Dawes

summer concert season

Spring is an exciting time. Summer shows are announced, the days are longer, snow no longer looms as a travel threat, and it’s easier to slip slightly into summer-vacation mode, even when there’s no actual summer vacation. In other words, CONCERTS YAY.

collected and collaged

Et voilà, the 2011 albums that I bought or repeatedly Spotify’d this year (either because I really liked them or was determined to give them a fair chance).

Twenty-three altogether — six fewer than last year. It’s a pretty… Paste-y collection, for lack of a…

something here does not belong

People who know me well know that music is a good bet for gifts.

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the spotify experience

After the initial bewilderment and aimless searching, I realized that getting the most out of Spotify would require a little help from other websites — namely, places that could recommend new music for me to explore (unless there’s some sort of internal public playlist feature on there…