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The Week That Was: Living in Infamy

Perhaps in honor of the Pearl Harbor attacks, my colleagues and I spent the evening of December 7th singing karaoke in a private room on New York’s Lower East Side.

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The Roots React To 2Girls1Cup

I don’t care if this sounds racist, but the following video is living proof that black people are just inherently cooler than everyone else. Tell me you wouldn’t want to

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The Latest From Sam Champion (No Weather)

Some genuinely crappy bands are often painted with charmingly positive adjectives and make it big on the back of the indie-music webosphere, but Sam Champion may be the exception that proves the rule. That’s expression actually makes no sense, but people say it, and when other people say things I usually just soak it in and regurgitate it later. Hey, that kinda sounds like the world wide webosphere.

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But, seriously, these guys fucking rock. Great live show, great music. Plain and simple, end of story, end of days. The Brooklyn-based quartet’s second album, Heavenly Bender, is forthcoming, and today we’ve got a solid taste of what’s in store. And any track that features opportune rhythmic clapping as an instrument is given an ‘all systems go’ by me, so I’m already a big fan of the song. Throw in layers of fine guitar-work, catchy lyrics, melodies, and harmonies, and you’ve got one of their finest tunes yet. Bodes well, methinks.

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