Howdy! It's the New Duck and Cover Music!

Don't mind the ass. It was just the first thing that popped up when I Googled "howdy".

After over a year bringing you the most opinionated, poorly researched, and gushing reviews on the internet, Duck and Cover Music finally shuffled off the maternal shackles of a blog template. For the past few weeks I've worked on some new graphics and CSS to give D&C a more distinguished look. Want the tour? Of course you do.

You'll find we've added a section just for videos. At the moment, it's a bit bare. We opted against moving all the video posts over because of the sheer number of you (we have literally tens of readers) who might possibly have bookmarked any one of our numerous video posts. So give it a few weeks.

We wanted you to know about what we do when we're not blogging (not counting drinking, video games, and porn), so beneath the video link are two links to our other online entities: Last.FM and MOG.

The observant members of our audience will also notice that we've devoted a column to advertising. Before you shout "Judas!", hear me out. Dakin and I have been "the boys at Duck and Cover" for over a year, and quite frankly, we're a bit hungry. So be a good sport.

Finally, you can now DIGG Duck and Cover blog posts with ease. Simply click "submit" on the DIGG button, and viola! You're off. The more you DIGG us, the more friends we have. And the more friends we have, the more we can pretend to know what we're talking about.

So, what do you think? Like it? Hate it? Want more music? Just let us know. Please. Seriously. Talk to us. We're lonely.

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