A recap on new albums released in 2017.

Final part of Yearly Mix, a song mix where every track represents a single year. This part covers 2000-2016.

A continuation of Yearly Mix, a song mix where every track represents a single year. This part covers 1977-1999.

First entry on a new "yearly mix" I created, with one studio album track per year. Covers 1959 through 1976.

A recap on new albums released in 2016

A mid-year recap of music I've been listening to of late.

A little while ago I started humming a tune with the opening line. I did a little impromptu recording session using my voice chat mic. It's not a stellar recording or performance, but it was fun to do. Anyway, here's the transcript in poetic form!

A brief short story about a walk along a wooded path.

The music kept rising. His heart swelled, his spirit soared, and he stood up and turned off the lights. He sat down and stared at the screen in front of him, enjoying the darkened palate he had chosen many moons ago. Letters and numbers reached out to him in their simple moments of brightness. The song ended and moved on to a plodding track that seemed to rock back and forth on its steady baseline and simple percussion.

Introduction This year was my first time attending the Clearwater Festival, even though it's held nearby. I missed it in the past due to two reasons that are hard to argue against (or for): 1) the lineups did nothing for me or 2) I didn't know it was going on. Perhaps a month ago I first heard some of the initial lineup on WFUV and made a mental note to follow up.

I held off from using any pay-for-music-download sites for the longest time. I rarely, if ever, used the “free” ones, either; I don't like the idea of the artist not getting anything in return for their efforts. Instead, I would buy a lot of CDs from amazon and occasionally from other sites (or, once in a long while, in an actual real life store). For the past few months I did not buy any new albums.