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So Sayeth Pam: Tangled Up in the 80s

Today is Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday. Every major and minor news outlet is rhapsodizing about his long and storied career. But when your career is as long and as storied as Dylan’s, you’re bound to release some clunkers every now and then. Plus, as the Onion points out, he has done some weird shit.

Sooooo in the middle of the eighties, Bob Dylan released a very eighties album called Empire Burlesque. Reviews were mixed at best, but the one big single from that record is still, to this day, one of my guilty pleasures. And in the interest of celebrating the good, the bad and the ugly side of our favorite musicians, I present to you the video for “Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anyone Seen My Love),” directed by none other than Paul Schrader. Happy Birthday, Bob!

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by Eternal Pamnation on May 24, 2011 at 03:05 PM
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Sad Song (official) | The Cars

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New Cars Song! Mercifully this SOUNDS like 1982.  We miss Ben Orr too!

The new album, Move Like This, will be released May 10 via Hear Music/Concord Music Group.

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by Oldschool Brian on Mar 21, 2011 at 03:58 PM
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Paucity of Worthy New Releases, but…

There has been a dearth of notable new release on my radar as of late. However here are a few links to some things I do look forward to hearing.

Toro Y Moi  – Underneath The Pine

Releases February 22 but you can stream the entire lp at urban outfitters now here. Like Destroyer’s “Kaputt”  indie rock has started getting smoothed out, groovy and leaving a little something for the ladies.

Oh Snap! here is the official video for ” New Beat”

Gil Scott Heron and Jaime XX “We’re New Here”

released February 21 via XL recordings. You can stream that now  *with your smart phone ( by jumping through some hoops) here

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by Oldschool Brian on Feb 09, 2011 at 03:03 PM
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UPDATE- STREAM ENTIRE LP HERE Did You Hear That? I’ll Take Care of U – Gil Scott Heron and Jamie xx


Since jumping on the XX band wagon, I have been eager to post more, but have discovered I only find about %50 of the xx productions outside of their lp  interesting. This remix Adele of “Rolling in The Deep” was just posted. But honestly it sounds like half the tracks are missing. Perhaps Jamie XX’s lunch came during the mix session and he figured “meh, I’ve done enough”.

Then today brought “I’ll Take Care of U”  which seems to be much more of traditional XX production. Jamie remixes 13 tracks from label mate Gil’s 2009 release I’m New Here

At least this guy is prolific. So the %50 of the stuff I like, I actually love.
We’re New Here is out on February 22nd via XL recordings
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by Oldschool Brian on Jan 06, 2011 at 07:42 PM
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