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May 19, 2013
The A&E blog covers a span of cultural artifacts as wide, fascinating, and bizarre as the internet itself, from reviews of the cheapest coolers at the liquor store to the best concert to see at the Triple Rock, with a bit of speculation at the meaning of it all stuffed in between.
Fri, 1/22, 2:00pm (3 years ago)
We get lots of weird stuff in the mail. "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" gumball machines, "Indiana Jones" whips, a bottle of dirty brown water (to symbolize moonshine, it turned out), but occasionally some baffle me. Today, it's a post-it note pad promoting "The SarcMark," a punctuation mark with a…
Tue, 12/15, 9:12pm (3 years ago)
Disclaimer: One per artist.
25) Blue Ridge Mountains — Fleet Foxes
24) For Emma — Bon Iver
23) The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth — Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
22) At the Hop — Devendra Banhart
21) New Slang — The Shins
20) My Girls — Animal Collective
19) Mississippi — Bob Dylan
18) Idioteque —…
Wed, 12/2, 10:18pm (3 years ago)
I spent most of the 2000s in a teeny tiny town up near Fargo, population approx. 243. The only way we got "indie" music was from "The O.C." soundtrack.
My Personal Favorite Movies of the 2000s:
The Pianist
Up
Anchorman
My relationship with my high school boyfriend was founded upon our love for this movie.…
Wed, 12/2, 7:47pm (3 years ago)
Dear reader -
Don't get me wrong. I entertain zero illusions that any of you will actually read this entire list. But, here's why I imagine you might - your tastes are the type that has made iTunes decide that you like "freak/alt/folk" while Netflix pins you as someone who…
Tue, 11/24, 5:14pm (3 years ago)
I’ve been shakin’ it to Electric Six records since the salad days of 2003. That’s when “Fire” came out and the world was privileged to "Danger! High Voltage” and a host of other über-groovy, cock-rock jams. Subsequent records found the Detroit tunes getting more eclectic, more composed, but always wild…
Mon, 11/23, 6:13pm (3 years ago)
PHOTO COURTESY DEF JAM There's a time and a place to drag your -ss off off uTorrent and buy one of those round shiny things called a CD, and it's this Friday, when Black Friday sales will surely render them wallet friendly. It's also a time to shop for moms…
Thu, 11/12, 9:17pm (4 years ago)
The Moon Goons, those guys that take pictures of you at First Ave when you aren't looking or at least some of the guys that do, are hosting an open dance party this Friday at the old To Soho storefront on Hennepin Ave downtown. The show is 18+ and runs…
Tue, 11/10, 9:24am (4 years ago)
Former Smiths frontman Steven Patrick Morrissey got bonked in the head with a cup of drink two songs into a Liverpool show and promptly left the stage yesterday. This comes just a couple of weeks after he collapsed on stage due to breathing difficulties at another show. How important is…
Fri, 10/30, 10:30am (4 years ago)
BRITNEY JEAN SPEARS. Why can't you dance? I'm sick of this parading around, that's not dancing. Where are you, "Slave 4 U" Brit? Your body is awesome, your hair is not an obvious weave and you look gorgeous, so please, dance.
Either way, her new single "3" is huge even though it's of questionable…
Tue, 10/27, 4:56pm (4 years ago)
According to a rather interesting article in The New Yorker this week, this is the year of hip-hop's demise. Sasha Frere-Jones writes that hip-hop has finally, "relinquished the controls [of the pop music market] and splintered into a variety of forms." Check out the whole article here.
N'er did I…
Sun, 10/25, 4:57pm (4 years ago)
Photo courtesy Do-While.com.
Of course Minnesota Monthly's tiny people cupcake universe portrays a random sample of tiny Minnesotans that is arguably lacking in diversity, but there's something to be said for their general sunny, malt-shop-esque cover design. The former photo is part of a larger series that also depicts a man…
Wed, 10/21, 9:59pm (4 years ago)
Hello, pals. Here is my full conversation with City Pages "Picked to Click" winners Red Pens. Enjoy.
Mark Brenden: How do you guys like living in uptown?
Howard Hamilton: We love it. It's like living too close to Kwolski's and Walgreen's, it's 24 hours, it's kinda crazy. Everybody's constantly over there every…
Tue, 10/20, 3:29pm (4 years ago)
Before emo was a filthy, dirty, awful word, The Get Up Kids were a band.
For ten years their fresh take on the then-obscure genre established them as cult favorites before a 2005 break-up.
Now older, reunited and (hopefully) still ready to evoke tears/rock at the same time, they're on campus. Tonight.
Tickets…
Thu, 10/15, 6:34pm (4 years ago)
Cult movies are expected to be a little strange but this one is supposed to be one of the strangest damn films in the world. "Hausu" is now poised to soil the minds of this small college town when it plays this weekend only (Oct. 15-17) at the Oak Street…
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