Nighty night…
Posted on January 5, 2011 | By Christian | No Comments
Lullaby Renditions of Pink Floyd
If you’re like me you probably remember the good ole college days of drinking excessively and listening to Pink Floyd. Well now you can pass that on to your children! Well, maybe not the excessive drinking… but you get the point.
Check out Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Pink Floyd and you too can send your kids to the Dark Side of the Moon!
MTV Pushing out ‘cynical’ Generation X
Posted on February 24, 2010 | By Christian | 3 Comments
Here's to you MTV!
Well, its official. MTV has announced their focus on Millennials, casting aside Generation X… the generation that made MTV. Sad news indeed. I’d like to give a big FU to MTV. Not just for this recent admission, but for the crap they have been broadcasting for the past 20 years. There was a time when MTV was about music television. It was certainly a revolutionary, but simple, concept that changed music forever. Play popular music but with supporting video. It changed everything. No longer were we sitting by the radio listening to music while doing something else. Now we were completely focused on the music as a total sensory experience. And when I say focused, I mean sitting like a zombie starring at the TV, one music video after another… completely enthralled. It was a perfect formula and our generation shaped it. Read more
TSF4: Mary’s Gone Slackers, is NOW ONLINE!
Posted on December 29, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | 1 Comment
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The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 4: Mary’s Gone Slackers
We’re mysteriously hungry for crackers, thirsty for new music, high on caffeine but not motivated enough to get this podcast done in a more timely manner. Subscribe with iTunes
Links:
Meandering Rant on Slacking by Patty Pino
Cool Products Book Report featuring:
Music Segment on Ghostly International and the iPhone application, Ghostly Discovery
TSF3: Frustrated Pleasures
Posted on December 5, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
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Episode 3: Always looking for something else or something other to the somethings we experience every day, we focus on the changed experience of finding new music and the challenges to the way we eat. We wrap with the Jolly Green Giant’s favorite musician, Scout Niblett.
<Check out Rob’s Why All New Music Sucks, a Meandering Rant from TSF3>
TSF2: Well, At Least We Arent Napping
Posted on November 11, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
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Episode 2: The Slacker Factor team ponders the Power of Tape, the advent of Social Networking with all of its love and annoyances, as well as the music of School of Seven Bells who are aptly named after a mythical South American pickpocket training academy (or so says the all knowing Wikipedia).
<Read pp’s The Power of Tape, a Meandering Rant from TSF2.>
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