Category: Music
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Review: Vinyl Post, the monthly postcard-sized record delivery service
This never happens. I’m immune to this kind of marketing. Dammit, they got me. While doing the usual message board rounds one day back in September, I stumbled upon an advertisement that spoke to me: it was about vinyl records. Not just regular records, though: postcard records. Having recently thrown myself into the world of…
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Five Re-Recorded Songs
It is always interesting when a band re-records a song. Whether it is for some type of anniversary release, stepping up to a major record label, or some other situation where it is necessary or warranted, fans of the original recording will inevitably have some type of feeling about the new version of the song.…
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I Pirated. Then I Bought. Huh.
A couple weeks back, I was feeling the urge to listen to some new music. I have a tactic that I’ve used every so often, and since it results in awesomeness more times than not (like originally finding Anberlin many years back), I decided to give it a go once more. I took a look…
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Define: “Couch”
This is something I wrote elsewhere back in April 2008. I think it makes sense to re-post it here. Seriously, internet. You using the word “emo” is getting a little old. How about you pick another musical genre/descriptor at random and use it completely wrong for a few years? Maybe “Schlager“? Yeah, every time someone’s…
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DRM-Free Is The Way To Be
This has nothing to do with Spore. Sorry. One of the funnest (see what I did there? It’s topical!) things that Meri and I do after AWA is create some kind of “mix-tape” (well, an MP3 playlist that may or may not be burned to CD for my line-in-less car audio system) of our favorite…