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Friday October 30, 2009

Second Stage: Little-Known Bands You Should Hear

Second Stage: Abbott Carter

by Meg Ruddick

October 30, 2009 • by Meg Ruddick Download "Burden Onto You" by Abbott Carter (Right-click or control-click to save to your computer) All I can tell you about folksinger-guitarist Abbott Carter is that he's based out of Austin, Texas. What he looks like and his ...

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Psst: New Spoon Record Coming

October 30, 2009 • by Bob Boilen A few weeks back at a 9:30 Club show, I ran into a music-industry friend who said she had something I'd probably want to hear. It was too loud in the club and the opening act too boring, so we dashed to the car and fired up her iP...

Thursday October 29, 2009

Live From The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

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Live From The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

October 29, 2009 • by Will Hermes Will Hermes' Live Twitter Feed: follow me on Twitter Hi! Will Hermes here. I'll be taking the bus down to Madison Square Garden in NYC later to see the first night of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 25th Anniversary Benefit ...

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Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Neil Young, Bon Iver, Others To Release Covers Album

by Robin Hilton

October 29, 2009 • Peter Gabriel is working on an ambitious new covers album featuring Radiohead, Neil Young, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire and David Bowie doing versions of each other's songs. The BBC reports that the album will be called Scratch My Back and will also incl...

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New John Lennon Biopic Coming

by Robin Hilton

October 29, 2009 • by Robin Hilton A new film about John Lennon's childhood is due out late this December. Nowhere Boy, from Bob and Harvey Weinstein, is based on the book Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon by Lennon's half-sister, Julia Baird. ...

Wednesday October 28, 2009

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Sufjan Stevens Screens The BQE Film

by Meg Ruddick

October 28, 2009 • by Meg Ruddick When he's not pondering questions about the state of music today ("What's the point of a song?"), Sufjan Stevens is busy promoting his multimedia project, The BQE. The "cinematic suite, inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway...

Tuesday October 27, 2009

CMJ Highlights, Strokes Frontman Julian Casablancas, Rapper Kid Cudi, More

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CMJ Highlights, Strokes Frontman Julian Casablancas, Rapper Kid Cudi, More

October 27, 2009 • On this edition of All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen shares some of his favorite discoveries from the College Media Journal Music Festival in New York.

CMJ Highlights, Strokes Frontman Julian Casablancas, Rapper Kid Cudi, More

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Monday October 26, 2009

Second Stage: Little-Known Bands You Should Hear

Second Stage: Slow Skate

by Meg Ruddick

October 26, 2009 • by Meg Ruddick Download "Acting Like A Kid" by Slow Skate (Right-click or control-click to save to your computer) Seattle band Slow Skate is fronted by married couple Caitlin Sherman and Jason Goessl, with help from Brian Oppel on drums and Geof...

Second Stage: Slow Skate

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Highlights From CMJ '09

October 26, 2009 • I thought I did pretty well, seeing 18 bands in a handful of days. But truth be told, I saw just the smallest fraction of the more than 1,250 bands that played the CMJ Music Marathon last week in New York City. Here are the standouts...

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Morrissey Resumes Tour After On-Stage Collapse

by Meg Ruddick

October 26, 2009 • by Meg Ruddick Former Smiths singer Morrissey is back on his feet again after being released from the hospital yesterday, The Associated Press reports. The 50-year-old singer collapsed on-stage on Saturday the 24th after performing the opening s...

Thursday October 22, 2009

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Bands At CMJ, Live From KEXP

by Meg Ruddick

October 22, 2009 • by Meg Ruddick Seattle station KEXP is broadcasting live performances from CMJ during its Morning Show this week. Host John Richards is in New York City inviting bands to perform at the KEXP Cutting Room Studios. Bob has been checking out these...

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Andrew Bird Announces Church Gigs

by Meg Ruddick

October 22, 2009 • by Meg Ruddick Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird will step out of rock clubs and into a different kind of venue for a handful of shows this winter. The chamber-pop singer is scheduled to perform at churches in Minneapolis and his hometown of Chi...

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Fool's Gold Steal The Night

October 22, 2009 • by Bob Boilen My hope was to see The xx last night, but the Mercury Lounge was overflowing by the time I got there, and I was one of 100 people who couldn't get in. I'll see the band today and post an in-studio session from KEXP here on the blog....

Wednesday October 21, 2009

Second Stage: Little-Known Bands You Should Hear

Second Stage: Flora Shakespeare

by Meg Ruddick

October 21, 2009 • by Meg Ruddick Download "Simple Divide (Wyatt Earp)" (Right-click or control-click to save to your computer) According to a MySpace blog post, Flora Shakespeare gave away its four-song EP, Out of Our Hands, to fans as a gift. "Out of our hands ...

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Andrew W.K. Holds Contest At CMJ

by Meg Ruddick

October 21, 2009 • by Meg Ruddick Motivational speaker and perpetual partier Andrew W.K. was one of the featured lecturers today at the CMJ Music Marathon. As part of his panel discussion, he apparently launched a contest, along with CMJ sponsor, Cakewalk. 55 C...

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