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Play local: Harmonix
An excellent xkcd.com shoutout to Cambridge, MA game developers Harmonix, creators of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Scroll down to the ‘bonus songs’ in Rock Band to see songs by Harmonix employee ‘side...
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Listen local: Freezepop
Freezepop is the band that dragged synthpop out of the 80s and into the 21st century. Their third full-length release, Futurefuturefutureperfect, is as perfect a piece of danceable electronic...
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The forgotten pioneers of electronica
I’ve been fairly obsessed with the Freezepop song “Melon Ball Bounce,” a cover version of the 1963 Sprite jingle by electronic music artist Raymond Scott. And after a childhood watching Doctor Who, I...
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Threesome: Theme songs
One of my friends tweeted something about how all bands should have theme songs, along the lines of “Hey Hey We’re the Monkees,” which got me thinking. The pure theme songs that came immediately to...
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Threesome: Stalker-iffic love songs
[embedded YouTube video; if you can't watch it, click here] Here are three songs that are frequently construed as love songs, but are really creepy stalker anthems; this follows up on a conversation...
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Video interview: Freezepop
[embedded video; if you can't watch it, click here] Speaking of Freezepop, the above is a short interview they did for WePC.com (it’s an Asus/Intel vaguely astroturf-y ‘community-building’ site). The...
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Coverage: Buffetlibre’s Rewinded and Rewind2
Guest blogger Scott writes: Buffetlibre has just released the second half of their epic compilation of new artists (many of whom I’ve never heard of) covering 70s, 80s, and 90s (but mostly 80s) songs....
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Freezepop on NPR, and weekend posts
Over the course of last weekend, Justin at Anti-Gravity Bunny complained about music blogs not posting on weekends, and my friend Matt at Sub Ubi teasingly gloated that he scooped me about z=z fave...
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More new models for music
Adding to our collection of new models for music, here are a pair of subscription models for premium content: iTunes has finally figured out that they can do better than just give you a digital album...
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