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Chic Rock #2

Insound, as always, is awesome.  I’ve been a regular listener of their periodically issued digital mix tapes since the beginning of digital time.  The concept started out as a physical record of digital data, or in other terms, a CD.  You would get this CD with a – in my case, rather large – shipment of CD’s, along with a bunch of extra stickers and posters.  While listening to said CD, you would be welcomed into another dimension of space and time, where the taste-makers at Insound invited you to hang out for awhile.  In these days of Spotify and Ping, some people don’t even own CD’s (What?) but just download music.  Insound’s down with that.  (They are?  Ok, then I am, too.)  The perk of this digital age is that I don’t even have to buy anything to get their mixtape.  It’s free for download.

So I’ve already expounded on the reasons for which Insound is so, well, awesome.  But here’s another reason.  Their February mixtape is full of female artists.

Like Nite Jewel.

Love the ’80s sound.

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Cruesli

Cruesli (one of the cereals that is marketed in Europe from Quaker Oats) is pretty damn good. I have been buying the ‘Winter’ variety almost every time that I’ve gone to the grocery store. I slipped up a few times to buy the standard varieties, but I have always felt like I’ve needed to go back to the winter variety. It won’t be available once summer starts! The feeling is exactly like the compulsion to always buy the pumpkin flavored coffee drinks at Starbucks/Gloria Jean’s/Dunn Bros. in October. This is a great marketing strategy since I feel like the product will run out at some point. Also, I am buying into Quaker Oats’ opinion on what flavors they think the average European consumer would enjoy during the colder months.

Chic Rock

Currently listening to:

Cat Power – What Would the Community Think – experimental
Cat Power – You Are Free – best one of hers. still experimental, much better than her new “diva” sound.
Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling – folky
Thao – We Brave Bee Stings and All – great
Feist – The Reminder – musical

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