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Billions and Billions - Self Titled

Joel Frieders | November 9, 2010
Google "billions and billions" and over half of the results returned to you will referece Carl Sagan's Astronomy/Cosmology book from 1998 of the same title, or his many quotes regarding how many fucking stars there are in the fucking sky. What does this mean for you the listener? It means the producer dude, or produdecer as I will now refer to him, is a bit of a space case. The good news is that you probably won't run into the dude on the street and be pressured to buy his music, the bad news is, he's probably a pretty good lay, using only his music to judge him by. That being said, I downloaded this off the recommendation of a few different blogs I read on the reg, and I ended up parked on the side of a country road staring at the reflection of the sun off of the corner of a ONE LANE...
here we go magic, pigeons
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Here We Go Magic - Pigeons

Tim Baker | September 23, 2010
From 2004 through 2009 I spent the lion’s share of my time on the road. Traveling from city to city, often pulling off 6-8 hours driving a day. Being that I was the only one with a license, and my dire need to control my environment I did all of the driving. This had a few added perks including but not limited to controlling the temperature, never having to sit in the back seat, power locking the windows when your Taco Bell related farts pollute the car’s atmosphere and full and total control of the radio. One must learn to properly harness such power and privilege or face the wrath of one’s countrymen, or in this case, band-mates. So I became an expert in driving music and how to spread it out over the long hauls. We would usually start our trip with something new, that we weren’t...

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