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This week on the podcast

We sit down with Seth Gordon, the director of the new documentary King of Kong, which jumps into the world of diehard video game fans and follows two of them on the quest to break (or keep) the World Record for Donkey Kong. "Wild Mountain Nation" by Blitzen Trapper. I haven’t been able to stop listening to this song since the disc landed on my desk. "The Ritz" by Office. Not only is this band one of our Four To Watch bands in September, these guys were featured on the Artist to Watch segment we put out with GameTap TV....  read more

Band of the Week: Tacks, the Boy Disaster

In an antique shop somewhere in Texas, an obscure children’s book was looking for a new home. So was Evan Jacobs, a founding member of Midlake and a moonlighter of Polyphonic Spree. Jacobs and drummer Jason Freidrich were experimenting with some new sounds but didn’t have predefined expectations for their project...  read more