music

David Byrne interviewing Thom Yorke on the real value of music

December 19, 2007

While pay-what-you-will worked for Radiohead, though, it’s hard to imagine the model paying off for Miley Cyrus — aka chart-topping teenybopper Hannah Montana. Cyrus’ label, Walt Disney Records, will stick to selling CDs in Wal-Mart, thank you very much. But the truth is that Radiohead didn’t intend In Rainbows to start a revolution. The experiment [...]

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Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2007

December 18, 2007

Here’s Pitchfork’s list of the 50 best albums of the year. It tends to be a great way to catch up on what you might have missed. Make a list and then head over to your nearest bit torrent legal download service and go get some! Some of my personal fav’s: 44 Les Savy Fav [...]

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What do Bon Jovi, Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails, Run DMC, Aerosmith, Beck, Cypress Hill and Genesis have in common?

December 6, 2007

Absolutely nothing but the Kleptones make them (and a slew of others) work, and they do so swimmingly, on this mix from the 2007 bestival. If you’re a fan of this kind of stuff (Z-Trip anyone?), give it a go.

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It's the Jon and Holice Weekend

May 18, 2007

My friend Jon from college and his fiancé, Holice, are in town for the weekend from Atlanta. I lived with them for a few months when I was in grad school (along with my brother and Chieko) and they would make delicious dinners for themselves and then always make me an extra plate and put [...]

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3 tracks from Thom Yorke’s upcoming solo effort, The Eraser

June 1, 2006

Maybe it’s because I missed all things Radiohead over the past few years but I really like these songs – really great tone to all 3 and Nigel Godrich is representing with the beats yet again. Go have a listen The album drops in July I believe.

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Gnarls Barkley album set to drop on May 9th stateside

April 28, 2006

Until then, check out the neat video. The hype around this song is going to put a lot of pressure on the rest of the album, St. Elsewhere. It is hard to imagine that they will all be gems like that. The folks in the U.K. are losing their minds over it already and it’s [...]

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Air Guitar Fever. Catch it!

April 26, 2006

Apparently Spring is Air Guitar season. After Dennis and I caught Air Guitar Nation (quick synopsis: a documentary following the first US entrants into the Air Guitar World Championships which are held yearly on a tiny Finnish island.) while we were at SXSW. The movie was a blast so when I found out it was [...]

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