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So I’ve been kind of drowning in tracks lately. Not a horrible thing in and of itself, but it’s hard to give an album a thorough listen when you know there’s a handful of other albums waiting on your hard drive to be loaded into iTunes. In this situation it is almost a [...]

So, last month I dropped a couple of hints about a top secret project that I’ve been working on. Well, today’s the day of the grand unveiling.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
Geeks of all fandoms.
I give you…
Stop Standing Still!!!
For those that may be curious, Stop Standing Still is a site that I’ve set [...]

Remember how I said that I’d have a new project to debut this week? You didn’t really expect me to follow through on that did you?
Seriously, this week has taken a change for the weird so I’m pushing the new project back to Sept 30th. Possibly earlier, but that’s the date I’d expect [...]

Nod goes out to a Boing Boing reader for this video from Matsuura Aya.

Honestly, this is everything that I dig about J-Pop. You’ve got a song that is unabashedly poppy and bright with out a hint of irony (irony is losers who are just afraid of being honest) and has a great hook that [...]

OK, let’s try this again and see if I can post this with out deleting what I wrote.
Here’s a bunch of stuff that’s been sitting in my RSS reader waiting for me to get off my ass and write a post up. Since I seem incapable of that, I’ll just do a little dump [...]

Just a quick note that the NYC Pop Fest kids have finally released the line up and it looks like a doozy.
NYC POPFEST 2007
THURSDAY MAY 24, 2007 - Opening Night Gala
98-104 Meserole Ave., @ EUROPA in Brooklyn

BMX Bandits (Scotland)
Pants Yell! (MA)
Yellow Fever (TX)
The Metric Mile (NYC)
Lispector (France)
& Other Surprise Guests!!

FRIDAY MAY [...]

So I’ve been bouncing between a couple of releases over the last week or so. One of those “releases” (actually its 8 releases) is the Twilight 14 project from The Baskervilles (myspace).
I’m not up on the full scope of what is happening here, but the general gist is that on the first [...]

The full reasons behind the situation are murky, but the facts are clear. The former DC, future Brooklyn based indiepop band The Lil’ Hospital (myspace) are in the finals for the Battle of the Bands contest being put on by mary-kateandashley.com.
Voting for the contest can be found here. Currently the band [...]

So Courtney continues to define my music collection. This one has a little something for the Wrock fans though, kinda.
The artist in question is Jenny Jenkins. The link will take you to her myspace page where you can check out a couple tracks from her. The songs are her with a ukulele. [...]

So, one of the things that Courtney dropped on me when she visited last week was a bunch of stuff by the NY band My Favorite. The recordings came with a warning of sorts that went something like, ‘every some what Christian person I turn onto My Favorite ends up becoming more obsessed with [...]