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Natalie Merchant | Tigerlilly | Mobile Fidelity 45RPM

On PBS tonight at 9pm before his performance tomorrow... Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk...A Celebration of New Orleans Blue Hugh Laurie explores the rich musical traditions of New Orleans through a tour of the city and performances of a wide variety of tunes, including with Crescent City legends Allen Toussaint and Irma Thomas; and Welsh singer Tom Jones.

The Boddie Recording Company LPx5 Box Set.

And... Nostalgia on Repeat by Chuck Klosterman - Grantland http://ow.ly/1xS639

Festical sounds a little dirty.

The great Wowee Zowee 2xLP

More info on the Boddie set if anyone is interested...

Yea, first three seasons on Netfix. Fourth currently on cable (thank you BT). Fifth (final) is rumored to be split over two half seasons. After ten episodes I wonder if The Sopranos and The Wire have competition for greatest status? Also, maybe it's an unfair comparison, but am I the only one who thinks Bad further exposes the many things wrong with Dexter?

If it's any consolation it seems the normal models are now the ad-based versions and the used to be normal, non-ad based are the special editions with price points higher than the photo above. Somehow this reverseal didn't get mentioned in majority of articles yesterday (at least that I saw).

As there were several interested after last sale... Squeezebox Touch Music Player $199 - dealmac.com http://j.mp/rl9i36

I thought the standalone Google Chat development (on any platform) was discontinued years ago? Anyway, wouldn't the easiest solution just be to sign into gmail and turn on chat?

Why Tom Selleck should be in every movie...

Shelter 501 II Cartridge. Lets see if this can help vinyl and headphones to coexist.

For those nto wanting the LCD-color and touchscreen, the new "old-style" Kindle has dropped to $79.

And the Fire is official. Out November 15, 2011. "GDGT's Ryan Block notes that the WiFi-only Kindle Fire is merely a "stopgap" product, hence its pre-holiday release. Writes Block, "[M]y sources tell me the second-gen Kindle tablet [...] will be out in Q1 of 2012 -- yes, that soon."

Some Winylco. Thanks Dan.

Ugh. Spotify Now Requiring New Users to Have Facebook Accounts... http://ow.ly/6FlGx

Very late to the game, but watched the first six episodes on Netflix this weekend. The first may be the best pilot I've ever seen.

Vibes and a cool piece too! HBD.

Everything Old: Has pop culture, uh, stopped? http://ow.ly/6ENVM

Does classical music now belong to Asia? http://ow.ly/1xCP5X

julianna barwick | the magic place http://www.npr.org/2...the-magic-place "In the iconic cathedrals of New York, London and Rome reverberate the angelic voices of church choirs. These immaculate buildings were designed and constructed for worship, an architectural offering to God, and oftentimes it's the music which truly understands that offering. It makes sense, then, that Julianna Barwick grew up in church. She opens The Magic Place with "Envelop," in which her looped voice builds from a deeply resonant and reverent place, creating a cosmic hymn refracted out of a glass prism. These are the building blocks — to continue the metaphor — of Barwick's gorgeous past two releases (Sanguine and Florine), and of The Magic Place, as well. But as "Envelop" ends, the spaced-out piano hidden in the mix emerges like dawn, tentative at first, beautiful and bright within minutes. I suppose there's only so much you can do with droning a cappella (though I could listen to it all day), but adding a few instruments and muffled beats to Barwick's carefully constructed vocal loops isn't an escape. Instead, it's where Barwick finds inspiration. The two tracks that depart the most from Barwick's past modes come one right after the other. "Bob in Your Gait" sounds like a lost Mark Hollis or Rachel's demo, draped in echo with a piano sounding as if it had been recorded from the other side of the room. "Prizewinning," on the other hand, features a submerged reggae riddim under Barwick's textured vocal loops, bedding the unexpected beat until four minutes pass and a heavily hit snare beckons like a drummer boy on the battlefield. After its release, I firmly believed that Panda Bear's Person Pitch signaled a new age of sampling-as-song-structure and the move toward the disembodied voice — not a rejection of lyric, but the embrace of pure voice. Unfortunately, many musicians took that as an invitation to create Person Pitch clones, none of them particularly enlightening. The Magic Place is one of the first albums to take a lesson from Person Pitch and apply it with individual grace, more so than on past Barwick efforts. There's euphoric joy in these slow-building choral pieces that celebrates the human voice with humility. The title track, in particular, ever-so-slightly shifts her vocal loops like translucent puzzle pieces. You only realize its repetitive simplicity when Barwick takes everything away and lets silence sing more than we ever thought it could."

Politician/scientist/artist action figures on sale over at Fab today: http://j.mp/r7UR3I