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...Mountain Goats’ latest album may come as a shock to longtime Goats listeners. Gone is the trademark boombox-taped lo-fi Mountain Goats sound and in its place is full-blown studio sound courtesy of well-respected producer Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian) and on well-respected label 4AD (Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses). While the sound on Tallahassee may be much more polished than any prior Mountain Goats release, all of their strengths are plainly apparent. Frontman and only permanent Goat John Darnielle bolsters his claim to the title of indie-rock’s poet laureate...
...Starbucks against fair trade coffee? Couldn’t be!” Pat Keaney cries to the boombox from his desk near the door, where he is answering last-minute e-mail inquiries by undecided voters...
...show up at someone’s door and they don’t have candy, I will blast my boombox and throw a one-man dance party in their common room to teach them a lesson,” he said...
CHEAP $150 SONY CFD-S40CP BOOMBOX Home audio may be exploring new dimensions with six-speaker DVD surround sound, but there's still no substitute for a good, solid boom box. Sony's latest can even play MP3s on CD, and it hasn't forgotten the value of a good old-fashioned tape deck. www.sonystyle.com...
...Homies" in Clueless; Jamie Bell dancing through the streets of Durham as "A Town Called Malice" plays; Dustin Hoffman whistling "Mrs. Robinson"(!) to himself in The Graduate; Winona Ryder and gang dancing to "My Sharona" in the gas-station convenience store (Reality Bites); John Cusack holding up the boombox (of course); Michelle Pfeiffer singing "Making Whoopee" on the piano; seasons changing as Hugh Grant walks down the Portobello Road to "Ain't No Sunshine" (Notting Hill); the bittersweet use of "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and of "I Love the Nightlife...