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• August 11, 2009
  Mp3 of the Week: Mean Creek, "Face of the Earth"
  By Carly Carioli

  

  DOWNLOAD: Mean Creek, "Face of the Earth" [mp3]

  Every time we start waxing poetic about MEAN CREEK, we get sidetracked by how good-looking they are. Seriously, it's distracting. It's not our fault we'd rather look at them than write about them. It's their fucking fault.

  

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• August 11, 2009
  Random shout-out: How much do we love La Roux?
  By Carly Carioli

  
  
  
  
  
  "I physically cannot stop listening to that album," one of our friends responded to a Facebook post about LA ROUX, and that just about sums up what's been happening to our iPods for the the past couple of weeks, as the inbox of new CDs keeps growing higher and higher, and we just keep ignoring it and spinning La Roux over and over and over and over.
  
  
  
  
  

  

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• August 10, 2009
  Stream Airborne Toxic Event's Best Music Poll set -- and watch their interview
  By Carly Carioli
  DOWNLOAD: Airborne Toxic Event Best Music Poll interview [mp3]

  We apologize in advance: the reason you can only stream three songs of Airborne's set has nothing to do with the band's own wishes -- we just hit the "stop" button about a half hour early. Audience recordings? Get at us. But they're three pretty great songs, so you should listen to them -- or listen to them again if you were among the 40,000 people joining us at Best Music Poll 2009 at the beginning of the month.

  

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• August 10, 2009
  VIDEO: Shepard Fairey, Z-Trip, and Chuck D at the ICA
  By Carly Carioli
  ThePhoenix.com's Nick Curran (of You Can Be a Wesley) and Addison Post snuck their way into the ICA's "Experiment Redux" on July 31 and managed to scam interviews with Z-Trip and Shepard Fairey, the latter of whom gets grilled on what he'd think if someone stuck, say, a big golden mustache on one of his ICA pieces.

  

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• August 10, 2009
  Stream the Bravery's Best Music Poll 2009 set; watch their interview, too
  By Carly Carioli
  We're only going to say this once: no, those are not snakes, and no, this interview did not take place on a plane. It's just one of those optical illusions.

  Above, WFNX's Julie Kramer grills the Bravery on whether or not ladybugs are lucky, what's so cool about Tre Cool, and what's up with the spooky church in upstate New York where they're recording their new album.

  

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• August 10, 2009
  Rakim Told Him: Brian Coleman DJs at Enormous tonight
  By Carly Carioli

  

  In his two landmark books of hip-hop oral history, Check the Technique and Rakim Told Me, BRIAN COLEMAN brought to life the creative process behind rap's legendary albums. (He also just turned us on to French metal gods Gojira -- good shit!) Tonight at Enormous Room, the former WZBC DJ will be "coming out of hibernation and semi-retirement" as a guest of the city's smartest dance night, the "Beat Research" weekly hosted by DJ Flack and Wayne Marshall.

  

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• August 07, 2009
  Video: Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco's Brandon Urie cover Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" at Comcast Center
  By Carly Carioli
  Photos and review coming soon from last night's BLINK-182 extravaganza. In the meantime, here's the Journey cover everyone's talking about -- we're now averaging about a Journey cover every three days in Boston. And yes, it's really Don't Stop Believing this time.

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• August 06, 2009
  VIDEO: MGMT at Fenway Park
  By Carly Carioli

  Fresh off the Toobs, here's MGMT performing "Electric Feel" and "Time To Pretend" last night at Fenway Park, warming up the boomers for Sir Paul:

  
  

  

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• August 05, 2009
  Jonas Brothers to Damone: You're the one!
  By Carly Carioli

  

  
  Youre The One - Damone

  During the last week of June, a fan of the Boston pop-metal band DAMONE noticed an unusual number of comments showing up on a video she'd posted to YouTube. Damone themselves saw a sudden spike in the iTunes sales of "You're The One," a song from their 2006 album Out Here All Night

  
  

  

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• August 05, 2009
  Bobby Egan, North Korea, Bill Clinton, and the NY Times's mystifying "New York Connection" reference
  By Carly Carioli

  
  Did this man help free Laura Ling and Euna Lee?
  

  Question: Is the New York Times inadvertently (or maybe even purposefully) hinting at a juicy detail in one of the weirdest diplomatic exchanges in recent American history? More to the point, what role, if any, did Bobby Egan -- former FBI informant, freelance unofficial backdoor diplomat, New Jersey BBQ restauranteur -- play in convincing North Korea to release journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee?

  
  
  

  

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