Does digital signify the end of formats altogether? In a way, I think it does. Now that music and movies are reduced to downloadable files with no physical necessity, we can return to the mediums we really prefer, like vinyl. Today I was record browsing in Criminal Records and a young girl asks me if I’ll answer some questions about my habit for some magazine. It’s the standard stuff, why vinyl, do you have an ipod, etc. and I forget to explain my new investment strategy of dump the 401k and whatever bad market indexing scheme you have going on (managed or not) and invest in good ol’ vinyl. Because with anything limited edition you are going to double your money in a few months. Look at LPs on Ebay and see what I mean. Now that we have eliminated the problem of electronic media, we can get back to enjoying it how we truly prefer. LP or 8-track? Sure the downloads and the ipod work for most things. But don’t bitch to me about piracy when I’ve just spent $100 on metal records.
Dude, if you haven’t checked out the latest Mastodon masterpiece, Crack the Skye, then you needs to get a checkin’…this shit is EPIC. If you don’t like metal than beat it, pussy. (Apologies for the MTV embed with 15 sec commercial, couldn’t find it without.)
One would think that shiny interwebs technology would have created a revolution in event calendaring technology to some degree. But even with sites like upcoming.org, so many clubs (most!) fail to offer their show listings as some sort of subscribable feed, even something as simple as an RSS feed on their website. 529, the latest greatest addition to the EATL club scene has a website with just what you need: a google calendar feed of events. Why all clubs don’t do this is beyond me. It’s called facilitating business. Help me get to your club to see music and drink drinks. Help me help you make money!
Happy Ash Wednesday. Money quote, “You don’t perform black metal if you are not a warrior.” And dig the complete 2 minutes of awkward black metal affected silence at the end. -Hugs, Satan.
I walk into Lowes today to obtain materials with which to wage massive war upon the squirrel population living in my attic, and these two little girls are sitting in the entrance rapping a song in tandem. I hear Obama and McCain mentioned. I ask them what it’s all about and they went on about their school doing it and being on the Today Show or Good Morning America or some such thing. This is the video for it. Seeing the full production I am speechless.
The Corna. Who knew? Can the Italians shed some light on this please? Personal histories, anecdotes, etc., anything involving anyone in the Dio family and their relationship with the Moloch would be appreciated.
Some Rein Sanction finally made its way to the youtubes. If you missed this band in the early 90s, which wouldn’t have been that difficult, you nevertheless missed something. Only two short albums for subpop and then one of them jumped out of a car or something. There were always the craziest stories with these guys. I had Mariposa stuck in my Subaru’s cassette player for like 8 months. I didn’t really get sick of it. What other recording holds up that well?
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