Lala la la… la. Lefsetz and His Readers Miss the Point.

Bob Lefsetz.  I love reading his blog. He had his opinion and it doesn’t change.  But Bob, like many of his readers, are hypocrites.  They talk all day long about how the album is dead and the single is the future (Ok, ok. I actually agree with this sentiment).  The thing is, they also talk [...]

Lala is Realizing the IdioBeat Dream.

We like music.  Lots of music.  Of all different genres.  But with the sheer volume of music released there is no way can’t afford to own all of it.  How do we choose what to purchase?  We sample music wherever we can get it: blogs, torrents, and friends. Oh yeah.  If we can’t find it [...]

New IdioBeat Mixtape

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October Mixtape

I put together a Favtape of some of the songs I’ve been listening to this week.  I’m mostly an album junkie, so it’s safe to assume that I’ve been listening to the albums that contain these songs.  If you’ve never used Favtape, it’s an mp3 crawler version of Opentape.

Kaiser Chiefs - Addicted to Drugs
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New Mixtape:

9/20/08 - The Truth About Gats and Pogs
-Ryan

Hard Hitter

I got song from a mixtape by Brad Barrish and it hit me pretty hard. Dig it.
The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City
-Ryan

Sound On

You gotta love a good Clash re-interpretation. I’ve got fond memories of this song, mostly from covering it with my old band Orion Frequency.
Santogold - Guns of Brooklyn
-Ryan

Hello World.

Mark this day.  Not only is today the date of my sister’s 25th birthday, but it’s also the day that Idiobeat is finally publicly born.
Idiobeat is an ongoing collaboration between Joshua Kuss and Ryan Taylor.  It started as a vision for on-deck mobile streaming per-per-play service.  Ideas evolved, business plans were written, content deal terms [...]