Music Trade, Vol 3

Monday, May 22 by Brian Pan

Thanks to everyone who made it out and enjoyed some music trading. Sorry to those who could not make it or missed the presentation. I uploaded the outline if you're interested.

Headphones Overview

Another presentation is on the way. Hopefully Dan and I can work out the details and logistics soon. Also, there have been many requests for another repeat of the Hip Hop presentation so I will most likely give an encore at Palatine for those who have not seen it yet sometime in June/July.

For the Headphone Lab, I don't think I did a very good job picking songs that really let you hear the differences between the headphones but at least they were good songs! Here are two of the songs that I used if you want to grab them.

Pinback - Non-photo Blue
Minus The Bear - Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!

By the way, if you like Minus The Bear, also check out Sharks Keep Moving.

MIT Resonance

Saturday, May 20 by Brian Pan

Resonance is a student a cappella group at MIT that sings and performs skits. Their songs are fun and funny covers of pop songs with faithfully reproduced from vocals to instruments as a cappella songs.

Here's a couple videos from their web page (and the original songs for comparison). Check them out. :)

Killers - Mr Brightsides



Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe

Such Great Heights

Tuesday, May 9 by Brian Pan

A sappy song in honor of my recent engagement to the girl of my dreams, aka, Gracebot.

The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

Airy, dreamy, and upbeat. This is the single from their album Give Up which was released in 2004. An interesting headphones song.

Some trivia- The USPS sent the band a cease and desist letter but made happy after the band agreed to some promotion for the USPS and now they sell the band's albums on their web page. Now, if only Apple Computer and Apple Corps would kiss and make up too, then all would be right with the world.

Iron & Wine - Cover

This is an acoustic guitar cover of Such Great Heights that was on the Garden State soundtrack (and on a keliedescopy M&M's candy commercial not too long ago). A very different sounding take on the song- also dreamy but in a altogether different way. I think this slow, sauntering version complements the lyrics very well.