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ARCHIVE 10 / 2008


HALLOWEEN ANYONE?

Posted by Hartley On Oct 29, 2008

Sadly, this year for the H'ween I won't be partying it up with the sexy bees or cigarette girls, Obamas, witches, Amy Whinehouses, the random Hockey-Masked-kid that just loooves Halloween so much, because I'm too busy not trying to sabotage my ful... Read More

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SAVE JULIE OCEAN!!!!

Posted by Hartley On Oct 23, 2008

No, The Jetsons haven't made an indie pop albumObviously, we here at BRM HQ listen and digest a lot music. We love most of it, but Julie Ocean held a special place in our neurotic Jewish hearts from the get-go. Not only were the DC-hailing quartet... Read More

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ARTHUR RUSSELL MAKES ALL MY FAVORITE ALBUMS

Posted by Hartley On Oct 20, 2008

It's true. Arthur Russell really does make all my favorite records. He was just too good at everything - and Audika is doing a killer job of helping more and more people to discover this fact. For crazy lo-fi, tape-recorded, disco-drone, karma-pop... Read More

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GUS VAN SEA AND CAKE

Posted by Hartley On Oct 13, 2008

For their latest video, Chicago's smoothe indie-pop luminaries The Sea & Cake have gone all Gus Van Sant on our asses. The band's clip for "Weekend," the awesome electro-tinged first single from the S and C's great new album, Car A... Read More

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Doing Our Job: Pitchfork

Posted by Lyle On Oct 8, 2008

Thanks again to our close "pals" at "P'fork" (that is what we call 'em around here), for some delightful words of praise to some of the latest Merge releases that we are working........maybe we should put them on payroll? Lamch... Read More

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NOT OUR FAULT:

Posted by Hartley On Oct 6, 2008

Placement of the year. Obviously, he's been sampling the product. Did you see this yet??? These guys are in it. Now this one was our fault! totally...  ... Read More

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NERDPALOOZA!!!!

Posted by Hartley On Oct 2, 2008

So here's this totally awesome new video for "Lost Coastlines," the single off Okkervil River's amazing new record, The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar). The song is killer, and the video is completely "buzzworthy" to use an impossibly... Read More

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