Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 30, 2009, 9:16 am
Ever since 2006, The Killers have recorded an original Christmas-themed song for charity. This year is no different and a 30 second snippet of their 2009 song “Happy Birthday Guadalupe” just hit t...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 25, 2009, 12:18 pm
The SideOneDummy website just posted some really cool photos of a mural that pays homage to The Gaslight Anthem There’s a bunch of barber shops in the LA area called Floyd’s. They recently opened...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 25, 2009, 10:19 am
It’s not even Thanksgiving yet and people are already prepping what they will be doing in the spring of 2010. That is if you plan on heading to Austin, TX for the 2010 South By Southwest Music Festi...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 25, 2009, 9:37 am
It’s Thanksgiving, don’t waste your time hunting for free music on the web, we did it for you. :: Beach House “Norway” :: Blakroc “Coochie” :: Frightened Rabbit “Living In Colour” ...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 25, 2009, 9:08 am
This week seems to be Pixies week in NYC. The band is playing 4 sold out shows at Hammerstein for the 20th Anniversary of Doolittle. Last night the band stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to per...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 24, 2009, 10:17 pm
Here’s what is new in stores this week. :: Andrea Bocelli My Christmas Philips :: Birdman Pricele$$ Cash Money Records :: Blur All The People… Blur Live In Hyde Park 7/2/2009 Phantom Sound & V...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 24, 2009, 11:02 am
Last night the Pixies kicked off their first of 4 sold-out shows at the Hammerstein Ballroom. The band is currently on the road for their Doolittle tour. In which the band is performing their seminal ...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 23, 2009, 10:30 am
The Avett Brothers used a bit of web tomfoolery to launch the video for their song “Slight Figure Of Speech”. Beginning a few weeks ago, a series of web videos began to hit the net coming from Th...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 22, 2009, 8:57 am
Saturday Night Live is good for one or two funny moments each week. This week’s came when the show’s musical guest Dave Matthews swung in on a skit and showed the late night crowd his best Ozzy Os...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 20, 2009, 3:28 pm
Actor Jason Segal (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, How I Met Your Mother) has always had a bit of the musical talent running through him. We only know this because he’s demonstrated these skills in his r...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 20, 2009, 12:15 pm
BEHOLD!!! As Turkey Day approaches we’re going to give you a prize pack for the ages, full of things to watch while you recover from your epic and impending food coma. We’re offering a homemade co...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 19, 2009, 10:45 pm
Vampire Weekend are back with a new music video for their current single “Cousins” off their forthcoming album Contra, which hits stores on January 12th. Since the album is titled Contra, we hav...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 19, 2009, 9:33 pm
Raise your hand if you’re tired of the Rock Band and Guitar Hero video games…no us neither but it doesn’t mean that we’re not psyched about DJ Hero, a game that will allow you to channel that ...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 19, 2009, 1:09 pm
Humble in their ways, Mimicking Birds (Nate Lacy, Tim Skellenger, Aaron Hanson) from Portland, Oregon have certainly made an impressive entrance into the national scene recently. Discovered and signed...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 18, 2009, 2:29 pm
Taco Bell just announced the winners for their 2009 Feed The Beat program. For the last 4 years, the company has selected touring bands for this program and helped them make life a little bit easier o...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 18, 2009, 7:15 am
This is the internet, there are rules dude… :: Beach House “Norway” :: Minus The Bear “Broken China” :: Real Estate “Beach Comber” :: Tune Yards “Sunlight” :: We All Have Hooks ...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 17, 2009, 11:56 pm
Carbon/Silicon are back at giving away free tunes on the internets. The duo of Mick Jones (The Clash) and Tony James (Generation X) founded C/S on the guise the band exist as a creative outlet and w...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 17, 2009, 10:26 pm
So you’ve given up on Weezer. That’s okay – we all can agree that The Red Album blows worse than Courtney Love in need of drugs. But there is good news if you’re willing to hear it. Weezer’s...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 17, 2009, 10:19 am
:: 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct Aftermath :: A Fine Fenzy Oh Blue Christmas Virgin :: Artie Lange Jack and Coke Shout Factory :: Beak> Beak> Ipecac Recordings :: David Bowie Space Oddity (40th A...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 17, 2009, 9:24 am
Minus The Bear will return in 2010. The band has a new studio LP that will be the official follow-up to Planet Of Ice. The Seattle quartet holed themselves up in a recording studio for 4 months to cr...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 16, 2009, 10:43 pm
Murder by Death just quietly let us know they are headed into the studio in a few weeks to begin production on their new album. The band posted an update on their Facebook page with just one sentence....
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 16, 2009, 10:24 pm
The Riverboat Gamblers got themselves a second video from their most recent album, Underneath The Owl. The video depicts the band in room doing what they do best, with the help of a few friends that s...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 16, 2009, 9:49 am
The Monsters Of Folk went for the simple video treatment on “Say Please.” It made sense for them to take a simple folksy route since they are, after all, monsters of it. The vid looks like its s...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 15, 2009, 8:56 pm
Generation Records is an awesome NYC record store that always has a bunch of great in-store performances. One of the most recent band appearances was by Blake Schwarzenbach’s new band Forgetters. T...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 15, 2009, 7:54 pm
Oh lookey here, we have a new Brendan Benson video in our hands. The video plays up a bit on the psychedelic intro of the song and also pushes the color mix up just a bit more on things. The 70’s ...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 13, 2009, 12:07 pm
Yes! Lifter Puller’s back catalog will be re-released with deluxe editions with some albums being available digitally for the first time on December 1st. This Minneapolis-based band, who broke-up in...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 12, 2009, 3:47 pm
Attention power-pop fans. Here’s an artist you need to put on your radar. Mcgowan is a Brooklyn-based musician who’s music you may be familiar with even though you might not know his name. His l...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 12, 2009, 9:54 am
A few months back The Flaming Lips sent out a bulletin to their fans. They were in need of people not afraid to get naked for their latest video “Watching The Planets” Now the result of that film...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 11, 2009, 11:16 pm
…nothing but the dog in him. In case anyone wanted to know, the phrase “bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yea” is officially owned by George Clinton and he has the federal ruling backing him to pr...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 11, 2009, 11:03 am
Criminal Minds is one of those TV shows that I never seem to watch, but since it’s been on the air for a bunch of years someone apparently is. And with streaks of casting like this, I can see why pe...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 11, 2009, 10:43 am
Find some free music on the internets… :: Midnight Masses “Preacher’s Son” :: Omar Rodriguez Lopez “Mundo De Ciegos” :: Orange Peels “We’re Going To Make It” :: Tori Amos “Pink...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 11, 2009, 10:26 am
Here’s something we learned today. There are many people out there that want to actually take credit for one of the worst musical contributions in years. Yep, we’re once again talking about Autot...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 10, 2009, 3:30 pm
Just a reminder to the world, Jim James still has a relationship with his first band. He, along with the rest of My Morning Jacket are set to show up on FOX’s Sunday Animation Domination block. Stew...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 10, 2009, 12:08 pm
…this means the Death Cab For Cutie Slap Chop isn’t far behind. We’ve known about this for a while here in the DLE Dungeon and kinda wanted to leave this one alone, but now the band has gone ou...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 10, 2009, 10:05 am
This weekend Morrissey was at a concert in Liverpool, where midway through his second song he was hit in the head with a plastic beer bottle. The Moz then (and rightfully so) got mad and decided to en...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 10, 2009, 9:30 am
We’re a week out from the November 17th release of the new Them Crooked Vultures album. As with much of the music in the digital age, the band’s album leaked. To combat this leak, the band made ...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 9, 2009, 11:04 pm
New music for you to play for your earballs. :: AC/DC Backtracks Sony Legacy :: 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct Aftermath :: Anthrax Among the Living Island :: Asobi Seksu Rewolf Polyvinyl :: B...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 9, 2009, 10:18 am
There’s a reality TV show on the Showtime channel called Lock ‘N Load. The show is shot at a gun store/range in Colorado and follows Josh Ryan, the gun salesman that works behind the counter of th...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 7, 2009, 1:10 pm
It was discovered earlier this week that Pixies were to be the musical guests on The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien. Now here’s a video for it. Check out their performance of “Here Comes Your M...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 7, 2009, 12:04 pm
The Monsters Of Folk are in town this week to play a few shows, so they decided to swing by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to perform with The Roots. Fallon and Co are taking full advantage of having ...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 6, 2009, 11:42 am
Over the years Scotland hasn’t cranked out the sheer number of bands their other European brethren countries have, but what they lack in quantity often translates into some solid quality bands (we�...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 6, 2009, 11:15 am
Manchester Orchestra’s new video for “Shake It Out” is definitely worth the watch. The video was just released today and it’s pretty much a tribute video for the ’80s Sylvester Stallone mov...
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Matt Kleinschmidt posted an article on Deaf Left Ear - Nov 5, 2009, 10:04 am
Massive Attack just put out a new video for their song “United Snakes”. The video has the cool visual elements that make the band’s videos so enjoyable to begin with. UnitedVisualArtists are th...
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