Archive for February, 2006

Brokenpod.com

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

The site description for Brokenpod.com pretty much says it all:

Brokenpod.com wants to buy your broken iPods today! We don’t care if the screens are cracked, hard drive is dead, battery has died–we still want to give you cash for your broken iPods. We will evaluate your broken iPod and offer you our best price on […]

Daily Tracks for February 21st

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Daily tracks are back. Yay!

Starlight Mints: Inside of Me
Rocky Votolato: White Daisy Passing
The Finches: The Road
More From These Bands at:
The Finches and Barsuk Records
[update]
My apologies to anyone who got one of those MP3s as an enclosure. I recently upgraded to WP 2.0 and forgot to break it so that it doesn’t automatically make mp3 links […]

Cool musicians who blog: BeatnikPad Journal

Monday, February 20th, 2006

[edit]I didn’t notice at first that this goes all the way back to October of last year. It’s still a great list, though, and well worth checking out.[/edit]
Neil Lee at BeatnikPad Journal has a great list of “cool musicians who blog” going.
This will surely doom my NetNewsWire which already takes, like, a million years to […]

Podcast #10

Monday, February 20th, 2006

A little under the weather today, but the music is great. Check out Dressy Bessy, Tomihira, Scout Nibblet, Telephone, and a whole lot more.

Pandora

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Have you played with Pandora.com? If you like exploring new music, you really should.
The idea is that you enter a band name that you like, and they play a song that “exemplifies” that band’s style. You tell them whether you like it or not and they play more music based on your likes and dislikes. […]

Review: CocoRosie - Noah’s Ark

Friday, February 17th, 2006

I just got CocoRosie’s last album, Noah’s Ark, and can’t recommend it highly enough. Seriously. Wow.
Before reviewing, though, I feel like I need to “explain” CocoRosie, because they are definitely not for the uninitiated (and as you can see by the album cover for Noah’s Ark, not for the naive or easily shocked). Of course, […]

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