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Tune of the day: Mayer Hawthorne’s “Reach Out Richard,” channeling some major Steely Dan vibes.
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Mix of the day - glad to see Phonat is making a return in fine form. Asona bootleg of Beyonce at minute 15 is pure gold.
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“In Silicon Valley, a start-up with no revenue is said to be worth exactly the number of developers it has on staff. The rule of thumb is that each one counts for $1 million.”
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Sunday grilling.
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Because I’m doing this for the thrill of it, killin’ it // Never not chasing the million things I want
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“Everything is a form of my music, but the style of 808s & Heartbreak is better served by Drake and Kid Cudi than it is by me. I think they could both carry that sound better than I could.” — Kanye West, on 808s and the artists who carry the sound. -
The Return of the Selfie
Kate Losse on the evolution of the selfie “from a sign of the subject’s marginality to a sign of his or her social-media importance”: http://nyr.kr/11ZS2u3
“Cooling” is a common caption among teens for a photo of oneself simply sitting.
Oh, really?
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npr:
OK Go: A Tiny Desk Concert In 223 Takes
We needed to figure out the best possible way to move NPR Music’s Tiny Desk from our old headquarters to our new facility just north of the U.S. Capitol. So we had OK Go perform “All Is Not Lost” hundreds of times, as we transported the Tiny Desk from one home to the other.
I’m usually an OK Go-hater, but this is something else.
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Brassft Punk. Works surprisingly well.
I like the way they’ve got two trumpets echoing each other for a reverb/delay effect.
