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Rusty’s Pandora Box: Xiu Xiu, City and Colour and Fort Minor

I love listening to some random station on Pandora from time to time. Usually I enter a famous artist to get the ball rolling, but only recently have I started adding lo-fi indie bands. I found myself discovering amazing artists in the process.
So here’s a quick rundown of my latest discoveries. I know these albums […]

Bright Eyes: Cassadaga

Cassadaga, FL is a small community in Central Florida that is known for its mediums and psychics. On its own website Cassadaga even calls itself the “Psychic Center of the World”. It is the title of the new album from Bright Eyes.

Conor Oberst aka Bright Eyes, has been making records since he was […]

Top 5 Robot Chicken Clips

Robot Chicken, a 15 minute show animated with puppets and clay, is one of the funniest things you’re ever likely to see. The show mercilessly lampoons public figures and other cartoons but sadly stays away from politicians. The basic idea is that a chicken, run over in the street, is saved by being outfitted with […]

Walter the Orange Ocean

I have known Daniel Burke, the lead singer of Walter the Orange Ocean, for some years now and had the privilege of working with him and his bandmates in London in 2005.

Of all the artists I have heard in the last, say, five years, this Boston-based group are my favorite. This is partly because […]

Cornelius - Sensuous

The artist often inappropriately labeled “the Beck of Japan” has returned for his fifth, highly anticipated musical experiment.

Despite the moniker’s relevance proceeding the 1997 release of Fantasma, Cornelius (Keigo Oyomada) has since outgrown such overtly genre-spanning, Beck Hanson-esque antics and thrown himself into near psychedelic, abrupt, often spatially conscious dance music. 2001’s Point foresaw […]

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