Thanks to naohai for the extra DJ Krush ticket, and thanks to tinkerbell_mk for insisting that I take it instead of her. It was a fantastic set ( Read more... )

Like a number of people reading this, I was challenged semi-recently by foxtrotxray to cram a CD full of as many mp3s as I could of the music I considered to be the Best Music Ever, however I chose to define "best ( Read more... )

You know what's really nice ( Read more... )

How did I go so long without hearing this band? I mean, all the references seem to be a little ham-handed, but fuck it, this is awesome.

(stolen from zenithStep 1:Put your iTunes/MP3 player on random ( Read more... )

There's an interesting post today in DJ /rupture's blog (Mudd Up!) about a situation he's found himself in over rights to a sample. From the blog:

"Clearing tracks for my new mixtape, I asked one label (let's call em Label X) for permission, offering them the same conditions as everybody else. They refused. A few weeks later, digging in England I ( Read more... )

I love putting my music on shuffle, just because of weird little transitions from completely dissimilar songs. Case in point: I just went from listening to a track from Autechre's Confield into LL Cool J "Big Ole Butt"

I love life.

In addition to being the day when the Supreme Court went straight to hell in a handbasket, it is also the day that the Coachella lineup and the Oscar nominations were announced.

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I was going to make a serious political post, but I'm kind of high so instead you're getting a completely random series of updates, with boldface accents on the famous and not-so-famous names in the somewhat annoying manner of Page Six:

* About 10:00pm last night (January 26), I was looking at Pitchfork posts on my RSS reader, and I saw that Blixa ( Read more... )

What time is it, boys and girls?

Why, it's Coachella Speculation Time!The dates have been announced as April 29th and 30th, so of course everyone's running around tha intarwebs looking for conspicuous holes in people's tour schedules that would dump them in Southern California the last weekend in April ( Read more... )