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Maltese Cross Organizing iTunes: Simplify your genre list

As time goes, iTunes music libraries keep getting larger and larger. As you add songs and videos to the library, it can get unmanageable. One technique for organizing your iTunes library is to simplify and codify the genres that are...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on April 21, 2008 10:50 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Announcing AnalogCulture.org

You may be interested to know that I've siphoned off my writing about music onto a blog of its own called Analog Culture. I started it up at the beginning of the year and have been posting there including a...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on January 26, 2008 9:31 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Musicogenic epilepsy? Avoid Sean Paul

MSNBC has an interesting Associated Press story about a woman named Stacey Gayle in Alberta, Canada, who has a rare condition called musicogenic epilepsy. Gayle suffered from having many seizures throughout the day, and at some point began to suspect...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on January 19, 2008 1:03 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Mark Cuban’s idea for music: The Album is dead

Billionaire and sports fanatic Mark Cuban has an idea for the music industry: instead of releasing albums, serialize the release of music so people can buy one song at a time over a period of time. He writes: If an...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on January 19, 2008 11:43 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Cloudbursting with Kate Bush

Boys love her. Girls love her too. One artist who has made a lasting impression on me is Kate Bush. She started out in 1978 with Wurthering Heights, and went on to release five albums before releasing a greatest hits...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on December 28, 2007 6:20 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross This is not Dubai mix

After numerous requests for new material, I conceded and put together a new mix CD for the benefit of my friends. I sent out an armful of packages, but if you'd like to receive one of these fine new...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on September 25, 2007 8:21 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Music mixes: Taking stock, moving forward

I'm on the cusp of releasing a new mix CD and realized that I don't have an easy way of finding all the mixes I've done the past few years that I listed on Manufactured Environments. So here's a compendium...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on September 25, 2007 7:03 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Get me some of those 10-minute songs. Pronto!

There's a special class of music reserved for the truly adventurous. It's the 10-minute song. Most bands never attempt long songs, and of those that do, only a select few can really pull it off. But for those that do,...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on September 8, 2007 12:45 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross The eBay Connection: Buying and Selling Music Online

I've been digging around eBay.com and Half.eBay.com lately, and it's a veritable treasure trove of obscure but great music for stunningly low prices. I mean, if you want to collect items by the Cure, you're going to pay more....

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Posted by Daniel Stout on August 7, 2007 10:31 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross 30 Poems in 30 Days: Have you ever been? (20/30)

20 June 2007 Have you ever been?by Daniel R Stout Spinning, spinning, spinning The turntable skips a beat Feet stop moving A cry rises up, "Hang the DJ! / Hang the DJ!" Running, running, running iPod strapped to arm The...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on June 20, 2007 6:55 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Intrigue in Tangiers

I'm sitting here on a Friday night, packing a suitcase for a few days of much needed R&R. I'm listening to This Never Ending Now by the reunited Chameleons. It was released a few years ago, and it's basically...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on March 23, 2007 10:28 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Getting jolly with eMusic

If I haven't already got this across, eMusic is quite awesome. So go check them out, now! I've been up to my ears in great new music from them. They have, exclusively, the new Bloc Party album called A...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on February 23, 2007 9:18 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross SXSW does the mega-music download again

I went to the SXSW conference a few years ago in Austin, Texas, and had a great time. South By Southwest is actually three conferences — there's film, there's interactive (tech), and there's the granddaddy music conference. It all...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on February 21, 2007 6:07 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Banksy pranks Paris Hilton

British artist Banksy was up to hijinks once again, this time involving the release of Paris Hilton's album Paris in the U.K. He replaced 500 copies of the disc with a CD of his own remixes, with titles like...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on September 3, 2006 5:18 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross 1,500 Reasons to Love ’80s Music

Saw this link on MetaFilter the other day, and wow, what a link! It's a site that contains 1,500 music videos from the '80s. The catch is that it's 1 song each by 1,500 different artists. It's amazing the stuff...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on July 9, 2006 8:56 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Arts & Letters Daily

It's been a long time since we've linked to Arts & Letters Daily, but thought it needed pointing out that if you're looking for an edited selection of links to a whole bevy of articles, A&L Daily is the place...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on January 16, 2006 3:30 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Jeff’s Mitchell’s Christmas Songs

Photo by Julie Strom Hendrickson Christmas is coming, snow coats northeast Iowa, and I am listening to Christmas music. Last year, Jeff Mitchell wrote and recorded two Christmas songs for me. For my annual compilation of Christmas music, he...

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Posted by Faust Gertz on December 23, 2005 8:00 AM · Permalink

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