Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 24, 2009, 12:43 pm
Spike Jonze has taken a 10-line children’s picture book and turned it into a full-feature film.  Which is quite a feat in and of itself, but I think that he does so successfully, even if it doe...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 23, 2009, 8:50 am
The title of The BQE, Sufjan Stevens’ ambitious new multimedia project, stands for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a poorly planned knot of a roadway built in the 1950s. Stevens’ visual and musica...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 18, 2009, 9:15 am
There’s a popular mashup sloshing it’s way around the good ol’ web right now combining the talents of indie-electronic rocker Miike Snow and rapper Drake. The Hood Internet – ...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 17, 2009, 12:41 pm
Yes that’s right. Ben Folds, the musician, and Nick Hornby, the writer, have teamed up to write an album together.  While the album is still untitled , we do have a few tracks for you to previe...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 16, 2009, 7:07 am
The organ stabs on “Splitting the Atom,” the title track from Massive Attack’s new EP, are almost so self-conscioiusly spooky that one wonders if the group is performing with a wink ...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 15, 2009, 7:07 am
A couple of years ago, Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar met while working together on a Jim Sampas documentary about Jack Kerouac.  During this experience, the ...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 14, 2009, 9:41 am
Late last month, Volcano Choir released their debut album Unmap on Jagjaguwar. Volcano Choir is Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Milwaukee band Collections of Colonies of Bees.  The original recordings ...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 13, 2009, 7:07 am
Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald,  otherwise known as “Doctor Luke”  has managed, yet again, to get indie hipsters and radio lovers all across the country to move their feet and swivel their hi...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 13, 2009, 7:07 am
This summer The Silent Years released a follow up to their stellar album The Globe, which made my top ten list for 2008 and was probably the biggest surprise find of the year for me.  Let Go is a six...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 12, 2009, 7:07 am
Over the past two years, John Darnielle, the frontman for indie-folk band The Mountain Goats, has had to deal with a lot of the shit that comes along with living life on this earth.  Apparently he ha...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 11, 2009, 2:38 pm
Phoenix has this funny habit of being remixed into amazing compositions. Here’s the real kicker; from the entire album of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, I’m pretty sure that “Rome”...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 9, 2009, 10:36 pm
I know that it has become somewhat trendy to take a pop song and strip it down to nothing but a voice and an acoustic guitar.  But this isn’t just another guy trying bank off of the fad of the ...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 8, 2009, 7:07 am
Singer/songwriter Sara Lov, has just released her debut album, Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming, earlier this year.  With a little help from former Devics bandmate, Dustin O’Hallaran, Lov has created...
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Cody B. posted an article on I Hope Your Ears Bleed - Oct 7, 2009, 9:43 am
A while back I introduced you to the band La Otrabanda.  After I featured their video as the “music video of the week” they were gracious enough to contact me and thank me, and they offer...
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