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Quietus Mix 37: Adrian Sherwood's On-U Sound Radio by The Quietus on Mixcloud

Spring and summer in Portland have had shall we say, their vagaries, and yet there have been so many of those evenings recently where the sun doesn’t set until almost 10PM, that I’ve had lots of time to listen to some albums, old and new, via the trusty 21 year old boombox that accommodates my [...]

I can’t find any background detail to these graphs that might explain how the data was collected, but we can make some basic assumptions about the middle of the bell curve here. Namely that the introduction of the CD in 1984 created a false sales spike; we can assume that people who bought a CD [...]

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Meanwhile, U2′s The Edge was too busy fighting to destroy the Santa Monica Mountains
Why should ISPs be forced to do the dirty work of mega-rich artists like U2? The insinuation if taken to its logical extreme is that anyone with an Internet connection is downloading media illegally. How does he expect the ISPs to police [...]

I found this on Grantland and felt compelled to post it in full here. Klosterman understands that this was a mediocre night for Zeppelin but still gives them their due: “When is the last time you watched a band play this well, for this long, without even trying? How often are you able to see [...]

[Updated July 10]
What you see above is the Brian Eno double-vinyl, double-CD plus hardbound book and free MP3 downloads package that I ordered a couple of months ago from Bleep in the UK. All the above was only $54.00 plus shipping. I say only because I believe this package and the added value it brings [...]