Sunday, December 29, 2013

Radio Dupree 2013 Advent calendar 11-15

So, here we go! We stopped our Advent calendar after Window 10 on December 10. Why? Because we had an idea.
And after letting all the other calendars finish December 24, we now have the luxury of being the only Advent calendar still alive and filling those final few hours of 2013 with the remaining 14 windows we have in store.

Here's 11 - 15:

[Window 11]



Let's begin with a new oldie. The Gramovox Bluetooth gramophone 1920s inspired by the 1920 Magnavox R3 horn speaker. Yours for $299 and up if you get your order in before the end of the year:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gramovox/gramovoxtm-bluetooth-gramophone
  
[Window 12]

With YouTube the most popular music place these days we thought we'd take a look at the year end global chart and finding very little to excite us. Miley Cyrus, Rhianna and so on... A bit more interesting or at least not played to death music can be heard on the various country charts collected by Buzzfeed in this article:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/krisandres/the-2013-most-trending-domestic-music-videos-on-yo-6qn0

[Window 13]

Do we still buy physical records over here at Radio Dupree? Yes, we do! And in contrast to all the music charting behidn Window 13 here's Neb Stephenson's final store find for 2013:


[Window 14]

And while we're on the subject of physical records we wonder if this might be the answer to a question we ponder now and then. "How big can a CD-box be?"
It's Karajan 1938-1960 released about a year ago. A box set of ... 117 CD's!

[Window 15]

And as far as year end charts go the 50 Worst Albums of 2013 from Vice is now and again a slightly smile-inducing read. Although we haven't heard much of the music they sometimes get around to mentioning inbetween bursts of ... well, go check it out for yourself.

http://www.vice.com/read/vices-worst-50-albums-of-2013

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