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Blog Fresh Daily Blast - May 6, 2008

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Brendan Canning Album Out In July

From Oceans Never Listen, Posted May, 6th 2008

Now it's Brendan's turn. Last year Kevin Drew released his first album under the Broken Social Scene Presents... banner. I loved it. Now, fellow BSS core member Brendan Canning will release "Something For All Of Us..." on the always excellent Arts and Crafts label on July 22. Produced by Canning with Ryan Condrat and John LaMagna, it features Scene regulars Kevin Drew, Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman and Ohad Benchetrit as well as Stars' Amy Millan, Metric's James Shaw, Jason Collett,...

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OPP

From Ear Farm, Posted May, 6th 2008

Matt talks about Bombadil in the latest installment of Blog Fresh RadioXLR8 details the making of Portishead's ThirdIs the new Danger Mouse-produced Beck album coming out in a few weeks?Beulah's Miles Kurosky releases his first new song from a forthcoming solo albumDe Novo Dahl covers the Speed Racer themeGross, but what the hell: the top 15 memorable music moments from The HillsFirst massively multi-user online music festival in the works in VancouverBuzznet continues to buy smaller music sitesWin tickets to...

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Coachella Photos: Portishead

From Speed of Dark, Posted May, 6th 2008

The basket sculpture at nightFor us, the whole point and the peak experience of Coachella 2008's Saturday line-up was the performance of the Brit trip-hop trio Portishead, who are coming off a hiatus of several years for both live performances and new recorded material. Their third album, Third which was officially released mere days after the show, is on my shortlist for Best of 2008.This was a powerhouse of a show, with no weaknesses that I could detect....

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Chloe's just like me / only beautiful

From I am Fuel, You are Friends, Posted May, 6th 2008

Josh Rouse! Covering Mother Love Bone! Thanks to Kelly who sent this to me -- it's a song from the latest volume in Rouse's Bedroom Classics series. I am big fan of volumes 1 and 2, and it's quite a mindtrip to hear Nebraska singer Josh Rouse take on the formidable late '80s/early '90s pre-grunge rock sounds of Mother Love Bone."Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns" is a dark and melancholy river of a song from the Singles soundtrack, and it is...

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Josh Ritter - Tonight & Tommorow at the Belcourt

From Its Hard to Find a Friend, Posted May, 6th 2008

All those in the Nashville area should come out either tonight or tommorow to see the wonderful Josh Ritter at the even more wonderful Belcourt Theater. Shows at the Belcourt are always amazing and Josh's dust-bowl masterpieces are so well-suited for the historic space.Josh first came on to the HTFAF radar a few years ago, as he did with many, with the amazing song Girl in the War. If you've not kept up with him though, his newest LP, Historical...

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Inbox Nuggets

From Covert Curiosity, Posted May, 6th 2008

Very quickly, here's a couple of nuggets from the inbox that I meant to put up before I zoned out for the weekend.More than ten years after the original nucleus split, the Pharcyde are finally set to perform together on this summer?s Rock the Bells tour. Fader was happy to spread the good news. Here's a couple of Pharcyde numbers to jog your memory in case you might have forgotten. Circa 1995.Jay Dee - "Drop" (feat. The Pharcyde)Jay Dee -...

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Paul & Ringo rumored to unite

From Covert Curiosity, Posted May, 6th 2008

Yesterday I got an e-mail that linked to a news article which discussed the rumor that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are set to reunite on stage for an historic performance. Today I went over to my favorite sandwich stand and there was a copy of Blender sitting on the table, and as I was waiting I flipped through it. The first story I hit was an interview with Ringo Starr, and I can only guess that it must be...

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