Reflections on Musical Gluttony
According to a recent Seattle Weekly article, in November Google VP Sukhinder Singh Cassidy "predicted that by the year 2015, a storage device the size of an iPod will be able to hold 4 terabytes. In seven years, every song ever recorded in the world will fit in our pockets." Now, this doesn't say "and that will totally be an affordable device for the typical consumer," but then again, it's also possible that we're going to be all Shadowrun-ned up with chips in our head. For perspective, keep in mind that blogs as a phenomenon (rather than just a sort of niche market) didn't exist seven years ago. The article goes on to talk about a few things, such as: --having a ton of choice leads to being dissatisfied (sort of a grass is greener approach -- if you could torrent a new yard) --this glut will lead to a transition from actively choosing to just picking from what's readily available, and --this leads to an over-reliance on filters (top 40 lists, trusted music sites, social network sites) to give leads on what to choose (or pick). The writer even astutely notes, "I now find myself getting bored, even in the middle of songs, because I can." What's really intriguing for me, though, is this idea that too much choice still means too much.
Thirty ain't lookin' so bad
There are many shows coming up in my life, and today I found out that Iron & Wine (well, just Sam Beam) is playing at Wheaton College the night I fly in to Chicago. For those keeping track at home: feb 15 iron & wine (wheaton, il) feb 16 wilco (chicago) feb 17 is my 30th birthday wtf feb 18 st. vincent (back in portland) feb 19 mountain goats album and vampire weekend vinyl are released feb 25 mountain goats feb 26 mountain goats mar 25 vampire weekend (my new band crush) Helluva time for music.
The Same Blocked Intersection
I told myself that I wouldn't do "those dashed off quick entries" around here, but then the Mountain Goats put out a video for their new single and it was awesome and here it is and you should watch it full screen because seriously, guys, wow.
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Other People's Words, 22 Jan 2008
Holy crap, biggest news around here (to me) : Casey Dienel shall now be known as White Hinterland. New album out March 4th. [via]
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Sean Michaels reviews-via-short-story at Said the Gramophone. Great song, too.
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Andrew Gilstrap (of Popmatters) just got his childhood record collection back (scroll down to Jan 8, 2008)****
Timedoor brings us the songs of former Packer/Eagles great/bigot Reggie White.
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Last month, Trash Audio talked to The Depreciation Guild about their process their use of a Famicom in their music.
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