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There is a folder that sits atop the other folders in my email box called “@musictocheckout.” The at-symbol in the name keeps the folder at the top of the list, a trick I learned from magazine editing days in the 90s. When my friend Henna (from the band Many Birthdays) tells me about bands [...] I was riding the MUNI bus during my commute when shuffle mode on my iPhone led me to the World Party song “When You Come Back To Me.” I could have seen Karl Wallinger, in all his bespectacled glory, perform at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival last weekend. But the cold weather kept me [...] After returning from New York, I spent last week trying to follow up with the people I met at AdWeek and the Independent Film Conference and preparing for the three-hour seminar I gave last week How To Place Your Music in Film and Television. It was part of a lecture series on artist career [...] It’s 2 am on a Monday, and I am up late because I can’t sleep. Quietly, I creep into the kitchen and whip up a batch of maple-cranberry oatmeal cookies. Ordinarily I listen to the songs on my iPhone when I cook, and I cook a lot. Most of my kitchen music is familiar [...] I’m in New York this week for the Independent Filmmakers Conference, which is being held at the Fashion Institute until Thursday. Because of the conference, I’ve had to spend most of my time in Chelsea and only briefly have had the chance to set foot in my former neighborhood of Williamsburg. My friends and [...] My friend Dave and I recently had a conversation comparing social networking companies with bands, in which I declared that Facebook was the Deathcab For Cutie of social media. “I mean, I like Facebook. It has value, it’s accessible, and I used it a lot when it was in beta and only open to the people who attended a handful of colleges,” I said. “But now everybody is obsessed with it, and it’s overrun with people who think they’re cool because they’ve discovered how to flood their friends with status updates.” I pointed out that I was as tired of Facebook as I was tired of hearing Death Cab For Cutie on the radio. [...] |
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