This week’s They Bring The Music To Us featured blog is the refreshing Quick Before It Melts, which operates along the same vein as Fluxblog, except with pictures, which Fluxblog never has.
TBTMTU: Quick Before It Melts
July 2nd, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas
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What’s New In Music: 7/1/2008
July 1st, 2008 by Brandon Kiser
Every Tuesday (well OK, almost every Tuesday) Listen In does it’s best to bring all the happenings, going-ons and news in the music world. Typically, we’ll serve up the Billboard chart toppers, new album releases, and the hottest music news. Without further adieu, let’s get started.
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Listening In Live: Tom Waits in Columbus, 6/28/08
June 30th, 2008 by Mykola Bilokonsky
This past weekend I had the rare opportunity to witness a performance by the one and only Tom Waits. From the venue (the deliciously gaudy art-deco miasma known as the Ohio Theater) to the merchandise stand (CDs, a pamphlet containing Waits’s interview with himself, and T-Shirts made from “real oil-slick photographs taken by Tom himself”) to the audience comprised of every social group you can imagine (the punk kids getting into it with the WWII vets, two seats down from the lesbian soccer moms), the show was a performance long before Waits even showed up on stage.
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What’s The Big Deal With Wilco?
June 26th, 2008 by Steve Mock
“Jeff Tweedy is a twat,” one former major-label president told me at the height of the singer’s travails with Reprise. Though acknowledging the enduring merit of Wilco’s music, the executive–who didn’t even work for Warner Brothers–marveled at Wilco’s desire to make “indulgent albums” for what had become the music industry’s largest corporation. “It’s unacceptable at this time for any artist to behave the way he does. Who does he think he is? Neil Young?”
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They Bring the Music to Us: Oh Word
June 25th, 2008 by Kimberlee Morrison
This week TBTMTU we take a look at Oh Word a hip hop blog for purists. Claiming that the bloggosphere is saturated with music bloggers all writing about breaking music news, so they chose to focus on hip hop roots. Oh Word does this by reviewing and featuring music from the genre’s formative years.
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Press Play: A Review of Coldplay’s Viva la Vida
June 25th, 2008 by Brandon Kiser
To know Coldplay is love them, and to hate them, and to love them and to - once again - hate them. Only, that is, to turn right back around and love them one last time before you invert your decision for what is positively not the last time. And if there is one band in the world right now who needed to redefine themselves without actually redefining themselves - it’s Coldplay.
In Viva la Vida they attempt it.
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Listening In Live: The Return Of Return To Forever
June 23rd, 2008 by Steve Mock
Formative jazz-rock fusion group Return To Forever took the stage Saturday night at Freedom Hill Amphitheater in Sterling Heights, Michigan. About midway through the first set, Lenny White took a turn at the mic and addressed the crowd: “In an era of boy bands, this here’s a man band.”
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TBTMTU: All Things Go
June 18th, 2008 by Jacob Nicolas
This weeks They Bring The Music To Us featured blog is the fantastic All Th
ings Go, which brings things down to earth for a bit here as the last few blogs I’ve featured have been of a higher profile.
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Press Play: A Review of Tilly and the Wall’s O
June 16th, 2008 by Eric Atienza
Throughout its existence, Omaha five-piece Tilly and the Wall has been a band that has shown an uncanny ability to harness a pure, almost manic energy, infuse it with heartfelt exuberance, and transmit a final product as infectious and unadulterated as anything ever set to stereo. It’s also been a band that has continually grown and developed from album to album while keeping its youthful core intact.
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What’s New in Music: 6/12/08
June 12th, 2008 by Brandon Kiser
Two days late but just as informative, WNIM for the week of June 10th is here to acquaint you with the going-ons in musicsphere. In this issue as in most, we’ll cover new album releases, chart listings and news stories. So let’s get started.
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