What else we were talking about

The news, video picks and short reviews melophobe posted in the days around November 8. They’re kept as they ran, so some of what they point to is long gone.

2008

31 posts

Friday, November 7

Fifty-word review
Shannon McArdle – Summer of the Whore
Fifty-word review
Takka Takka – Migration
Fifty-word review
Jay Brannan – goddamned
Fifty-word review
Oxford Collapse – Bits
Fifty-word review
Death Vessel – Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us
Fifty-word review
STS9 – Peaceblaster
Fifty-word review
Pendulum – In Silico
Fifty-word review
Paper Route – Are We All Forgotten
Fifty-word review
The Music Tapes – Music Tapes For Clouds And Tornadoes
Fifty-word review
Johnny Flynn – A Larum
Fifty-word review
The Little Ones – Morning Tide
Fifty-word review
The Duke Spirit – Neptune
Fifty-word review
The Republic Tigers – Keep Color
Fifty-word review
Sam Sparro – Sam Sparro
Fifty-word review
Willoughby – I Know What You're Up To
Fifty-word review
of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
Fifty-word review
The Bellfuries – Palmyra
Fifty-word review
Colourmusic – f, monday, orange, february, venus, lunatic, 1 or 13
Fifty-word review
Blitzen Trapper – Furr
Fifty-word review
GZA/Genius – Pro Tools
Fifty-word review
The Dandy Warhols – Earth To The Dandy Warhols
Fifty-word review
Mike Monday – Songs Without Words, Pt. 1
Fifty-word review
31 Knots – Worried Well

Monday, November 10

Fifty-word review
Chad VanGaalen – Soft Airplane
Fifty-word review
Alan Cohen Experience – Alan Cohen Experience
Fifty-word review
The Dears – Missiles
Fifty-word review
The Western States Motel – Painted Birds in the Orange MIrror Sun

Tuesday, November 11

Interview
Wheat
Recommended show
Elf Power + Vic Chesnutt - 11/16, Chop Suey
Recommended show
wheat - 11/15, T.T. the Bear's
Recommended show
The Apples in Stereo - 11/16, 92nd Street Y

2009

27 posts

Thursday, November 5

News
'Illinoize': Sufjan Stevens gets the mash-up treatment (download)
Did you ever think you'd hear Pete Rock rhymin' over "John Wayne Gacy Jr?"
News
Springsteen is coming to NYC with more old albums to play
Next up: The River and The Wild, The Innocent and The E Street Shuffle
News
The Dutchess & The Duke Tour Dates, Y'all
Go see them, they are really good live.
Fifty-word review
Wiretree – Luck

Friday, November 6

News
New Grizzly Bear Video for "Ready, Able"
Claymation presentation
News
Diplo says M.I.A. is working on new album, details inside
Come on back and take our mon-nay (shotgun sound)
News
Can the Brits contact Michael Jackson in the beyond?
Live seance tonight
News
The Pixies are feeling generous; give out free EP
4 tracks from the current tour
Video pick
Jay-Z joins U2 in Berlin: "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
Fifty-word review
Jakartah – In The Nervous Light Of Coincidence

Monday, November 9

News
Pavement is headlining Sasquatch!
Pavement at the Gorge, does it get much better?
News
Looks like Jon Brion might have a hand in Of Montreal's next album
Be still my beating heart
News
Music Industry's Decline Brought To You By The Makers of 'The Wire'
When you walk through Sam Goody...
Video pick
Lil Wayne's documentary trailer

Tuesday, November 10

News
Hot Chip goes from dark to light: "Take It In"
One of my new favorites
News
My Morning Jacket's role in American Dad
Save the date: Nov. 22nd
News
Stream the entire Them Crooked Vultures album now
Dave Grohl, Josh Homme, John Paul Jones. Ain't that super?
News
'Madvilliany' Follow-up is in the cards and in the works
DOOM and Madlib are comin' back
News
Springsteen plays 'The River' live (download)
Live in NYC, point blank...BRUUUUCE.
News
Springsteen plays 'The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle' live (download)
E Street recreates the Shuffle
Video pick
New Freestyle app for Iphone
Fifty-word review
A.A. Bondy – When the Devil's Loose

Wednesday, November 11

News
New Clipse song: "Doorman" (mp3)
Clipse + Neptunes
News
Arcade Fire is recording in New York City!
The cold wind of waiting will soon cease to blow
News
NSFW: Flaming Lips Naked Bike Video
If you were dying to see Wayne naked, I guess this is your lucky day?
Fifty-word review
A Sunny Day In Glasgow – Ashes Grammar
Fifty-word review
Keb' Mo' – Live and Mo'

The 2 shows we reviewed on November 8, 2009

2010

20 posts

Friday, November 5

News
Video Backlog Friday!
wading through this week's mass media
News
Girl Talk Hits 35 of the 50 States in 2011 Tour
giving Americans their right to enjoy ADD dance music
Video pick
Kori Pop - "Nowhere Near My Heart"
Fifty-word review
Maserati – Pyramid of the Sun

Monday, November 8

News
Get a First Listen of Springsteen's The Promise at NPR
a remastered time machine to the late 1970s
News
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals' Concept Rock Opera Double LP
after three years in hiding, it emerges!
News
Drop Everything & Jump Into the Fog with the Wombats
have no fear of the unknown!
Video pick
Cage - "Captain Bumout"
Video pick
Chris Garneau - "Dirty Night Clowns"

Tuesday, November 9

News
Up In the Sky, It's Super Lupe!
more fly than any bird or plane
News
Kid Cudi Has a Bonus iTunes Song, "Maybe"
and by maybe i mean he definitely has a bonus track, which you can hear now
News
Let Tennis Take You Somewhere
a dichotomy of dance moves

Wednesday, November 10

News
Shugo Tokumaru Gets an American Release for Port Entropy
we always get the cream of the foreign crop
News
Man Man + Islands = Mister Heavenly & Tour Dates
be excited even though we have no idea what they sound like!
News
Hear 3 New Robyn Tracks Off "Body Talk Pt. 3"
"call your girlfriend" to say that "stars 4-ever" linger in your "time machine"
Video pick
Everything Everything - "Photoshop Handsome"

Thursday, November 11

News
Boston Show Preview: Kings of Leon, TD Garden, 11/14
The Followill gang strides into Boston this weekend with a show at the Garden.
News
Hear the "Big Talk" about Cool Kids
out-of-the-blue we get something new
News
Birthed From The Faint, We Present Depressed Buttons
a single for your listening pleasure and an EP on the way
Video pick
who cares what name they go by? middle brother (a.k.a. MG + V) @ sxsw

The 1 show we reviewed on November 8, 2010

2011

12 posts

Saturday, November 5

Fifty-word review
New Ruins – This Life is Not Ours to Keep
Fifty-word review
Immortal Technique – The Martyr

Sunday, November 6

Fifty-word review
Dibiase – Here Comes Forever

Monday, November 7

Song battle
Phantogram - Don't Move vs. Major Lazer - Original Don
4Phantogram - Don't Move
0Major Lazer - Original Don
Final vote.

Tuesday, November 8

Fifty-word review
Surfer Blood – Tarot Classics
Song battle
Panda Bear - You Can't Count On Me (Acapella) vs. Nicolas Jaar - I Got A Woman
0Panda Bear - You Can't Count On Me (Acapella)
4Nicolas Jaar - I Got A Woman
Final vote.

Wednesday, November 9

Fifty-word review
Tom Waits – Bad as Me
Song battle
Ghostface Killah - Danger 500 vs. Malcolm and Martin - Do It Again (Rev's Groove)
1Ghostface Killah - Danger 500
0Malcolm and Martin - Do It Again (Rev's Groove)
Final vote.

Thursday, November 10

News
Portlanders! Don't Miss M83 & Active Child at Wonder Ballroom - 11/11!
a night of gorgeous sounds and dense vocals
Fifty-word review
Statik Selektah – Population Control
Song battle
Neutral Milk Hotel - Little Birds vs. Modest Mouse - King Rat
2Neutral Milk Hotel - Little Birds
1Modest Mouse - King Rat
Final vote.

Friday, November 11

Song battle
Drake - Over My Dead Body vs. Wale - Ambition
8Drake - Over My Dead Body
6Wale - Ambition
Final vote.

The 1 show we reviewed on November 8, 2011