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[MP3s] Your Siren Music Festival Preview

It’s Thursday, so that means the bestest, hippest, most free music festival of the summer is about to kick off. For those of you at Under A Rock University where you major in not knowing things (zinger!!), the Siren Music Festival is a one-day, two-stage, free show at Coney Island, NY. Home of […]

Lee

Frightened Rabbit to tour America with fellow Scots The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks

Coolest tour news ever?? Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit, quite possibly one of my favorite bands of the past year or so, are teaming up with fellow countrymen The Twilight Sad, as well as We Were Promised Jetpacks, for a huge North American tour. Expect a lot of wonderfully sad, epic shows, filled with the […]

Jon

Today in unexpected covers: Frightened Rabbit takes on Neutral Milk Hotel

Right on the heels of The Decemberists’ excellent take on Heart’s “Crazy on You” from a few days ago, we have an episode of Off The Beaten Tracks which finds Frightened Rabbit singer Scott Hutchinson covering Neutral Milk Hotel’s “Song Against Sex.” The song certainly isn’t the same without its near-gratuitous distortion and trumpet […]

Jamie

Built to Spill, Raveonettes, Frightened Rabbit in Siren Festival 2009 initial lineup

So I’ve been waiting for this for months (and here I am, posting it 6 days late). In my opinion the best small summer music festival, Sirenfest, is back with a date and an initial 2009 lineup. If you’re unfamiliar with the annual show, it’s a free, one-day festival […]

Lee

Andrew Bird and Frightened Rabbit concerts!

Andrew Bird is playing (with like a thousand other artists – notables include Tortoise and Ted Leo) at the Black Cat in D.C. January 19, the night before his album Noble Beast is released!

Andrew Bird – “Tenuousness” (MP3) (new song!)

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “Biomusicology” (MP3) (from […]

Lee

Knox Road in: The Year That Was, 2008

Without further ado, we present to you 2008, in review.

Top 10 Best Things (in no particular order):

Kanye West’s “Eat Shit and Die” Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Conan O’ Brian fighting on national television Michael Phelps sets a lot of world records and loves freedom and democracy Of […]