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Quit Your Dayjob - Open Up, Coconut! Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 With Open Up, Coconut, there is no slow build. Every moment that Quit Your Dayjob are playing, their goal is to blast headfirst through the song and move onto the next one. Having grown up during the punk revolution that swept Scandinavia in the ei...
Tuesday Triple Play - Moving 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Are we ever more vulnerable than when we move? Moving
isn't for the faint-hearted. One needs reason. One needs conviction. One needs a soundtrack. Hopefully, with these three assets, we find ourselves somewhere that might not be comfortable, but... Read more:Triple
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The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Snake
The Cross
The Crown
, besides having one of the most pretentious band names in rock history, are, on their newest record, difficult to listen to on several levels. "I wanna live on a stage/I wanna play the guitar/and I wanna get paid." The ... Read more:Cotton
[title goes here] 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I am really sad that Broken Dial couldn't make it down to Austin for SXSW, but thank God our friends at HearYa.com are there to fill the gaps. They make it sound like sitting in the Texan heat, getting drunk with Joe Simpson is a good idea, so maybe...
Jill Cunniff - City Beach Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Techno-ambient beats are the trend right now for organic artists who tire of replacing strings and drum heads; it's a cost-effective way to deliver material at a reduced price while only delivering a small drop in audio quality. The songs on City Be... Read more:Beach
Between the Notes -- Where's the Love for Steve Miller? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 If I'm listening to the Arctic Monkeys and it makes me think of Joni Mitchell, isn't that a fantastic thing? If I listen to a few tracks from Chicago-based unsigned future stars the Record Low and think about Jackson Browne, that band's stock goes t... Read more:Miller
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(Please God) Let's (Never) Rave On (Again!): SMS' Take 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I didnt mean to go to that rave. I am of the firm belief that Salty knew that I would never go to one, so he dragged me to that particular party with the promise of seeing a Benzos concert. There is a long, unfunny story about how he came to e... Read more:Again
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Broken Dial Presents: Dustinland 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last week, we learned that Dustin had found a brand new job for himself. It was a super rad day, one in which we all rejoiced, knowing that it is possible to leave a craphole job with one's head held high. We can only assume that his final two w... Read more:Broken
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Let's (Accidentally) Rave On: Salty's Take 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I'm trying so hard not to succumb to the idea that I am too old for this kind of thing. Or maybe it's just this day and age I don't really know of any band worthy enough for me to put myself through this. As I write, now only an hour or so from leavi... Read more:Accidentally
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Tuesday Triple Play - The Madness of March 0000-00-00 00:00:00 When the Website responsible for hosting live NCAA game coverage has added capacity for 300,000 concurrent viewers -- but still expects users to have to wait for a connection, the government tracks the productivity lost to people hanging on every tur... Read more:Madness
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Let's Rave On; Mute Math and the curse of Christian Rock 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Thats the awesomely hilarious quandary that Christian
rock bands face. They get together hoping to spread their message, but if they find themselves talented enough to attract a non-Christian audience, they have to drop all instances of religiosity ... Read more:Christian Rock
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Son Volt - The Search Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 On Son Volts latest, The Search
, Jay Farrars voice again perches comfortably atop each chord, half-Michael Stipe, half-Neil Young. In a scene dominated by Jeff Tweedy fan-boys and bandwagon hoppers (Bright Eyes, anyone?), Son Volt continues to mak...
Broken Dial Book Club: Alternadad - Neal Pollack 0000-00-00 00:00:00 First of all, I am aware of the fact that book was built for over-coverage. This is because a highly disproportionate number of journalists and bloggers are 30-something indie-mindset fathers of small children. In other words, we are alternadads. M... Read more:Book Club
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Beating the Drum - The World's Thinnest Blanket 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Earlier this week, like any number of bloggers around the world, I wrote about a small number of songs, and like those other bloggers I posted the songs for your review. I don't know how many of those other writers sought and received permission to ... Read more:Blanket
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Thursday Video Hook-Up: Elvis Perkins - All The Night Without Love 0000-00-00 00:00:00 If artists were awarded gold and platinum records for hardship, ElvisPerkins
' story would earn him Norah Jones-size plaques, you know, for big sales or, in this case, horrible circumstances. His father, Anthony Perkins from Psycho, died from AIDS c... Read more:Night
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The Trews - Den of Thieves Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Trews' Den of Thieves is a barn burner by every definition of the term. For 14 unstoppable tracks, The Trews storm through a heartfelt and soulful emulation of every great band to grace the vinyl grooves of rock and roll history.
Singer/guit...
Broken Dial Presents: Dustinland 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Freedom!
Dustinland is talking 'bout free-ee-ee-dom! The man got a new job. After years of toiling with mediocrity and not knowing what to do or how to handle being broke, Dustin Glick has moved on to a new career. This week's comic, I QUI... Read more:Broken
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Olympia - Emergencies Review 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Olympia, the 4-piece punk band from Washington, DC, has released a record to be proud of. Unabashedly loud and horribly catchy, Emergencies is a raw reminder of what bands in their infancy can do when they have something to prove. Standing in the d... Read more:Olympia
Broken Dial Presents: Dustinland 0000-00-00 00:00:00 It takes a strong man to admit that he has no idea why people like babies. Sure, they are cute and stuff, but at the very end of the day, those same infants and toddlers, well, they are going to run this world one day, and they are very uneducated... Read more:Broken
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Emergency Beating the Drum! Save Internet Radio! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 This is the story in longer form if you have the time
And a snip:
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) had harsh words for a ruling released Tuesday by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board. It proposes raising the amount that commercial Internet
radio serv... Read more:Emergency
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Spotlight On: Illinois 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Illinois [Official Site, MySpace] are a band that the blogosphere has gone completely nuts for; gonzo even. Hesitantly, I sampled what this act had to offer, and I realize that the songs available on their EP, What the Hell Do I Know?, are among t... Read more:Illinois
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Beating the Drum -- The Internet Radio Royalty Fiasco of 2007 0000-00-00 00:00:00 If you sent a letter to your congressional representative to question the Copyright Royalty Board's recent judgment on royalty rates for InternetRadio
as I did yesterday, you sent a message that this issue is not yet decided in the public's eye. It... Read more:Fiasco
Open Letter to a Goon 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Dear Fellow Concert Goer -
I hope you had fun at the Pete Yorn show. I certainly did. My favorite part was where I had to stick an empty bottle of Stella Artois up my jacket sleeve as a last defense, in case you attacked me from behind with a s... Read more:Letter
Outloud - Venus in Fervour 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Broken Dial's own Dan Berkman, takes us back to a simpler time with "Outloud - Venus
in Fervour." The videos inside are a snapshot of a band on the verge of something huge and powerfully influential: Television's creation of Marquee Moon. Hobbled b...
The Scraps: Broken Dial Weekly Recap 0000-00-00 00:00:00 This week, the guys from Broken
Dial were poignant, funny and provocative, occasionally at the same time. How can you pass up the opportunity to read such awesome material? Come check out The Scraps and see the best that Broken Dial has to offer.... Read more:Recap
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