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The past week has been a trying one for me. Finding out children going through their terrible twos are quite a handful to take care of would be the understatement of a lifetime. Throw into the mix I am taking classes in order to get my teaching license back up to par and when I am not watching my son I am reading pages of text and taking notes. It feels a lot like college again, college with responsibilities which is a different feeling from when I was at university the first... MORE
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Here in Minnesota the weather is changing fast. Gone are the long hot days of summer, these have been replaced by the cool days of autumn. During the summer things always seem so upbeat, and the music I listened to usually reflected that. There was a steady supply of punk and hip hop music in my car. I always listened to it when driving, usually with the windows down.
In the past week I seem to be putting a lot of these albums back on the shelves, and in turn taking out the m... MORE
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At first, there's foot-tapping. Then head-nodding. People look up from the bar, move in to the stage. Now foot stomping, and, wow - the kids in front of you have broken in to a full-on who-cares indie version of the twist.
Bishop Allen, collectively, knows about energy. How to create it, to sustain it, to hook you on it. They use simple tools: a guitar with mangy strings, a discarded piano, a sweet & sour vocal that reaches and recedes.
You can poke through thei... MORE
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Bishop Allen won't blow your mind but their songs are too darn quirky and cute to ignore. Good bouncy summertime tunes.
The Brooklyn pop quartet released an EP every month in 2006, garnering the group loads of attention from the likes of NPR and Rolling Stone. Turns out, all that work made for a great sophomore release (they debuted in 2003) called The Broken String, which will be available July 24 the on Dead Oceans label.
To support their shiny little gems, they ... MORE
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Bishop Allen Announce New LP
The workaholics from Brooklyn are at it again, but this time with their first full-length since signing with Dead Oceans, the sister label of the Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar group. Out July 24, Bishop Allen's latest release, The Broken String, comes off last year's impressive EP-a-month project, with an extensive tour to follow. The album, their third, will feature updated versions of several of the songs found on their EPs as well as a few ... MORE
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_christian rudder_
this is christian rudder. he, along with justin rice, make up the heart and soul of Bishop Allen. if you are hip, you may remember christian in such projects as "Poor-Spelling Children Pay Dearly for 'Letters to Satan'" or the "Date My Sister Project" and others back in the late 1900's and the early 2000's when he used to work for the now defunct TheSpark.com. in college, i checked that page every day, found that i will die when i am 78, that my "tr... MORE
