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heyitsnoah: keithobrien: Apologies for not sourcing the...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:22:30 -0500

keithobrien:

Apologies for not sourcing the creator, but this just wins 2010, which, I remind you, has not even started yet.

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:14:00 -0500

maura: Sebadoh - Careful today’s jam

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:09:51 -0500

maura:

Sebadoh - Careful

today’s jam

Logo with Flare

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:02:00 -0500

heyitsnoah:

Client: I already know what I want for the logo. It’s a house, with a face, and it’s on wheels with an exhaust pipe coming out of the back which is shooting out smoke in the shape of dollar signs.

Via clientsfromhell, an excellent new Tumblr I’m now following. (BTW, I’d love to see this logo.)

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:25:40 -0500

The Free Model Works: Forest Fire's Survival is #9 in Rough Trade's "Top 10 of 2009"

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:13:09 -0500

Back in June 2008, we (as in Catbird Records) released Forest Fire’s Survival— as a FREE 320kbps download.

At the end of ‘08, it was named La Blogotheque’s “Album of the Year” (beating out something called Fleet Foxes by some band called Fleet Foxes).
In 2009, it was picked up for Europe by the venerable Talitres (home of the National, the Walkmen, and others).
Then it was picked up for the UK by Broken Sound Recordings.
Then, it got full US re-release treatment from Brooklyn’s Infinite Best Records.

And now, as I mentioned, it just cracked the Top 10 in Rough Trade’s 2009 Albums of the Year List (BTW, an album called Merriweather Post Pavilion made the list too— at #11).

So, I just want to take a moment to be totally sincere and say: I’m so proud to have been a part of making all this happen. It’s a long way to come for an album that started it’s life as a FREE download, and that, since the beginning, has been pretty largely ignored here in it’s home stateside. Congratulations, Forest Fire.

MP3: Forest Fire - “I Make Windows”

STREAM: Survival at Catbird Records

BUY CD/LP (US): at Infinite Best

BUY CD (EUR): at Talitres

BUY CD (UK): at Broken Sound / at Rough Trade (w/bonus CD)

via ep.yimg.com

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:13:28 -0500

via ep.yimg.com

Photoshop Question (?)

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:18:00 -0500

Have you EVER, at *ANY* point, actually WANTED Photoshop to “flatten layers” when you changed the image color mode?

Think about it for a second.

…

Yeah, that’s what I thought. So it kinda makes you wonder WHY THE FUCK you’ve had to click “Don’t Flatten” on that dialog like 2 billion times over the last 20 years.

Boston.Com / The Big Picture: Large Hadron Collider Ready To...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:56:00 -0500

Boston.Com / The Big Picture: Large Hadron Collider Ready To Restart This Weekend

Oh. Shit.

rickwebb: Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:28:50 -0500

rickwebb:

Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Pre-order here from 3PM GMT Monday November 23rd, 2009

newspeedwayboogie: “One great moment will always count as...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:32:24 -0500

newspeedwayboogie:

“One great moment will always count as success in my book.”

one good moment could last a lifetime

yancey:

This is a band from Brooklyn called Love Story. Earlier this year a friend gave me a CDR of their stuff, and this is the first song, called “Passerby.” It’s the most epic one minute, 44 second song I have ever heard, this big tumbling mess.

I went to their “record release show” at Hank’s Saloon in Brooklyn back in May, and it was atrocious in a refreshing way. They were playing for friends, clearly not giving a fuck about how they sounded or whether anyone liked it (they were happily drunk) and it all felt like they started a band because it seemed fun to start a band. There was no desire for career/listeners/anything, just some kids beating out some songs. And yeah, most of them were terrible but this one is genuinely great. One great moment will always count as success in my book.

yewknee: Flair - Truckers Delight Very NSFW but the 16-bit...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:18:26 -0500

yewknee:

Flair - Truckers Delight

Very NSFW but the 16-bit animation style and hilarious story are undeniable - despite content you wouldn’t watch with your stuffy boss. Reminds me of Kings of Power 4 Billion % in the best of ways.

Go download the new Daytrotter app for your iPhone!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:36 -0500

Go download the new Daytrotter app for your iPhone!

New Idea for a Site

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:35:00 -0500

It’s like Hot or Not, but it’s just pictures of breasts, and it’s called “Grade Us Tits” (say it out loud).

I have another idea based on Hot or Not, but it’s just pictures of anything, and it’s called “SICK,” “EPIC,” “KILLING IT,” “BADASS” OR “TAKING OVER THE WORLD” and you just choose which one of those five favorite youth phrases best describes the pic (b/c apparently all of them are applicable to just about everything these days).

davidenos: Terror Map

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:38:44 -0500

davidenos:

Terror Map

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Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:38:36 -0500

…but let’s say I wanted to, say, subscribe to your...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:08:54 -0500

…but let’s say I wanted to, say, subscribe to your website— is there some way I could do that? I mean, is there like a RSS button or a link somewhere that I can click on?

benjaminpalmer: oops house tiger

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:15:44 -0500

benjaminpalmer:

oops house tiger

I just spotted Jake Lodwick’s girlfriend in the new Animal Collective video, which...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:38:00 -0500

I just spotted Jake Lodwick’s girlfriend in the new Animal Collective video, which wouldn’t be so odd, excepct that it reminds me of the time I spotted his brother in a Sigur Ros video

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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:05:16 -0500