VK BFFs 4EVA

Not that this really has to do with music per se, but I stumbled upon this belt buckle that reminds me of this beloved blog:



Oh yes, it goes up to 11 as well!

Long Vermont Roads

Mmmmmm, CakeWrecks.

June, your lovely Seattle-then-Buffalo-based blogger, is moving once again; this time to Montpelier, Vermont for cooking school (Pastry arts, yo!) Here's some songs while I celebrate with cookies:

The Magnetic Fields - Long Vermont Roads.mp3

Cibo Matto - White Pepper Ice Cream.mp3

Tori Amos - Sweet Dreams.mp3

Avenue Q - I Wish I Could Go Back to College.mp3
But If I were to go back to college,
think what a loser I'd be:
I'd walk through the quad,
and think, "Oh my God,"
these KIDS are so much younger than me!

Welcome, Julie!

Volume Knob is happy to announce that we've recently added a new contributor! Welcome to Julie, who is blogging with us from sunny Florida. Expect to see her posts musing on a variety of albums and waxing poetic about music in general soon!

Jens Lekman - Julie.m4a

Can't Get Enough VK? or Facebook?

Oh, XKCD!

Or perhaps you're missing VK posts because Facebook sucks up all your time. Believe me, we know. So we just created a Facebook group for Volume Knob:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18981644244

Join, or just stalk it. And while we're at it, here's a completely unrelated song that I've been listening to a lot lately:

Feist - Lover's Spit (Broken Social Scene cover/B-side).mp3

We're One!

So This is What The Volume Knob Is For started exactly one year ago today. Despite binges of excitable over-posting and droughts of neglect, we'd call this venture a success, more or less. So while fellow blogger Jess is jet-lagged and sleepin' it off on my couch, we offer you this song in celebtration:

Sprites - I Started A Blog Nobody Read.mp3

June on short haitus

Walter II, you will always be loved...

We are gathered here today to remember my beloved 12" G4 PowerBook, Walter II, which passed away two nights ago. As the collector of live cuts, cover songs, and rarities, and the production unit to four novels, he provided me with endless hours of amusement (as long as he was plugged in).
He was almost four years old.

He was much beloved by me, as I have known him longer and have spent more time with him than my actual husband. He leaves behind a 30G hard drive space that was positively overflowing with delicious music.

He is survived and, hopefully on Friday, will be replaced by Walter III, his 13" G4 MacBook successor with more than four times the hard drive space with which to fill up with fabulous new music to be shared by all.

Let's have a moment of silence, please, for my anguishing 5 days without iTunes.

Where U At

O wonders of technology, Volume Knob has garnered a lot of attention recently. Here's a map of US states we've received hits from (red states are hits):


...and when I mean a lot of attention, I mean A LOT:


(Included but not shown: Netherlands Antilles, Hong Kong, Tuvalu, Trinidad & Tobago. Both maps updated Friday, July 13th)

I'm saddened by the fact that VK is so much more well-traveled than I am, yet I'm happy to live vicariously through it. I'm surprised to see people stopping by from all corners of the globe (What up Nepal, Iraq, Croatia??) and not-so surprised at the absence of others (helloooooo Greenland, Uzbekistan, Somalia, North Korea...).

Anyway, perhaps consider this our first "Thank You For Reading!" week, with the Mix Madness contest and all. Keep those submissions rolling in!