Archive for December, 2009

Is Music Filtering a Good Thing?

A topic that’s been coming up a lot lately among the musically concerned is filtering (the process by which music makes its way from a musician’s living room to the awareness of the wider public). For most of our contemporary history filtering has involved record labels, managers, venues, broadcasting directors, publicists etc… Audiences chose from those [...]

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Stephen Fry on Language

I have here another podcast recommendation. This podcast is Stephen Fry’s, which, if you don’t know it already, I recommend introducing yourself to via the excellent episode titled “Language” (Series 2, Episode 3). In 33 minutes he touches on so many topics (from structuralism to epistemology to a rant against linguistic pedantry and on and on…) [...]

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Philosophy Bites Podcast

I referred to the Philosophy Bites podcast in a previous post. Being Christmas day and all, this would be a good time to link an episode, for the latest is about about Jesus Christ himself. I also highly recommend going through the archives, as there is a lot of great stuff to check out: Don Cupitt [...]

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What is Art?

I have recently begun listening to Marc Maron’s smart and funny WTF podcast. Yesterday I heard an episode in which comedian Janeane Garofalo was his guest (also smart and funny). Near the end of the conversation, Garofalo brought up the question, “What is an artist?” Maron responded by saying, “To me, an artist is somebody [...]

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Den of Maniacs

I wanted to do a quick post about my new album, which is in the final stages of creation before being sent off for duplication. It is in the process of being mastered by Mike Hagler at King Size Sound Labs in Chicago, and we’re preparing to do the cover art, which will again be [...]

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