Austin Bound

11 Mar 2008 – 12:59
By adam | Also posted in shows | Comments (2)

I’m heading out tonight for SXSW (the music part, not the geeky part), so I probably won’t be posting for the rest of this week. I do have a new blackberry, and WPhone, so there’s a chance I might post something, but it’s unlikely. If you’re short on reading material, you can check [...]

Iteration, Segmentation, Experimentation

8 Mar 2008 – 11:32
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The new Nine Inch Nails album is fantastic. It carries on the path from The Fragile to Lost Highway and Still, the path that was lost when Trent took 3 years off and then released With_Teeth. Trent’s said that Ghosts wouldn’t have been possible to release on a major label, which is easily [...]

Traditional First Post of the Year

22 Dec 2007 – 3:56
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161 posts and 616 comments later, 2007 is gone. Normally I would post my top X albums of 2007 now, but posting that list this year would mean passing on In Rainbows and Neon Bible, which would draw more negative attention by their absence, which wouldn’t be fair to the albums I did [...]

Cool, but not innovative

22 Oct 2007 – 1:29
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Rock should be less like a mall and more like a yard sale.

There’s been a lot of pontificating about the new Radiohead album, and how it’s hastening the demise of the recording industry. Largely because of Nine Inch Nails’s announcement a few days later, and other bands jumping on the bandwagon immediately afterward. [...]

Buckshot Ep. 6: ReBlogging

2 Oct 2007 – 12:13
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My feed reader landed me a couple things I agree with whole heartedly this morning:

Rick Rubin, Radiohead, and the record industry at Invisible Oranges is everything I’ve been saying. every Warp should have a Bleep, the loudness wars and shitty albums killed the music industry long before downloads got to it, and [...]