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Cabaret and a Toupée

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The internet isn't that mad...I hope

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From this NY Times article: “It’s as if culture froze just before it became digitally open, and all we can do now is mine the past like salvagers picking over a garbage dump,” Mr. Lanier writes. Or, to use another of his grim metaphors: “Creative people — the new peasants — come to resemble animals converging ...

My favorite mashups

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Sadly this one awesome mashup of a DMX music video with the Ghostbusters theme replacing the instrumentals has been taken down, so the list in one vid shorter because of that. But anyway, enjoy: Does that last one count as a Rickroll?

No need to learn. Scott Wilder's Learning To Love in review.

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Scott Wilder is a tech geek and involved Christian who also happens to be a fairly talented musician. His album, Learning To Love is a six track journey into Scott's view of the world, his hopes for the future and betterment of the world. Learning To Love has an amateur, raw feel to it, which can ...

When ambient becomes drone: A mini-review of Scott Byrnes's Aegri Somnia

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Browsing through the music subreddit, I came across this post. An ambient musician by the name of Scott Byrnes has just released a new album titled Aegri Somnia. The full album is available on his page http://scott-byrnes.com/ for free. It's published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. What this means is you ...

Has Pandora changed my musical tastes?

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A very emphatic yes! In fact, I should mention that one of the bands recommended by Pandora's twitter account, Beats Antique, helped me find a lot more such bands through Pandora than I could have just using Ravi Shankar and his similar artists to populate stations. Pandora has helped me expand my tastes from a simple ...