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Several weeks ago Z pointed Church and I to an article over at Something Awful, titled The 8 Most Awful Minorities. Specifically, this page which talks about nerdcore.
To quote,
The genre amounts to a bunch of people aping that MC Hawking joke site from like 1998, but that hasn’t stopped Internet losers from falling head [...]

Red Shipley has passed.
Don’t know who Red Shipley is? Then you don’t live in the DC area or central VA. And if you do, then you’re not a fan of old time country or bluegrass.
Shipley was the host of Stained Glass Bluegrass a show devoted to gospel country/bluegrass music, that ran on the [...]

Truth be told, I’m working on an idea. I’ve talked to a few folks about it and people seem to like it. I expect to have something up next week and I’ll go into it then. And yes, this one will happen. I’ve asked both Z and Church to give me [...]

An interesting profile of Rick Rubin in the New York Times can be found here.
The article gets into various things about Rubin’s life, but is largely about his new role as co-head of Columbia Records. For someone who has been involved in creating so much great music, it is interesting to see that, to [...]

So I was having a decent day today. Nothing amazing. I had a project at work that I was expecting to take hours, that only took about five minutes. Then there’s the saga that is Church’s new found internet celebrity status (more on that later). It was a decent day.
Then Karl [...]

So I’m trying to clean out my bloglines account of all the various posts that I’ve saved for later. I did an initial hack and slash earlier today and got rid of most of it, but I saved a couple of posts that I really wanted to mention, so here they are,
First up, we [...]

Last week I was in Borders and picked up a copy of Bertrand Russell’s The History of Western Philosophy. For those unfamiliar with the book, it is possibly the most widely read introduction to western philosophy in print. I started reading the book yesterday and came across the below quote in an early [...]

Wrock artist, Roonil Wazlib posted an interesting entry on her blog questioning the proliferation of Wrock songs on myspace that are not set up to be downloaded. The resulting discussion has proven to be pretty interesting.
I’ve already talked about my feelings on the issue near the end of this post. There was a [...]

Artist: Jawbreaker
Song: Tour Song
Album: Bivouac
(lyrics)
Last week Shael Riley started a thread over on Rhymetorrents asking for financial advice from mc chris. The thread eventually dissolved into the typical stupid infighting bullshit that plagues Rhymetorrents, so I didn’t bother reading all of it, but the idea did stick in my head. [...]

Jesse Jarnow posted an old review today that was never published by the magazine he’d sent it to. The review is of the Dave Matthews Band performance in Central Park a couple of years ago. As I was reading it I was struck by the following quote about the fans who were waiting [...]