I’m on the promo list for a bunch of anonymous PR companies who send me the most inane emails, often as if they’re the artist themselves. I searched for “genre” and “seamlessly” in my inbox, only drawing from the last two months:
…heaps of genre bending cello playing..
…they’ve been making forward thinking, genrebreaking music for nearly [...]

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How does that make you feel? Or to quote David Liebe Hart, “Don’t you have any sympathy for them?”

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Microfinancing, perhaps the hottest economic trend, has made its way to music over the last few years. You’ve probably heard of Sellaband. The service asks you to chip in for an artist on varying degrees to help them get enough money to record an album. Your reward for doing so is a copy of the [...]

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The only thing that’s rivaled Wikipedia’s knowledge base is the desire to fuck around with the articles. Anyone on the internet who says they haven’t thought about editing an article on George Tush or offering their own take on the legalization of Marijuana article is lying. Robots have taken most of the mass editing fun [...]

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To those of you have not yet heard, I will be going on tour to play trumpet in Camera Obscura.  The tour lasts for five weeks, May 27th – June 30th, and covers most of North America.  I’m super excited to be joining them this summer along with California trio Agent Ribbons and viola soloist [...]

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Viral videos have snuck in the cracks of my life for years. I find myself clicking “stumble” almost compulsively between trying to do more “legitimate” work. As a schmaltzy printellectual, I find myself trying to break down what makes a video go and stay viral on the web. And I really don’t believe it’s the same [...]

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Our own MOMS have been nominated to be The Deli Magazine Artist of the Month for May. Which would be great. You should go vote for them here!

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We got a twitter. Amazingwowmusic. Tweet our asses.

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Tiny Mix Tapes is my favorite webzine, and I’ll tell you right now that it’s not because I used to write for them. TMT was my favorite before I wrote for them, of course!
Ben still is a writer and in fact it’s where we met! Cute!

Tiny Mix Tapes has joined forces with eleven musicians to [...]

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