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Petal Pusher, the story of Laurie Lindeen and her life as the frontwoman for Zuzu's Petals, her battle with multiple sclerosis and her marriage to Paul Westerberg, just sounds like it might be a really satisfying read. [Minnesota Public Radio]

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Stuck On Repeat: The Seedy Seeds, Heck Yes!

While I don't particularly enjoy coming up with cute names for music styles, The Seedy Seeds have the market cornered on Appalachitronica. The duo decided to build a collection of instruments that, they admit, they don't really know how to play, then recorded the results. (Later this month, the Seeds will release their first full-length, Change States.) Accordions, banjos, cheap drum machines, a childlike melody and simple harmonies—these are the things that make "The Little Patton" sound so fresh, yet so familiar:

The Seedy Seeds - The Little Patton [MP3]
The Seedy Seeds [Myspace]

5:35 PM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By pcox
649 views, 2 comments

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Bruno Tonioli, Dancing With the Stars judge, on the two left feet shared by Mrs. Beckham and Earth Mother Spice: "Three of them can cut it, but Posh and Geri - please! One shops, the other shouts." [contactmusic.com]

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ain't singin' for spuds

Fact: MTV Once Played So Many Music Videos They Could Afford To Ban Some

MTV has a history of banning would-be popular videos, but it was 19 years ago this week that one of the network's most peculiar censorship decisions took place. Neil Young's "This Note's for You" was denied play on the network due to a fear of offending valuable advertisers. No nudity, no blood, no graphic drug use—just ad parodies. Did 1988 mark the end of our innocence?

Neil Young and The Bluetones - This Note's For You [YouTube]

4:00 PM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By pcox
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Robert Smith says the new album from The Cure will be an expanded affair, and it'll be available both as a label-approved single disc and as a double-album "for the fans." (One track is reported to be named "The Hungry Ghost." Please make your own joke and save me the trouble.) [gigwise.com]

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Stuck On Repeat: Superfamily Really Could Be A Winner

Oslo, Norway's Superfamily released their second album Warszawa in May, and the second single from the record, "I Could Be a Real Winner," is, so far, unjustly trapped inside the confines of the Norwegian charts. It's far too good a song to be kept secret from the rest of the world, however. Built on a brisk white-soul beat with a whistling hook, singer Steven Wilson channels Daryl Hall so convincingly that "Winner" feels more like a vintage Hall & Oates No. 1 than anything anyone else—including Mssrs. Hall & Oates themselves—is doing in 2007:

I Could Be a Real Winner [MP3]
Superfamily [Myspace]

2:05 PM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By pcox
435 views, 2 comments

Latest by brasstax: @dennisobell: YES! Prefab Sprout. I could never put a finger on it before. more »

She's naming it VegeTerranean. I'd have named it Honeyman-Sprout. [ohio.com]

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On The Flippity-Flop: Sleeper's Charming And Disarming Debut B-Side

Welcome to "On The Flippity-Flop," where your Idolators spotlight unjustly ignored B-sides, bonus tracks, compilation contributions, and EP cuts. Send your suggestions to tips@idolator.com.

ARTIST: Sleeper
SONG: "Ha Ha You're Dead"
FIRST APPEARANCE: Alice EP, 1993
WHY IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN A-SIDE: As far as debut releases go, there weren't many in the 1990s stronger than Sleeper's. "Alice in Vain" itself was a perfectly fine A-Side, but it was just one of three on this 7" single that could've done the job. None finer than "Ha Ha You're Dead," however. The four-sided bassline keeps Louise Wener's cynical schadenfreude in a tightly defined and claustrophobic box, until the 2:35 mark when Jonathan Stewart's tipsy guitar run lifts the lid on the song and reshapes it completely if only for a few seconds. I don't think Sleeper ever again equalled "Ha Ha," even if they did go on to have at least another handful of memorable singles.

Sleeper - Ha Ha You're Dead [MP3]

11:12 AM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By pcox
277 views, 5 comments

Latest by Audif Jackson Winters III: Cool, thanks. I read "Goodnight Steve McQueen." Although I don't particularly remember why. more »

British Sea Power, Mogwai, The Rosebuds and others may ensure Dig For Fire: A Tribute to the Pixies won't be tossed in the trash pile as quickly as this one was (or especially these ones were). [cmj.com]

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news flash: rock star makes joke

Uptight Australians React Uptightly

While being interviewed on Australian radio two days ago, Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns finished off an otherwise true story with an off-the-cuff and obvious falsehood: "It was me and Natalie and Peter Garrett and Bono laying on Bono's bed smoking joints, listening to Young Modern demos." Well, obvious to most people anyway... More »

9:20 AM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By pcox
1,997 views, 19 comments