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Glossines Singer Sells Her Breasts


The lovely Amber Everson, front-woman of local punk favorites The Glossines, has decided to sell you her breasts.

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Hosted Live Download: Thurston Moore; November 16, 2007

Thurston Moore - November 16, 2007

Thurston Moore
November 16, 2007

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Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 (II)

Note: Photos in this essay depict re-enactments of actual events, not the events themselves.

Thursday, July 12
McCaskill picked me up at my folks’ house at 9PM. We weren’t planning to leave Jackson until about 1 or 2AM, but we’d decided to hang out a while and say goodbyes because, naturally, we may never come back.

Instead of going to the bar, for obvious reasons, we opted for dinner. Regardless, as with alcohol, we are both bottomless pits for food. The meal was uneventful, save for the fact that our waitress had apparently served McCaskill once before, and had taken offense to a conversation about foreskins. Despite this, the food was palatable and (hopefully) spit-free.

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Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 (I)

Let’s get this out of the way: fuck the Chicago Tribune. They messed up a lot of indie fans this past weekend by printing completely wrong directions to the Pitchfork Music Festival. Despite having lived in the Chicago area for nearly eight years and being with two people who attended the festival last year, I still managed to take the Green Line L train all the way to the end of the line (as per the directions), nearly five miles south of Union Park. A long string of expletives and one forty minute bus ride later, we had missed nearly all of Slint, the first act of the first night. It’s a shame, too, as they sounded pretty damn good.

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Sonic Youth - Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities


2006, Geffen

In the past, after an initial taste, Sonic Youth virgins might’ve expressed anything from intrigue to a fight-or-flight reaction.

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