Remember when we used to feature mix tapes from cool people doing cool things around the globe? Remember how we put the project on hold until we redesigned our site to make it more user-friendly? That’s all out the window because next week we’re starting up again. What better way to bring back the...
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Tags: Above Ground Episodes, French Kicks, Josh Wise, Kickstarter, mix tape, Nick Stumpf, The Love Boat, Theo Burtis
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I know you’ve all been sitting there for 7 1/2 months, listening to your Only Ones download, obsessively hitting refresh, waiting for this series’ next installment. So here it is, the next ten songs you should discover, or re-discover: 90. Daniel Johnston ~ Grievances Any Johnston song has been made at least as much...
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Tags: Bum Leg, Can't Get it Out of My Head, Cher, Daniel Johnston, Electric Light Orchestra, Gene Clark, Grievance, Heart, Joe Pernice, King Missile, Livin' On a Prayer, my bloody valentine, Ride, Rocks Off, Rolling Stones, sensitive artist, Some Misunderstanding, Song for My Sugar Spun Sister, The Stone Roses, To Here Knows When, Vapour Trail, Wipers, Youth of America
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The latest trend in the musical stylings of the world has been decided. It’s something that we’re all familiar with. We just don’t associate it with bands, groups or even artists. It’s called synthpop. Owl City has become an internet sensation overnight after the release of Fireflies on the record label, Universal. Owl City...
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Tags: Fireflies, Music, Owl City, synthpop
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The original: “Morning Dew” by Bonnie Dobson The contenders: The Grateful Dead, Jeff Beck, Lulu, Devo (video below), Einstürzende Neubauten, & Lee Hazlewood (link to mp3 below). I’m not sure whether it’s the oppressive heat, the path of destruction being left throughout east Asia by typhoon Marakot, or my recent viewing of the trailer...
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Tags: 2012, armageddon, Ava Gardner, Bonnie Dobson, devo, Einstürzende Neubauten, Folk City, Grateful Dead, Greenwich Village, Gregory Peck, hippies, Jeff Beck, Lee Hazelwood, Lulu, Morning Dew, On the Beach, Ragnarök, Roland Emmerich, Smooth Noodle Maps, Tina Turner
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Want to know what the best song of all time is? Easy – it’s “Stages” by ZZ Top. I first heard it when I was maybe five or six. Before it was even through playing, I declared to my family that it was my favorite song. My older brother, who was in high school,...
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Tags: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, 2 + 2 = ?, Belle & Sebastian, Breathe, colors, Dave Schramm, Detroit, Drive, Elton John, French Film Blurred, Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding), Hammer and Nails, Honorable Mention, horoscopes, King Crimson, Laura Cantrell, Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie, making lists, Moose, Music, nostalgia, Ozzy Osbourne, palm reading, Pink Floyd, Revolver, Stages, Starless, Teac boombox, The Bob Seger System, The Cars, The Hideaway, The Only Man in Town, The Only Ones, The Whole of the Law, The Young Generation, Top 100, wire, WLLZ, Yngwie Malmsteen, ZZ Top
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Three days down the rabbit hole and I am the Alice in-fucking-wonderland of prescription painkillers. Limbs stretching and contracting to unfeasible measures, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the Vicodin reads "Eat me."
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Tags: couch-bound, Health, kaki king, phantom pain, Writing
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Here at nonpretentious, we love a spot of British comedy (or humour, as they like to misspell it.) And we also love Mister T (and we pity the fool who doesn’t.) So we were overjoyed that the Queen’s own Robin Fry, actor, comedian, and voice of Mister T, agreed to make a mix-tape for...
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Tags: 96 Tears, ? and the Mysterians, A Song For You, Afrika Bambaataa, Archie Bell and The Drells, Atlas, Battles, beastie boys, Benny And The Jets, Benny Hill, Bobbie Gentry, Broder Daniel, Care Of Cell 44, Chet Baker, Chew Lips, comedy, Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?, Elvis Presley, England, Ennio Morricone, Give Him A Great Big Kiss, Gram Parsons, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, I Would Die 4 U, Iggy Pop, improv, Kentucky Rain, Let's Get Lost, Luke Skywalker, massive attack, Mississipi Delta, Mr. Bean, My name Is Nobody, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pink Bear Club, Plan B, Planet Rock, Plastikman, Prince, Rakin' The Dead, Robin Matthew Fry, Scorpio, Solo, Spastik, The Revolting Cocks, The Shangri-Las, The Zombies, Tighten Up, Tonight, Unfinished Sympathy
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IndyHall's Alex Hillman Knows Karaoke (2009.07)
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nonpretentious contributors have been Sasha Pasulka fans for a long time.¹ For folks like us, bloggers with extra letters – like B.A., B.S., J.D., M.A., Ph.D., M.D. – after their names, Sasha is a role model. Here’s a girl who traded in her job working on this for an opportunity to work on this.² ...
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Tags: A Beautiful Life, Blue Skies, Carey, Charlotte Martin, Counting Crows, Dark Blue, Diamond in the Rough, Did We Not Chose Each Other, Dirty Diana, dropkick murphys, ecstasy, Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom), Evil Beet Gossip, Gravel/Ani DiFranco, Hawthorne Heights, Jack's Mannequin, Joni Mitchell, kanye west, Kevin Rudolf, Lindsay Lohan, media mogul, Metro Station, Michael Jackson, Missy Higgins, mix tapes, mixtape, monster, Niki FM, nyc, Ode to Divorce, Regina Spektor, Rusted Root, Sasha Pasulka, Scar, Shawn Colvin, Singer-songwriter, Sophie B. Hawkins, Stromata, Taxi Ride, Tori Amos, Up All Night, Wish We Were Older, Zelda Lily
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While we do have a mix tape prepared – or, shall I say, while we did have a mix tape prepared – thanks to the wonderfully fabulous, genuinely hilarious Sasha Pasulka, we are going to postpone publishing Sasha’s mix for one week. On Wednesday and Thursday, we were unexpectedly unavailable. (Read: We’d tell you...
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Tags: Evil Beet Gossip, July 4, mix tapes, mixtape, Sasha Pasulka, Zelda Lily
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