After years of complaining about the lack of a solid, viable model of Internet distribution for music, I have finally discovered a service that fits my needs well: lala.com. You can purchase MP3s from the site for about the same as anywhere else, 89 cents a song. However, the real quality of the site is [...]
Over Thanksgiving, I was given the chance to listen to an album by Dark Dark Dark, a sort of anti-folk, Regina Spektor-meets-gypsies kind of sound. I really like it. Lovely vocal harmonies and interesting lyrics are layered over often frantic accordian-banjo-large strings (cello and/or bass fiddle) to produce something that sounds both very old and [...]