Once is a great musical film, and despite it’s fictional nature, it feels like this is how music should be made. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová have a great on-screen presence, and their collaborate music is fantastic and haunting. Almost every song is memorable, but here are few to get you [...]

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Disclaimer: I have 3 ipods, 1 Mac Powerbook (Leopard), 3 laptops running XP.
A few weeks ago I gambled and purchased a brown zune for $80 from my favorite etailer, woot.com. 30 gigs, wifi, FM tuner. The new Zunes are out, so I guess the current retail channel needed some liquidating.
On Nov 13th, Microsoft [...]

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Just a few new songs wandering around my ipod these days. Beirut does a wonderful job of blending styles reminiscent the smiths, sufjan stevens, and the stranglers. Elephant Gun, Scenic World, Nantes, and Transatlantic are among my favorites.
Alas, Elephant Gun:

Jamie Lidell’s, “Multiply” is also a smooth cut.

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Another youtubes phenom, Ronald Jenkees is dropping some serious beats and hooks via youtube on his keyboard. With NBC and News Corp working on a 100 million dollar youtube killer, you’ve got to love the internet. A little creativity, some basic editing tools, and the self-publishing model goes a long way.His [...]

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