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Parts and Labor need your help for their new album!

mp3: "Fractured Skies" from the LP Mapmaker

mp3: "A Great Divide" from the LP Stay Afraid

You thought Kenny Rogers sucked? You're right! But don't tell that to Canadians The Constantines and Feist. You can receive a limited edition seven inch from Daytrotter. It's just takes a little motivation and, ummm....writing an essay about Kenny Roger's beard?

Sorry Ma, Forgot Irony Was a Dead Scene

Aww, hells yeah. The Replacement re-issues are out, finally and you can bet your penny loafers I'm gonna drop some cash on all of them. The Mats deserve nothing less. Pitchfork has reviews of the first four re-issues (Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, Stink, Hootenanny, and Let It Be) right here. Guess which one got a perfect 10.0? C'mon, guess.

Also, The Onion AV Club has an interview with Chris Carter. Anybody else besides me find it weird that another X-Files movie is coming out ten years after the shows finale? Wait a minute, who cares? There's another X-Files movie...hell yeah!

The Constantines have a video up for "Hard Feelings" the first track off of their better-than-their-last-album-but-still-not-as-good-as-the-one-before-it album Kensington Heights on their new label Arts and Crafts.




And, finally there's this:


Guess nobody told them this would only be funny for about ten seconds.

STREAM: Weezer, "Pork and Beans"

Saturday Night's Alright...For Being Alone

The weekend was spent in the comfort of my home, mostly due to the fact that I locked my keys in my car Friday morning at work. With no way to get in until Monday, I hunkered down and did what any late-twenty-something would do on a Saturday night in a bustling town: painted my guest room.

The soundtrack of our nights:

Ryan Adams--Rock n' Roll

...still just a genuine throwaway CD. I was really only in the mood to hear "So Alive" and "Note to Self: Don't Die."

Various Mix CD

...compiled by Fletch in 2003. Lots of emo, the irresistable kind; especially from a band called, Believe In Toledo. (Now defunct?)

Braid--Frame & Canvas

...is it wrong to call it emo? Doesn't feel like it. This album might crack my Top Ten. The first three songs are flawless.

Modest Mouse--We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

...completely overlooked in my opinion. It received above-mediocre reviews mostly, I believe, due to the fact that critics only focused on the fact that Johnny Marr was now a part of the band. Isaac Brock's songwriting on this one was the gem, though. Don't believe me? Listen to "Missed the Boat" and "Parting of the Sensory."

Silversun Pickups--Carnavas
...summed up best by Nick Frost as "the band that Smashing Pumpkins could have been, if the Pumpkins didn't suck."

The Thermals--The Body, The Blood, The Machine

...stayed on my player all last summer. Still a solid album and great freakin' songwriting (e.g., "I regret leaving my mind/I forgot I needed it to think/and maybe to keep me alive/can't believe I got so far with a head so empty")

Never made it to:

Constantines--S/T

...but I plan on rectifying that siutation today. In the meantime, looking forward to the new Constantines, Kensington Heights. (Those boys look like extras from The Lost Boys in that picture, don't they?) Here's an mp3 link courtesy of Sixeyes.

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