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Racking Up Plays: “Nanobots” by They Might Be Giants
In short, “Nanobots” is everything that TMGB fans have come to expect from the band, which is still engineering insidiously catchy little songs out of pop melodies, heady topics and peculiar humor. Continue reading
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Tagged apocalyptic, nanotech, NERRRRDS!, pop-rock, The Warfield, They Might Be Giants, TMBG, upcoming shows
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Rankstravaganza: My 15 favorite albums of 2011
The album is dead. Long live the album. Increasingly, my listening habits tend to revolve around individual tracks, so I tried to adjust my year-end list-making accordingly by making My 30 Favorite Tracks of 2011 the primary entry in this … Continue reading
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Tagged Adele, Best Albums, Best Albums of 2011, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Fleet Foxes, Middle Brother, Okkervil River, R.E.M., Rankstravaganza, Raphael Saadiq, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, The Decemberists, The Mountain Goats, They Might Be Giants, Thurston Moore, Timothy Monger, Wilco, Wye Oak
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Rankstravaganza: My 30 favorite tracks of 2011
I don’t know about you, but for me, 2011 was not a year of discovery. Most of the songs that bubbled their way to the top of my most-played tracks from last year were by bands I already knew and … Continue reading
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Tagged Adele, Amos Lee, Apex Manor, Beastie Boys, Beirut, Ben Folds Five, Best Songs, Best Songs of 2011, Best Tracks of 2011, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., David Lynch, Drive-By Truckers, Eleanor Friedberger, Fleet Foxes, Hayes Carll, Midwest Pride, mp3s, Noah and the Whale, Okkervil River, R.E.M., Rankstravaganza, Raphael Saadiq, Saigon, Sims, Sondre Lerch, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, The Civil Wars, The Decemberists, The Downer Party, The Horrors, The Mountain Goats, Theophilius London, They Might Be Giants, Timothy Monger, Wilco, Wye Oak
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Racking Up Plays: “Canajoharie” by They Might Be Giants
if you’re wondering whether the Johns still can still write a popular anthem for the unpopular crowd, look no further than this evolutionary epic off the band’s 15th album, Join Us. Continue reading
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Tagged NERRRRDS!, pop-rock, Racking Up Plays, sciencey stuff, They Might Be Giants
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