We’ve put the annual Suburban Sprawl Music Holiday Comp up for download over at suburbansprawlmusic.com. This is the fourth year we’ve put the comp together, and all four year’s worth of MP3′s are available for free download. Some highlights …
Archive for December, 2005
12.20.05
Mannheim Steamroller has sold more albums than Frank Sinatra or the Beach Boys.
An insane article about their ridiculous Xmas music domination. On Trans-Siberian Orchestra: “Have you ever had a fly land on your arm?”
12.20.05
Eliminating the only reason to buy a PSP thus far.
12.16.05
Family Tree of Disney’s Ducks.
Fans of Duck Tales and / or Carl Barks, take note!
12.16.05
Plenty has been written online about ‘socially conscious’ clothing company American Apparel, their risque advertising, and their sexual harrassment-happy CEO of late (link, link, link, link). I’ve been ‘not a fan’ of their ads …
12.12.05
An oral history of The Promise Ring:
“It was miserable…every time everyone…was throwing stuff at us, we’d play that ‘Stop Playing Guitar’ song, like super slow, and they would just get so mad. It was pretty funny.”
I haven’t sunk to the level of posting an IM conversation for quite awhile, so I figure I’m about due.
Zach: “performances from breathing underwater, broken sunday, autumn and wasp, pillar of autumn, forever in a day, between broken ends,
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12.8.05
12.8.05
Ted Rall takes a shot at Chris Ware
in the form of a published strip.
12.8.05
Summation of the Ted Rall / Chris Ware ‘feud.’
Not nearly as vicious as the Dave Sim / Jeff Smith feud. NERD.