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Category: Music

  • Phantom Limb

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    I first heard The Shins drifting over the radio in coffee@bricklane, on my way back from PSP Beautiful Script at the Old Truman Brewery. New Slang sounded like it was from another time…I thought I was listening to a mutated Simon and Garfunkel! The first single from upcoming album Wincing The Night Away, is currently…

  • Sonic Bloom

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    I first came across The Polyphonic Spree on the DVD for Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind…a band that I shouldn’t like, but dammit their tunes are in.fectio.us! Pitchfork’s just reviewed their new EP, Wait, including a cover of Nirvana’s Lithium (!) and Tim Delaughter covering one of his old Tripping Daisy songs, Sonic Bloom…

  • Ticket To Immortality

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    One of my favourite bands, Toronto’s The Dears is releasing their third album, Gang Of Losers, next week. The fifth track, There Goes My Outfit (3.8mb, 128kbps, MP3), is freely available from Bella Union. Not quite as catchy as the new single, Ticket To Immortality (16mb, QT). In the meantime, I’m off to see Paul…

  • External Cuisine Of The Spotless Kitchen…

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    … um yes, upon searching for the soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, iTunes Music Store helpfully suggested I might be interested in External Cuisine… I’d like to have seen the lower ranked results too…perhaps in decreasing order of relevance … Internal Shoeshine, Infernal Magazine, External Endochrine?

  • MSN Messenger & IM Innovation

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    In the last few days MSN has been gradually rolling out upgrades for its MSN Messenger service; though a public betas has been running for some time, the final release includes a number of features not available during the beta phase. Like recent releases of AIM and Yahoo! Messenger. much of the enhancement seems to…