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music-nerd data-porn
so i discovered last.fm a little over three years, and i’ve faithfully (read as: automatically) submitted my listening whims to them (via the awesome scrobblepod). every once in a while i’d check out my last.fm profile to see what the algorithms thought i might like, but i mostly kept streaming them my listening data in […]
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invisible ink
i can listen to pretty much any aimee mann song and hear it as a parable directly about my life. i know this doesn’t make me special: i know most (if not all) people could say the same. but that doesn’t make it any less meaningful to me. if you don’t have live at st. […]
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kcmp 89.3 the current
the current is responsible for most of my purchases at the amazon .mp3 store these days. some recent awesomeness bestowed on me by them includes: broken bells – ‘broken bells’: debut album from james mercer (of the shins) and danger mouse. good in a way i haven’t figure out yet, but definitely good. edward sharpe […]
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(untitled, unfinished, unreleased attempt at something reflexively annular)
he finds that walking in midtown can be just as aerobic as it is frustrating when traveling solo. large circumaural headphones can function as blinders, narrowing not just his field of vision but in fact the whole scope of his attention, allowing in only what is necessary in order to navigate yes automotive but mostly […]
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summer babe
i should be prepping for scotland and getting ahead on paperwork for the top of next season, but i’m having a hard time focusing and being productive in the brutal heat today. so, a list of my current summer music obsessions: ratatat’s ‘lp3’ is my favorite new find minus the bear’s ‘highly refined pirates’ narrowly […]
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the blues ain’t always sad
case in point: los lobos and, my current musical obsession, the black keys. if you don’t already, you should own los lobos’s “colossal head†and “this time;†and pretty much every black keys album, but especially “chulahoma.†i wholeheartedly recommend listening to them in a car in summer with the windows down. and yesterday was […]