Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

Brooklyn four-piece Parts & Labor's new album Receiver has hundreds of little tiny tricks up its sleeve. The band asked its fans to submit sound samples for use on the album and received hundreds of submissions, possibly explaining the name of their album. They used every single one of those samples on the album -- a pretty neat trick. Post-modern troubadour and former Wired.com columnist Momus once did something along these lines by asking his fans to pay in order to have their names memorialized on his Stars Forever album [...]