Certainly G.O. makes better music that is less dividing to music listeners, but the duo’s third album Robotique Majestique surprisingly feels alienating, split into a love it or hate it attitude.
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Top 5: Baseball’s Best Players (Non-Pitchers)
There are more, but Day One makes the entire previous offseason erasable. It’s fun to debate who the best players are because generally no one can really agree. There are certain players who are absolute locks to be on every list, but their list placements are never assured.
WordPress 2.5… AT LAST
The great folks at Wordpress have at long last released version 2.5! It’s been a long time coming, and many people have been waiting as long as I have.
Top 5: Ways the Music Industry Can Save Itself
If you really think about, the whole situation with the music industry is quite tragic. Not because record labels lose money (I could care less about records labels and the music executives who don’t know how to run them) or because artists lose money (I’m sometimes really indifferent to them), but really because music isn’t truly experienced any more.
The Bird And The Bee — One Too Many Hearts EP (2008)
Los Angeles indie duo The Bird And The Bee sure does like making music, releasing its second EP One Too Many Hearts after having already released the EP Please Clap Your Hands mere months after the band’s self-titled debut album hit the store shelves. The band (Inara “Bird” George — vocals, Greg “Bee” Kurstin — producer, guitar) just has too much creativity, although this latest release did have something to do with a little holiday called Valentine’s Day.
Midnight Movies — Nights EP (2008)
Midnight Movies (Gene Olivier, vocals; Larry Schemel, guitar; Ryan Wood, bass; and Sandra Vu, drums) finally recorded their French version of Moody Blues’ “Nights In White Satin” due to tremendous popular demand. What used to be only available live at their concerts, is now included on the band’s Nights EP, which is sort of a companion to last year’s sophomore album Lion The Girl.
Recent D&L Stats + Stereogum + Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival
I try not to get caught up in all of these analytics stuff with regard to web stats and such. A lot of the time, that kind of talk is just gratification for how much traffic some sites get. For a smaller site like D&L, though it is interesting to see and track growth.