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Here’s a wrap-up of all the great stuff you missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were busy speculating what kind of family dust-up could lead Madonna’s younger brother to write an unauthorized, tell-all biography. We’re betting he didn’t get what he asked for last Christmas…
In honor of this week’s CD release shows by d. biddle and The Last Seen, we offered up a free sampling of their music to download (along with some sweet Q&A sessions!), and Matthew Moon did the same on occasion of his song being chosen for a Budweiser Olympics promo. Oh, and in honor of their nominations to the Westword Music Showcase, so did about forty other bands:
3 the Hardway
Achille Lauro
Angie Stevens
Astra Moveo
Astrophagus
Bela Karoli
Born in the Flood
Conspiracy Assassins
Dan Craig
Debajo Del Agua
Epilogues
Filthy Children
F.O.E.
George Inai
Gregory Alan Isakov
Hello Kavita
The Heyday
The Hollyfelds
Horse
Ichiban
Immortal Dominion
Jen Korte
The Knew
Kinetix
ManeLine
Meniskus
Savage Henry
Set Forth
The Autumn Film
Tim Pourbaix
The Wheel
UmConscious
U.S. Pipe
(die) Pilot
Iuengliss
The Informants
Whygee
Vices I Admire
No Fair Fights
Reed Foehl
No Plot Kill
Cat-A-Tac
Tito Del Barrio Malaga
We also brought you Q&As with Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot, the legendary RZA and Brendon Small, the mastermind behind Metalocalypse.
We reviewed the opera Nixon in China, plus shows by Dosh and by Milton Melvin Croissant III and pals.
We delivered the bad news: CDs are officially pointless.
We broke the news that a local plastic surgeon is giving hipsters surgery to emulate Thom Yorke’s funky eye.
The Mile High Makeout looked hard at values, priorities and the Westword Music Showcase.
Finally, the Rap-Up wrapped up the last five winners of the Showcase hip-hop category. — Cory Casciato
