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Warpaint
January 30th, 2010
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Fever Ray is insane
January 27th, 2010
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How Fucking Romantic (and 68 others)
January 20th, 2010
69 Love Songs, Illustrated. Brilliant.
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Muslim Punks – Taqwacores
January 15th, 2010
Movie Trailers – Movies Blog I had planned to read this book, but perhaps I’ll just catch the film when it gets released. (via)
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(re)Discovering Ellie Goulding
January 14th, 2010
After months of wondering to myself “Who is that?” every time an Ellie Goulding song played in shuffle, I’ve decided to further explore Goulding’s work. Props to DiscoDust, where I scored the aforementioned mp3s back in April ’09. Must work on my lag time, apparently.
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A Visual History of Loudness or Why Compression Makes Music Sound Like Balls (in Poster Form)
January 13th, 2010
NPR piece on compression and the trending of loudness in modern music. Anchor Robert Siegel interviews legendary mastering genius Bob Ludwig, who has 40 years of experience in sound engineering. He references the following YouTube clip entitled “The Loudness War” as an example of the decline in dynamic range.
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With no understanding of the concept of supply and demand, Hole reunites, anyway
January 13th, 2010
It’s not news to hear that Courtney Love is an embarrassing trainwreck, but this Hole reunion is scraping the resin off the bottom of the barrel. First of all, no one cares. No one liked Hole to begin with. The only reason anyone paid any attention to the band’s second album, Live Through This, was […]
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