The Tweet Beat

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The Tweet Beat

It's hard to detect sarcasm on Twitter, but I'm pretty sure Oakland's Port O'Brien is dissing someone... just not sure if it's Kings of Leon or Animal Collective.

Port O'Brien
portobrien: Kings of Leon > Animal Collective x 10

Robin Pecknold, Fleet Foxes
rpecknold: I'm sorry friend but I have to ask you to come closer, I can't make out your face, as I am in the shadow of the fucking moon.

P. Diddy
iamdiddy: Oh shit! I've never had jello and ice cream. Have you?

Eagles of Death Metal
HeartOn: What songs R burning you up right now? I'm currently listening to Britney's Toxic, Bob & Ear's Harlem Shuffle, and Dirtbombs Wreck My Flow!

Edward Droste, Grizzly Bear
EdwardDroste: Coffee in the sun, set to dan playing "what a fool believes" on the Wurlitzer...

The Great Lake Swimmers
GreatLakeSwim: New van, new start. Lovely attentive audience in Berlin. We we could stay longer. On the road to Leipzig.

Harlem Shakes
harlemshakes: Getting the van 'serviced.' Tour starts Saturday! -tg

Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails
trent_reznor: Not one of our better shows. Despite our efforts we seemed unable to win over the crowd. Texas ends with a whisper.

The Thermals
thethermals: uh i think i have to kick myself off of here cause i accidentally sent a text for my gf here. good thing it was a hard core SEXT message

The Cribs
thecribs: Went to a drive in movie theatre last night to see Rear Window. Why don't they have more of those? Ross

Sonic Youth
thesonicyouth: BEGN download available today, 'silver rocket' Live at Battery Park, NYC July 4th, 2008 - bonus cut not available on LP

These United States
theseunited: Woah! Your Brain on Music! http://bit.ly/b9FGS

Rostam Batmanglij, Vampire Weekend
matsoR: reading the NYer article 'DON'T!' and wondering if I'm a high delayer or a low delayer

Words by Matt Carr

Published on melophobe May 13, 2009.

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