i hate the sound of guitars

Superchunk
The Feelies - the recent Glen Mercer/Wild Carnation show was far closer to a Feelies reunion than I ever expected to get, although in July there are actual Feelies reunion shows.
Wake Ooloo (see above)
The Bevis Frond - I like the concise Bevis Frond songs much better than the long ones
Bomb the Music Industry!
The Cure
The Bags […]

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Great Plains is the band that ruined my life. You might know their signature “Letter to a Fanzine” as the “Why do punk rock guys go out with new wave girls?” song. But I know it as the Song of the Big Lie:

You like everything that comes out on SST
You like everything that comes out […]

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The Capstan Shafts
Little Champions - I loved this band’s 2001 release Transactions + Replications, and was delighted to learn late last year of a new record Fire let me in, lava let me out (available from Barsuk). I’m even happier to report that the new disc is better than the old disc — equally catchy, […]

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Guided by Voices
The Sound - Another of the many acts I never listened to back in the day
The Sports
LaSalle - an indie/emo/punk trio featuring a husband/wife team and half of Small Brown Bike. I want this band to be Unwound circa Leaves Turn Inside You, but they don’t have Unwound’s experimental tendencies. But they’re pretty […]

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The Capstan Shafts - Among other things, I realized that when I digitized Her Versus the Sad Cold Eventually I missed the last 8 songs! This monkey-wrenched the planned number one artist of the week
Happy Birthday Amy - was meant to be number one, because of the name and the week, not because I love […]

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You’ve got just about a month left to place an order from Asaurus Records, the micro-indie label that releases beautiful hand-packaged CDRs from the likes of Pants Yell!, Colin Cleary, The Mathletes, and many more. There’s a very generous selection of free tracks to download, too. Among the “I Hate the Sound of Guitars”-endorsed discs […]

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I’m going to link MySpace pages in this post. I feel like it’s a little irresponsible to do that without mentioning a more-or-less safe way to follow the links. Here’s what I recommend for visiting MySpace:

Set up a browser (or browser profile) to delete all cookies on exitI like to configure Opera up for […]

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