Summer of 2009: two patient developers and one immediate punch in the face.

I’ve like a number of albums this year, but only two have blown my mind. First up, Future of the Left’s incredible Travels With Myself and Another, which is released nationwide tomorrow.

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The Animal Collective’s Merriwether Post Pavilion starts a winter music roundup from the Martin hi-fi.

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Here is my top 20 albums list for 2008!

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Finished at last with a overwhelming sensation of Umbrage! [Read more →]

A gently refurbished 50/90 song represents November: The Long Fade. [Read more →]

A simultaneous ode to loneliness and to two great movie studios on different continents, October’s belated song-of-the-month is called Toho and Ealing. [Read more →]

In a mad dash to the finish of 2008, here’s a reworked 50/90 song called Patsy Tipton. [Read more →]

EDIT - Saturday, September 6, not Friday as written before. Sorry!

There will be a fall FAWM Midwest Songwriters Showcase on Saturday, September 6th from 7 to 11 p.m at Ginko Coffeehouse in St. Paul. This great show will feature Traitor Mouse, Missile Wings, Static Captain, Dapple Throat, Todd Norem, T-Spoon, as well as your good friends in Autoclamp. The show is free to the public! Thanks to Eric Distad of Traitor Mouse for putting this together.

Hope to see you there!

If Basia Bulat came to guide us into spring, and these kooks were here to take care of our summer needs, then the Walkmen have arrived to usher in autumn with a powerful new album. I could listen to this song over and over. In fact, I just did. [Read more →]

The August song-of-the-month is a re-recording of my 50 Songs in 90 Days song called Portmanteau. [Read more →]