23 August 2010 – 11:45 pm
John Mellencamp has a new T-Bone Burnett-produced album, No Better Than This. It’s not a CODE release, just a regular CD. But T-Bone Burnett is a good musical iconoclast, so the rear cover proclaims “RECORDED IN MONO”. Be still, my fluttering heart. Apparently, the songs were recorded live into a single microphone onto a vintage [...]
9 September 2009 – 1:03 am
Today, 2009-09-09 is Beatles day (get it? Number NIne… Number Nine… Number Nine…). Which means new versions of their albums have been released. Most of the attention has been placed on the new version of Rock Band that uses Beatles songs – and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what ended up making the [...]
I have complained frequently in the past (though not on this blog, apparently) that the iPod is ruining music. Well, not the iPod itself so much as a all the things that helped make the iPod popular: limited internet bandwidth, small hard drives, and crappy headphones. In the days of dialup modems and hard drives [...]
5 December 2008 – 2:51 am
AAAAARRRRRGH! Why Do They Insist On Doing This? A friend told us that the new 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Murmur sounded really good. Woo-hoo! Remastered R.E.M.! Well, not so fast there, bucko. Let’s look at the booklet… In the remastering credits, no one from the band or the original production team is listed. That’s [...]
Today I got my copy of John “Cougar” Mellencamp’s new album, Life Death Love And Freedom. Produced by T-Bone Burnett, it is the first CODE release. Musically, it was surprisingly enjoyable. Based on his mid-1980′s output, I haven’t been the biggest John “Cougar” Mellencamp fan, so perhaps he’s been busy making good music lately and [...]
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