Philly heroes Dr. Dog have a new album coming out Feb. 7, but you can stream it now on the Team Coco website.

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A new documentary takes a look at Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, exploring the impact of what ended up being the author’s only book.

The recent reunion of Archers of Loaf isn’t the only thing that’s been happening in Eric Bachmann’s world. His band Crooked Fingers have a new album releasing on Merge Records in October.

Stereogum is premiering the second song off Danielson’s forthcoming album Best of Gloucester County on the site today (“Grow Up” was featured on the site back in December). Check it out HERE.

It’s an upbeat, easy-to-dance-to number that might just inspire you to enter the family-friendly “party-game” Brother Daniel and company are running over the next two weeks:

The “People’s Picture Partay” is a two-week party-game, and you’re invited. We’re collecting drawings and photos of “conversation, recreation, and celebration” (from the chorus of the song). In other words, we want images of downright partay-ing. The best photos and drawings will be assembled into the official “People’s Partay” video, which will be unveiled on the interwebs immediately before Danielson hits all major U.S. highways for the “People’s Springtime County Partay” (check the itinerary here). So, start sending pictures! You could be famous!! Your friends could be famous!! Your grandma could be famous!! Not only that, but the person with the most pictures used in the video gets the ‘Gloucester County Prize Pack’!

A few guidelines:
1) Submissions will be accepted through Feb. 22nd
2) Send as many images as you want to peoplespartay@gmail.com
3) Images need to be original (meaning you own the rights to the image)
4) Images of “conversation, recreation, and celebration”
5) Images need to be rated G
6) Images need to be 1 MB or less

Let’s get this partay started!

Indie darlings The Pains of Being Pure At Heart will be releasing a sophomore full length on March 29 (see artwork above) and to wet the appetite of their adoring fans have released a couple selections from Belong. Click on the links below for the tuneage.

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart “Belong”

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Heart In Your Heartbreak

There’s got to be some kind of award for a photo like this.

You can follow the whole story at CurbedLA.

(Photo courtesy of Gawker)

There will be no best of 2010 lists here at Tangzine.com this year.

I realized this after I had trouble telling the band names and album titles apart on a Best of music list. And I realized it again when I looked over the Golden Globe nomination list and discovered that Mad Men was the only TV show/film on the list that I have actually seen.

Being slow and intentional about the choices I make with my limited budget for movie and music consumption has left me out in the cold when it comes to staying on top of the latest thing.

I can’t say I’m all that sad about it, but please share anything from the past year that has stood the test of time over the past 12 months in the comments below. If it’s on eMusic I’ll give it a spin. If it’s a movie, I may have to wait until May when most of the films being nominated for awards finally show up on Netflix.

In case you haven’t heard of it already, the Advent Conspiracy is a grassroots movement of people and organizations committed to taking the obligation buying and gross consumerism out of Christmas and replacing it with a desire to put the money to much better use. Please join in and do your own small part to help make Christmas more than just a holiday to get lots of stuff.

Philadelphia band The Swimmers have a new record called “People Are Soft” coming out Tuesday, Nov. 3. Their video for the song “What This World Is Coming To” is below and you can download the single “A Hundred Hearts” and listen to the new record HERE.

What This World Is Coming To from the swimmers on Vimeo.