For those of you that I’ve talked to about Jenny Owen Youngs over the past two weeks, this is her. I had heard of Youngs a while back, I believe it was from an Amie Street email newsletter, and then just last month noticed she’d be visiting Providence to rock The Spot, one of my favorite [...]
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Yessir, this is my second Regina Spektor post within hours, and I’m glad to have it be. She looks fly, and the video for the lead single “All the Rowboats” off of her forthcoming LP What We Saw From the Cheap Seats, directed by Regina’s homegirl Adria Petty (Tom’s daughter), is just as nice as [...]
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In 2002 Regina Spektor released her sophomore album, Songs. Aside from the recording equipment, it was Regina and a piano. Nothing else. Each of the twelve tracks were completed in one take, and the outcome is something I’ve pressured many of people to witness. It’s raw. It’s breathtaking. It’s the reason why nine out of [...]
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Occasionally things get a little slow around here at TECB. It’s not that Verbal and I don’t have anything new to bring, but, apparently unlike these other dick-biting website clones, more along the lines of having lives outside of the internet. Verbal has school and a girlfriend; I have a full-time job and Jim Beam. What we [...]
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