All over the Internet, people are expressing righteous indignation at the gall of a guy named Nick Madson, who performs comedy routines in Davenport, Iowa.  BUT THAT’S NOT ALL, you see.  He performs word-for-word routines of other stand-up comedians–Dave Attell, Louis C.K., and where this whole thing started, the best stand-up comedian working today, and [...]

1.  “‘The Underdog’ has a million chords,” says Daniel. “A lot of songs on this record are just one or two chords. There’s a lot more droning.”
Britt Daniel, on the rawer new Spoon record, to Spinner (also).
2. “’Virgin mishandled an earlier remaster series,’ says Partridge, ‘and there were all sorts of bad color separations and [...]

“The most striking thing to me about this isn’t: Downloading possibly leads to sales. But: Over the course of the past decade, a lot of people just stopped giving a shit about music altogether. Yet the survey, its results (from what I’ve seen) and the discussions of it don’t seem to consider this at all.”
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