October 2009
30 posts
Oct 30th
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Oct 29th
Interesting Pricing
kickstarter: The Mysterious Letters just added some new rewards, including these two: Will anyone pick the $24 tier? We’ll be following this subplot closely.
Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
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Dedicated to Hotdoorknobs (img link)
Oct 27th
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Somebody’s too good for the word “donut”
Oct 26th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
Elizabeth Cotten (21)  Let’s Wrestle (18)  Colleen (18)  Atlas Sound (11)  The Byrds (11)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 26th
Oct 26th
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Getting Signed
kickstarter: This afternoon I’ll be speaking on a CMJ Music Marathon panel about how musicians can thrive without record labels. It’s a perennial topic, and these days tools like Topspin, Bandcamp, and Tunecore (and even Kickstarter) have moved the conversation past ideology and into practical stuff. It’s a nice change. The mechanics are important, no doubt. How much will the label spend on...
Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-18) →
Moonshake (32)  Thao (14)  Washed out (12)  Fool’s Gold (11)  Neon Indian (11)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 19th
Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Minimalist flickr viewer
sabino: sabino2: This is kind of awesome, really. [quoted from Justin Oullette portfolio] I Hardly Know Her is a free, minimalist Flickr viewer. After a simple authorization step, photographers are able to present their existing work without the contextual burden of Flickr’s user interface and branding. The default view shows metadata only on mouse hover, with a “large” mode also available...
Oct 13th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 9th
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Oct 9th
Oct 9th
ListenI’m still feeling out Kurt Vile’s...
Oct 7th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-4) →
The Fresh & Onlys (34)  Let’s Wrestle (10)  Charles Mingus (8)  Stricken City (8)  The Mantles (8)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 5th
Oct 3rd
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Oct 3rd
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Listen“I Think of You” from...
Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
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Oct 1st
“Why did Cleveland lose to Orlando? I did a post on that. Everybody thinks Mike...”
– Wayne Winston, stat guy for the Dallas Mavericks, unloads over at True Hoop. Good stuff.
Oct 1st
Oct 1st
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More Thoughts on Girls
“I watched the Girls’ multiple live videos on Pitchfork.tv. The Hellhole Ratrace video (not live) made me suddenly and (kind of) urgently understand what it is about them that works: as conventional as they *sound*, as normal as their music is, not only are they themselves weird, they *are* exactly what San Francisco prides itself on being, but no longer is. In other words, SF is a...
Oct 1st
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