As I get into heavy software coding at work, I like to go through older tracks in my library. It's given me a chance to dig up tracks from when I started MP3 hunting. One unusual find from Epitonic was Optiganally Yours. An Optigan is an analog organ that plays an optical disc with one or more instruments on each track. It's similar to a mellotron, but was mass produced for home use.Musicia...
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Before MOG and Paperthinwalls and Betterpropaganda and several dozen MP3 blogs where you could find new artists, a brave little site in Chicago called Epitonic hosted a slew of independent artists. I think I started downloading tracks from Epitonic eight or nine years ago (yes kids, there was an Interweb back then). Epitonic had a slew of labels including Matador and Kill Rock Stars. As I was b
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Originally, I wasn't going to make the trek up to Charlottesville to see Vashti Bunyan, but a friend in need reminded me that Ms. Bunyan might not be back again for a while so we made the drive up to Charlottesville from Richmond.The opener was Meredith Bragg - a songwriter from Central Virginia. Most of his set was just okay, but he did end with a very nice song in 3/4 time. I'm a sucker for wa
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admit that I'm a procrastinator. I was late driving up to DC, late hopping onto the metro to get to the club and now I'm late writing up this post.I didn't get to the Black Cat until Joanna Newsom took the stage - I pushed through the swinging doors at the back of the club to a round of applause...for Newsom of course, not me. For her first song, Newsom played a traditional Scottish song. While br
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Clark and I were hoping to party with the delegates from Panama. It was the last night of the Model U.N. and my high school was "representing" Mali. Clark and I had met some very attractive female delegates from Panama who had a case of Budweiser and were pretty sure their chaperones would be otherwise occupied. So, we took the elevator up to their floor and knocked on their door. Instead of
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I was going to post something about this show, when I realized that NPR has the whole thing recorded with photos on "their site":http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6424079 However, I'll add my $0.02..I really like the Black Angels debut and they delivered an abundance of psychedlic drone for the masses. The crowd was pretty full by the time they started so I hope they won some
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Wednesday night, I made the trek up from Richmond with a couple of other music fans and saw the best set that I've seen all year. Period. America, when will you come to your senses and realize that you're crazy about Love Is All?Love Is All was not the headliner for the show (Tilly and the Wall had the top slot on the bill). However, these five Swedes came out and immediately kicked into Talk T
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I sometimes get surprised by a show and this one definitely turned my expectatioins upside down.The last time I saw Portastatic, Mac brought a regular rock line up with him. However, Portastatic opened up with just Mac on acoustic guitar and multi-instrumentalist Margaret White. I like this line up better since it let the quieter songs get some space. Also, some of the older rockers - White ...
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