Monthly Archives: March 2008

Ghostland Observatory — Robotique Majestique (2008)

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.

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.