May 2013
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Haim @SXSW 2013: NPR Music Front Row →
“I’m schvitzing,” says Este Haim. She’s just two songs into a blistering set for a sun-burned crowd packed shoulder-to-shoulder at Cedar Street Courtyard. Yo…
Really wish they were playing our local music festival, Outside Lands.
January 2013
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The Bestest, Fimmage 2012
Another great year for films large and small, but in reality I think it was the bigger films that were better than the indies. Perhaps it’s that the indie film marketplace has never been more difficult than it is today. Art house screens are disappearing and the ones that exist are often not much bigger than the screen in your living room. Add to that the compression of release windows, and you’ll...
The Bestest, Tunage 2012
This year, building a music discovery platform called @TastemakerX, I was looking harder than usual at new music. I was doing this primarily to prove my thesis that music discovery is becoming increasingly more difficult. This is due in part to the enormous decrease in the costs of producing and distributing music, thanks in part to technology (for production) and the internet (for distribution)....
December 2012
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End of Year, Cheer...
The beginning of the end of the beginning. I guess that’s where we are today, a year’s worth of making, iterating, reformulating, and building out what we hope is becoming the most robust social music discovery platform on the web.
In the last few months we have been evolving TastemakerX to include quite a bit more information about artists and the tastemakers who care about them. Our goal from...
September 2012
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Fall's here & we've got a huge update for you with...
Dear Tastemakers,
We wanted to thank you all for continuing to make the TastemakerX platform an active place to spend time discovering new music and like minded music fans. It’s important to remember that we are still working feverishly to finish what we originally set out to do, so we appreciate your patience throughout. Believe us, we can’t wait to get there!
Over the next few...
July 2012
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July Music That Matters
Music on a summer day just sounds better. Here are the records that made it all worthwhile. TastemakerX: July Music That Matters Spotify Playlist
1) Lower Dens – Nootropics
Like Beach House on Xanax, Baltimore’s Lower Dens spins deep mellow grooves build on the beautifully androgynous vocals of Jana Hunter and the metronomic drum and bass lines. The ten songs here crash like gentle waves and then...
April 2012
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Coachella: Beautiful music, not enough bandwidth …
Post by Marc Ruxin
I’ve been going to Coachella for many years now and I have also been to almost every other festival of its kind, but somehow Coachella is different. In many ways, depending how you play it and like all great festivals, Coachella can be a genuinely spiritual experience. It is not just about the groove of any individual set, but the overall vibe of the festival that continues on a...
March 2012
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Music Matters
When I look back at my life and choose the one thing that has mattered the most and defined me as a person, without question it would be music. I’m not sure when it started but somehow, imagined or real, I have this vague but powerful image of myself as a child riffling through the records housed in an antique armoire belonging to my parents and stumbling upon the curious cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s...
