Old Crow Medicine Show


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These guys are terrific—amazing energy, great musicianship. They play the hell out of it.

Papillote and the Battle Royale


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Just picked up our food for a hotel-room picnic from Papillote French Cuisine To-Go, a lovely little French kitchen near our hotel. I picked a mushroom soup (not creamy) to start, duck confit for me and a salmon and asparagus quiche for Ellen—both come with green salad and the chef’s ginger vinaigrette—and for dessert the … Read more

Going back to the well


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One of the would-be idols rendered a pale shadow of Pete Townsend’s Baba O’Reilly this evening. Which sent me back to the original, full strength. And then Won’t Get Fooled Again. Sometimes, I go back to the music that shaped me, and this was an essential part of the soundtrack for me. Other authors have … Read more

The Almost Defunct CompUSA


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Our local CompUSA has reached the 30%-50% off, all-fixtures-for-sale stage of its closing. I found the RocketFM from Griffin Technology forless than $9, so I can broadcast any audio from my computer over low-power FM. With this hack I extended the range to the clock radio at the far end of the house… which means … Read more

Geek to Live: iTunes power tips – Lifehacker


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Lifehacker’s Geek to Live offers iTunes power tips I want to keep track of these, for Ellen. (Shhh.)

Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time

This is an old link I should have posted ages ago, from the UK’s Observer Monthy Music (“OMM”): Tom Waits on his cherished albums of all time: ‘It’s perfect madness’ In the first of an occasional series in which the greatest recording artists reveal their favourite records, Tom Waits writes about his 20 most cherished … Read more

Move music between drives with iTunes 7


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I need to consolidate the music I’ve accumulated on the laptop drive and on one of my external backups, and boom, I come across this hint at macosxhints.com – Easily move music between drives with iTunes 7 – in my usual semi-daily Mac news browsing. Tomorrow night, it will be done. Life is good.