Monthly Archives: December 2007

Lyrebird

Posted on 12/31/2007 by Ben

The Lyrebird mimics the sounds it hears with incredible accuracy: other birds, camera shutters, car alarms, chainsaws.

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Rhapsody 2007

Posted on 12/21/2007 by Ben

It’s time once again for my year-end playlist in convenient CD length. My favorite part about all of the year-end lists is that I always find a bunch of great music that I had missed or didn’t take to the … Continue reading →

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Free Okkervil River Covers Album

Posted on 12/12/2007 by Ben

Okkervil River have released a free MP3 album of covers that they recorded on tour. If the download is slow you can get it from Pitchfork as well.

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Andy Kaufman on The Midnight Special

Posted on 12/5/2007 by Ben

Great, now I’m going to be singing “I Trusted You” all day long.

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Deutsche Grammophon MP3s

Posted on 12/3/2007 by Ben

Deutshe Grammophon has launched a web store with 320kbps MP3s. I’m not sure how much of the catalog is available but several selections from NPR’s 50 essentials are there.

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