In L.A. tonight? Check out Foreign Keys at Spaceland (8:30pm). I managed to infiltrate their super secret underground practice lair earlier this week:
Sorry for the poor RAZR picture quality (iPhone 2.0 where are you?).
Foreign Keys is Ryan, Anh, Aidan, KangMin, and Micah.
Remember high school circa the early 90s? I do, and the best way to say “I love you” was to painstakingly craft a mix tape Lloyd Dobler style.
Now that we all have 100s of internet friends we need a new internet mixtape. Enter Muxtape: the web startup I’m most jealous of. Jealous because of its [...]
The Passions’ I’m in Love with a German Film Star (via Coding Horror):
By law I can’t link to Top of the Pops footage without also linking to Morrissey with foliage sticking out of his butt:
* Unless you’ve heard the Foo Fighters version, or you’ve logged more hours watching VHS tapes of 80’s videos than [...]
This Week in Tech did a great interview with Jonathan Coulton. He talks at length about how he built a successful career as an independent musician by using the internet to serve a niche of dedicated fans.
Coulton also talks about his former life as a programmer and how he always longed to do music for [...]
For your Valentine’s Day listening pleasure I present “Great moments in hot Scottish rock chick history”.
Anything by Camera Obscura (1996-present):
See also: Lloyd I’m Ready to be Heartbroken, Keep it Clean, Tears for Affairs, If Looks Could Kill. I am such a sucker for melancholic indie folk pop.
Clare Grogan in Don’t Talk to Me About Love [...]
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