Category Archives: Music

Audio Addiction: Kings of Leon

Posted on 5 May 2010 by Erik

Usually, when I do an Audio Addiction its for a specific album, but I’m bending my own rules a little bit and doing “double disc” AA this time around.  I got the three most recent Kings of Leon CDs this … Continue reading →

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Audio Addiction: Pearl Jam’s Backspacer

Posted on 29 December 2009 by Erik

I fail at blogging.  I wrote this post like three weeks ago and thought I published it.  Apparently not.  Here it is anyway. The biggest difference between this and previous PJ records is that its…happy?  My first reaction when I … Continue reading →

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Audio Addiction: Let Your Troubles Roll By – Carbon Leaf

Posted on 25 July 2009 by Erik

The most recent song to get really heavy repeat play on my CD player. Carbon Leaf is a band from Richmond, VA that has attained some pretty significant regional success, but has only made it to #136 on the Billboard … Continue reading →

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Totally Digging Pandora Radio

Posted on 21 May 2009 by Erik

Apparently this has been around for a while and I just didn’t know about it, but if you’re in to music and you like finding new stuff you should definitely check out Pandora Radio.  Pandora Radio is an Internets radio … Continue reading →

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Shuffle Friday

Posted on 20 March 2009 by Erik

I’m totally stealing this idea from TJ (I hope he doesn’t mind), but I finally had a good shuffle that wasn’t interrupted by a law lecture or encore break from one of the PJ concerts I have on CD so … Continue reading →

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Audio Addiction: Pearl Jam’s Hard to Imagine

Posted on 26 January 2009 by Erik

I’m completely hooked on this song right now.  This one comes off of the second disc of the Lost Dogs and Rarities album.  For context, Lost Dogs is a compilation of B-sides from singles they released and songs that were … Continue reading →

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Fun Freakonomics Facts

Posted on 15 December 2008 by Erik

I love my Freakonomics daily desk calendar.  Some totally random facts about totally random stuff.  I thought these three days last week were worth sharing.  For a little context, facts and figures are often bunched into a themed topic so … Continue reading →

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Audio Addiction: Feist – The Reminder

Posted on 11 November 2008 by Erik

So I’m pretty late to the game on this one but this CD is awesome.  Music critics, who I rarely agree with, having been raving about Feist since her single “1234″ was used in an iPod Nano commercial (maybe even … Continue reading →

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iTunes Genius Not All That Smart?

Posted on 16 September 2008 by Erik

One of the new features in the latest version of iTunes is Genius.  The Genius sidebar looks at information about songs that are in your library and recommends other songs from the iTunes music store that you might be interested … Continue reading →

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