter Air? As humans our bodies necessitate the need for air but since electronica’s booming 1990s wave it doesn’t seem as functional to still maintain a similar relationship with Air. The French-electropop duo still elude even the finest of dancefloor fan with its latest release, Pocket Symphony, a […]
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An old friend recently reminded me of something that I had blocked from my memory, my embarrassing introduction to hip hop; and in particular the exact time when I fell in love with “Jump Around.” I suppose that’s the problem with talking to friends you haven’t spoken to in over a decade, you start remembering […]
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As an outsider looking in on the local Twin Cities music scene one may be left with a simplistic look as to what it is that The Cities and their modern artists have to offer. But aside from conversations surrounding Hüsker Dü, The Replacements or even Tapes ‘n Tapes what does the rest of the […]
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Breakdancing, extreme sports and cars sporting hydraulics on a rooftop – would you expect anything less from a Deftones video? It’s a whole different feel than the video for “Hole in the Earth” which was based on its totally 80s graphics for the most part…no theme, just waves of light. In comparison a few BMXers […]