Prestige Format: Music, Books, Movies
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Caniculae
Here is a short mixtape that I whipped up while wrapping up the first Scholastics + Moon Cities collaborative mixtape. “Caniculae” is a Latin equivalent of the “dog days” of summer, which have passed but seem to be lingering out here. All of these songs are from this last year except for the first track,…
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Viva La Revolución Digital
I’ve never been much for 8-track tapes. I grew up listening to my parents’ records, then graduated to recordings of those records on cassettes. Eventually I was buying my own Christian music tapes and then CDs (both Christian and *gasp* non-). I amassed quite a collection of CDs in the last twelve years. Right now,…
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Twitter Review: Mythomania by Cryptacize
Earlier this week (August 24, 2009), I was listening to music in my car on the way to work and I came across an album I had acquired but had not yet given an appropriate amount of time to. I proceeded to listen to it all day and tweet my thoughts [now annotated!]: 8:42 am…
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Freeload Your Summer
A roundup of great free mp3 albums, mixes and compilations. Click here.
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Livetweeting Philip Glass + LA Philharmonic @ Hollywood Bowl
A collection of my tweets from the Philip Glass/LA Phil Hollywood Bowl concert with slideshow and download. Link
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Top Ten of 2009’s First Half
Top Ten 1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion [[tied]] 1. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 3. Akron/Family – Set ’em Wild, Set ’em Free 4. DM Stith – Heavy Ghost 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz 6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest 7. Bat for Lashes – Two Suns 8. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus…
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Things to do, Summer 2009
In which I discuss things that you, dear reader, should do this summer.
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U Still Rock – A May 2009 Mixtape
The theme for this mixtape is difficult to articulate but pretty simple to recognize, I think. It has something to do with the combination of rocksteady and dub (no reggae) with pop. But there’s more to it than that, I think. Uh, so think of this as a solid, nearly hour-long jam. Read more
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Golden Hurricane Mixtape
This is an old mixtape. My best guess is that it’s from spring 2005, though it may be older than that. Enjoy. link
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