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Pacer - The Amps

post from NEVVER on 13 May 2008 08:06:00 PM. © NEVVER

Pacer - The Amps . mp3

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Stream Death Cab's Narrow Stairs

post from Stereogum on 13 May 2008 07:46:00 PM. © Stereogum

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From the album title punchline contest to the Construction Paper Album art nicknames to the cute girl/creepy stalking video, the build-up to Narrow Stairs' release day has seemed longer than a four-minute instrumental intro. And now web rippers and law-abiding music consumers alike can now all listen to and discuss DCFC's latest with clear eyes, full hearts (can't lose). Pretty sure everybody likes it better than Plans (right?). Fans of The Photo Album, We Have The Facts..., etc. will see some moments of those good times in "Cath" and "Your New Twin Sized Bed,"; DCFC lovers of the major label days won't find anything too mean to their ears; and as most have realized/read, there are some Walla attempts at fleshing out the sounds, bringing in the tablas, turning the amps to 11 (it's a mixed bag). The more knobs tweaked, though, the more it becomes clear that this is a band that will live and die by Ben's hand: Walla, Harmer, McGerr are all right in the pocket, but this is Gibbard's ball. When he gets it right, and he does here on at least a majority of tracks, Ben can twist a phrase at just the right angles, turn a melody to just the right shape. If you like Death Cab, you will like Narrow Stairs. Until and unless the band wants to give us a Great Reinvention, this works. Stream it at AOL.

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New Mates Of State - "My Only Offer"

post from Stereogum on 13 May 2008 07:04:00 PM. © Stereogum

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Make this advance track two from noted child-rearing bloggers/indie rock couple Mates Of State's Re-Arrange Us. Maybe not as memorably melodic as the outstanding "Get Better," but it's not for lack of arrangement: "My Only Offer" builds bells, glockenspiels, horns on top of a simple two-chord piano figure, with Kori and Jason's vocals swapping on the verses, harmonizing on the hook, hitting the callback/echoes later. All in all pretty pop, but the story here's in the lyrics, two lovers maybe not so much in love, slogging through the dulled luster, trying anyway. The chorus: "Oh, It's my only offer / stifled copies of myself / as someone else." Gives a little more resonance to the melody, innit.

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Kelly Rowland Says Beyonce Is Not Pregnant

post from Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News on 13 May 2008 07:00:00 PM. © Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News

R&B singer Kelly Rowland has laughed off reports her close pal Beyonce Knowles is pregnant, insisting her former Destiny's Child bandmate would be "mad" if she heard the latest rumors.[...] Read more!

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Phosphorescent Covers Nick Cave

post from Stereogum on 13 May 2008 06:52:00 PM. © Stereogum

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We enjoyed it mightily when Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, added his "Little Boxes" to the Weeds canon. He also does something worth the while with Nick Cave's "Right Now I'm A-Roaming." Houck's hushed rendition removes the swagger of the original, but he manages to infuse it with enough hoarse, on-the-road grit to save it from becoming just another saccharine folk tune. You can take a listen at MySpace, and please note that this accompanying photo is Houck a-roaming at Stonehenge last month. (Speaking of the Ancients, Cave is still roaming, looking hella intense during that fateful "Night Of The Lotus Eaters.")

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Slash Feared AIDS Would Ruin His Sex Life

post from Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News on 13 May 2008 06:30:00 PM. © Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News

Rocker Slash was terrified of contracting AIDS at the height of his Guns N' Roses fame - because he feared he'd miss out on sex. The guitarist, who once famously said that rockers only needed to worry about AIDS if [...] Read more!

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Kelly Rowland Says Madonna Is Allowed To Be A
Diva

post from Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News on 13 May 2008 06:00:00 PM. © Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News

Singer Kelly Rowland has hit out at British festival organizers who have blasted Madonna's outrageous backstage demands - insisting she is allowed to be a diva. The Material Girl reportedly enraged fellow artists and organizers at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Maidstone, [...] Read more!

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Adem Covers Low

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When we showed you Fridge bassist Adem Ilhan strumming-out dEUS's "Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)," we made sure to mention the UK-based multi-instrumental crooner is also covering any number of indie rock classics (a dozen to be exact) for his third solo record, Takes. For the finale, long after Bedhead and PJ, and Pinback, and the Pumpkins, he does a delicate cover of Low's "Laser Beam," which you first heard on 2001's Things We Lost In The Fire. Time flies.

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Foo Fighters Enter The Funniest Tour Rider
Contest

Foo Fighters Enter The Funniest Tour Rider Contest

This is an imaginary contest that we just made up. Before today, the all-time champion was Iggy Pop, compliments of his tour manager guy Jos Grain (example: "2 X HEAVY DUTY STRAIGHT CYMBAL STANDS. But we are equal opportunity employers, so gay stands may apply also. [They won't get the fucking job, though..."]). And actually, after today Iggy continues to hold on to that title. But second place may just belong to a boy named Foo. The Smoking Gun tracked down the hot doc in all its cheeky glory, although this excerpt was properly identified as blockquotable by Gawker.

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Biological Father Supports Madonna's Adoption Of
His Son

post from Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News on 13 May 2008 04:41:48 PM. © Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Music News

Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie's adoption of David Banda has been given the backing of the boy's biological father. The pair have been fighting to finalize their adoption of the two-year-old since bringing him back to Britain from a Malawian orphanage in 2006.[...] Read more!

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