It’s been a hard year.
To help keep myself sane I’ve started listening to Jazz on vinyl. It’s a type bit of middle-aged dad pretension that people make jokes about but there is just something about the experience. Spotify and the like offer torrents of information. A record is a limpid pool of condensed truth, a real moment captured forever on a physical object.
So yeah, call me a Vinyl Dad. I can take it.
(more…)This amazing video by the band OK Go is full of all of the bombast that these guys are great at while, at the same time, being one of the purest expressions of unity I’ve seen. I love to hate these guys sometimes but I love that they do this kind of stuff even more. Anyway, enjoy and watch to the end.
Loog guitars, man. They’ve been making guitars that kids could assemble and learn on for years. I first learned about them in 2011. They’re still at it, now using an app, Augmented Reality monsters, and a built-in amp in the guitar, making it a pretty kick-ass travel guitar.
(more…)The Sonos Port looks to be the best-sounding way to make your old receiver or Hi-Fi work with Sonos. Sonos music has been a good offering for years: all the music you can stream. The problem is, how do you get the good music to come out of the good speakers?
(more…)Algoriddim has just had a moment of awesome. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station used their app and an iPad to DJ sounds from out of this world.
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