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Living off the Long Tail, Steadman has their entire discography online.

The last game console that I actually owned was a Super Nintendo in college. These “gushing”:http://dubiousquality.blogspot.com/2005/11/for-those-about-to-rock-i-salute-you.html “reviews”:http://dubiousquality.blogspot.com/2005/12/guitar-hero-2.html for “Guitar Hero”:http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/guitarhero make me want to go out and get a Playstation 2, buy the game and then rock till I can rock no more.
!http://www.f5wichita.com/issues/2003-10-16/images/school_of_rock.jpg(Rockin’ you twice the time!)!

Sweetness and light. Listen while the listenin’ is still good.

“Rock stars who went back work”:http://ilx.p3r.net/thread.php?msgid=5444983: Interesting thread about returning to the daily grind. Mostly indies, but a couple of mainstream references. What’s this about the viability of the long tail again?

I waxed nostalgic after reading reviews of “Lollapalooza”:http://www.chicagoist.com/archives/2005/07/25/the_beginning_of_something_great.php in Chicago this weekend. Being sort of a veteran of the early years (1992 and 1994), it’s somewhat hard to come to grips with the idea that it’s been almost 15 years since I saw that first Lollapalooza at the World Music Theatre (at least that’s what [...]

Eclectica from the far edge of the long tail. [via]

Pre-order Aimee Mann’s *The Forgotten Arm* or “listen to the new album entirely online”:http://www.aimeemann.com/tfa_qt1/, complete with lyrics and simulated liner notes. Being a fan of hers, this wise move comes as no surprise considering her historical independent streak and talent as a singer/songwriter.

Juliana Hatfield (of my favorite 90s Indie Power Pop band, The Blake Babies and currently a solo artist) has some songs from her anthology that you can now “download”:http://julianahatfield.com/jhdownloads.html and pay for via the honor system. I’m more into her first post BB _naive_ albums than I am of her current work, but it’s still [...]

Mosh by Eminem. Wow. Watch the whole thing. Power to the hip hop politico. Remember: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. - Dante Alighieri”

This site is so all over the place with music, I’m still not sure what it’s about.

Corgan comes clean about Pumpkins’ demise [via kovach].

Corgan said he regrets initially blaming the split on “fighting the good fight against the Britneys of the world.” “By saying that, I was seen as someone who was crying foul, taking his ball and going home, which was sad, ’cause it wasn’t true at all,”

Addendum to the earlier iTunes post: Tune Recycler lets you send in unused Pepsi bottlecaps with winning codes that can be used to buy and support independent music.

iTunes Music Store: Facelift for a corrupt industry. Solution? Peter Gabriel’s OD2. The man continues to shake up the current paradigm.

The top 50 most commonly found used CDs [via rc3]. I own or have owned 25 out of those 50. Going through that list of music really brought me back: hot Chicago summers, full of memory and nostalgia about a careless time when CDs and the music on them were actually worth buying (used at [...]

You’ll either think that it’s the cool evolution of a cherished instrument or sacrilege of the highest order: an ethernet enabled Les Paul.

The Pixies family tree [via decafbad]. By the date, you can tell this was written a while ago (1994), but it would be interesting if this was extended to include the husbands, wives, or relations of all the band members in this tree. Kim Deal is married to Bob Pollard of Guided by Voices (last [...]

This is my favorite slashdot comment concerning the typical geek rant against having to pay for digital music:

I won’t even consider it until it’s ($CURRENT_PRICE/2) and until the files are ($CURRENT_BITRATE*2). And until it’s in (!($CURRENT_MEDIA_FORMAT)). Plus it only is going to have bands $BAD_BANDS[1]..$BAD_BANDS[134], which I don’t listen too anyway.

And they should have thought [...]

It’s great to see Fountains of Wayne getting their due in the Old Grey Lady. I’ve admired their music and their rock ‘tude for a long while now, but never really knew much about them. Nostalgic Chicago Music Scene memory: One of the last good shows I remember seeing at the Metro was in 1996 [...]