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Radio… there she blows

By David
February 29th, 2008

In the early 90s, the lead-off track from R.E.M.’s breakthrough album Out of Time was a song called literally “Radio Song”, which was an unabashed take on the state of radio. Michael Stipe had no issue with singing “the radio makes… me… sad”. And that was 1991!

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Kanye = Puffy

By David
February 28th, 2008

Other than a forthcoming, controversially-titled album from Nas, is there anything at all interesting happening in the hip-hop/rap scene? And it does need to be said aloud… Kanye West is a modern day Puffy Diddy.

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Haro Pyongyang!

By David
February 26th, 2008

So it appears that North Korea is suddenly becoming a must-visit locale for any musician’s world tour. Well, baby steps. The NY Philharmonic recently made history by becoming the first major US musicians to play in North Korea. And now Slow Hand himself, Eric Clapton, has been invited to play what has [...]

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How To Assemble An Achtung Joshua Fire

By David
February 26th, 2008

At what point does it become a non-event to hear that a band you have followed for decades is coming out with a new album? If someone announced that The Rolling Stones were coming out with a new album, it is arguably true that the real excitement is for the accompanying world tour and [...]

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Once upon a time

By David
February 25th, 2008

Arguably the warmest event of this year’s Academy Awards telecast was the Best Song Oscar win by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, also known as The Swell Season, for “Falling Slowly” from the Once soundtrack. The lo-fi movie, set in Dublin, inspired to Steven Spielberg to say, “A little movie called Once gave me [...]

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Sitar Hero? Sure, why not

By David
February 24th, 2008

It’s a bit of a joke making its way around the game & music communities, but are the suburbs ready to the rock the sitar? Tuba Hero? Gospel Band? Triangle Hero? (think about that one for a second) Polka Band? The Amazon reviews would probably go something like, “Oh [...]

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The assumption review

By David
February 22nd, 2008

The Black Crowes have a new album coming out. Are you excited? To be fair to the Crowes (but not Sheryl, Counting, or Jim), I really enjoyed their first batch of albums. The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion was a great record. Can I hear it for “Remedy”? But is [...]

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All the pretty covers

By David
February 22nd, 2008

Given the shrinkage of music formats (does anyone know if albums on USB flash drives even come with artwork?), what is the future of album art? Some albums now, digital or not, have their liner notes available only as an unromantic PDF file.

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