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• Danzig, in a Danzig shirt, buying pet supplies.
• Why Records Are 12 Inches Wide
• First track from Brian Eno’s forthcoming album on Warp
• Rex Broome covers a randomly selected song every day for a year, between his 39th and 40th birthdays.

A few days after this disaster and things look a lot better. All these artists were recommended for me (along with Jay Sean, Avril Lavigne, and Christina Aguilera, sigh…) the last time I checked. It may just be a function of more artists joining up: even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.

Let’s hope this is the effect of them tuning their recommendation engine with more feedback, though.

Dibiase “Skullcrack” from Alpha Pup on Vimeo.

Hey, great concept guys, but can we lose the smoke?

…or just mothball it for a few months until you get it right — it’s embarassing.

These are your tone-deaf recommendations:

Here are the most recent few artists I’ve followed myself.

You have access to my entire iTunes library, play counts, star ratings, etc. I know you can handle this — iTunes Genius does reasonably well recommending things that fall in line with my tastes. At least it knows better than to tell me to follow the Glee cast and Miley Cyrus.

Even if you’re not a proponent of the Big Bang theory, you have to love the synth-pop primordial soup of the early ’80s.

Courtesy of the very excellent Rock Peaks!

Busker ruckus!

Dodging the sun all day meant lots of computer time and wandering thoughts. This is a pretty good intersection of the two.

Zoos of Berlin – Electrical Way from Pomp&Clout on Vimeo.

Hello Summer.

A new favorite over here at Moodmat!