You already know the end of the year/decade will bring no shortage of best-of lists from perfectly nice people who still think it’s all about the Strokes or Neko Case. But the most interesting decade-in-review feature we’ve seen yet isn’t a countdown—it’s just a smart look back at the biggest hits of the decade by the whiz kids over at NPR.
For the last two weeks, the music crew that puts together NPR’s Song of the Day segment, has taken a smart look back at the best and brightest in pop smashes from the aughts – one song and one year at a time. Check out their ten picks for the songs that summed up the 00’s, complete with a brief write-up (full song-by-song analysis can be seen at the source). Apologies to those with an aversion to Britney Spears and Idol alumni: this just wasn’t your time. MORE »
2:48 PM on Mon Nov 23 2009
By Becky Bain
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In “Maybe The Concert Industry Is Just As Screwed As The Recorded-Music Biz” news, the promoter of next week’s Phoenix shows by Jimmy Eat World and Death Cab For Cutie is offering last-minute discounts on tickets, despite both acts selling out the same venues on their last tour stops here. MORE »
5:15 AM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Dan Gibson
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In “Maybe The Concert Industry Is Just As Screwed As The Recorded-Music Biz” news, the promoter of next week’s Phoenix shows by Jimmy Eat World and Death Cab For Cutie is offering last-minute discounts on tickets, despite both acts selling out the same venues on their last tour stops here. MORE »
5:15 AM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Dan Gibson
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Popular albums are sometimes quickly re-issued as “special editions” with a new cover and some bonus crap. Labels sometimes overhaul career catalogs and drop double-disc reissues celebrating the 10th and 20th anniversaries of classic albums. But what do you make of it when Jimmy Eat World takes Bleed American, an album released in 2001, and gives it the “now with a bonus disc featuring demos and b-sides!” treatment? Especially when they just put out a new album, Chase The Light, last October? Guess A&R doesn’t hear another single on that one. MORE »
5:05 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By anthonyjmiccio
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Top 5 things about this video: 1.) Ravenous gremlin saliva. 2.) Mrs. Deagle getting her comeuppance. (Shades of Inland Empire in the close-up!) 3.) Caroling emo gremlin chorus. 4.) Gizmo’s self-satisfied smirk when he finds himself unable to drive 55. 5.) MORE »
2:15 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Jess Harvell
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For the second entry in today’s Anatomically Incorrect bracket, we have pop emo godfathers Jimmy Eat World and their bald feathered metaphor for the place where babies come from (or out of) facing off (omg lol) against Bow Wow and Omarion’s collaborative efforts at facial reconstruction. Decide whether it’s two-in-the-face or one in the “bush” after the jump! MORE »
2:00 AM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By jharv
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ARTIST: Jimmy Eat World
TITLE: Chase This Light
WEB DEBUT: Oct. 1, 2007
RELEASE DATE: Oct. 16, 2007 MORE »
1:55 AM on Mon Oct 1 2007
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3:00 AM on Wed Aug 29 2007
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Now that it’s the season for “Last Christmas,” the 1984 Yuletide lament by Wham!, to blare from public loudspeakers all over the land, we figured the time was right to stage a Cover-Song Showcase Showdown for the song. MORE »
9:23 AM on Fri Nov 24 2006
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