Tag Archives: music

MUXTAPE: IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME

If you click on the mix­tape link in the top nav­i­ga­tion, you’ll find a puz­zling mes­sage from Mux­tape. It reads as fol­lows: “Mux­tape will be unavail­able for a brief peri­od while we sort out a prob­lem with the RIAA.” It was a con­cern I had the moment Mux­tape went viral in late March. Any­one who was pay­ing atten­tion when the site launched could’ve seen this com­ing, despite Mux­tape’s efforts to tie the site to Ama­zon and defend it from would-be stream rip­pers. Appar­ent­ly it was­n’t enough. It’s hard to believe that they’ll be back any­time soon.

I’m actu­al­ly a lit­tle sur­prised that there has­n’t been more out­cry over this. I’ve only seen this post from Val­ley­wag in my feed read­er so far. This is the stuff of an epic Hip­ster Runoff post! Will there be a har­row­ing exo­dus from Mux­tape to 8tracks? I already have!

New Black Mountain Video — “Wucan”

Black Moun­tain prob­a­bly just employed the most tired con­cept for their lat­est video, “Wucan,” but I’m sure plen­ty of herbs will go absolute­ly bonkers for it.  As I watched this video I could­n’t help but wish they’d fleshed out the Krautrock from their last album instead of pur­su­ing this Easy Rid­er non­sense. [via Fork­cast]Con­tin­ue read­ing “New Black Moun­tain Video — “Wucan””