I’m sure for many people, this is a no-brainer, but having helped a minimum of three of my music collecting friends with this issue - who sadly had already encoded significant portions of their library - I consider it a public service of sorts to spell out with some detail how to get itunes to [...]

If you are like me, your first exposure to Jamiroquai may have been something along the lines of ‘WTF with the crazy buffalo hat’? Other acceptable associations are: ‘nice voice’, ‘wow, my chick really loves this album’ and ’sounds like disco’. As Jamiroquai grew on me, I think the initial phase of my acceptance was [...]

I first purchased the BulletBoys self-titled debut on cassette when I was in middle school - this was just prior to me getting into Depeche Mode and New Order (via 101 and Substance respectively). Indeed, what a beautiful swan song for my teenage buttrock/hair-metal days. I always loved this album from start to finish, it’s [...]

A few years back I noticed a startling similarity between “Hanging on the Telephone” by Blondie and “No Action” by Elvis Costello. The first time I noticed this, it seemed like the two songs were having a conversation with each other… Debbie Harry pleading: I’m in the phone booth, it’s the one across the hall If you [...]

Just signed up for my technorati profile and filled out the forms for the exhaustive mp3 aggregators thehypemachine and elbo.ws so let’s get this party started. I’ve got plenty of exclusive music to post. . . Bookmark to:

One of the handful of reasons I wanted to start a widely syndicated, well regarded and generally impromptu kegger party of a blog was to have an outlet for the occasional bootleg I tend to maneuver. Frequently I team up with my partner RareMatthew on these endeavors. . .thus making the original title of this [...]

Periodically I like to shuffle through the used bins at Amoeba in a complete hypnotic trance. During my last visit I found this gem. If you didn’t hit the link, discogs says: “This CD was released as a gift at Gsus first store in Amsterdam (Holland). Limited to 1000 copies.” Hot damn, I guess it’s [...]

Ahh chiptunes… My inner 8th grade geek (circa 1988 or so) is screaming at me to write a detailed account of the significance of this track but I don’t think it would enhance 99.76% of most people’s enjoyment of it. Pretend its some obscure Pink Floyd meets Tangerine Dream or something, do a bong hit [...]

TICS0101 on Adjunct Records is now available featuring the anthem 'Lonley Payback'. The entire 12" is a healthy slab of techno, not to be missed...