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starting with killing napster and ever since, the RIAA has done everything in it’s power to squash any sort of innovative service or method of discovering new music, making it quite difficult to find out about new music and up and coming artists.

well, a new service is fighting back. taking us all the way back to the time before napster (or even the internet for that matter) to a time when the best way to profess your love for a girl was to make her a mix tape and the walkman was the device to have, is muxtape.

muxtape has been around for a while now (at least in internet terms), but today, i really came to appreciate it when i stumbled upon thegetupkid’s mix at http://thegetupkid.muxtape.com/. i thouroughly enjoy the completely random nature of “popping in” a new mixtape and being surprised. i’m also digging the super simple interface and simplicity of using the site - it’s as easy as a tape deck in your car, but without all the rewinding.

try it out, i’m sure you’ll like it too.

thanks to one of crystal’s (ex)coworkers and the power of facebook, i found out that portishead will soon be releasing a new album, called ‘third’. they also recently released their first single from the album, which you can view below. i’ve got to say, that although it’s a bit dark sounding, i really do love it. if this single is any indication of how the rest of the album is going to be, i’ll be waiting in line to buy it on release day.