July 2009
27 posts
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Okkervil River - Blonde In The Bleachers (Joni...
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Wow, this is fucking great.
There Will Be Mud -...
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Carla Bozulich - Lonesome Roads Fascinated with...
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Dead Meadow - Such Hawks Such Hounds Have had this...
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Widespread Panic - Stop-Go
Took a long drive this...
An Apology from Amazon →
This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our “solution” to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we’ve received. We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going...
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Denison Witmer - These Days (Jackson Browne...
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The Pink Mountaintops - Vampire
But you can’t kill...
Why Is Obama's Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for... →
“Google is big. Very big. Its millions of servers process about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour. It conducts hundreds of millions of searches every day. This is no accident; bigness is the very point of Google. The company’s great skill—its competitive advantage—is its ability to find meaning in massive sets of data. The larger the data sets, the more potential meaning...
I'm With The Fans →
Aside from being a total badass rocker, Carrie is one of my favorite bloggers. From her latest post:
But the Jackson model of worship appears somewhat outdated, more akin to Elvis impersonators. Phish fans, on the other hand, utilize an organizational and structural mode that’s married to technology, making it more nimble, pervasive and powerful.
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Monsters of Folk (Conor Oberst, Yim Yames, M....
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Grateful Dead - One More Saturday Night Then God...
News Flash: The Bad Guys Win →
“… why is it that all the old newspaper guys think there’s some giant pile of money at the top of the trust pyramid? There isn’t. All the money is at the bottom. In the muck. In the details. Where Gawker plays. Where Techcrunch plays. It’s not aggregating the “top trusted content, it’s owning a category and being the best and, ideally, only ones there....
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Yim Yames (aka Jim James) - My Sweet Lord (George...
WatchLykke Li - Knocked Up (Kings of Leon cover)
Two-fer cover Friday.
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Dan Auerbach - The Prowl This is, without a doubt,...
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Miles Davis - Pinocchio
This quintet and a stiff...
Not an Upgrade — an Upheaval →
The logic of the Internet, a medium that is natively good at helping groups communicate at vanishingly low cost, is that the act of forming a public has become something the public is increasingly doing for itself, rather than needing to wait for a publication (note the root) to do it for them. More publics will form, they will be smaller, shorter-lived, and less geographically contiguous, and...
Pandora now pushing radio to pay for music, too →
“Extraordinarily, it is in the US, the world’s largest music market, that has traditionally championed intellectual property rights, that performers and producers have no rights to be paid when their music is broadcast over the radio. Other countries without broadcast rights are Rwanda, China, Iran, and North Korea.”
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The Kills - U.R.A. Fever Catchy as hell.
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Walt Ferguson - Carnaval Day Listened to music...
Postscript: Michael Jackson →
Story I had never heard regarding the derivation of one of the great MJ tracks, Wanna Be Starting Something:
“Dibango’s phone started ringing. Friends and relatives were calling to offer their congratulations: Michael Jackson was singing his song! But Dibango’s pride turned to puzzlement when he bought the album, only to find that the song was credited to Michael Jackson and no one...
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Johnny Cash - Song of the Patriot
Happy...
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Jeff Buckley - I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan...
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Flamin’ Groovies - Teenage Head Old School...