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Disco D (Dave Shayman) apparently committed suicide last night.  His future was too bright for this early end.  Fuck.
Respect.

Respect.

WOXY has been the Future of Rock and Roll since before the Rain Man knew how to count cards.  It has been through several near-death experiences but, once again, has proven that the future of rock and roll will never die.
More details at Metafilter.

As a backhanded complimentary post to my earlier post about the challenge of having to decide what to manifest in our lives, I present this wonderful quote from Overheard In New York:
She’s Imagining a Future Without Him
College-Aged guy: “Imagine”?? I don’t get sit. What am I supposed to imagine?
Girlfriend: Shhh, let’s go!
–Strawberry Fields, Central Park
Overheard […]

Finally, a holiday I get get behind!  (Other than Festivus and Groundhog Day, of course)
6.6.6 (June 6th, 2006) is National Day of Slayer.
Official Statement on Participation

Listen to Slayer at full blast in your car.
Listen to Slayer at full blast in your home.
Listen to Slayer at full blast at your place of employment.
Listen to Slayer at […]

Rhapsody Radish was my favorite Rhapsody site by far but Rhapsody never returned the love I gave it and I moved on to better things: Yahoo! Music Unlimited. Y!MU allows users to share playlists via their Yahoo! profiles (I’m sothym there, if you care), but I still missed the Radish’s seemingly endless supply of […]

Good news for all of us who have wished there was something that would attempt to fill the holes left when we suddenly found ourselves without Mythos, Tonic, Fat City, and The Steeple.
SK Netcafe has had a good record of serving up consistantly interesting nights, I look forward to seeing what they’ll do with this […]

The Mars Volta - Scab Dates (Live Album) Preorder, to be released November 08… get it while it is hot!
[via The Comatorium, my favorite source for The Mars Volta news and info. Thanks for the head’s up!]

Music for Robots posted a link to my vote for 2005’s Summer song: Destination Diamonds by Diamond Nights. If that song doesn’t sound like driving with the windows rolled down, one arm out the window, sunglasses on, hair and stereo up too high, nothing does.
They’re coming to Charlotte in August, I have […]

One of the reasons why I left Rhapsody for Yahoo!Unlimited was because I have been a vocal proponent of Rhapsody and their business model for years and have offered constructive and helpful advice along the way and have felt like I was completely ignored. When the latest version was released, it was like a […]