Random Articles

• Tuesday’s Triple Play - The Robots We Love and Hate  Sony’s dog is just the first step in machines taking over - via our hearts. This week’s triple play is dedicated the androids so near to us me must destroy them. “Small Wonder” from the Vandals’ Fear of a Punk Planet “Todd the T1000″ from Jonathan Coulton’s Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms “My Girlfriend’s a Robot” from
• A Middle Man’s a Middle Man “Apple is no different than Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or RIAA….No modern consumer is going to stop listening to their favorite band because Circuit City doesn’t carry their CD.” - Benn Jordan Benn’s post is one of the many articles online showing how little compensation musicians receive from the business organizations that are said to be supporting
• Reasons To Not Listen To Coldplay Fresh off the Sony rootkit fiasco, EMI/Virgin Records has commanded that no one listen to the new Coldplay album - but they won’t tell you that until after you’ve given them money. “This CD can’t be burnt onto a CD or hard disc, nor can it be converted to an MP3″ and “This CD may not
• Gentle Readers’ Hihoney Review  I picked up the (now defunct) Gentle Readers’ album Hihoney via Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles’ Stuff package. I’ve never been one to listen to an album all the way through. On the rare occassions that I have a CD, I rip it into iTunes and wait for the individual tracks to come up on
• Tim Quirk Blogging Pop-Ed One of the best songwriters in the world is finally blogging. Tim Quirk (Too Much Joy, Wonderlick, The Its) and his cohorts at Rhapsody have kicked off Pop-Ed: The Rhapsody Staff Blog. Though I’d prefer his writing put to music, I’ll take what I can get at this point.