August 2006

August 30, 2006
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record war.

August 22, 2006

I see that Carl over at the Impostume has taken on my challenge to do the ultra-cheap-record-shopping thing, and we have a bit of a rivalry going on at the moment. He’s put up a valiant effort thus far, with some great one and two-quid finds. But I have to say I have the edge [...]

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August 17, 2006

Short feature by me today on The Associated Press’ asap wire: here.

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August 15, 2006

Best blog of the moment? There are several contenders, but I’d have to say my current favorite is a chemistry blog called Tender Button, by Dylan Stiles, a former classmate of mine at MIT. If anything makes me miss working in labs, it’s this.

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August 10, 2006

THREE DOLLAR RECORDS In my world, three dollar records are a serious splurge. But I made an exception for these two exceptional pieces of late-period post-punk: The Art of Noise – Close-Up [ZTT, 1984] Someone who knows more about the history of this 12″ (paging Blissblog) would probably know how many different iterations there were. [...]

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August 9, 2006

Where am I? I’m not really sure. All I know is that I’m heading to California. On Friday, I’ll be in a parking lot somewhere in San Jose, covering a rare appearance by the fearsome robot wrecking-crew Survival Research Laboratories. In (slightly) related news, there’s an article by me in the Voice art section this [...]

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August 9, 2006

Cassy’s Panoramabar 01: The best “minimal” mix of the year so far, in my opinion, and an auspicious beginning to Panoramabar’s new series of mix-CDs (take that, Fabric!) Go walk around on a warm summer night while listening to this on a pair of headphones. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

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August 2, 2006
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