The Outer Edges

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A lot of gum flapping over the end of the year, not to mention one resolution made at the end that will be hard to keep — gotta watch those slips of the tongue, I suppose. With that said, this was by far the solidest show recorded […]

NY State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, having recently slapped the music industry over the resurrection of “payola” is now looking into the pricing of digital music, seeing if any laws might have been broken:
Aline van Duyn, writing for MarketWatch, reported on Monday that Warner and Sony have confirmed receiving the subpoenas but EMI and Universal […]

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Holidaze indeed!!! I didn’t even make it out of the intro before flubbing — I pushed Christmas up a day on the calendar by mistake. Then I went and had this whole thing talking about my liberal use of the royal “we” — why? Especially […]

As the year starts to draw down and we prepare for 2006, it’s custom in our culture to start making up “best of” lists. And seeing as how I’m now pushing my musical tastes onto the public at large, I guess I should be doing this as well. So I give to you […]

For those digital artist out there who like to need access to free sound effects and loops, you’ll love this site: The Freesound Project. A whole collection of Creative Commons licensed materials up for use in your own works.
If I’m reading the site right, there’s over 12,000 clips in the collection already. […]

Over at Gridskipper there having this award thing called “The Urbs” and
are letting readers decide the winners. Usually I could care less about things like this, but is seems as though good friend BrooklynVegan is up for an award, so I guess I can pay attention this one time.
Go vote and pad some ballot […]

Those on the Bonnaroo mailing list will already know this, but they’ve announced dates for the 2006 edition: June 16th through the 18th. The only other detail given is that there is going to be 10,000 less tickets sold this time around, to try and bring the numbers back to 2003 sizes.
I have […]

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A new record between episodes! After a very unexpected (and quite unexplainable) 67 day hiatus from the world of podcasting, The Outer Edges returns with “Reintroductions Are In Order”. Mostly good music interrupted by brief accounts of disbelief, road trip theories and talk of the great […]