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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sam Jennings on <em>Pet Sounds</em> at 60. It starts as criticism—Spector’s “little symphonies for the kids”, Wilson’s panic the first time he heard the Beatles, the instrument list that runs from French horns to Coke cans—and then fades into a memoir, “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” reprising itself across different years, different places, different girls.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Charlotte Cornfield’s <em>Hurts Like Hell</em> is my favourite album of 2026 so far and I’m on a mission to tell as many people as I can about it. In this interview with Meredith Hobbs Coons, Charlotte talks about family, Neil Young, creative communities, and how the album came together.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An interesting-looking music social networking app. The feature set is what I have long thought Last.fm should build. I like the idea a lot, but I manage my listening queue via Albums (the iOS app), my stats live in Last.fm, I post reviews on my blog, and none of my friends are there. Should any of those things change, I’ll look again.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve listened to Flea’s new album “Honora” several times since its release. The backstory is great: he played trumpet as a kid, then devoted two hours a day across two years of RHCP touring to re-educating himself on the instrument, promising to record an album at the end.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I likely won’t swap to this (I’m too committed to my approach of loading all my purchased music into Apple Music, playing it through Albums, and scrobbling to Last.fm) but it looks a hugely interesting way to use ALL the music apps together.]]></description>
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    <title>How to Sound Like Elliott Smith in Your Bedroom</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Check out the 4th generation Scarlett 18i20, these new generations are insanely good: https://focusrite.com/products/scarlett-18i20?utm_source=media-partner&...]]></description>
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