Pitchfork rates Sire Years reissues everything from 9.3 to 6.3

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You can read the review here. Y’all will have to tell me if they got it right or wrong. I haven’t heard this batch of reissues, so I have no idea.

Also, on an unrelated matter, you will be happy to know that Paste Magazine has finally realized that I am not Paul Westerberg.

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Read more | Comments (5) | | September 26th, 2008

49:00 garners a 7.1 from Pitchfork

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Is anyone as surprised as I am by the 7.1 Pitchfork gave 49:00? I’m having a tough time with this record. I enjoy it, especially the utter rawness. However, I am still wondering if it would have generated so much buzz had it not been a 49-cent downloadable album.

Is the marketing overpowering the music? What do you think? How do you Westernerds feel about this being Our Man Paul’s most popular record?

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Read more | Comments (16) | | July 28th, 2008

Paul Westerberg, the Pitchfork Interview

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Veritable indie-tastemakers Pitchfork interviews our man Paul (which still cracks me up)

Pitchfork: Did you feel at all left behind by your friends who left town?

PW: No, because I didn’t have that many friends at the time, and the ones that I had were all quasi-musicians. Sort of cats, layabouts, whatever. There was the occasional guy we played drums with whose dad wanted him to be an accountant. The line was sort of drawn in the sand, the guys who were going to put their picks and sticks behind them and move on to something else. I knew in my gut that this was what I had to do and what I was going to do.

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Read more | Comments (7) | | May 19th, 2008