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You Are Listening To Los Angeles
Have you been lamenting that there’s no way to combine your favorite police scanner channel with some nice ambient music? Of course you haven’t. But you would have been, if you had known in advance...
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Rebecca Black’s Friday & The Death Of Parody In Pop
One of the more important recent events in contemporary pop music took place February 10, 2011. That was the day that the video Friday by Rebecca Black (also below) was uploaded to YouTube. If you...
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Music Industry Plans To Pay Off Federal Deficit
It’s been clear for a while that the established music industry missed the boat to the digital age, and that their innovative new business model is primarily based on suing the pants off their own...
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Thomas Dolby’s “Oceana” On iTunes, Online Game Announced For Upcoming...
Now available on iTunes Well lucky you, average music consumer. You can now purchase Thomas Dolby’s recent EP “Oceana” – previously only available to drooling sycophants like myself – on iTunes. And...
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Looking Forward To Death From Above 1979′s New Release Coming Out In 2012
One thing I love about the demise of the major record labels and the explosion of indy releases over the last decade is that just when I think I’m caught up on things, I run across some bizarre pop...
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The Swede Smell of Success – Rebecca & Fiona’s “I Love You Man”
I occasionally find myself a sudden musical outcast amongst my friends. A lot of music lovers I know are frankly arrogant snobs, or so niche-obsessed as to be musically misanthropic, so when I go on a...
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Download the New Pussy Riot Release Kill The Sexist
If you haven’t heard about Pussy Riot, you couldn’t possibly be reading this, because this is the internet, and you’re on it, and “you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a reference to Pussy Riot...
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Lol Creme & Kevin Godley’s Brilliant and Obscure Recording “Consequences”
This promotional poster by Philip Chudy turned out to be disturbingly prescient The other day, I was transported to a surreal yet somehow comforting place I hadn’t been in years. No, I didn’t drop...
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The Virtue of Shellfishness: Weebl’s Greatest Hits
Somewhere in the surreal realm between the audiovisual creations of Cyriak (who brought us cows & cows & cows, Baaa, and Welcome to Kitty City) and the musical animated storytelling of...
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Clear Channel’s Bizarre Post 9/11 Song Blacklist
An unfortunate collision of world events and visual theme can really put a ding in your sales. The other day I happened upon a tune I had forgotten existed, a song by Afro Celt Sound System called...
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