This is Going to Be an Ebullient Year for Your Ears

Albums and Releases to be Excited About This Year:
February

2/17 Sholi  “S/T” on Touch & Go
March

3/10 Mirah “(a)Spera”
TBA March
- Bell — new single/EP as yet untitled
TBA 2009 (Unconfirmed/Unofficial Supercosmic Jetset Wish List!)

- Diane Cluck new full length

- Dirty Projectors new full length
Other Mentionable Releases
1/20
The 1900s: Medium High mini-album [Parasol]
A.C. Newman: Get Guilty [Matador]
Andrew Bird: Noble Beast [...]

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Cold December Flew Away

Batted my eyelashes and one year slipped away into the next.  All that was left of the yesteryear was smudged eyeliner on my cheek and this charcoaled best of 2008:
Jetset’s TOP 3 ALBUMS
1. – Ra Ra Riot “The Rhumb Line” “Too Too Fast” by Ra Ra Riot
2. – Fire on Fire “The Orchard” “Hartford Blues” [...]

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October’s Eye

“A child looking at ruins grows younger
but cold
and wants to wake to a new name
I have been younger in October
than in all the months of spring
walnut and may leaves the color
of shoulders at the end of summer
a month that has been to the mountain
and become light there
the long grass lies pointing uphill
even in [...]

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Best Reason to Neglect Your Spleen

Do you know the functional purpose of the spleen?
I can’t think of one.
And certainly there can be no aesthetic or therapeutic purpose for the spleen.
So, folks, I can think of no better time to buy your spleen a coffin!
That’s right, our friends at spleencoffin won Best of Baltimore for Best DIY Local Record Label!!!  And [...]

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