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Walkmen release You & Me early, donate proceeds
If there was a Girl Talk School of Album Release Technique, The Walkmen would be at the top of the class. Their latest offer, You & Me, will be available on the cheap three weeks early, via the interwebs. But the group has perhaps one-upped Prof. Gillis by adding a new and quite refreshing twist to the lesson: They will be pairing up with Amie Street, an online indie music marketplace, to donate all the proceeds of the $5 album to the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsApples in Stereo and Elijah Wood auction off guitar
Look at Elijah Wood, beaming like a 3rd grader during show-and-tell. Wood and his Elephant 6 buddies, Apples in Stereo, are auctioning that very guitar to benefit the folks over at Housing Works, Inc. to fight AIDS and homelessness. Brooklyn folk artist and longtime Apples friend/collaborator Steve Keene (who has also worked with Pavement) painted the guitar, which you can currently bid on here. At the time of this posting, you have precisely 12 days, three hours and 37 minutes to get your bid in.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsSun Kil Moon's Mark Kozelek does charity, album, tour
In this edition of the "All Mark Kozelek, All The Time" newscast, we have almost more Kozelek/Sun Kil Moon news than you can handle... read more
Found in: Music, NewsCartier teams with Reed, Cotillard, more for charity
The Age of Disco gave us a lot of cultural touchstones, not the strangest of which was the Cartier Love bracelet. Fashioned after chastity belts of yore, the bracelet came with a tiny screwdriver and actually had to be bolted around the wearer's wrist in a permanent fashion, presumably by the giver. Add to the weird factor that it was way on the pricey side, as well as the fact that you were strictly forbidden (by Cartier) from buying one for yourself (it had to be from your lover, being the Love bracelet), and you've got yourself the Decadent Years'... read more
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David Bazan - Hard To Be
