Monthly Archives: April 2008

links for 2008-04-30

Spiritualized and Mark Farrow Interview with Jason Pierce and Mark Farrow on the design of Spiritualized’s recent album covers. (tags: design music spiritualized)

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Muxtaping

After reading enough about Muxtape and the growing ILM thread on it I finally checked it out. Not bad at all actually and it’s a good way to investigate a lot of music in a hurry. It’s worth your time … Continue reading

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links for 2008-04-17

Up and Then Down: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker The mass psychology of designing and engineering building elevator systems. Plus the guy who was stuck in an elevator for 45 hours (tags: architecture building engineering) RIGZONE – Your Gateway … Continue reading

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24 or so Flickrs per second

Going against the tide of Flickr curmedgeons, here’s some Flickr video from the QC archives: Alkali flies on the ground at Mono Lake. They don’t bite at all, but it’s unnerving walking around them and seeing them flee and reorient … Continue reading

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Stars Of The Lid

Stars Of The Lid are touring the US right now, and if the Echoplex show was any indication you would be well served to check it out. And Their Refinement Of The Decline was on my 2007 top ten and … Continue reading

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links for 2008-04-10

FrontDeskTip.com – Your First Bet should be at Hotel Check-in Reporting on the $20 room upgrade trick at Vegas hotels (tags: hotel nevada las.vegas travel)

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Cars In Barns revisited

It’s one of those modern myths you always hear rumors about but never really see in action. Someone has a Les Paul goldtop hidden under a bed for forty years or there’s an old barn out back that has a … Continue reading

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DrugMusic podcast

ExDetectives are on yesterday’s DrugMusic podcast. (RSS link)

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Klaus Dinger

R.I.P. Ned says it much better than I can. I recall that my first real exposure to Neu! was from one of those KUCI cassette tapes.

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