I have obliged Kill Rock Stars’ request that I remove “The Infanta” from the site. Sorry to everyone for the confusion.
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The Prisonaires were prisoners in the Tennesse State Penitentiary. Sixty percent of the quintet were incarcerated for murder. Of the various Prisonaires, John Drue, who was serving three years for larceny, posed by far the least serious threat to Surleen’s health (but not to her pocketbook).
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Final Fantasy - "Peach, Plum, Pear"
Final Fantasy (aka Owen Pallett of Les Mouches) arranged the strings on the Arcade Fire record and is opening for the band on their American tour. Here he covers a song by this past year’s other hot indie act, Joanna Newsom. He fashions out of her gumptious harp-pluck, fairy-voice fantasy, a pizzicato, click and feedback delicacy that turns into a rousing piece of bowed violin counterpoint.
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For Montreal readers: My editor, Max Maki and I are in a band together called The Cay. We will be playing tomorrow night at the Sala Rosa at around 9:30. If you don’t come I’ll be crippled by self-doubt and might play the wrong chord at the wrong time, thereby ruining music. Are you prepared to have that weighing on your conscience? No!