The Fading Collection, this Saturday (July 24th) at ToST
I’d go if I was going to be in town. http://www.tostlounge.com/music.html
View ArticleNow listening: “It’s Sister Jenny’s Turn to Throw the Bomb”
One of my birthday presents. These aren’t the complete lyrics. http://engstrom.best.vwh.net/songbook/54.html
View ArticleFrom the Front Lines of the Music Wars
On RIAA’s chillling effect on music http://tuttlesvc.teacherhosting.com/blog/blosxom.cgi/personal/music/314.html
View ArticleLemony Snicket Plays Accordion for the Magnetic Fields
Daniel Handler apparently played accordion on 69 Love Songs, and Stephen Merrit has composed songs about Count Olaf. http://music.ign.com/articles/574/574228p1.html
View ArticleCure for Cure for Pain
Where is it written that all coffee shops must play Cure for Pain? If you are 1369 in Central Sq. a few streets down from Mark Sandman Square, and Mark Sandman used to sit at your bar, and scribble...
View ArticleMP3: No One Takes Your Freedom
mashup of Beatles, Scissor Sisters, George Michael, and Aretha Franklin http://www.djearworm.lunarpages.com/No_One_Takes_Your_Freedom.mp3
View ArticleBand websites that don’t suck
Todd is starting to keep a list. http://constellations.omniversemusic.com/archives/000062.html
View Article“President Bush’s iPod, dubbed iPod One, contains no black artists, no gay...
mirror to the soul http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/12/bush.ipod/index.html
View ArticleOops I Did It Again by Louis Armstrong
Brittany’s got nothing on Louis http://www.supermasterpiece.com/music/oops.html
View ArticleI missed Flying Folk Army in Seattle!
They don’t play shows very often, and I seriously doubt they play the East coast, so if you ever get a chance to see them, don’t miss it. http://red-cedar.ca/index.php?p=346
View ArticleLucy Bland’s First Recital
Todd’s new band Lucy Bland has their first CD out. I haven’t heard the CD, but the early cuts I heard of these songs are absolutely killer. (Streaker is definitely one of my favorite songs right now)
View ArticleTags Bubbling Up, Down, and Sideways
Tom Coates’s is playing with bubbling tags up from individual songs to shows, and albums. a more intriguing, way of aggregating tags up through a conceptual chain would be to view albums as collections...
View ArticlePandora and the Vector of Personalization
I’m getting good stuff out of Pandora mixing Frontier Psychiatrist with Feel Good, Inc. What are you mixing? Recommendation cocktails are the way to go. Most recommendations are either one dimensional...
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My hopes for MusicBrainz 2.0
The post on BB today reminded me of MusicBrainz. I’m still patiently waiting for MusicBrainz to add support for arbitrary, user-contributed, emergent flat classification. (i.e. what the rest of us...
View ArticleDahlia’s Last.fm identity crisis.
See the “Shoutbox”. Is dahlia a Portland based duo? or Dahlia the jpop singer? Berlin-based electro-pop? A French rock group? Are there other similarly confused artist entries?...
View ArticleSF Golden Gate Park, 4:40pm: Free Billy Bragg show
http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/2006/schedule.cgi?show=day
View ArticleHubLog: Last.fm events calendar
Obvious, but good to see they finally did it. Premium service only though. http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001413.html
View ArticleWired: Why Is DRM-Free Music Tagged With Name and E-Mail?
I don’t know — maybe because it is the most effective, least invasive version of copy protection/DRM ever invented? No surprise to anybody who has bought a Pragmatic Programmers ebook.
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