October 19th, 2009 10:15am
LHB’s Shorties (Japandroids, The Big Pink and More)
Express Night Out profiles Japandroids.
The Columbia Spectator bristles at the appropriation of world music by western musicians.
The Next Web reports that mp3 blog aggregator The Hype Machine is planning an iPhone app.
PopMatters is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a series of essays on how culture has changed in the past 10 years.
Paste lists five great (and strange) musical origin stories.
Stream both tracks from the forthcoming Frightened Rabbit single, Swim Until You Can't See Land (out December 8th).
Pitchfork reviews the new Kings of Convenience album, Declaration of Dependence.
The songs on Declaration of Dependence reveal everyday tensions with a cool, undemonstrative reserve. You can hear the spare but descriptive verses as about romance, the band itself, or global politics, depending on your preference.
Drowned in Sound interviews Robbie Furzer of The Big Pink.

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