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		<title>i would never tell you anything that wasn&#8217;t absolutely true</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero

Trent Reznor can&#8217;t win. He started building his fanbase on the adolescent fury of Pretty Hate Machine and Broken and that really got it out. Then, he did a fractured and brutal concept album, a character study of someone at the end of their rope, The Downward Spiral, which is where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=329&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is the time, this is the record of the time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laurie Anderson: United States Live

To most, Laurie Anderson is an icy avant-garde artist &#8211; the synthesizers, the voice-changing devices, the peculiar arrangements, and the rambling, postmodern comic-philosophical monologues.  It all serves to put the listener at arm&#8217;s distance. However, there is something in her voice, even distorted through electronic modification, something in the meter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=288&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not so lonely, some people care, so please don&#8217;t worry, no sorrow here</title>
		<link>http://jshopa.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/im-not-so-lonely-some-people-care-so-please-dont-worry-no-sorrow-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[3Ds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[3Ds: The Venus Trail

The 3Ds are the greatest of the vast &#8216;Dunedin sound&#8217;/Flying Nun constellation of bands, noisy, eclectic, and joyful. They are the Kiwi equivalent of Pavement, and The Venus Trail is their Wowee Zowee in its wild expansion of sound and tone, taking it to personal extremes of loud and quiet. They are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=249&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tender is the mangle, the science diet, the ivory tangle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lambchop: Nixon

&#8216;Yeah there comes a booming sound. Used to come from underground.&#8217;
Take three? Four? God, I&#8217;ve been trying to tell friends, acquaintances, and practically anyone who&#8217;d listen how much this album means to me for eight years now. Lonely nights I hook it into the TV surround sound, stand in the middle of the living [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=153&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weighing the beauty and the imperfection to see if I&#8217;m worthy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark

Joni Mitchell&#8217;s slick commercial peak came with Court and Spark, with a tuneful, glossily-produced set of songs with none of few signs of her outré experimental tendencies to come. It is Joni for the era of hi-fi, a radical departure from the fragile folk she had been producing up until this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=146&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a lifetime of fucking things up fixed in one determined flash</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral

As with so many people, The Downward Spiral was my introduction to Nine Inch Nails. I was already listening to industrial music, having long been a fan of Ministry, and this was a near-total reinvention of the genre. &#8220;Mr. Self Destruct&#8221; blasting out of the gate at the start of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=123&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tiptoe down to the holy places</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

Lost in the fog. Becalmed. Angelic voices, the song of the sirens. Echoes and massive sonic reverberation.
I used to listen to Ride and wonder why it was that they got such a bad rap as second-tier shoegazers. That is, until the moment I put Loveless in my player and listened, awestruck. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=91&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sidewinder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder

Bringing Lee Morgan back from the brink of obscurity and drug hell, and with such a bang that it created a new formula for Blue Note Records, The Sidewinder&#8217;s fresh, sparkling sound gives no key to the desperation that fueled its recording. The key to this music is an understanding of certain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=84&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If your life is such a big joke, then why should I care?</title>
		<link>http://jshopa.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/if-your-life-is-such-a-big-joke-then-why-should-i-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 02:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights

Ethanol or ethyl alcohol in a solution with water at room temperature, atomized evaporates on contact ice cold, numbing the skin after a couple applications. That is the atmosphere of Turn on the Bright Lights, the guitars like showers of icy crystals. A dark, snowy New York winter feeling the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=36&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Past the gun emplacement and the bones as white as bleach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 01:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Soft Boys: Underwater Moonlight&#8230; and How It Got There

The Soft Boys sound so fresh today because they went against the grain of what was considered revolutionary. Instead of the crass or stupid anarcho-punk that was all the rave, they took the punk attitude and vigour to what is essentially beautifully rendered psychedelic pop. No [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jshopa.wordpress.com&blog=3555785&post=33&subd=jshopa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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