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Very Close to, if not actually in, the CD player:

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Amerie - In Love & War

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Nirvana - Live at Reading

seen/heard   °  stream album °  buy

Shakira - She Wolf

seen/heard   °  listen   ° preorder

The Freelance Whales - Weathervanes

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Magneta Lane - Gambling with God

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Various Artists - Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

The xx - xx

seen/heard   °  listen °  preorder

Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another

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Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Emmy the Great - First Love

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Superficial Gossip

seen/heard  °  listen °  buy

Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

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¡Forward, Bingo!

posted 06/14/2006

Going to see ¡Forward, Russia! tonight at the Mercury Lounge, and worried the neocommie postpunkers might be less than completely engaging?


Why not double the fun?  Play ¡Bingo!!


Aside from their bothersome punctuation, ¡F,R! have another gimmick:  All their song titles are numbers!  I don’t know whether this is because they’re math nerds, code freaks or just methodically uncreative, and I don’t care.  While the true-red fans’ll sound like golfers, yelling out requests for one of the band’s B-sides, you’ll be playing for the right to be the first to scream “BINGO!” at the angular Brits.


Here’s how you play:  Print up the cards below (click on the images for full-sized pics, or just go to this Flickr set).  When the band plays a song, X off the number.  Get five “X’s” in a row – vertically, horizontally, or (say it with me Connect Four fans) diagonally – and yell “BINGO!” as loud as is humanly possible.


Heck, if you're feeling it, bellow "You sunk my battleship!"





It couldn’t be easier!  Or more fun!


As the band has numbered their songs consecutively, and as all the songs aren’t on their first full-length CD (Give Me a Wall) some numbers have a better chance of getting played than others.  Also:  They’re only up to song number 19 (as far as I know), so I’ve included some covers that struck me as appropriate.


More cards are on the way!  Check their myspace page for tour dates and songs and whatnot.


(Though some of you (the winner, at least) will want to treasure your ¡Bingo! cards forever, others (losers) should deposit them carefully in the nearest trash receptacle recycling bin.  ¡Don’t litter!  ¡Only ¡you! can prevent forest fires!  ¡Etc., and good luck!)

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1. j. hendrix left...
06/15/2006 9:47 am

i dont know what's more bizarre: that my name is j. hendrix and i asked the bass player to play "four" or that i instantly knew that the first bingo card in the upper left is a diagonal winner.


2. Dogs Must Be Carried left...

Lemon Jelly used to play real games of bingo during their warm-ups several years ago. And the winners were always at the back of the auditorium. That was fun.