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Entries from March 31st, 2009

iPod Generation killed the Radio DJ

March 31st, 2009 1 Comment

So I was streaming WXPN close to the end of my working day. They just finished up a song, and I decided I might switch over to blip.fm to see what was blippin’ around. As I was quickly cycling through my blip songs sequentially, I came to Bon Iver’s Blood Bank, and hastily [...]

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A Smokey Maverick kinda song

March 25th, 2009 No Comments

We don’t hold to many things near and dear to our heart here at Smokey Maverick, but those few, lucky values that find themselves in our good standing are treated like kings.
This is why I feel the need to highlight the song Beer Drinkers, which is a live cover by Drive-by Truckers of Tab Whisenhunt’s [...]

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Book Buzz: Second helpings of Freakonomics, anyone?

March 16th, 2009 3 Comments

Book: Mind of the Market
by Micheal Sherman
This books publishing no doubt enjoyed riding the waves created by the splash of Freaknomics. Mind of the Market rides on it’s coattails by it’s characteristics of stand-alone independent chapters and it’s laymen writing resulting in a relative easy read, as well as viewing social and psychological [...]

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