Volume addict in a shared space

An addictive personality can play havoc with your ability to enjoy the finer things.

I have been blasting my ears out with music through headphones since I was 12. It certainly can’t have been because the quality of the sound from those experiences, can it? Of course not. I had a collection of GE [...]

Piano Chords

I do not play guitar by ear. I play because I managed to mechanically learn the chords and beat them into song structures. I learned from this book:

For years, I’ve wondered whether a similar solution was available for Piano, because I’d love a chart that showed me chords and chord shapes [...]

NAPCast 1.10

Our aim in the new year is to have a new NAPcast for you once a month, featuring selected tracks from all seven of our knowledgeable and opinionated editors. Here’s this month’s NAPcast.

Biggie vs Tupac vs The xx – “Runnin With The xx (Quix vs Elliot Blend)” | Annie Huak – “Sodium Chloride” [...]

三件事

第一件事

Remember that girl who lip-synched at the Olympics a couple years ago? Well, apparently the Chinese government has made lip synching illegal and is looking to stick her and the actual singer with a $12,000 ex post facto fine.

第二件事

Questlove explains walk on music.

第三件事

Here’s a new cover song. I [...]

Snow Day

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Three Wrinkles in the Time Space Continuum

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Best Beatles cover ever, perhaps the only competition came decades later when Boris with Merzbow put out the Walrus/Groon EP.

Pay no attention to the second song. It’s not a cover. It’s not a good song. And it’s revealing of how impossible it would have been to date a Beatle. First of [...]

Rock and Roll Apple Pie

A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I headed to the Fillmore for two back-to-back shows in the course of one weekend. On Saturday night, I made some jokes about pitching a tent in the middle of the floor since we knew we would be coming back the next night. Sunday night’s show was [...]

Slow Jamming the Videos

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01. The Crazy Dogggz “Doggie Bounce” (Introducing The Crazy Dogggz, 01) Sync is a bit off, unf…

02. The Knife “Neverland” (Silent Shout, 02) Fan made video.

03. King Khan & The Shrines “(How Can I Keep You) Outta Harms Way” (What [...]

Nooks and crannies, or three peas under the mattress

What I’ve determined in making posts a little more personal to me is that I begin to think of each one as an attempt to rip open the thin veneer clouding my psyche and allow all to gaze at the wounds. Since this week has been a combination of dazzling euphoria and earth-shattering shame [...]

I Went and Got Messed Up Again

So I got the new Spoon record, and I’m sorta meh on it.

As usual it sounds amazing. Probably the best drum sound they’ve ever achieved. But the songs aren’t there. Not the way they were for the last two records.

Spoon rightfully gets a lot of credit for their attention to [...]