(I can tell you more, if you want. This is simply what I managed to squeeze into the 250-word limit.)
Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
2009 National Conference – New Orleans, LA
To be featured in panel “Music: Influences”
“When You Wake You’re Still in a Dream: My Bloody Valentine and the Shoegazer Revival.”
In September 2008, legendary [...]

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Dad gummit! The new Wordpress interface sux: it ate a bunch of this post without saving it, so I’ve had to retype quite a bit. There might be some sloppy writing in here, but I can’t be bothered to fix it.
Happy New Year! In 2007, I didn’t find much music I liked. In 2005, I [...]

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…to Chrome by Catherine Wheel. Adam and Eve might be everyone’s favorite album, but this one’s their best.
Some YouTubes from the album:
“Crank”
“The Nude”
“Show Me Mary”
“Fripp (live)“

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For my money, “Bulletproof” is the Afghan Whigs‘ best song. But one of the things I like the most about Greg Dulli is his friendliness with Motown – pretty rare in an alt-rocker. Check out the little surprise he slips into this performance in place of the bridge (approx. 4:00).

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Jason Lytle probably doesn’t have many plans for the Grandaddy MySpace page now that the band is broken up – but he keeps posting anyhow. Now on the site: recordings of a French children’s choir covering Grandaddy tunes. Why? Somewhere, a French choir director is a Grandaddy fan, I guess.
A key:
“kids in france” = [...]

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