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tUnE-YaRdS - Sunlight

Whimsical, like light. Magic, like trees.

Get it on vinyl from Marriage Records.

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Check out the new Surface EP by Renminbi @CashMusic
Check out the new Surface EP by Renminbi @CashMusic

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Bachelorette - Her Rotating Head

from the album My Electric Family. Drag City, Particle Tracks 2009. Directed by Louise Clifton.

As they say on their MySpace, “Bachelorette took too many mushrooms and fell in love with a computer.” *swoon

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huntergatherer:

We’re playing in Philly with War on Drugs at Penn Treaty Park on August 5th for Waterfront Wednesdays.
There are going to be a bunch of great free shows at the park starting July 15th.  Hope you can make it out!

huntergatherer:

We’re playing in Philly with War on Drugs at Penn Treaty Park on August 5th for Waterfront Wednesdays.

There are going to be a bunch of great free shows at the park starting July 15th.  Hope you can make it out!

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Free Wilco MP3 Raises $10k for Woody Guthrie Archives

twentyfourbit:

When Wilco released a studio recorded cover of Woody Guthrie’s prescient “The Jolly Banker” a little while back, they offered three payment options to the recipient of the optionally free MP3: a suggested donation of $2 or more to the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives, a free download (provided you “make it up to [them] later”), or you could check the box next to this snarky bit: “I am/was a banker/hedge fund manager/credit default swap trader. I know times are tough, but I’m just fine thank you. (Suggested minimum donation $100.00)”

As it turns out, not everyone pretended to be “otherwise broke” and the band has raised $10,000 to date for the Guthrie archives. “Wilco’s decision to make it available online to raise some bucks for the Archives - and raise the bucks they have!” Guthrie’s daughter Nora posted on the official Wilco site, adding that it “came as a total heart-warming surprise. In one fell download swoop, Wilco wiped the smirk off that Jolly Banker’s face and put the biggest smile on mine.”

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Making Time is happening at a kick-ass place next weekend in SoJerse.  First in a series of crazy cool events at a pool shaped like aeroplane… more soon.
(via R5Productions)

Making Time is happening at a kick-ass place next weekend in SoJerse.  First in a series of crazy cool events at a pool shaped like aeroplane… more soon.

(via R5Productions)

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What The Heck Fest #8: July 17th, 18th & 19th, 2009
Wow, this music festival looks like a ton of fun. Wish I could attend (if only I weren’t on the other side of the continent).
Among the many awesome bands performing, here are a few that caught my eye:

Calvin Johnson
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Earth
Grouper
Karl Blau
Lucky Dragons(!)
Mirah
Mount Eerie

What The Heck Fest #8: July 17th, 18th & 19th, 2009

Wow, this music festival looks like a ton of fun. Wish I could attend (if only I weren’t on the other side of the continent).

Among the many awesome bands performing, here are a few that caught my eye:

  • Calvin Johnson
  • Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
  • Earth
  • Grouper
  • Karl Blau
  • Lucky Dragons(!)
  • Mirah
  • Mount Eerie

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katbeee:
kim gordon’s pedals

katbeee:

kim gordon’s pedals

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The Thermals at the Atrium

My friend @jtramsay, the music editor at Comcast.net, started this new series of stripped down performances and interviews with indie bands in the lobby of the Comcast building downtown Philly.  This is episode one.  I’m really glad to see big companies supporting indie artists like this.

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