The Dismemberment Plan
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My @Rdio playlist with selections from each of the albums on my Pitchfork People’s List (Top 20 Albums 1996–2011): rd.io/x/QFyuL1HKMw
Of the nineteen artists in my People’s List, can you guess which five I haven’t seen live? peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/8f867850/
Finished my People’s List (Top Albums 1996–2011) for Pitchfork. As it turns out, my list is very caucasian. peopleslist.pitchfork.com/list/8f867850/
Album Cover Contest Dénouement
My album cover contest has come to a close and the scores have been tallied. Contestants received a half point for each artist correctly identified and a half point for each album, making the highest possible score 55 points.
And the winner is... Raul Gutierrez!
Combining his own considerable musical knowledge with that of several friends, as well as incorporating some clever cyber-sleuthing techniques, Raul was able to at least partially identify a whopping forty-four… See more →
The Dismemberment Plan
Tonight I danced my ass off to a live Dismemberment Plan set for the first time in seven years.
Watch: The Dismemberment Plan on “Fallon”
Travis’s vocals on “What Do You Want Me to Say” are kind of terrible, but they sound fucking great otherwise. Can’t wait to see them next week.
Dismemberment Plan. Webster Hall, NYC. 2011/01/29. Tickets on sale Friday at noon. May God have mercy on your soul if you get in my way.
Exit Strategy
In 1993, Washington DC’s fertile indie rock scene gave birth to a band called The Dismemberment Plan. Musically, it skirted genre conventions inconspicuously. Lyrically, it found wisdom and poetry in the commonplace. The whole package was a rare, fun, magical blend of sophisticated and approachable, and the band built a respectable and devoted following with it.
Ten years later, not long after releasing its fourth and arguably best album, The Dismemberment Plan decided to call… See more →
Bcore Disc Sevens 1998-2000
Listening to The Dismemberment Plan's "The Ice of Boston" with a renewed appreciation. last.fm/music/The+Dismemberme…
After redeeming my pass to a sneak preview of Dirty Pretty Things, I somehow stumbled into the wrong theater; when the lights went down and the film began, I discovered that I would be seeing The Magdalene Sisters instead, followed by a Q&A with its director, Peter Mullan. Since Magdalene was one of many movies on my wish list that didn’t fit into my excessively ambitious Philadelphia Film Festival schedule back in April, I sat… See more →
The Dismemberment Plan
The Philadelphia stop of the Dismemberment Plan farewell tour was last night at the TLA, and the band made it count, playing a setlist-free, all-request show that lasted nearly two hours. It was bittersweet, to be sure, enjoying such a great show and knowing all the while that it would be my last opportunity to see The Plan live.