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I'm still listening to Nine Inch Nails (and Peter Hope)

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:03:47 -0700

Here I am saying The Slip is the best Nine Inch Nails album since the first one when I haven't really listened to any of them since Broken. So I've been trying to catch up, going from recent to older; Year Zero and With Teeth are actually better ...

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Hold all calls, I'm listening to Nine Inch Nails

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:48:38 -0700

I'm a Nine Inch Nails fan from way back. I was hanging out with my pal $ean at the original Kemp Mill Records where he was assistant manager the day Pretty Hate Machine came out; I bought one right out of the shipping box. I listened to it and k...

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The Iggy Pop-Peter Murphy connection redux

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:35:39 -0700

Several weeks ago I wrote about Iggy Pop and Peter Murphy sounding nearly the same; just yesterday I discovered the live radio performances that Peter Murphy and Trent Reznor gave during the joint Nine Inch Nails/Bauhaus tour of 2006. Lo and beho...

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Ghostland Observatory: sometimes the hype is right

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:14:33 -0700

Ghostland Observatory seem poised to be this year's Big Thing, leading to overexposure and backlash, but a month after listening to their new album, Robotique Majestique, I still have several of the melodies and choruses running through my head. ...

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Moldy 70s reworked

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:31:52 -0700

Of course I remembered even more Moldy 70s songs immediately after I posted my Moldy 70s video collection, but one of them led to an unanticipated discovery. Looking for Starbuck's "Moonlight Feels Right" on YouTube, I found instead a live perfor...

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Anti-War: Ted Leo

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:08:20 -0700

I don't often listen to so-called "Indie Rock," because when I do I usually find it boring, precious, excessively wordy, and lacking any rock'n'roll gusto, and then I remember why I don't listen to Indie Rock. Sasha Frere-Jones ignited a big deba...

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Moldy 70s

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:18:21 -0700

Being first is everything. Bolus gets linked to from everywhere for posting videos of cheesy 70s songs as "Hell's iPod." I've been enjoying this crap for years, unironically, having made two "Moldy 70s" CDs during the Napster years. Here is a v...

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Out of the woodwork: SLAB!

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:20:37 -0700

Just days after discovering the recent resurfacing of a member of long-lost Way of the West, I've found another blast from the past: Slab! Slab's few records, released in the second half of the 80s, are an exhilarating mix of pounding, near-indus...

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Back to the funk: Brownout

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:55:02 -0700

I've been spending a lot of my listening time lately back in the 80s and neglecting the funk, so I sought to remedy that today. I started listening to Brownout, the Latin funk band from Austin, and as soon as I heard "African Battle" I was hooked...

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Lost 80s: Way of the West

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:29:24 -0700

I've been saving up my Way of the West singles for eventual ripping; they were another English band who were a minor staple on the WHFS of the original new wave era, usually represented by their song "Don't Say That's Just For White Boys." I alwa...

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