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The Labor of Love

Stephen Mejias Dec 05, 2009 First Published: Dec 05, 2009

I wonder if Karenhttp://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/not_not_fun/">Karen;, over at Other">http://www.othermusic.com/index.cgi">Other Music, has gotten around to listening to Sex Worker’s The">http://www.notnotfun.com/now.html">The Labor of Love. I’d like to tell her about it. I probably wouldn’t tell her like this:

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The Way We Listened Then

Stephen Mejias Dec 04, 2009 First Published: Dec 04, 2009

Have you read thathttp://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_way_we_listen_now/">that<…;, yet? Okay, now read this: “Reconsidering">http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/116282-reconsidering-the-revival-o… the Revival of Cassette Tape Culture,” by PopMatters’ Calum Marsh.

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The Way We Listen Now

Stephen Mejias Dec 03, 2009 First Published: Dec 03, 2009

Okay, read this: The">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121023882">The Decade in Music: The Way We Listen Now, from NPR’s “All Things Considered.”

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Even in the Rain

Stephen Mejias Dec 03, 2009 First Published: Dec 03, 2009

Here’s the video for the Fiery Furnaces’s hit single, “Even in the Rain,” which is possibly my favorite track from the band’s excellently easy-to-listen-to album, I’m Going Away. (It’s not really a “hit.” I just made that up. But it could be, if we lived in a different world.)

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In A Strangeland

Stephen Mejias Dec 02, 2009 First Published: Dec 02, 2009

This is what I want from music:

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Not Not Fun!

Stephen Mejias Dec 01, 2009 First Published: Dec 01, 2009

On Friday, I promised myself that I would spend no more money on records until after the New Year. On Saturday, I found myself at Other">http://www.othermusic.com/">Other Music with three LPs in my hands. Gah! I brought them up to the counter, where the cute girl with the black hair was waiting. I felt despicable.

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Fluid Piano

Stephen Mejias Dec 01, 2009 First Published: Dec 01, 2009

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An Important Sale

Stephen Mejias Nov 30, 2009 First Published: Nov 30, 2009

Oh, the aptly named Important">http://importantrecords.com/index.htm">Important Records, one of my favorite sources for outstanding experimental, noise, and otherwise out-there recordings, is having a crazy holiday sale, yo. Check it out: You can buy 44 compact">http://importantrecords.com/releases/44_66_sale.html">compact discs for just $44. Or 66 compact discs for just $66. Finally! And your purchase comes with a sweet tote bag. You’ll need it for hauling around all those compact discs.

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Talk of the Town

Stephen Mejias Nov 30, 2009 First Published: Nov 30, 2009

Saturday, December 5, 11am–5pm: Talk">http://www.talkofthetownvideo.com/welcome.html">Talk of the Town will host an “Audio, Video, & Home Theater Demo Day.” Show highlights will include demonstrations of SIM2’s C3X Lumis Host projector; Marantz’s 9004 Reference Blu-ray player; Totem Acoustics’s Wind">http://blog.stereophile.com/ssi2009/totem_wind_design/">Wind Design loudspeakers; Classe’s SSP-800 preamplifier-processor with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA surround decoding; McIntosh’s MA7000 integrated amplifier; and Meridian’s DSP 5200 digital active speakers and Sooloos Music">http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/908sooloos/">Music Server System.

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Dreams

Stephen Mejias Nov 30, 2009 First Published: Nov 30, 2009

I dreamed that I was back in">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/what_happened_in_puerto_rico/… Puerto Rico with the Vivian Girls. They asked me to work on a new song with them. We decided to set up a rehearsal space at my aunt’s beach house. It was taking us awhile to get the instruments properly set up, and Katy was becoming anxious, but I soothed her nerves with a stunning spread of snacks and candies: finger sandwiches, kiwis, grapes, pomegranates, baskets of popcorn, bowls of pretzels and chips, towers of Twizzlers, tall pyramids of Almond Joy…