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Geek rap: Can I get behind it? I don’t know

October 15, 2007

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Leslie and the Ly’s. Dan Deacon. Girl Talk. Even Milwaukee’s Juiceboxxx. Unlike their Brazillian counterparts (CSS, Bonde do Role) who can wear spandex, felt-tipped pen racoon eyes and still be f**kable-hot, the Midwestern equivalents of 1990s rapper Snow have no real cool factor to redeem themselves with, other than they’re so effin nerdy and don’t […]

Pitchfork Music Festival: Aesthetically Pleasing in More Ways Than One

July 16, 2007

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The fact that the Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 sold out, partnered with ATP, and had a lineup that was every snotty indie music nerd’s wet dream meant that there was a lot of pseudo-intellectual music analysis overheard this weekend. If I carried a recorder while walking through the crowds I could’ve remembered a lot of […]