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occasionally fully formed thoughts by bernie mcginn
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I’m impressed by the effort with this shot-by-shot remake of the ‘classic’ music video by Journey. But, come on folks, 80’s the pop culture nostalgia must die. Really. It’s not ironic. It’s awful. It was awful. Especially 95% of the popular music. But, I suppose that probably has [...]
Mark Mothersbaugh Interviewed @ Fecal Face:
obligatory out of context quote:
“…one thing we learned is that rebellion is obsolete.”
Thomas Hawk points us to Mojo, a new file sharing system. Looks like a good rainy day project.
We’ll see how the RIAA responds to this one. Music sharing, taping, and lending, has always been a part of how people discover new music.
When listening to music, I am listening to some kind off random shuffle mode 99.8% of the time. Yeah, I know, “death of the album” and all that.
Anyway, being having a bit of DJ in me (control freak?), I don’t leave it all up to iTunes to select the music. ‘Party Shuffle” and a [...]
With my record collection still back in Nebraska, this just adds insult to injury.
Rolling Stone has a good report on what you probably already knew,
music doesn’t sound as good anymore.
Music is mastered primarily for playback with little white stumps shoved into your ear. Which is to say, not the optimal listening experience. It’s interesting that portable mp3 players weren’t designed to playback audio to accommodate in-ear/earbuds, [...]
GigPress – looks like a handy way for bands to manage their upcoming shows on a WordPress hosted site.
I used to rack up $600 phone bills setting up tours for my band before everyone had email and net access. These young’uns don’t know how good they have it with cheap ways to promote [...]
DJ Sara and DJ Ryusei seem to have this ‘turntablist’ thing down pat.
8 years old and 5 years old, respectively.
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