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Fanatec GT America + IGTC Indianapolis 8 Hour:

Happy Birthday!

Film scoring in GarageBand?!:

This popped up in my feed - interesting gadget (Teenage Engineering TP-7 field recorder) from Sweden:

The Runaways - Cherry Bomb

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Don't know about spatial audio... that would require buying new, expensive hardware. Some engineers still struggle with stereo mixing and mastering, so I'm not in a hurry to complicate things. I thought the announcement was very anticlimactic... the iPhone 15 Pro's A17 claims incremental performance improvements and features like ray-traced graphics and AV1 decode. A 10% and 20% increase in performance from the A16 is hardly a quantum leap. Also, they discontinued the iPhone 13 Mini, which made me sad. They may continue the small format phone in the next iPhone SE update.

I thought the Pixies were just ok... still have all their albums.

The Cardigans - Emmerdale

da fuq? Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit II is quite good on the PS2. It doesn't have that floaty steering of the other versions and it has more tracks and cars, too. Good ole' Uncle Cracker keeps it coming... 🏎️ Looks like those furries need cooling vests and proper ventilation for their, uh, extracurricular activities.

I don't think he's wrong. Linkbaity title and thumbnail, obviously, and it's a broad generalization - there is real indie music out there - we post it here all the time, but discussing it as a commercial phenomenon, yes, the music industry sold "indie sound" as a category for decades.

The death of indie rock:

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Great version! I've never heard of Sally Shapiro... turns out it is the name of a Swedish duo, Johan Agebjörn and a reclusive unnamed vocalist. They announced the end of their group in 2016, then secretly worked on more music. I'm going back to check on their synthpop italo-disco albums. Disco Romance

Sally Shapiro - Rent (Pet Shop Boys cover) From Italians Do It Better, Johnny Jewel of the Chromatics' label

Totally not a tank:

Anthony Garcia - Live in Zug, Switzerland: Seagraves Serenade:

Microsoft didn't get rich by writing checks. Yes, I hope Audeze is able to continue without interference. Sennheiser is doing fine right now under new ownership, right?

True Detective

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down

The Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat Ronnie Augeri on Roland Juno 106 Gunship - Taste Like Venom Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker

And now for something newer - Non Stop Pop (100.7 FM from GTA V):

Television - Marquee Moon (1977)

Talk Talk - It's My Life (40th anniversary)

The Darkness – The Last of Our Kind (2015) Back story on the album cover art: https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2015/10/17/golden-valley-baby-stars-on-the-cover-of-new-album-by-the-darkness