Hot on the heels of Muxtape comes a single serving solution to the perennial question “what are you listening to…” It’s as easy as posting a twitter update, or so they say and the music is sourced from songza, et al. so there’s no uploading. If you want to know more, read this.

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The weather didn’t at all cooperate with Radiohead’s fans last night and they’re sharing their horrific experiences online today. Some folks didn’t even make it inside. Pasta Primavera’s got an amazing photo from the parking lot. Others probably wish they hadn’t… You know when there us a huge storm with lightening and thunder and it […]

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Seems I’m not the only one curious about the AT&T Commercial that sounds an awful lot like someone covering that Beta Band song “Squares.” Kevmo did the hard work and dug up the original track from the ’70s group Wallace Collection. Thanks, Kev! (title is a play on the quote from High Fidelity regarding the […]

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Andrew Bird’s blog over at the New York Times discusses the recording process and all of the myriad decisions made that eventually “make a song.” We discuss a lot of things to help us get the songs just right — like not hitting cymbals because the crashes can be “cheap thrills.” Instead we favored the […]

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New video from The Kills, Last Day Of Magic. Something about The Kills really appeals to me, but I also tend to lose interest pretty quickly. I have/had the same problem with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Love of Diagrams to some extent.

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I’ve been reading some ho-hum impressions of Scarlett Johansson’s debut single, “Falling Down”, and, after listening myself, I must say I’m sort of surprised by the complaints. It’s nowhere near as meh as people are saying. I was expecting it to be horrible based on some of the hyperbolic headlines. Granted, it’s not great. It’s […]

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Yesterday, a friend asked what I had been listening to lately. My mind went blank. We had discussed Crystal Castles earlier, but I couldn’t think of anything else. Of course, it wasn’t for lack of listening that I couldn’t name anyone in particular. I listen to music all the time. A lot of which falls […]

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