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		<title>Paul McCartney Almost-Confirms iTunes Move</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will they, or won&#8217;t they? It&#8217;s been a while since there&#8217;s been this much music biz speculation &#8211; the most recent brouhaha in regards to the release of the posthumous Michael Jackson concert video comes to mind &#8211; but everyone (or is it just journalists?) wants to know: will The Beatles catalogue ever be available [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigthompson.wordpress.com&blog=1620660&post=211&subd=craigthompson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death Can&#8217;t Stop Him</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know a singer must mean it &#8211; meaning, as The Oblivians sang years ago in &#8220;Live The Life&#8221;: &#8216;you&#8217;ve got to live the life that you sing about in your songs &#8211; when he asks his doctors to increase his defibrillator trigger&#8217;s heartbeats-per-minute from 192 BPMs because 192 is the rate at which one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigthompson.wordpress.com&blog=1620660&post=205&subd=craigthompson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fiery Furnaces Rhythm Bros. Branch Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sebadoh was one of the bands that ushered indie rock into my life. The results of this usher-ence are mixed, but Sebadoh stuck with me. The triumvirate of Smash Your Head On The Punk Rock, Bubble &#38; Scrape and Bakesale still stands pretty tall. Those first two records&#8217; mixture of Eric Gaffney&#8217;s confusion/brilliance (Gaffney still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigthompson.wordpress.com&blog=1620660&post=200&subd=craigthompson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Jazz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been immensely enjoying some jazz lately &#8211; something I don&#8217;t know much about &#8211; but I think the period that turns my crank the most must be the hard bop/free jazz/improv era between the late 50s and I guess the early 1970s? Although I&#8217;ve heard one Brantford Marsalis Quartet LP, The Beautiful Ones Are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigthompson.wordpress.com&blog=1620660&post=175&subd=craigthompson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Words on CMJ</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live in New York City, and right now the College Music Journal &#8211; simply, CMJ &#8211; music festival is in full throttle. This festival gives the stage to &#8220;imminent breakouts and moder-day heroes&#8221; and features, this year, 1,100 bands, according to the Times.
And yet, I don&#8217;t plan on attending a single show, conference, panel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigthompson.wordpress.com&blog=1620660&post=167&subd=craigthompson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machine Music, in Two Parts</title>
		<link>http://craigthompson.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/machine-music-in-two-parts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Dolby]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came across some Thomas Dolby footage on YouTube recently. How&#8217;d I get there? Well, I was writing about new Dolby 3D audio technology (Dolby the tech company, not Mr. Thomas) being developed for virtual worlds and online games, and I got to thinking, what happened to Thomas Dolby? Then of course I wikipedia-ed him, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigthompson.wordpress.com&blog=1620660&post=162&subd=craigthompson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hardcore Intermission</title>
		<link>http://craigthompson.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/hardcore-intermission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For your listening &#8216;pleasure&#8217;, one of the most incendiary hardcore songs written:

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		<title>A Perversion of Morrissey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[everyday is like sunday]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has already made the rounds of the blogosphere, but I thought it worth repeating. Seems the NFL has taken to recontextualizing an older Morrissey song (a cover possibly by the Decembrists&#8217; Colin Meloy, though that&#8217;s unverified.) Here&#8217;s the commercial:

And here&#8217;s the lyrics:
 Everyday Is Like Sunday
Trudging slowly over wet sand
back to the bench
where your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigthompson.wordpress.com&blog=1620660&post=152&subd=craigthompson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Your Music, Again!</title>
		<link>http://craigthompson.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/buy-your-music-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[slotMusic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News came out yesterday that compact-flash card manufacturer SanDisk is teaming up with some record labels and retailers to unveil the &#8220;slotMusic&#8221; format (here&#8217;s the article from Wired/AP.)
This idea caught my eye because the small memory cards are becoming more ubiquitous these days &#8211; I recently bought a new cell phone, and the only way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigthompson.wordpress.com&blog=1620660&post=143&subd=craigthompson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feist, meet the Cookie Monster</title>
		<link>http://craigthompson.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/feist-meet-the-cookie-monster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard the news that Leslie Fiest was reworking her hit &#8220;1234&#8243; &#8211; already an iTunes-branded smash (which followed the Verizon-branded hit &#8220;My Moon, My Man&#8221;) &#8211; for Sesame Street, it came as no surprise. When I first heard the song, I latched onto its childish melody immediately, thinking how strange it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=craigthompson.wordpress.com&blog=1620660&post=138&subd=craigthompson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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