Category Archives: music

Album Review – The Shins – Oh, Inverted World

Posted on November 18, 2004 by tjm

Four Stars It is with great pleasure that I fire the opening salvo in amateur hour at the music reviews with a review of The Shins debut album, Oh, Inverted World. Fueled by the hype they received from their inclusion … Continue reading →

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new category

Posted on November 16, 2004 by bturnip

it’s Newspaper Taxi, without the credentials Continue reading →

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John Peel Joins Jacques Derrida In The Afterlife

Posted on October 26, 2004 by tjm

John Peel, of Peel Sessions fame, has kicked the proverbial bucket. This is a fairly interesting article about him: John Peel Dies. No time to elaborate, but does anyone have any old Peel Session cds floating around?

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U2 receives stolen goods

Posted on October 22, 2004 by bturnip

You guys remember how the lyrics to U2’s ‘October’ album were supposedly* stolen and the songs had to be rewritten, etc? Yahoo has a story how Bono has just had long lost lyrics returned link * well, I guess this … Continue reading →

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Guitar Strings

Posted on October 16, 2004 by tjm

What kind of strings do you use for both electric and acoustic and what do you see as their merits? I’ve bounced around a lot. I always liked the Blue Steel pretty well for the electric, but I don’t even … Continue reading →

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musical offerings

Posted on October 11, 2004 by bturnip

So you wanna be in a rock-n-roll band? Continue reading →

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I love radioio

Posted on October 8, 2004 by bturnip

You may be tired of hearing it, but radioio is kicking out the jams….. Continue reading →

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Oddio Overplay

Posted on September 26, 2004 by bturnip

Oddio Overplay is Odd Audio. That isn’t their logo, as far as I know, but it could be. Perhaps it should be Odd and Wonderful Audio. I was tipped to this website by a blog I like to read: boing … Continue reading →

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Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind

Posted on September 13, 2004 by tjm

Adding a post based on a discussion Greg and I are having in regards to the Dylan song below and the one by Leonard Cohen in which he reminisces “I don’t mean to suggest that I loved you the best. … Continue reading →

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