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• photo-by-you-guessed-it-kathryn-yu-weve... by The Rich Girls are Weeping

  "[photo by--you guessed it--Kathryn Yu]We've just returned form the Brooklyn Based Cocktail Club event, thoroughly perplexed by the existence of Serato, and how many superfluous buttons it adds to an otherwise pretty simple Rane mixer. Not that we don't admire the required skillset, since it's a lot like working with..."

• Super Random Friday Five Track Free For All Freak Out by Lil Mike's Last Known Thoughts & Random Revelations

  "Greetings from the tail of what was my Hectic Hump Day...and man, if Friday isn't banging on the door already...I'm currently in the midst of simultaneously monitoring the taping of 3 different classrooms with a total of six cameras...and using the ol' sneaker net to monitor a "Digital Media Law..."

• Orchestra Listings, December 13-16 by ANALOG blog

  "Midway through December, and only four orchestras are left performing non-pops music. Kudos to the National for actually listing its pops rep.Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (12/13, 15)BACH - Christmas Oratorio, Part IIHANDEL - Messiah, part INorman Mackenzie, conductorKelley O' Connor, mezzo-sopranoCyndia Sieden, sopranoRichard Clement, tenorGerard Sundberg, bassBaltimore Symphony Orchestra (12/14-16)Holiday SpectacularJack..."

• Quickies!: Bruce Eisenbeil Sextet, Josh Roseman, Machan, Blackfield by Dablog by DaSLOB

  "by PicoDoes this ever happen to you: as soon as I listen to a record I acquired for the first time, I'm writing a review in my head. Sometimes there's so much to say, I've written what feels like War And Peace by the time it's all done. Other times,..."

• Foreign tongues by The Determined Dilettante

  "Listening to France Inter radio recently, I learned that Mimi Perrin, the founder and lead member of les Double Six vocal group in the 60s, also translates books from English into French. The revelation came in a discussion of the latest John Le Carré novel, which just came out in..."