The 2011 Nully Awards: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of The Past Year’s Music
The Good: Epic Tales of Epic Epicness Award Florence and the Machine – Ceremonials Another big, brash, over-the-top album from Florence Welch and company. Big drums, lush orchestrations and arrangements, wailing vocals, but surprisingly much more cohesive and “album-like” than her debut. It holds together well, but still manages to have single material like “What [...]
Goodbye, Steve.
It was only appropriate that I found out about the death of Steve Jobs while checking the news on my iPhone, during a band practice where my Macbook Pro was triggering samples from Apple MainStage.
This might lead you to believe I’m some sort of an Apple fanboy. This isn’t strictly accurate. The fact is, I’m an Apple Fanboy the way I’m an Indoor Plumbing Fanboy – it’s simply something that’s been an omnipresent part of my life for so long that it almost doesn’t register anymore.
Code Monkey Make Blog Post
Internet Geek-rocker Jonathan Coulton (hereafter often referred to as “JoCo” because apparently neither he, his die-hard fans, nor I really enjoy repeatedly typing “Jonathan Coulton”) was recently interviewed by NPR’s “Planet Money” podcast/radio show, and he blogged about it. First, he kinda seemed a little hurt that they comapred him to a “snuggie” – you [...]
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