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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Racking Up Plays: “I Might” by Wilco
“Wow,” I literally said aloud upon hearing the first single leaked from Wilco’s upcoming eighth studio album, The Whole Love. “This song kinda kicks all kinds of ass.” Continue reading
Posted in Racking Up Plays
Tagged experimental rock, Racking Up Plays, The Whole Love, Wilco
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SONG DUEL!: “Drive” by The Cars vs. “Drive” by R.E.M.
Smack! Crack! Hey, kids, it’s a digital vs. analogue showdown between a quintessential ’80s synthpop ballad and an acoustic dirge that leant some gravitas to the alternative revolution. Continue reading
Venturing into “the cloud”: My continuing adventures with Google Music Beta
First off, I can’t stand the term “the cloud.” I suppose I understand the metaphor—that rather than having my digital files stored on a specific computer server, they’re just sort of floating out there somewhere in the wild blue Internet … Continue reading
Posted in Tech Junk
Tagged Amazon, Apple, cloud computing, getting technical, Google, how the singing music gets to your ears, iTunes, the cloud
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Halftime Report: My favorite 15 tracks of 2011 thus far
I realize I may need to turn in my official Snobby Blogger membership card, but the iTunes play-count function doesn’t lie. Continue reading
Posted in Halftime Report, Obligatory List-making
Tagged Adele, Amos Lee, Apex Manor, Atmosphere, Best Songs, Halftime Report, Lupe Fiasco, Middle Brother, mp3s, Noah and the Whale, Okkervil River, Rankstravaganza, Raphael Saadiq, Saigon, Shannon and the Clams, The Decemberists, The Downer Party, The Mountain Goats, Wye Oak
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The Annotated Decemberists No. 3: “My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist”
As related to Sean Nelson for a detailed article in the Seattle alt-weekly paper The Stranger, “My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist” was inspired by a particularly awful family canoe trip. Continue reading