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- Spoon
Gimme Fiction by Spoon is a terrific album by an Austin band that I was lucky enough to catch on an Austin radio station during a Christmas visit.
- Goldfrapp
On their latest CD, Supernature, Goldfrapp has put together a successful mix of 1980-era New Romanticism, German cabaret, and T. Rex glam that leaves you riveted even through the album's lulls. It's a great amalgam that sounds current without sounding at all dated.
The Last 5 Years (2002 Off-Broadway Cast)
- Jason Robert Brown
- The soundtrack to this moving off-broadway musical is heart moving. The lyrics follow a couple in a relationship for five years, one point of view going forward in time, and the other tracing time fr
- Amon Tobin
- The genius is in the beats. Amon Tobin creates fantastic, groovy beats behind beats. "Supermodified" rolls through your expectations of breakbeat music, and turns them up a bit. It's a mellow album, p
- Fantomas
Mike Patton may well be one of the hardest working men in showbiz these days, and his latest with Fantômas underscores just about how far out he is willing to travel.
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Building Design Based on Apple’s iPod
Thursday, December 21st, 2006 at 2:00 PM - by Jeff Gamet
Dubai-based real estate developer Omniyat Properties has a 23-story case of iPod envy, and has the building plans to prove it. The company, according to Gulfnews, plans to open a 23 story, 200 unit building in 2009 that looks like a giant iPod.
![]() iPodObserver's rendering of the building with its first resident, Captain Jack Sparrow. |
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The building will sit at a six degree angle atop an iPod dock-like structure to help complete the illusion of a giant iPod. It was designed by the Hong Kong-based James Law Cybertecture International architectural firm.
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