Yahoo! Music will be shutting down its DRM servers on Sept. 30 2008, one month later than what was scheduled for MSN. All Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscribers should have received the announcement on July 25. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. Yahoo! indicated earlier in the year that experiments were showing a marked increase in sales on music where

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Here it is… the record holder for slowest new music release week ever. Only a couple albums to recommend to everyone this week.

Dr. Dog - “Fate”
Walls of Jericho - “The American Dream”
Scars on Broadway - “Scars on Broadway”

That’s it for this week. No comments. No album I’d hate to admit might be good. I’m boycotting the slow week. Everything

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Band:	Alive in Wild Paint
Album:	Ceilings

Alive in Wild Paint is a band that I don’t understand. They’re packaging is very modern, their name is very modern and even they’re marketing is very modern. Why then when I put the album on am I transported back in time five years?

This is not to say that the album is all together horrible; it just reminds me of a time when Dashboard Confessional ruled teenagers bedrooms because they were too sad to leave. The music itself is very well produced and I must

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Band:	Damiera
Album:	Quiet Mouth Loud Hands

The record industry is one that is always struggling to find something new; the next best thing as it were. It’s a struggle that we all hear about and one that has become even more public now that the file sharing generation doesn’t want to buy albums anymore.

So in keeping this in mind I recently popped an album into my deck that has piqued my interest in a way that few albums over the last couple years has done. The band is Damiera and the

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Sohmer of “Least I Could Do” fame recently created a satirical video that, towards the end, claimed that Emo is this generations Hippie. Watch it and see.

As funny as I found the video, and the comment, I couldn’t help but wonder if he’s right. So, to prove it one way, or another, I’ve created a list of comparable qualities of the stereotypical

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