The a capella group Duwende has made their recent album “Collective” available for free download. I’m still working my way through the disc, but the four tracks I’ve heard are certainly worth the time if you like original a capella or pop music. (Found via Acapodcast episode #42) Tags: a capella, album, download, free, Music, [...]

I’ve always found sense memories to be terribly interesting phenomena. My most intense sense memory involves the texture and flavor of pancakes with butter and apricot syrup at a Perkins somewhere near what I think was Omaha when I was somewhere around the age of 7ish. I think we were coming home from a funeral [...]

At this point I think the inherent advantage of acquiring recorded music solely through the means of traveling to a brick and mortar storefront, perusing the incredibly over complicated system to locate likely albums that I might like to purchase, physically bringing the stack of shiny plastic to the cashier with my own hands and [...]

They Might Be Giants are touring in support of their new, very good, album “The Else” and will be in Minneapolis on September 19th at First Ave. (Which is a Monday and the TBA opening act starts at 9PM so likely to be a pretty late night) Anyone want to go? Tags: album

FYI – If you install Adobe Reader 8.1 from the Adobe website, it will automagically install “Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition” without prompting to accept. If I wanted the software, I would have asked to download and install it. Assholes like this give people like me a bad name. Tags: album

As a birthday present for my sister this year I got tickets for her and I to go see the Barenaked Ladies play at the Xcel Center in St Paul last night. The show was pretty good, though I have to admit that I was a bit more excited about (and happy at the performance [...]

Further issues with the Zune software: No dynamic play lists. While I occasionally will listen to a particular album or artist, my primary method of listening to music is a modified shuffle of the entire library, slightly culled by dropping any tracks that I’ve played in the last 1-3 weeks (My full library at home [...]

I just finished my third listen through of the new live album from Mama Digdown’s Brass Band, titled “Ascona”. I think my only complaint with the album is that it is kind of front loaded. I usually don’t have quite this much trouble remembering what I just heard after the middle of the album when I [...]

I’m playing with a new music social network web toy right now called Qloud. It’s very similar to Last.fm which I have been playing with for a couple of years now, but in some ways the service might have a better outlook. So far the service is pretty rough. Searching from the main page can [...]

[Listening to: Magoo by Drums and Tuba from the album Mostly Ape] I don’t think I’ve posted recently about how much I like the band Drums and Tuba. I’m reminded of it since the track Magoo from the album Mostly Ape came up in my usual shuffle mode listening. Finding myself typing in time to [...]