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Exclusive: These Arms Are Snakes Outdo Pitchfork’s Top 500

Just for us, Brian Cook mapped out a humungous, 500-song rebuttal to Pitchfork’s widely slammed “Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s.”

Posted Tuesday, September 8, 2009 by korzeck

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Job For A Cowboy’s Jon Rice Gives Us Drumming Lessons, Raves About Fiona Apple

We know as much about drumming as we do about crocheting. But Job for a Cowboy’s slammer of the skins didn’t hold that against us when he chatted us up about his trade.

Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 by korzeck

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UPDATED: Pelican Frontman Riffs Track-By-Track About Guest-Filled New Album

In one of his first interviews - if not the first - for What We All Come to Need, Laurent Lebec tells IndiePit about Aaron Turner’s and Greg Anderson’s spots, and tons more.

Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2009 by korzeck

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RecaPitulation: Deerhoof, Horrors, Velvet Underground, Torche, White Mice

Deerhoof picture themselves alongside the Stones … Horrors go Manic … a new VU tome is on the way … Torche help Save Our State Parks … Do Make Say Think speak up … CMJ gets Pissed … the grossest track list of the month (or year) is revealed … plus we give a random assist to LeBron James, and more.

Posted by korzeck

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RecaPitulation: Robert Pollard, Polvo, All Smiles, Drums, Sufjan Stevens

A GbV DVD … Nick Cave novel-ties … MP3s from Volcano Choir and the Opposite Sex … cheap Mastodon tees … a Polvo pre-order bonus … an All Smiles update straight from the lips of Jim Fairchild … plus a new Drums video, Raincoats reissue deets, one of the lamest metal promo pics of the year and waaay more.

Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 by korzeck

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RecaPitulation: Fiery Furnaces, Family Curse, Grooms, Tim Curry, Les Paul

Quote of the day: "I’m running on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform." -Brad Pitt, on his "potential" push to become mayor of New Orleans

Our admiration for the Furnaces skyrockets as they enter the scrum over health care … the Curse sure are one loud Family … tons of free downloads, from Grooms, Neon Indian and more … what Pennywise (the clown, not the band) has in common with Mastodon … plus Goatwhore’s unholy new video, the one thing we like about Warped Tour and lots more.

Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 by korzeck

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Inside The Label: Pirates Press Records

Hydra Head is giving up altogether on CDs? You can press a record so that two songs play concentrically? The Joker has something in common with Madonna? PPR captain Eric “Skippy” Mueller gives IndiePit the dirt on all this, his upcoming releases and more.

Posted Thursday, August 6, 2009 by korzeck

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RecaPitulation: Autolux, Mastodon, High On Fire, Andy Warhol

One of L.A.’s finest finally wakes after years of hibernation … the metal tour of the year might be one dominated by cartoons … plus a bonkers, long-lost video for a Warhol production.

Posted Tuesday, August 4, 2009 by korzeck

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Metal Halftime Report: Best Albums Of ‘09 (So Far)

This year has already seen some thoroughly enrapturing releases slither out from Middle-earth. Here are the 15 that have already won their way into our metal heart thus far in ‘09.

Posted Monday, July 20, 2009 by korzeck

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Inside The Label: Prosthetic Records

The brainy aggro label is going stronger than an angry pachyderm in an Iron Man contest. We talk with one of its co-founders about All That Remains, the label’s latest signings and how “serving time” at a major might actually do you some good.

Posted Thursday, July 9, 2009 by korzeck

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