http://usedtobecool.com One man's journey away from cool... er... through music... Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:04:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been a paid eMusic subscriber for over 3 years now. So it's about time that I start commenting on the albums downloaded each month. Since my subscription refreshes around the 16th, expect these posts to not-so-randomly appear in the middle at the end of the month. Los Campesinos! - Hold ... http://usedtobecool.com/2008/04/emusic-marchapril-2008/ And here lies the reason this site will never truly succeed. I am finally updating again, only to talk about last week. What a posting schedule. Anyway, early last week I managed to stumble upon a very important post. It started with simply noticing that the header on Music Snobbery ... http://usedtobecool.com/2008/04/moby-totally-destroys-hoboken/ Is anyone else there in the New York area tired of missing out on all of the cool festivals? Chicago, California, and even Tennessee get to host really awesome multi-day events year after year that make me drool over the line-ups. And while New York City can be awesome for ... http://usedtobecool.com/2008/03/let-there-be-live-music/ I feel woefully inadequate to write a review of jazz music, much less of an actual jazz concert. As much as I enjoy jazz, it has never been a big part of my collection which can make it very difficult to talk about when knowledge is so integral to the ... http://usedtobecool.com/2008/03/pat-metheny-trio-at-the-keswick-theatre/ Have you ever had one of those musical breakthroughs whe you finally get into an artist? It's like when you're young and everyone talks about how great Dylan and The Beatles are but it just doesn't jive with you. And then on your 20th time trying to make it through ... http://usedtobecool.com/2008/02/i-finally-get-it-wilco/ If you paid attention to my listening stats over the past few weeks, you would have noticed a couple artists staking a claim in the weekly top 10. One of those would be the absolutely delightful St. Vincent. One of my recent acquisitions thanks to eMusic, Marry Me is an ... http://usedtobecool.com/2008/02/st-vincent-marry-me/ So I'm sitting here listening to some classic Soundgarden, and it sure does take me back. It may seem a tad silly to get so nostalgic when you haven't even made it through another decade, but albums like Superunknown and the unjustly overlooked Down on the Upside came at a ... http://usedtobecool.com/2008/02/a-flashback-of-sorts/