Random Articles

• The Better Beatles Over the weekend, we picked up a little stuffed IKEA octopus (technically a pentapus) for C. On the drive back, I remembered of working the strawberry fields listening to the Beatles on a cassette Walkman over and over and over again (an irony I only now see). Discovering and rediscovering each album. As I tried
• 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
• Transplants Not Unlike GWAR  Take Blink 182’s drummer, Rancid’s lead, a roadie, a weekend of b-grade end-of-the-world horror flicks, and mix with a case of cheap beer - like Grain Belt non-Premium. I know, I know, that’s almost the same recipe for GWAR. But this time, you end up with Transplants’ Haunted Cities. I picked it up a while
• 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.
• Rediscover Your iTunes Library with Tangerine Like everyone else, my podcast listening (and publishing) has an inverse relationship to how busy I am at work. I’ve cut back to only the gPod - bookending the day - with music in the middle. A couple weeks back, I found Potion Factory’s Tangerine, a great little app that generates iTunes playlist based on BPM