Today is a big day. The Hold Steady’s “A Positive Rage” live album and documentary comes out, and I can’t wait. I listened to the 30-second samples last night on iTunes (conjuring images of Michael Scott in The Office) and was tempted to purchase the album right at midnight. The setlist was really similar to [...]
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A Positive Rage
April 7, 2009Ugh, the “No Line on the Horizon” mini review
March 2, 2009This is my mini review for U2′s “No Line on the Horizon.” To sum up in five words: stop making albums and retire. It’s perpetually boring, practically awful, and worse than the previous two albums combined (not sure that was possible). I’ll write a longer review later, but for now, know to stay away from [...]
Bob Seger ticked me off in 2006
February 26, 2009In the almost totally selfish interest of uploading new content to the blog without doing much work, I present a post I wrote three years ago about Bob Seger and his (then) refusal to allow users to download tracks off of his albums; instead, they would be forced to download the whole thing, which was [...]
i am a music snob
February 13, 2009A coworker called me “the biggest snob ever” because I said Taps ‘n Tapes were “garbage” (I do) and because I think My Morning Jacket is the best band ever (I don’t. They are the best of this decade). The irony here is that while calling me a music snob, the Foo Fighters was playing [...]
Digital Download Review — Bon Iver, “Blood Bank”
February 2, 2009I realize it’s been a really long time since I’ve posted, so to the tens of you who visit Digital Metropolis, my apologies. There are a ton of half-cooked posts about music, products and Fallout 3 (can’t stay away!) but given that I have a meeting in an hour I thought I’d just write a [...]
Things I like or love from 2008 but forgot to mention
January 6, 2009So, it’s been about a month since my last post. This is because I’ve been on vacation! Like most offices around DC, ours was closed through Jan 5. It served as the perfect time to think about and list four of my favorite things I forgot to mention here earlier in the year. Tina Fey [...]
Top Songs of 2008
December 11, 2008As a quick follow-up post to the top albums, I thought I’d list my favorite 10 15 songs of the year, based on a similar set of arbitrary criteria used to determine my top albums: 1.) Total plays on my iTunes library and iPod 2.) How much I talk about the band/artist, album, or song [...]
2008′s Best in Music
December 9, 2008Making lists is cathartic for me. Organizing everything into neat groups that I can then sort into subgroups and then into subsubgroups gives me a chance to digest everything in front of me and make sense of it all. this is the real reason why people love march madness. well, besides taking long lunches. Lists [...]
Concert Review: Vampire Weekend at the 9:30 Club (December 2)
December 3, 2008So, Vampire Weekend came to town for two nights. I caught them on the second night, and they made no attempts to mask the fact that their set lists were identical for both shows. Can you really blame them, though? One album and a few extra tracks floating around made for a quick concert (they [...]
