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@LA: DNTEL & Lavendar Diamond...

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Fri, 11 May 2007 08:30:37 -0700

are live and free at Amoeba Hollywood tonight. 7pm.

Roll On (Ft. Jenny Lewis)

Dntel

Jenny might show up. She is from the block.

You Broke My Heart

Lavendar Diamond

Get Familiar.

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Best Music of '06: Girls Rock

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:42:15 -0800

My Best of '06 answer in two parts. This is the second in a series of extended entries about those parts.

Rabbit Fur Coat

Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins

"I didn't intend to write a bunch of songs about God," she says. "I was surprised when I had all of the songs completed and there were so many God references throughout. I guess that's what happens when you're about to turn 30... I think being broken-hearted is not the only thing you want to sing about."

- Jenny Lewis Questioning God on 'Rabbit Fur Coat', All Things Considered, 02.22.06

Standing in the Way of Control

Gossip

Gossip's third album was partly produced by Fugazi's Guy Picciotto at the studio (Seattle's Bear Creek) where Lionel Richie recorded "Dancing on the Ceiling," which is all you really need to know about the band's new direction. Brace Paine's dirty guitar lines grind in the Olympia, Washington, tradition, and the addition of drumming powerhouse Hannah Blilie means the trio's unvarnished blues punk now strides confidently onto the disco tiles. The change suits Beth Ditto's Poly Styrene-meets-Patti LaBelle belting just fine, especially when the martial grind of "Keeping You Alive" explodes into a floor-filling chorus.

- Review by Peter Relic, Rolling Stone, 02.06.06

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QotD: Warning: Handle With Care

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:00:36 -0800

If you came with a warning label, what would it say?
Submitted by chris.

Been beat up and battered round
Been sent up, and I've been shot down
Youre the best thing that I've ever found
Handle me with care

Reputations changeable
Situations tolerable
Baby, you're adorable
Handle me with care

I'm so tired of being lonely
I still have some love to give
Won't you show me that you really care

Everybody's got somebody to lean on
Put your body next to mine and dream on

I've been fobbed off, and I've been fooled
I've been robbed and ridiculed
In day care centers and night schools
Handle me with care

Been stuck in airports, terrorized
Sent to meetings, hypnotized
Overexposed, commercialized
Handle me with care
- The Traveling Wilburys (as sung by Jenny Lewis).

Handle With Care

Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins

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