The album...

Anyone have preliminary thoughts about Boxer?

Who has bought pitchfork tickets? I'm going to get them soon. Two days or all three? Not sure..

Metric - Fantasies

Also streamable, Metric's new one: Fantasies. I haven't listened yet but I'm about to. I've been looking forward to this one!

http://www.chromewaves.net/2009/03/stream-metrics-fantasies/

MP3 'Distortions' the New Vinyl 'Warmth'?

O'Reilly Radar has an interesting article about how during blind tests, people tend to prefer the sound of mp3 over uncompressed audio. This seems to be completely analogous to the cultural preference that developed toward the audio effects of vinyl.

Mirah (a)spera

(a)spera, the new Mirah album is streamable... I was going to live blog through my first listen but I got bored with that after the first three tracks (bored with live blogging, not with the music!) It feels pretty good to hear something new from Mirah, who hasn't released an album since...early 2000something (C'Mon Miracle). I don't usually read Pitchfork but they gave her a good review, if that means anything to ya.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12809-aspera/

First Meeting

- Sitting at a table

- Spilled coffee

- Steve and Nick late, everyone a little late

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Actual meeting notes:

- Monthly album, how to choose?

- One member chooses the album for the month.

- Rotate who chooses, volunteers first.

- First album, The National - The Boxer.

- Choose album on the 8th. Send out e-mail.

- Whoever chooses album distributes music.

- Decide who is going to pick the next album before next meeting.

- Meetings

- Once a month on the weekend.

- Decide on place whenever.

- April 3rd @ 7:00 p.m. - first meeting, at Reem's. 

- Initiation Survey/Application

- Top three albums right now

- Top three influential albums

- Situational question:

- Theme song

- Cleaning music

- A good cry

- What are your ideas for the group?

- Do you play, sing, or record?

- What music do you hate?

- Format of meetings

- Listen to album during hangout time.

- Discussion points:

- Lyrical

- Nerdiac music stuff (time sigs, instrumentation, theory/philosophical, recording techniques)

- Influences

- Live 

- Vocal stylings

- Action items

- Breena to add Last.fm account

- Nick to send out facebook

- Steve to do survey

- Breena to doll up the site

- Albums right now

- Nick: Animal Collective

- Steve: Noah and the Whale, The Octopus Project, new Andrew Bird

- Gwen: new Andrew Bird

- Reem: Ghostland Observatory

- Breena: The Dears