Mainly Rock

I have nothing to add to this… Found at the Analog Appartment

I don’t really “get” the NME and I don’t think that really matters to either of us. But I find The NME Top 50 albums of the decade suprisingly relevant and in line with my taste/record collection. I could argue about the actual ranking and some of the individual records, but overall I would recommend [...]

Found on Spreeblick

This chart from the The New York Times puts the current comeback of vinyl into perspective, I guess. It’s interesting how cassettes peaked ten years later and CD almost exactly another ten years afterwards. I guess we’re now already passed the peak of DRM protected downloads as a music download. Although that wasn’t much a [...]

I have always avoided spending any money on DRM-infected music files. Now DRM for music seems to on it’s way out…. at last. RIAA Says DRM Is Dead

I very much agree with Nick Hodgson from the Kaiser Chiefs, but I still believe they could provide a (legal) free download with the 2LP vinyl edition of their latest album… I saw the vinyl edition of our new album in the dressing room yesterday. Many people have written in the past about the beauty [...]

Photo credit: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times Seen on nyt.com, via Gizmodo

Greg Kot, not only has written a great book about Wilco, but has also written a recent series of articles about the vinyl “revival” (Vinyl revival: How a dead format came back for another spin). On top of all the reasons for buying vinyls mentioned in the article, such as the attractiveness of the physical [...]

The combination of Wilco and legal mp3 downloads is probably as close to an ideal subject for this blog as it gets. W I L C O have put up an “audio postcard of sorts from a summer’s night in Oregon with our friends the Fleet Foxes & a lovely Bob Dylan tune”. It’s a [...]