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MP3 At 3PM: Early Day Miners

edm3724Reinvention seems to be a recurring theme for Indiana’s Early Day Miners. The band has made some adjustments to its sound, taking a break from the guitar-rock epics for some shorter, tighter songs with a pop edge. They’ve also pared down their eight-member lineup to a solid quartet. The wheels of reinvention are also turning in the lyrics of the Miners’latest album, The Treatment (available September 22 on Secretly Canadian).

“So Slowly” (download):

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Mark Mallman’s “The Incredible Urban Myth Of The Invincible Criminal” Part 5

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Mark Mallman is a musician of great endurance (he’s performed 52-hour marathon shows consisting of a single song) and great eccentricity (he sometimes appears as his lupine alter ego, Mallwolf). Now, as a companion piece to his most recent album Invincible Criminal (out on Badman and featuring guest vocals from the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn), Mallman has emerged as a great storyteller with a graphic novel due early next year. Featuring Marvel comics-style artwork by Stephen SomersThe Incredible Urban Myth Of The Invincible Criminal is being presented on magnetmagazine.com as an audio book with daily installments throughout the week. Read parts one, two, three and four.

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“The Incredible Urban Myth Of The Invincible Criminal Part 5” (download):
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/TheIncredibleUrbanMythOfTheInvincibleCriminalPart5.mp3

What is it like, you ask, to drink yourself into the CRT tubes of a late-’60s Zenith color television set with a killer robot in the basement storage facility of your apartment building? Let me attempt to illustrate my position in greater detail. Picture this: You’re not a human being anymore. Your being has simplified. Your essence has digitized. You can finally abandon your one-time quest for simple human decency. You’re just an everyday guy who works in a grocery store that gets robbed over and over and over and over again on a security camera. The yin and the yang of being on the digital is the zero and one of it. Visually, everything is in color, but spiritually, it’s black and white. It’s purely a manic state. In my previous state, I’d reverted to some wicked memory of a stench. I was like a half-dead fish floating underneath a pier. I couldn’t commit to actually living a life. The Killer Robot, on the other hand, was too friggin’ stupid to remember anything other than this state being half-dead. It was stupid; therefore it was free.

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Film At 11: The Clean

The New Zealand rascals in the Clean have a new album, Mister Pop (on Merge, due September 8). To commemorate the group’s 30-year career, MAGNET is taking it back to 1982 with “Beatnik,” from the Clean’s second EP, Great Sounds Great. Its video serves as an awesomely ’80s rebel rock-out complete with berets and killer shades.

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TiVo Party Tonight: Matisyahu

tivomatisyahu4817Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers:

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC): Matisyahu
Reggae, hip hop and Hasidic Judaism: a combination that has made Matisyahu one of the biggest modern reggae stars. He recently released Light (J-Dub/Epic), and we’ll guess he’ll sing new single, “One Day.”