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Sure, sleep might sound really appealing now, but just wait until it’s Tuesday night and you’ve spent your entire four-day weekend watching re-runs of “The Golden Girls” and eating puffy cheesy snack foods. Then you’ll get to school on Wednesday and all the cool kids ask will you what you did, and you’ll have to […]
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10/06/07, Eugene
For some inexplicable reason, Lil’ Wayne, the self-proclaimed (and ear-endorsed) “best rapper alive,” hits Eugene this weekend, in what promises to be the easiest way to get really, really high without actually putting any sort of piece to your lips. Seriously, the cloud of smoke Weezy and crew will undoubtedly inspire will probably be […]
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I love Spencer Krug. He’s the keyboardist and one of the vocalists from Wolf Parade, and other Canadian bands named after various animals, like Frog Eyes and Swan Lake. His “solo” band – not named after an animal – is called Sunset Rubdown. Their last album, “Shut Up I Am Dreaming,” feels like a kid […]
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On their fourth album, Austin sextet Okkervil River move onward from the world of 2005’s Black Sheep Boy, abandoning their familiar territory of unrequited love and extended-length epics. They’ve even gone so far as to embrace traditional pop structures, now sounding more like a rock and roll band than they ever did before. Despite this, […]
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I know I’m not really supposed to do this, but sometimes I listen to Walla Walla radio stations that aren’t KWCW. It’s just that sometimes I’m longing for non-collegiate music. You know: Sugar-coated Top 40 music played completely unironically. Unfortunately, although some DJs will laughingly spin “Sk8r Boi,” they’ll follow it up with like an […]
