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My Top 10 Songs of 2022
Not to turn this into a music-only blog, but I've been looking through my year in music
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Listen to Voxtrot Today
I was in college in the mid-2000s, and one of the bands that really grabbed me was Voxtrot. They
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I'm Trying Spotify Again and It's Not Going Well
Every once in a while I'll hear someone say how much they love Spotify and that Apple Music
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I Turned Off Spatial Audio (but it’s okay if you love it)
After a bit over a month with Spatial Audio in Apple Music, I turned it off on my iPhone and I’m happier for it. Some songs sounded pretty good, while others sounded terrible, but something I noticed whenever doing side-by-side comparisons was that I never, and I mean never, liked the spatial
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Apple Music Wrapped?
I got an email from Spotify this weekend asking me to resubscribe for a significant discount. This comes just days
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8 Hours of Animal Cross New Horizons for Your Daily Grind
Ok, so let’s all agree not to make this post reach too far and wide and let the powers
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Iovine on the Music Business Going Into 2020
Jimmy Iovine Knows Music and Tech. Here’s Why He’s Worried. - The New York Times
And the streaming music services are utilities — they’re all the same. Look at what’s working in video. Disney has nothing but original stuff. Netflix has tons of original stuff. But the music streaming services are all the
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A Random Alt/Indie Playlist
This isn’t a music blog by any means, but this tweet got me thinking about my favorite indie and alternative music recently and this playlist is the result. I hope you like it!
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My 10 Favorite Albums of the Decade
It’s the end of the decade and I love lists, so today I’m starting a series of lists about my favorite things. Today we’re looking at my favorite albums of the past 10 years. What I learned more than anything with making this list is that 2010 and 2011 were more amazing
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Target and Best Buy are Shifting Away from CDs
Best Buy to Pull CDs, Target Threatens to Pay Labels for CDs Only When Customers Buy Them | Billboard
[S]ources say that Target has demanded to music suppliers that it wants to be sold on what amounts to a consignment basis. Currently, Target takes the inventory risk by agreeing to pay for any goods it
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My HomePod Testing Playlist
I’m getting a HomePod in just over a week and I thought I’d share the playlist I’ll be using to test it. These are all songs I love and songs that I think have really good production values that will make the HomePod prove its prowess.
Feel free to recommend your own
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My Favorite Albums of 2017
I’m not a music expert, but I do pride myself in having relatively good taste in music. As I get further and further away from my college years, I find it harder and harder to keep branching out to new and exciting music, but I’m doing my best to stay young at heart
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3 Great Early 2016 Albums
Blue Wave by Operators
Dan Boeckner is one of my favorite individual musicians working today. Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, and Divine Fits is a pretty damn impressive resume, and his latest project Operators, is every bit as amazing as I hoped it would be.
Holy Ghost by Modern Baseball
I had no idea who these
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Spotify is Worthless If You Own Music
Paul Thurrott1 wrote a piece yesterday about how woefully inadequate Spotify is for people like him who want to bring their personal music collection with them.
Spotify, alas, does not provide this feature. I’m actually quite surprised by this, given how popular it is, and initially assumed I was missing something. But no: Spotify
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A Simple Way to Make Following on Apple Music Way More Useful
The Rural Alberta Advantage is one of my favorite bands, and I just realized yesterday that I was not following them on Apple Music. I tapped the Follow button because that's what you do for bands you like, but I realized that this was a completely empty gesture.
See, following someone on Apple
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Modern Classic: Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team
The Go! Team made a bit of a splash in the indie music scene in the mid 2000s. They were a part of the mini British invasion of that decade, along with bands like Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, The Kooks, The Fratellis, and Franz Ferdinand, and their debut album, Thunder, Lighting, Strike is one of
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Not Even Kanye Can Save Tidal
You can't say Kanye doesn't try to help his friends. When his new album, The Life of Pablo was released 2 weeks ago...and you probably torrented it. And who could blame you? After a few fits and stops, the album was only available to stream on Tidal. Besides, you were
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The Case for Artists Selling, Not Streaming Music
It was announced at the eleventh hour that Adele's new record, 25 will not be available on any streaming service for at least a little while. What this means for people like me and basically everyone under 30 is that it won't magically show up in your music app and be