Sub Pop Nike Blazer SB Elite QS
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John Vanderslice has 2 new 7-inches coming up, and both will be out just in time for his upcoming European tour (Oct.-Nov.). The first one up is “Too Much Time” b/w “Moon Rocks,” out 10/6, to be followed shortly thereafter by “D.I.A.L.O.” b/w “Do What You Want.” (BTW, while the a-sides are “singles” from Romanian Names, both b-sides are unreleased tracks).

John Vanderslice – “Too Much Time”

Please go read Ryan Adams’ new column at The Awl

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The Antlers - “Two” Somewhere in the world, there is a sea full of salt. Somewhere in the world, there is a building full of gold bars. Somewhere, there is a clock that runs for ten thousand years. Somewhere, a berry that makes sour things sweet. There is a flower that looks like a crown, a crown that looks like a flower. Somewhere out there, a bee that was born before the first world war. There is wood that went into an ark. There is a saxophone played by John Coltrane and a guitar played by Neil Young. Somewhere, there is you. [buy]

jj - “ecstasy” James had always been strange. It took someone strange to do it. We were dancing at the Neon, like we always do. James was there, as he always is, standing in the shadows by the bar. He was drinking from a bottle. In all that bass we shook, we shaked. James went to the middle of the club, the place it was shiniest. He kneeled on the hard glitering enamel of the floor. He took his fist. He rapped on the dancefloor, like it was an egg. Like it was an egg, the dancefloor cracked. It cracked right open, the deep violet floor, jagged and yawning. Gold light pushed out like the death of a star. [buy]