May 2008
173 posts
elbow →
I could play on the band Elbow’s band website for at least 10 minutes. That’s how mezmerizing this combination of piano chords and how excellent the intro is.
The Lemur Blog →
Greatest blog header EVER.
The Music Slut: Prince Visits Leno →
Prince, you saucy man-minx!
Alumni - Merritt Island High School Alumni... →
My high school has an online alumni network. Holy shit. Can you say 5 Year Reunion?
April 2008
171 posts
“A few years ago, I spent a few weeks fact-checking at a magazine called Elle...”
– MOISTWORKS : AN MP3 BOOMBOX (via perpetua)
OY. I love music but sometimes the deception within the music industry makes me unbelievable queasy. Pet peeve #9812- refering to music as having an ‘indie’ sound.
Kale and Chorizo Soup →
Kale and Chorizo?? Count me in!
twistori →
“It’s monitoring the public feed of thoughts people post to their twitter account, searching for occurences of “I love”, “I hate”, “I think”, “I feel”, “I wish”, etc.”
And yes, of course I found it from Mr. Derek Silver.
Mezmerizing. I’m amazed at the immediate insinutations particular words have. Like how much more negative I Wish sounds in mass than I Love or I Believe.
“Design, in its broadest definition, is not just another way to market a product...”
– Maschmeyer: By and For the People: Adweek Article
I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT DESIGN.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a...”
– Alice in Wonderland
Get specific! | Derek Sivers
Music Blog Search →
joelaz: A Google custom search engine that includes results from over 1,600 music blogs. This is awesome. I didn’t know you could do this with Google. This is really helpful especially when you’re looking for information on a band from a specific type of site. Thanks Mr. JoeLaz!
music is art →
interesting music blog I just found while looking for a PJ Harvey song. thanks Hype Machine!
Steven Adame DDS - Castro - San Francisco, CA →
Anybody else have recommendations for SF dentists?
The 125-Plus People, Places and Things Ruling the... →
These lists always leave some proper people, places and things out but instead of viewing them as the end-all be-all list, I like to skim for things I haven’t seen before. Check out what Rolling Stone’s opinions are.
Re-Interpreting Googoosh: An Interview with... →
One of my work buddies is in the band Sholi. He did a great interview with the folks at Pars Arts and really gets into the meat and potatoes of Iranian music and culture and the effects it’s had on him and in turn, Sholi’s music.
Here’s a link to the track in quesiton- Hejrat by Sholi. If you like it you should check them out and buy the record.
Watchspangley: feist uses the word “spangliness” in this clip. SPANGLEY! she really is my sista soul mate! COLBERT REPORT! Thanks Ali, this is aweosme. And can I just say: Holy Crap! DUAL citizenship from a friggen iPod commercial? That’s just bananas.
“Kenneth Partridge of The Hartford Courant described lead singer Eugene...”
– Gogol Bordello - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It’s true.
favorite10 :: Favorite 10 Albums of the Moment →
This is a site by a friend of a friend and I’d like to check it out further. It’s a site that you can add and share Top-10 lists that also does album-based ranking. Very High Fidelity.
“I don’t read comic books anymore. Oh sure, there’s a Comic-Con, but it’s easy to...”
– Bob Lefsetz
Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Mariah Madness
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium →
read read read.
Oh boy.
[name redacted]: oh boy, that fucking scarlett johansson album. in case i forgot why i can no longer enjoy music, or the internet
Spiritualized and Farrow: made for each other →
needles… gross. but i’m still going to read this article later.
Music magazines shaking and rattling - Crain's New... →
“The one music title that’s growing, Spin, has been doing well with fashion and telecommunications, says Publisher Malcolm Campbell. He adds that the magazine is now profitable—a big change since its sale to The McEvoy Group two years ago.”
Interesting read about the state of advertising in music magazines. I like Spin. Good for them!
American jazz gathering, planned for Seattle, is... →
“In what is being described as a “perfect storm” of bad luck, unchecked growth, fundraising and management failures, the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) — an important link to Seattle’s successful school jazz-band scene — has collapsed.”
NOOOOOOOOOO!
The NPD Group: AmazonMP3 Music Download Store... →
“The fact that Amazon’s early growth does not appear to be at the expense of Apple iTunes is a healthy indication that the digital music customer pool can expand into new consumer groups who have not yet joined the iTunes community,” said Russ Crupnick, entertainment industry analyst for NPD.”
Interesting spotlight on things.
Question of the Day:
When a small-ish independent band is looking to promote themselves across a variety of social networks or has hired someone else to promote themselves across a variety of social networks, and seemingly all feature opportunities require 1) exclusive content 2) direct band involvement or 3) a major-label artist-like gigantic fanbase, what does that indie band do?
a) obviously offer exclusives to...
MySpace Music Sees Major Money in Free Tunes →
I was shocked when I was reading this interview between Wired Magazine and MySpace CEO and Co-founder Chris DeWolfe and this went down:
Wired: Is MySpace Music open to giving equity deals to digital distributors such as The Orchard or Ioda?
DeWolfe: We’re open to extending our equity deals to the right partners, but at a certain point, you can’t extend equity to everyone. What we...
“It’s not just a download service — it’s a service that marries...”
– Chris DeWolfe, MySpace CEO and co-founder on the new MySpace music offerings
MySpace Music Sees Major Money in Free Tunes
STEREO - Build Your Own 3D Glasses →
I friggen love that NASA has a page up that explains how to make your own 3D glasses.
Liquid Crunch - MP3 Download Store →
is done by: Andrew Dubber
Teh Skid Productions →
How to make fake Merit badges! This looks like fuuuun.
An Interview with Former CBS Head Walter Yetnikoff... →
“Walter Yetnikoff, the legendary former head of CBS Records, speaks frankly and on the record about his opinion of author Fred Dannen and his book Hit Men, why major labels today are failing to capitalize on the new artists they sign, and why the record industry has thus far completely missed out on the internet music revolution.”
This looks really interesting. I can’t wait to...
im in ur web2open partyz drinkin ur beerz at... →
This is where the magic happened. Some guy made the offhand comment “ohh would your boyfriend be mad?” after I hesitated in my response about giving him my number. I said “Um, I’m not sure” and then later told Cameron about what happened and my awkward, unsure reply. We’ve been together officially ever since.
EMC2
soxiam: at lunch pile and joliver lectured us about quantum mechanics and existentialism. it didn’t really go all that well with my chicken fajita. but i did end up questioning this: “if i don’t interact with this fajita, does it really exist?” A better question:
If you don’t listen to Mariah Carey’s new album, does it exist?!?