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December 20 to 31, 2005
The Black Keys make some great lo-fi blues rock. Some say they're better than the White Stripes: http://www.fatpossum.com/
album
s/80379.htm...
April 11 to 17, 2005
I get some traffic to this site from people looking for information on Devendra Banhart. Here's a great beginner's overview of "freak folk", with information on artists,
album
s, influences, and musi...
April 4 to 10, 2005
The neo-psychedelic art of Shawn Wolfe: http://www.shawnwolfe.com/gallery/view_
album
.php?set_
album
Name=ShawnWolfeStudi...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
More wacky, unusual
album
covers...
March 21 to 27, 2005
And here's a review of the
album
that "Sixteen Military Wives" appears on. I'm continually impressed by the quality of reviews at Pitchfork, clearly written by people that know and love music...
A lot of people commented this week on Tom Waits' top 20
album
s of all time, a great list worth hearing. Why isn't there an iTunes Music Store playlist of this stuff...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Cropless circles, made on sand: http://www.phidelity.com/cms2/index.php?set_
album
Name=2005&option=com_gallery&Itemid=72&include=view_
album
.ph...
March 7 to 13, 2005
It's likely that Axl Rose's next
album
, which has been in the works for 10 years at a cost of over $13 million, is the most expensive
album
ever made...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Continuing iPod Phenomenon http://shuffle.servepics.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?
album
=12&page=...
The first Grammy winner in the Best Hawaiian Music
album
category, "Slack Key Guitar Volume 2", hit number one on Billboard's World Music chart and number two on the New Age chart. If you buy it, kee...
February 14 to 20, 2005
Lots of retro
album
cover designs here at the Mod Pop Punk archives...
Jazz composer Maric Schneider is likely the first artist ever to win a Grammy for an
album
that was solely distributed on the Web...
February 7 to 13, 2005
Recording an
album
? Here's how to make an inexpensive yet powerful music studio out of your Mac mini...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
Yet even more bad
album
covers - here's a top ten list...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
January 1 to 9, 2005
To the comedy
album
"Sour Cream & Other Delights" (1966)...
Pitchfork's top 50
album
s of 2004...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The band Wilco had so much success with giving away their first
album
online, they've done it with their second. Here's an enlightening interview...
October 25 to 31, 2004
Eminem's "Mosh" music video - could it be one of the "most overtly political pop videos ever produced?" Note that Eminem has sold over 25 million
album
s...
The rock band Marillion asked online fans to contribute money towards new
album
s - and has raised almost $1 million so far...
September 20 to 26, 2004
A new business model for artists! Green Day sells blank recordable CD-Rs with
album
designs...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Over 1,000 great (jazz)
album
covers...
August 22 to 29, 2004
The hauntingly beautiful songwriting and sounds of Jolie Holland, ex-Be Good Tanyas member. Her demo
album
was lauded as among the best of 2003...
The White Stripes' guitarist Jack White teamed up with Loretta Lynn to launch what some are calling the best
album
of her career - and it may change the sound of modern country towards alternative an...
August 8 to 14, 2004
In what may be a first, Warner Brothers encourages the distribution of online
album
tracks as part of a marketing campaign. Are they starting to get a clue...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Listen to the entire
album
here...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
A celebration of the 20th anniversary of Husker Du's revolutionary
album
"Zen Arcade"...
May 24 to 30, 2004
I forget if I posted this before - the worst
album
covers, volume 2! My favorite is "HAPPINESS"...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Volkswagen ball, from the Berkshire Botanical Garden. Sculpture by Lars-Erik Fisk: http://oblique.lcs.mit.edu/
album
/pics/Shellenbarger_Summer_2001/676x507/Volkswagen.jp...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Bad singing - it's in fashion again! William Hung is a plucky 21-year-old U.C. Berkeley engineering student who tried out for American Idol and was kicked off halfway through his audition. His firs...
March 22 to 28, 2004
Musician Kevin Shields created one of the most expensive, influential and highly praised
album
s of the last two decades - "Loveless". Here's his first interview in 12 years...
March 8 to 14, 2004
Elcodrive's debut
album
"Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS technology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not put forth any newfangled ideas in their release, which translates int...
A new sonic "construction set" has been released freely online which contains clips art and samples and breaks from the hip-hop artist Jay-Z. This allows people to create their own
album
s based o...
February 23 to 29, 2004
This has been pretty popular, but for those who don't know... DJ Danger Mouse released the critically acclaimed "The Grey
album
", a remix of rap vocals and the Beatles' White
album
. EMI demands a hal...
December 22 to 28, 2003
While browsing the Be Good Tanyas site, I noticed that their latest
album
was released with "Copy Control Technology" against their wishes...
December 8 to 14, 2003
Alexi has become popular on the strength of his self-made year-old 4-song
album
on cdbaby, two songs off which have already been featured on national TV shows. Many college/independent DJs and majo...
November 3 to 9, 2003
The Worst
album
Covers Eve...
August 12, 2003
As people begin their life as a captured stream of digital documents, we'll be seeing more of this. A great idea would be to create software that allows people to create lifelong free-form digita...