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Wow, I received a promo to review that I actually really like. Aside from the Liz Phair and New Order. Well, hot dog. Band is Mynt. Total ’90s girl pop but more synthy in the good kind of way. Spice Girls electropunk, hahaha. They have guys, too, but whatever. This is going in my car. [...]

Forget what you’ve heard. No, it’s time to just remember what you’re hearing here. Thousands upon thousands of bands are unsigned and just waiting for you to discover and love them. Or, perhaps, hate and heckle them. It doesn’t matter which you decide to do. The point is showing up, showing love, showing some sort [...]

Thanks to LoveHateLove for keeping me up to date: TARJA TURUNEN HAS BEEN KICKED OUT OF NIGHTWISH. AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA TAKE THAT, DROOLING NIGHTWISH FANBOYS. Read more here. The reason, in a nutshell: her husband has Yoko Ono syndrome and made Tarja into a diva thinking she IS Nightwish, completely disregarding any of the band’s needs/desires/business in [...]

I just threw on the new Depeche Mode. I’ve had it for weeks but never listened to it. I don’t know why because DM is one of my all-time favorite bands. I think I was deathly afraid that I was going to find another Exciter, and seriously, I do not want more Sleepytime Depeche Mode [...]

Link: Liz Phair The Inside Pulse: The last Phair release may be remembered by fans and casual listeners as a bucket of happy pop music, contrary to her prior indie elite status. For her fifth effort, Somebody’s Miracle, Liz makes a compromise of sorts between these two extremes, meshing a more polished sound with the [...]

Link: New Order Online The Inside Pulse: Ever want to completely immerse yourself in a giant bucket of depressing electro-pop music? The two discs included with Item are a compendium of the band’s music videos (and some live footage) and New Order Story, the 1992 documentary starting with their birth as Joy Division and ending [...]

Riding along in my best friend’s automobile, once in a while I’ll convince her to put in the Poison greatest hits disc. But if she doesn’t have that with her, I am either subjected to hours of Kelly Clarkson And Friends or Land Of Poodle Skirts. Other friends? Thank you for the Savage Garden disc [...]

Donnie Iris, “Ah! Leah!” and there’s a smidge of a tale to go along with this. Keith over at Infernal Combustion once bugged me for a copy of this song because his band was going to cover it, ahahah… in the process of hunting, he found the total fanboy Donnie Iris website. IT IS SO [...]

When I was five years old, “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts was everything to me. It was my most favorite song ever, I loved it to pieces, it represented me. I was a little rocking five year old. Okay, so I had some Strawberry Shortcake records (and I cried [...]

Sure, I might have to look at a list to see what the hell I ate yesterday, but my memory for music is incredible. This just popped into my head from high school French class, a little rap devised to remember regular plural nouns: IF IT ENDS IN A CONSONANT, ADD AN E IF IT [...]