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Destination Düsseldorf II: Electri_City ’24 Conference Celebrates A Decade Exploring Music + Art

Just two days later and we’re looking back to Düsseldorf again! A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend who was telling me about this year’s Electri_City Conference in Düsseldorf and how he was wanting to make the … Continue reading

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I’m back from the big trip and was looking in the spam filters of the website to catch up a bit as some false positives occur, and Peter Glaser sent a comment with something about Sam the Record Man that … Continue reading

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2023: The Year In Buying Music [part 4]

[…continued from last post] The third category of note is one near and dear to the Post-Punk Monk’s heart. Possibly the raison d’etre of my mission as Post-Punk Monk; reissues. And there are almost as many of them vying for … Continue reading

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2023: The Year In Buying Music [part 3]

[…continued from last post] Singles were very active this year with 19 being purchased. Singles were primarily non-LP tracks, but in a few cases were singles attached to full albums. Sometimes even in physical format! Most of these were from … Continue reading

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2023: The Year In Buying Music [part 2]

[…continued from last post] ALBUMS OF THE YEAR So what were my favorite albums of the year? I think this year I have set a modern record for hearing albums contemporaneously in the year of their release. Seventeen albums from the … Continue reading

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2023: The Year In Buying Music [part 1]

2023 was in some key respects, a replay of 2022. Last year I was busy from March until the end of the year [and beyond] on household upgrades and projects that took large amounts of time and money. This year … Continue reading

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…Then They Burn The Parking Lot To The Ground: The Even More Troubling Sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr

Last year, the sale of online music sales platform Bandcamp to video game company Epic games seemed to make no sense at all. At the time, It boded poorly for Bandcamp’s future, but until last month, the much-loved platform was … Continue reading

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