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R.I.P. Audio.Out.

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Fansite Make Out: This Green and Pleasant Land

Slight variation on the Blogger Make Out theme today, with a Fansite Make Out feature on This Green and Pleasant Land, an extensive Web site dedicated to Leeds gloom-rock outfit iLiKETRAiNS. It's always heart-warming to see someone totally devoted to a little-known band, obsessively commenting on everything they do with almost childlike glee. It reminds us of our Morrissey days... sigh.

Anyway, if you've been checking out the DN Shortlist you'll have already noticed we FUCKING LOVE iLiKETRAiNS, a band who sonically drift somewhere between the musical incarnation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel and Ian Curtis on codeine. Seriously, these dudes are taking mope to a whole new level. Their song "Stainless Steel" features the lyrics "Please don't go into the kitchen/Because that's where the knives are". Their material is inspired by 19th CENTURY BRITISH OBITUARIES. Not joking. They wear black on the outisde, because black is what they feel on the inside.

iLiKETRAiNS' mini-album Progress Reform has been on very heavy rotation for weeks on end at DNHQ, and is available from amazon... for $20 :( x 100000. Nevertheless, we can't wait for them to get their asses Stateside to play some shows to a bunch of suicidal Smiths fans. CAN'T. WAIT.

So yeah, check out This Green and Pleasant Land and iLiKETRAiNS statutory.

Blogger Make Out: A Hamburger Today

There are few things we here at DNHQ love as much as a good, old fashioned pop band. AND ONE OF THOSE THINGS IS HAMBURGERS.

Rare, done, charcoal-broiled, with cheese, with bacon, mustard, ketchup, chipoltle sauce, etc etc, there's nothing better than a good burger. We've hardly ever passed a fast-food storefront in our LIVES without stopping in our tracks at devour a slab of minced cow meat slapped between two buns with all the trimmin's. Even thinking about it makes our mouths water in aching hunger.

SO. IMAGINE. OUR. JOY when we haphazardly discovered A Hamburger Today, a blog about HAMBURGERS!! OMG!! It has recipes, top 10 lists, restaurant links, everything to make anyone a veritable burger connoisseur.

A Hamburger Today: you have been APPROVED.

Blogger Make Out: The Mag Hag

In which we introduce a new section to the blog: Blogger Make Out, where we feature our very favorite blogs who, if blogs could make out with one another, would be on the first on DN's list. Our first virtual game of tonsil hockey is with The Mag Hag, which is the perfect haven for any media geek who's ever dropped a large percentage of their paycheck at Universal News. From disecting a Vanity Fair cover down to every detail to battling her mind-crippling addiction to back-issues of Sassy, TMH is always one step ahead of the curve in media-baiting wit.

WE APPROVE.