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Jim Cook Is Chasin' His Dreams
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Image by Kate Ryder Full disclosure: This artist is a pal of PhantEye's blogger. Musicians' bios often suffer from delusions of grandeur. PR spin doctors build up tinkering nobodies as though they were the second coming...

Dec 29, 2013

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Beyonce and the New Era of Music Videos
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"Pretty Hurts" still courtesy Melina Matsoukas Where were you at the stroke of midnight EST on Friday, December 13, 2013? For once, us homebodies were rewarded for our introverted ways, gifted by one of the ultimate...

Dec 16, 2013


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Best of 2013
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Mystical singing space cats. The resurrection of the Thin White Duke. "YOLO" versus "Y.A.L.A." The year in music circa 2013 was a zany one that was forward-thinking (everybody's droppin' the bass these days) and reverent...

Dec 2, 2013

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Thankful for Music
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Photo courtesy Elena Roussakis/Creative Commons Happy Thanksgiving and Chanukah to those who celebrate! This time of year, as we're conjuring up our best-of lists, we remember how much we music fans have to be thankful for....

Nov 24, 2013

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What we're digging right now: Kheswa & Her Martians
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Photo courtesy FlipSwitch Can you imagine not being able to listen to or play the kind of music you love? South Africa experienced such a plight before and during the Apartheid era, when a self-imposed boycott...

Nov 16, 2013

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Concert Review - Desaparecidos
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Conor Oberst of Desaparecidos. Photos by Melissa Bobbitt The scalper barked a confused message into his phone: “Yeah, they’re called Desaparecidos, but the audience is a bunch of 25-year-old white kids.” This over-the-hill peddler of ill-begotten...

Nov 10, 2013

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Ylvis and the 'Weird' world of novelty songs
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With Norwegian pranksters Ylvis foxing up pop culture with its absurd EDM query, "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)," we thought it would be a perfect time to revisit notable novelty songs of yesteryear....

Nov 2, 2013