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Welcome and Things to Come…

Hey all, First off, if this is your first time at Tastemaker’s website, welcome!  I hope you enjoy our sleeker, [...]

My Bonnaroo Diary

Day 1 Eden Prairie, MN 9:14 AM With hundreds of performances on more than nine stages, and roughly 80,000 music-loving [...]

Nateva, Here We Come!

With Bonnaroo, SXSW, Sound Set, Coachella and all of those big name festivals behind us, it’s time for something a [...]

How Speechwriters LLC Saved My Life

I walked tentatively as the house number came into view: nine.  A wave of nervousness suddenly came over me as [...]

Spotify Is Coming

Europeans are talking. Right now, millions of music fans on the other side of the Atlantic are buzzing about the [...]

The Science Of Mixtapes

For a long time, I thought a mix tape could get a girl to fall in love with me.  While [...]

Best (Worst?) Couple

The United States Department of Justice has approved a merger between the world’s largest ticketing company, Ticketmaster, and the world’s [...]

Summer Reading List

Ever since elementary school, English teachers have been ruining our summers with the dreaded reading list: 15 to 20 “classic” titles. No offense to Dickens and Steinbeck, but some of those old standbys are a little worn out.

Lunchrooms

What if the music industry was broken down into a high school lunchroom?  Where would everyone sit?  What would the [...]

ODDSAC: Animal Collective’s Experimental Film

Before /Strawberry Jam/ and /Merriweather Post Pavilion/ came along, Animal Collective began working on a film called ODDSAC. Sometimes referred [...]

Becoming a (Working) DJ

Plenty of people are passionate about music.  Many go so far as to meticulously and painstakingly assemble a ludicrous collection [...]

Rock for Haiti

Students gathered together in AfterHours last Thursday night to celebrate “Rock Out for Haiti”, a charity concert event set up [...]

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