Canned Dragons

Katrina VanHuss and her husband are from a rural community and in the nonprofit line of work.

My wife related to me that she was glad we use Qobuz for our music streaming service, since she had read it was one of the more ethical services in terms of artist payments.

A few years ago, I came across the UK-based band Softer Still on a sophistipop covers compilation, just before they released their debut album, Nuances.

I was sort of mislead regarding the new Frankie Rose album, HILA.

If you love pixels as much as I do, you'll be delighted to learn that Héliographe has released Bitcam 2, which expands the capabilities beyond the original app by Iconfactory.

Bill Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins opens up about his Christian faith in a recent podcast episode.

I have been marveling at the new Wishy song "Mona Lisa" and the band's ability to fit musical references to both the Velvet Underground and a Sunday School staple in a single tune.

When I wrote that I had never heard the Ella Langley song "Choosin' Texas," I meant, very simply, that I had never heard the song.

I have seen a few references to a song called “Choosin’ Texas” by an artist named Ella Langley beating out Mariah Carey for the longest-running No. 1 song of all time on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Atlantic lets you read their articles free through RSS.

I've gotten myself in a confused state with regard to my RSS and social media feeds.

As someone born in the mid-seventies, I almost entered this world with a predisposition to like Sylvie, the project of Ben Schwab (Golden Daze, Drugdealer).

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My absolute favorite record for the transition from late summer to early fall is Yo La Tengo's I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One.

Transformers: The Movie is showing in theaters in 4K starting in September to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

The latest casualty of the streaming wars is The Bird and the Bee’s 2015 album Recreational Love, which unceremoniously disappeared from Qobuz sometime recently.

At this point, I tend to average 1-2 podcasts a week.

It seems more people and organizations that were principally opposed to the X (ex-Twitter) network a few short years ago are now returning.

Heart was the band that broke the glass ceiling and bought women-fronted hard rock to the masses.

Designer Jon Hicks’ obsession with music apps left him with a problem — he couldn’t find any that met all his needs.

Reading the Claude watermark topic reminds me of how my son in college, who doesn't use LLMs when writing his papers, has to check them with an LLM to make sure they don't sound too much like AI.

Reviews of Dinosaur Jr.'

Bluesky CEO, Toni Schneider, was interviewed by Nilay Patel on a recent episode of The Decoder podcast.

I've been playing a new video game called MIO: Memories in Orbit.

I was going through my social media feeds this morning and realized that it was just a bunch of disconnected thoughts with no coherence.

Benjamin Wallace writes for the NYT (gift link) about A.I. companies such as Anthropic hiring philosophers.

The new Pastebot 3 Mac app looks enticing.