Tag: Mixtape
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Listen Here: When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth: Dad Rock in the 1970s
Every Record Tells A Story presents: A Blog You Can Listen To… You can listen to all the music mentioned in this post via the Mixcloud player above, or if that isn’t working click on this link and the Mixcloud player will open in a new tab. Click the Mixcloud player link above, and read…
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A Spotify Playlist That Isn’t Trying To Sell You Something: Guaranteed!
In a world where Spotify algorithms are finding ever more devious ways to enter our consciousness it seems almost old-fashioned having an actual human recommend you some music. U2’s ill-fated attempt to load their new album automatically on the world’s iPods now seems almost quaint. Spotify added Drake tracks to hundreds of their playlists upon…
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Are You A Music Obsessive? Check This Scientific Test: Plus A 2013 Mixtape
How much of a music fan are you? You may be pretty keen, but just how keen? I remember many years ago someone called Danny Baker’s radio show to say he had regularly sorted through Paul McCartney’s bins and pulled out a Christmas card from one of the other Beatles. What was interesting about that, aside from…
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Home Taping is Killing Music Part 2: Top Ten Tips for Home Taping
Taping the charts off the radio has rather gone out of fashion… However, following the much publicised shutdown of Megaupload, keen file sharers may find it trickier to download music files (aside from using the hundred or so copycat sites of course…). With that in mind, here are my Top Ten Tips for Home Taping…(you have…