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I know I’m shamefully late to the Web 2.0 party (especially considering what i do for a living) but you can now follow Scissorkick on Facebook. I will be updating the page there with news of new podcasts, special posts and events.
And speaking of podcasts, I have a new ScissorKast and 4 brand-spanking new sessions [...]
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It would be dishonest of me to say that I’m a huge Neo-Soul kinda guy, but I’ve always been a big fan of the production from Nicolay, one half of The Foreign Exchange (with NC rapper-now-singer Phonte, from Little Brother). Their first collaboration, Connected, was one of the best hip-hop/soul records of 2004, and the [...]
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I intentionally tried to stay away from any politics over the course of the last few years — I mean with so many more qualified blogs out there, who am I to get into the mix? But when the political and musical spheres bump heads, I guess it’s a little more appropriate to follow course, [...]
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Quick post before I take off for California for work. This one come courtesy of Roger O’Donnell, former keyboardist for The Cure, The Psychedelic Furs, Thompson Twins and more. Beautiful and subtle record performed almost entirely on one instrument - the moog synthesizer. An accomplished player, O’Donnells advantage is perspective — having played with some [...]
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I’ve always considered a certain level of anonymity an important quality among the musicians I tend to lionize. Not to say I expect a musician to release LP after LP under different pseudonyms, or drop mysterious white-label 12-inch vinyl as a career’s worth of output, but there’s a certain modesty and focus on the music [...]
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I’m a bit at a loss for words after listening to The Thrush by Chicago’s Chandeliers. Perhaps I’m just being lazy, but I truly can’t remember the last time it was so hard to easily summarize a band’s sound with only a few words. To their credit, the quartet do a huge service to listeners [...]
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Back to school people. Sure, I haven’t had first day jitters in a long time, but I’m getting my Bugle Boys ready to impress nonetheless. Should I match with an OP or a Hobie t-shirt? Decisions, decisions. That’s how “Which Song,” the brand new Max Tundra single — from his forthcoming Domino LP, Parallel Errors [...]
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Quick post today of a really nice mix done by Four Tet of a newish track from Warp Records Born Ruffians. I actually haven’t heard the original yet, but it’s always exciting when a Four Tet remix actually hits the mark and this one surely does. Builds upon a really clean, looping synth line [...]
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Posted: August 20th, 2008, 1:03pm MDT by steve
Really nothing like the genuine sense of discovery. It’s one of the few things that never gets old and reminds me everyday why it’s fun to play around on the Intranets. For instance, I get a CD promo in the mail, Google the artist, find three other artists (all new to me) and uncover a [...]
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Posted: August 14th, 2008, 10:00am MDT by steve
My day job involves a lot of time spent online, staying up to date with new technologies and keeping aware of the big happenings in culture, media and business on the Internet. The things that pertain to music are always of special personal import and I think most will agree that Radiohead’s “pay what you [...]