Category Archives: Music

Guitar Twaddle

By raishad | Published: February 4, 2011

As you may or may not know, I’m learning to play the guitar. I have a Fender Jaguar The downside of playing the guitar is that I notice a lot of boring guitar things. Like…. Today, Johnny Marr, of The Smiths, posted a picture to his twitter feed of him playing his Fender Jaguar wearing [...]

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Cheap Christmas Gift: Awesome Playlist

By raishad | Published: December 24, 2010

That’s right, my Christmas gift to you, reader (notice the singular), is a playlist I’ve been sitting on for a few weeks. Long recently got a new car, and in honor of it having a cd player, I decided to made a mix cd of awesome songs. I think it came out pretty well. It’s [...]

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Elliptical Records: The Manhattan Love Suicides

By raishad | Published: October 24, 2010

The 2nd Elliptical Records is The Manhattan Love Suicides – Self Titled debut album. Again, this isn’t like Andrew W.K. shouting and telling you to party hard, making you run faster. This album is only 38 minutes long. So I pretty much heard it twice. On the first listen I really enjoyed it. Surprised the [...]

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Elliptical Records: Dear Catastrophe Waitress

By raishad | Published: October 21, 2010

I’m going to try and have a regular feature on raishad.com. We’ll see how long this lasts. Anyways… An Elliptical Record is an album I listen to while using my elliptical. Since I only use my elliptical for 30 minutes at a time, I will listen to the album in 30 minute blocks. A great [...]

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Capabilities 2010

By raishad | Published: October 14, 2010

It was only last week ago that I was in Austin for Austin City Limits 2010. It seems so far away now. Now, that I’m back to my humdrum life. I miss ACL. Sadly, it looks like I won’t be returning to Austin for Austin City Limits 2011. I’m not getting old, it’s just that [...]

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Disney’s California Adventure Soundtrack

By raishad | Published: July 26, 2010

This last week I was out in Sunny California for Comic-Con 2010. I created 2 playlists. One sort of about California and a more general road trip mix. The first playlist, I put some thought in to it. I imagined I was a guest on Adam Buxton’s Big Mixtape and I would have to talk [...]

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Lucky Rabbit’s Foot?

By raishad | Published: July 18, 2010

On October 19th, Frightened Rabbit will be playing The Loft in Dallas. Great news, right? Well, for you. But not for me. Tuesdays and Thursdays I have class this fall. So I’ll be missing Frightened Rabbit again. For those keeping track at home, this will be the fourth time this year I’ll be missing Frightened [...]

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I’m Losing My Edge

By raishad | Published: June 21, 2010

…but that’s okay, I’m famous. Famous-ish… Internet Famous? ________ly known My name was mentioned on BBC 6 Music by Andrew Collins you see. Your browser does not support the audio element. The back story: Andrew Collins, 6 Music DJ Sub extraordinaire, announced via Twitter that he was going to play an LCD Soundsystem block. Excited, [...]

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Double Vision

By raishad | Published: June 9, 2010

We’re running out of fonts and names. Don’t believe me? Take a look at Blur, the videogame compare that to Blur, the band Obviously, Blur the band wins. They were first and they are better.

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Give it a day

By raishad | Published: May 9, 2010

Would it be taking things to far, if for your ‘Date with Ikea’ – you had ? Big thanks to Slickdeals, Ikea, Mother’s Day and Pavement. Without them, this amazing joke wouldn’t be possible.

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