Sporting Endeavours

Sound Of The City's 2012 Major League Baseball Preview, Featuring The Music Of Blue Öyster Cult: American League Edition

By Matt Cibula Thu., Apr. 5 2012 at 10:00 AM
Categories: Baseball, Blue Öyster Cult, Matt Cibula, Sporting Endeavours

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Ah, the smell of leather! The boys of summer! The thrill of a well-placed slider! Yes, it's baseball season again, and what better way to preview this year's Major League Baseball slate than by tying each team's prospects to songs from the great Long Island metal band Blue Öyster Cult? Not only has BÖC been around forever, and not only do they have the greatest song titles in history, it's pretty clear that they have been previewing this baseball season in mystical and occult ways for decades.

Today, 13 more teams start their seasons, and we're here to preview the American League's coming offerings. (The National League preview is here.)

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Sporting Endeavours

Sound Of The City's 2012 Major League Baseball Preview, Featuring The Music Of Blue Öyster Cult: National League Edition

By Matt Cibula Wed., Apr. 4 2012 at 10:00 AM
Categories: Baseball, Blue Öyster Cult, Matt Cibula, Sporting Endeavours

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Ah, the smell of leather! The boys of summer! The thrill of a well-placed slider! Yes, it's baseball season again, and what better way to preview this year's Major League Baseball slate than by tying each team's prospects to songs from the great Long Island metal band Blue Öyster Cult? Not only has BÖC been around forever, and not only do they have the greatest song titles in history, it's pretty clear that they have been previewing this baseball season in mystical and occult ways for decades.

Tonight's first regular-season matchup on American soil is a National League tilt pitting the St. Louis Cardinals against the rebranded Miami Marlins, so the first part of our preview will focus on the NL. (Part two will run tomorrow.)

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New Releases

Running The Numbers: The Four-Disc, 73-Track Bob Dylan Covers Comp With Miley, Ke$ha, Lenny, And Many Others

By Matt Cibula Tue., Jan. 24 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Bob Dylan, Ke$ha, Lists, Matt Cibula, Miley Cyrus, New Releases

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Today Amnesty International releases Chimes Of Freedom, a really, really huge compilation of bob Dylan covers by artists both canonized and obscure. Trying to analyze such a huge undertaking can only be done in one way: Mathematically.

Amount of music in this collection: 73 songs on four CDs, totaling 313 minutes and 24 seconds. (You get three additional songs if you buy it digitally, for an additional eight minutes' worth of music.)

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Sports

Sound Of The City's 2011 NBA Preview: Each Team, Paired With An Album From The Past Year

By Matt Cibula Thu., Dec. 22 2011 at 1:00 PM
Categories: Basketball, Matt Cibula, Sports, Year In Review

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Think of the orange car as a clue.
The resurrected NBA season kicks off (thankfully, finally) on Sunday. To celebrate, we've paired each team with a notable album from the past year; the list, with tweet-sized justifications, is below. (NB, although the NBA-savvy of you might have already figured this out: The teams are listed in approximate ascending order, with the last-place team kicking things off and the first-place team all the way at the bottom. Sorry, Cleveland!)

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