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St. Paul Real Estate (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
by G. Sax (@gsax) With a heading like today's on a blog about real estate, I bet you're expecting a pitch about "green" building practices like the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ or the...
LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo from the artist's Myspace page. Todd Rundgren, the boundary-defying musician, vocalist, composer, producer and original Zen Master of computer technology applied to music, embarks on a very special mini-tour this week, performing his 1973 release A Wizard, A True Star in its entirety in four California cities. This Friday at the Orpheum Theater, Todd and his band will reprise an album so full...
BBC - Music - BBC Music Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
While we'd love to give BBC Music Blog readers a delicious chocolate treat every day of advent, technology isn't quite that advanced. So, in lieu of a calendar packing tasty morsels behind cartoon packaging, we're taking a look at a different Christmassy album from today 'til the rotund red-clothed fellow comes calling on 25 December. We'll be highlighting our favourites, bona-fide classics, an assortment...
Under Three Hundred (Free subscription) | yesterday
The plan for today was to post last year’s Facebook countdown of Jonny’s Top 25 Xmas Songs That Aren’t Annoying And Haven’t Been Played To Death . However Facebook doesn’t seem to archive posts from twelve months ago so I’ll have to try to remember what songs I chose, using my powers of long-term recall. Badly Drawn Boy – Donna & Blitzen The Beatles –...
Ooblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Are You Ready Eddy? – Emerson, Lake & Palmer Ready an’ Willin – Whitesnake Are You Receiving Me? – XTC Talking Loud and Clear – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark So What Happens Now? – Art of Noise We All Stand – New Order What Time Is It? – Spin Doctors 10:15 Saturday Night – The Cure Where are the Prawns? – The [...]
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The question of my relationship to religion--should I have one? what sort of ethics should undergird it? how postmodern can religiosity be while still being religious--has been perplexing me of late. One thing that get me thinking about the issue is a 1986 song by XTC, "Dear God" , that I've been thinking about lately. I'm not thinking of XTC , really, since Andy Partridge annoys me, but...
Reno Rambler (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
I don't know that I've ever seen Andy Partridge looking so young.
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Of the many great bands from the late 1970s new wave/punk explosion, XTC was the last one to stay together, albeit as a rump duo consisting of Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding. But the pair broke up in 2005. Best known as critics' faves, the band did have some brushes with popularity. Sadly, "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" was not one of them. From the group's 1992 Nonsuch album, it tells...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Pugwah release a great record.
I Read Comics (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
This week: Dukes of the the Stratosphear, Pale and Precious , from the lp Psonic Psunspot , released in 1987. Do you know about the Dukes of the Stratosphear ? No? OK, go here and read this . I had been an XTC fans for a long time and was thrilled when they released this stuff; we played the records - RECORDS, cos they were only released as lps at first - in the record store all the time. Each track...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Steve Lillywhite is the man responsible for producing the debut albums by U2 and Dave Matthews Band as well as many of their subsequent million-selling releases. While Bono and Dave have both consistently trusted Steve to fit their visions between the speakers, so have artists as diverse as The Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Johnny Thunders, Ultravox, Guster, She & Him, XTC , Jason Mraz, The Pogues,...
haha.nu (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
@ haha.nu Related posts:Dear God,Dear JimmyDear Political Graffiti ArtistXTC – Dear God Related posts: Dear God, Dear Jimmy Dear Political Graffiti Artist XTC – Dear God
life is a thrill (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) : Bear In Heaven (10) Pylon (4) Beck (2) XTC (2) M83 (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
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