Entries from July 2007

July 25, 2007

Feist Remixes

I am obsessed with Broken Social Scene and every off shoot of the band. Leslie Feist a contributer and member of Broken Social Scene has more recently gained a lot of attention for her fourth solo studio album The Reminder, which has made its way to the top of the billboard charts. Feist [...]

July 25, 2007

New Vinyl!

I got The Get Up Kids first full length LP – Four Minute Mile, out of print, vinyl today! This landmark album was recorded in April 1997 and released in September of the same year on Doghouse Records. I love this album! This was one of the first records that got me [...]

July 22, 2007

You Can’t Beat Free Music

I went to the Salt Lake City Arts Council Twilight Concert Series at the Gallivan Center in downtown SLC this week. The Fiery Furnaces and Yo La Tengo played on the outdoor stage in a hidden little plaza between the high rises of SLC. The show was free to the public and started [...]

July 21, 2007

ACL Baby!

I got my tickets to the Austin City Limits Music Festival in the mail today! I ended up buying 3 single day tickets because the 3 day passes had already sold out. So I paid more in the end but the price is still worth the experience. The line up this year [...]

July 4, 2007

Gramophone

It occurred to me as a fleeting thought one morning that my entire music collection, with the exception of a few albums, was in digital format. A majority of it, if not all of it, had been pirated. I whole heartedly [...]