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Greetings, and welcome to getLevitation, the latest and greatest of mp3 blogs, brought to you by the noiseboy and anti-rove, formerly of The Blank Generation and Unfinished Novellas, respectively. After some consideration, we two old friends decided it would make far more sense and a lot more fun if we were to join forces and combine our efforts. And thus, we give you...The Great Blog Merger of '05.

Our friendship goes way back, back to the days of baseball cards and hair metal. We've somehow managed not only to keep up our friendship, but to grow and expand it, even while living 1,000 miles apart. No small feat, that. Back in February, one post led to another and we each ended up writing odes of sorts to this unique friendship on our respective blogs. Click here for the noiseboy's "Thoughts on Bobby D and Jonny Too", and here for anti-rove's response, "The Ballad of the Noiseboy and Anti-Rove".



In so many ways, we're two of a kind, yet in so many other ways, we're as different as night and day. Perhaps it is this dichotomy that has sustained our friendship all these years. Regardless, we both hope that this chemistry shines through in this blog and that our musical tastes, again so similar yet so different, will complement each other and make the blog-reading experience that much better for our readers.

To give you some insight into just what kind of music we're into, look no further than the list of discarded names that we came up with while brainstorming for a blog title:

20th Century Boys; A Sonic Reduction; A Time of Our Own; Crazy Rhythms; Debris Slide; Dignified and Old; Dirth of Tilth; Dropout Boogie; Drunk at the Pulpit; Dum Dum Boys; Fairies With Booties; Good Moanin'; Hallogallo; Life's a Gas; Lucifer Shake; Maintaining My Cool; Manic Compression; Outside the Dream Syndicate; Perfect Prescription; Psychotic Reaction; Rebellious Jukebox; Red With Purple Flashes; Rock 'n' Roll Toilet; Shapes of Things; Some Weird Sin; Totally Wired; Wall of Sound; Yoo Doo Right.

The Fall. Can. T Rex. The Yardbirds. Phil Spector. Iggy Pop. The Count Five. Spacemen 3. Faust. Captain Beefheart. The Feelies. Pavement. The Modern Lovers. And those were just the bands whose song and album titles we thought about aping. That doesn't include the "original" names we came up with. (In case you're wondering, getLevitation was inspired by the 13th Floor Elevators...but more on that later.) Picking a name became a much more difficult process than either of us had envisioned, and nearly ended in a stalemate. But, if the two of us are anything, it's stubborn. So, we forged ahead until we found a name that we both felt was suitable.

That character trait--stubbornness--is probably one of our better suits. Or, at least, we hope to turn it into an advantage for our readers. Just as we sifted through our record collections in search of some inspiration for a title, we'll also wade through a good deal of shit in order to find some real musical gems. And, we promise to give you a listen once we've found them. We know that good rock'n'roll is hard to come by. Where once it was hanging out on street corners at intersections like 53rd and 3rd or Clark and Hilldale, nowadays it's hiding low in the tenements of the music industry. Oh, the industry and its press corps might send us an invite to a Bloc Party every other week, but that doesn't mean it's a shindig that we wanna be caught dead at.

So, allow us, if you will, to provide you with some guidance on your own musical quest. We'll be looking through rock's storied annals--and occasionally wandering down other paths, including folk, country, and rhythm & blues--in our quest for that ultimate musical drug to cure what ails ya. The elusive, perfect fix.

Thanks for bearing with us, and welcome to getLevitation.

--The Noiseboy & Anti-Rove