Archive for the “Music” category
47 days of music seems like not that much…
by Pete on January 27, 2012
From a history of Pitchfork that is much more readable and informative than 99% of the stuff you find on Pitchfork itself, this paragraph really captures the watershed moment that Napster was: Back when people still had to pay for (…)
What’s he building in there?
by Pete on June 8, 2010
Roughly ten years from now, a mishap at the Large Hadron Collider causes the particle beam to lose cohesion, resulting in localized tears in the fabric of space-time around the globe. In St. Paul, MN, an aging Garrison Keillor is (…)
Tapes still suck
by Pete on June 5, 2010
Testament’s “The Preacher” came up on shuffle on my iPod yesterday, followed closely by “Devil’s Island” by Megadeth. For whatever reason, it reminded me of my long-departed tape collection. Sometime in 2004, I finally threw out the milk crate full (…)
How To Destroy Angels – ST
by Pete on June 4, 2010
In case you missed it, Trent Reznor’s new band How To Destroy Angels is offering their debut EP as a free download via their website. I picked up a copy earlier this week, and have given it a few listens. (…)
Clementine’s Windows port is a pretty good music player
by Pete on June 3, 2010
Clementine is a music player app that is mainly developed for Linux. Since it’s a KDE app, and I have used the Gnome desktop environment pretty exclusively of the last few years, I hadn’t really run across it before. Unbeknownst (…)
Apparently they’re streaming from 2001…
by Pete on December 7, 2008
Today’s New York Times features a pretty interesting article about the role of college radio stations in the contemporary music scene. The focus of the article is WRPI, the radio station of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. “Great,” I (…)
New Black Angels album in April– YES!
by Pete on March 28, 2008
I haven’t had much time today to devote to the internets, but I was just perusing I Rock Cleveland, where I found the very exciting news that the new Black Angels album, Directions to See a Ghost, will be available (…)
New Raconteurs album… meh
by Pete on March 27, 2008
I just went to Amazon’s MP3 store to get the new Raconteurs album. Fortunately, I listened to the previews first. Holy crap does this sound like an uninspired record. It’s a shame, as Broken Boy Soldiers was quite good. This (…)
Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV
by Pete on March 3, 2008
Seemingly out of nowhere, Trent Reznor has released a new instrumental album. 2007′s Year Zero was surprisingly good, coming as it did after a long dry-spell. Throughout the late Nineties and early 2000′s, Reznor seemed tired and devoid of new (…)
Vampire Weekend – S/T
by Pete on February 6, 2008
I mentioned via Twitter last week that the new Vampire Weekend album is either really good or really bad. I had just gotten the album, and listening to it for the first time, my thought was that over time, some (…)