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Soundboards moving update your bookmarks

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2008-08-01 01:41:28 by Margaret Wappler in Soundboard
These guys are moving drums to the National Stadium to prepare for the opening ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games. Soundboard says piffle to that. We are involved in a much more glorious export: transferring more than a thousand blog posts to our new home on TypePad. Behold our new spiffy design! Our Digg buttons! Our category cloud to...
 
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Friendly Fires gazes at their shoes, finds them dancing

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2008-07-31 22:37:16 by August Brown in Soundboard
 
...band to fully realize that cowbell-heavy Liquid Liquid dance beats would sound fantastic with gigantic shoegaze-ambient guitars and the shimmering house synths that too many peers, such as M83, cant seem to use right more
 
Tags: opener friendly fires, opener, contemporary post-punks elo, night, tuesday night, intricately austere set, idiosyncratic sorority-punk mainstream, audience squeals, hormonal delight
 
 
 
 
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Magnanimous Collector: Figures of Light reunite and reignite

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2008-07-30 19:42:41 by jason gelt in Soundboard
...bands debut album on Norton Records : Our first concert was a wild one, in which we destroyed 15 television sets on the stage in Scott Hall at Rutgers University with pick axes and sledge hammers, along with some mannequins and some large mirrors. We started the performance by driving a motorcycle down the hallway on the stage and smashed a...
 
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Huey Lewis records theme for Pineapple Express, complete with toking sound courtesy of Seth Rogen

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2008-07-30 19:10:28 by Margaret Wappler in Soundboard
Ask 80s pop-rock superstar Huey Lewis how he wound up recording the title song for the highly anticipated stoner action-comedy Pineapple Express, due in theaters Aug. 6, and hell basically shrug They e-mailed, Would I write a song for a Seth Rogen movie? I said, Why not? Lewis, 58, recalled in a telephone interview from his Montana vacation...
 
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Billy Corgan discusses Pumpkins song in Watchmen trailer

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2008-07-29 21:01:04 by camter in Soundboard
...band can release the song as a video. More thoughts on the song from the Pumpkins ringleader after the jump more
 
Tags: pumpkins song, pumpkins, song, trailer, song meshes, trailer features, pumpkins ringleader, weekends comic-con convention, dark lyrical content
 
 
 
 
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Detour and F Yeah Fest lineups announced

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2008-07-29 18:37:15 by Margaret Wappler in Soundboard
...Music Festival Oct. 4 Tickets on sale Friday at noon,$40.50 Lineup The Mars Volta Gogol Bordello Shiny Toy Guns The Presets Cut Copy Matt Costa Black Lips Hercules and Love Affair Grand Ole Party Datarock Bitter:Sweet The Submarines Adam Freeland The Bloody Beetroots Surkin Para One Guns n Bombs Live Peanut Butter Wolf Buraka Som Sistema Nico...
 
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Cold War Kids get sweaty at R Bar

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2008-07-29 00:33:47 by August Brown in Soundboard
We have good news for anybody wondering what the Long Beach blues-punk Cold War Kids have been up to since releasing Robbers & Cowards in 2006. If their sort-of secret Friday show at R Bar in L.A.s Koreatown was any indication, Getting Awesomer appeared to be pretty high on their 08 to-do list more
 
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The relaunch of Makeoutclub.com

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2008-07-28 23:14:41 by Margaret Wappler in Soundboard
...bands or maybe just a cribbed lyric representative of your sad little scotch-taped heart more
 
Tags: bare bones click, blank space ready, favorite bands, emo kids, gibby miller, lyric representative, makeoutclub, website, possibilities
 
 
 
 
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Scars on Broadway catch the 9:25 at Union Station

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2008-07-28 18:59:13 by camter in Soundboard
If you dont listen to KROQ (and we know many of you dont), you might not know about tonights KROQ-sponsored Scars on Broadway show at Union Station downtown. Scars principals Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan (from System of a Down ) will surely scare the bejesus out of late arriving or departing commuters caught unawares this evening via...
 
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