Lotsa stuff this week. I reviewed Benjy Ferree’s latest, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Bobby Dee, Bobby Dee, for PopMatters. The record is a fantastic distillation of Ferree’s eclectic influences and ably establishes the D.C. native as one of the more original singer-songwriters working today. Speaking of singer-songwriters, I also reviewed a track from Say Hi’s forthcoming record, Oohs & Aahs. Even if you’ve written off Eric Elbogen in the past, I highly recommend checking this song out—it reminds me a lot of David Bazan’s Control-era work. Finally, I wrote a number of posts over at the Public Knowledge blog, including one on the demise of Muxtape/the Future of Music Coalition’s D.C. Policy Day, one on an anti-three strikes netroots movement in New Zealand and one on the motivations behind the Hulu/Boxee controversy.
