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The Ever Shrinking Album Image – From LPs to Thumbnails – Is There Hope?

With endless debates and blog posts later – does the album artwork really matter? Can we deal with the shift from a large image on a record jacket through a CD jewel cases and now to a few tiny pixels on an iPod?
We can argue for days about whether a good album cover really helps [...]

Rusty’s Pandora Box: Best of March 2009

2009 is turning out to be a really interesting year for indie music, even through the industry is taking hits left and right and it seems like every other day they close down a label or online service. Maybe it’s just me but it seems there is tons of great music suddenly.
Here goes part II [...]

Rusty’s Pandora Box: 2009 Kicks Off with Amazing Albums

Here’s a round up of all the great music and new albums I’ve been listening to this past month. I’ll keep the wording short and the music long.
You can always drop by my last.fm profile and look at what I’m listening to…add me as a friend.

De Rosa - Stillness
Album: Prevention

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Glasgow based [...]

Malajube Return with New Album out February: ‘Labyrinthe’

I raved about Malajube when I got back from Berlin last year, where by chance I caught a glimpse of this amazing indie rock band killing it on stage.
Hailing from the streets of Montreal, Malajube have yet to follow up on their successful sophomore album ‘Trompe L’Oeil’ which was released back in 2006. After a [...]

Best of 2008 (Rustycat): Jagjaguwar Rocks!

I sifted through tons of albums while preparing my best of 2008 album list . It wasn’t until I really dug deep and had a good listen that I realized it wasn’t such a bad music year like I initially thought . I also came to the final conclusion that the Jagjaguwar/Secretly Canadian label, that [...]

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