Category Archives: music

Genius

Possibly the best album name ever.
UPDATE: I was aware of this, but not this or this. Ignorant geek, that’s me.

Cookie I think you’re TAME …okay, not really

(OK, this post is a little late, but I find I’ve still songs from the show bouncing around in my head, so this is both a reivew and attempt at exorcism)
Twelve years later, and the Pixies are still damn good.
Having seen them a number of times before, I noticed that they took a little longer [...]

A more perfect union

JJ just played an excellent mix of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher under a recording of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence - really cool. I really like stuff like that. I wonder how much of an investment of time and software is involved in getting set up to goof around in like manner at [...]

Quick! How can we cash in on the reunion tour?

Oh, right. Like this.
Quoth Chartattack:
On October 13, Swedish indie rock label Dusseldorf Recordings will release La La Love You Pixies!, a mostly Swedish tribute to the beloved band. Most of the bands (even the three American acts on the disc) aren’t going to ring a bell with listeners, but seeing as the album is wholly [...]

On TV, part 2

Damn it, they got me. I’m finally in the demographic.
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While we rock ourselves to sleep
This is a weeping song
But I won’t be weeping long
Nick Cave, Sisters o’ Mercy, etc.
Basically re-runs of late 80s - early 90s ‘120 Minutes’. Cool, nonetheless.

Something else to Blame Canada! for

After all, it’s just my job, five days a week.
Perhaps even more frightening is that he’s just come out with a critically acclaimed album (?!)
That and the Red Sox winning it all. Maybe the apocalypse really is nigh.

How not to run an online mailorder business

Don’t indicate what items in your catalog are out of stock. Accept an order, and let the buyer choose to either
1. have the items they selected that don’t happen to be in stock deleted from their order and have the remaining items shipped right away, or
2. have the order held until all items are in [...]

Teen pop here I come

Apparently Cleary is moving to the west coast, so no more Delta Factor.
That sucks.

A salvo against all tourists of melancholy

This sounds likely to be as cool as it gets (in case you were wondering how cool things get).
Taking inspiration from Italian partigiani and the counter-attack of the anti-Vichyists, Hecker has issued a salvo against all tourists of melancholy, from trustafarian pseudo-leftists to the Ikea nihilists of the boboist rive droite. While some artists seem [...]