Content tagged music
Blog Entries
“So you don’t care if the recording industry tanks?” “No, we need a new model … A post-pop star model, where music is free, and performers … gulfstream/1699
Wonderful Mousetrap-style ad for the Accord. (Nice work with the music, too.) gulfstream/1106
Scene from the Miami Vice pilot, uses Phil Collins’s “In the Air Tonight.” Bill Simmons, in his pretty useful YouTube Hall of Fame, says: “Two … gulfstream/2116
Among the “fun facts”: the 2nd edition takes up 540 megabytes. (A life’s work, when expressed in an efficient form (e.g. for music, it would … gulfstream/1240
Three teenagers who teach FBI agents how to IM like 13-year-old girls receive a letter of commendation from the FBI: “One agent kept insisting … gulfstream/1172
Lowercase sound: small sounds made lounder pose as music. Pretty! gulfstream/810
“Hello. I just downloaded some illegal MP3s and my friend told me that the RAII is going to sue everyone who downloads music. What should I do?” … gulfstream/1279
Not a situation puzzle: mystery man (found a month ago clad in a soaking wet suit and tie) can’t/won’t speak, but plays the piano … gulfstream/1760
Positive review of Spotify, the free and legal music streaming service available in the UK and some other European countries. Note that according to the … gulfstream/2632
Fun Flash music generator thing. Time is horizontal, pitch vertical. gulfstream/2605
Quotes Collected
Of a man's abilities first comes knowledge of the teachings of the sages, by a clear understanding of literature. Next is hand-writing, which should … fortune
Up, and John, a hackney coachman whom of late I have much used, as being formerly Sir W. Penn's coachman, coming to me by my direction to see whether … fortune
My two favorite bands in those pre-punk years were the Grateful Dead and the Moody Blues. (My enthusiasm for the latter survived until I read, in a Rolling … fortune
Then to the office a little, and so to Lumberd street to borrow a little money upon a tally, but cannot. Thence to Exchequer, and there after much wrangling … fortune
TJ: You caution your students to not become overly involved in the beauty of the music, to not lose control their emotions. Why? BG: I have to be careful … fortune
I know this: a good song is deeper than a tattoo. It'll remind you of the car you're driving and the girl you're going around with and the streets you're … fortune
I think it a pity to hear a man say that things do not look their best at night. Indeed it is only at night that brilliance and colour are pleasing. … fortune
Here we saw /Macbeth/, which though I have seen it often, yet it is one of the best plays for a stage, and a variety of dancing and music, that ever I … fortune
Here the best company for Musique I ever was in in my life, and wish I could live and die in it, both for music and the face of Mrs. Pierce and my wife … fortune
So to Whitehall, where I stayed to hear the trumpets and kettle-drums---and then the other drums; which is much cried up, though I think it dull, vulgar … fortune
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Create Digital Music » The Myth of Falling Fidelity, and Audio History Unburdened by Fact
Op-Ed Contributor - Free viral videos - NYTimes.com
M.I.A. Teams With Blaqstarr, Verizon Workers for Summer Disc : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go
Playdar - Music Content Resolver
"Playdar is a service - it runs a small HTTP server locally on your desktop, and has a HTTP API which returns JSON. All the important API calls also support JSONP, so you can call them from the web."
film music | mobygratis.com
Ambient music by Moby; free for non-commercial projects.
The New York Times > Opinion > Image > Music Sales
graph showing music sales in different media (cassette, cd, download, etc.) over time.
sweetfm - Google Code
free, pretty last.fm/itunes client
Crap, I missed it! - Home
upload your itunes.xml, sends you email when bands you like are playing in your neighbourhood. (also works with books.) US-only.
Verellen Amplifiers - Products
old-style looking amplifiers. expensive.
How Genesis P-Orridge met Jacqueline Breyer (Radar)
"How music legend, performance artist, and notorious "wrecker of civilization" Genesis P-Orridge met dominatrix/performer Jacqueline Breyer and fell madly, deliriously in love; how cosmetic surgery helped them become one; and how their romance was interrupted by a temporary setback called death"
Yuri Suzuki – today and tomorrow
DavidByrne.com - Art - Playing the Building
organ wired up to "play" a building by hitting it, working the plumbing, etc.
celemony_ :: Direct Note Access
separate out individual notes from a chord
Rick Rubin - Recording Industry - Rock Music - New York Times
"Beginning in 1984, when he started Def Jam Recordings, until his more recent occupation as a career-transforming, chart-topping, Grammy Award-winning producer for dozens of artists, as diverse as the Dixie Chicks, Slayer, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Neil D
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
has graph, samples
Good Weather for Airstrikes » Blog Archive »
FM3 BUDDHA MACHINE
the buddha machine's loops, in .wav format (not as good as the real thing, but ...)
floola.com - Wiwi - Home
apparently is able to manage the music on an ipod (put it on, take it off)
Kick Ass Classical - Classical Music's Top 100 Greatest Hits
The Village Voice fires a famous music critic. By Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine
on Robert Christgau, including nice analysis of his tight review of radiohead's kid a
[indiecentre] :: Info
steve albini explains why bands don't make any money
tourb.us - Find Local, Live Music
JazzOasis.com - Pat Metheny on Kenny G
Vice magazine: NEW YORK – HOW TO MAKE A PLAYLIST FOR A GIRL
"You can only make a playlist for a girl that you have fucked more than twice and she has to have thoroughly enjoyed herself both times (so, if you had trouble getting it up the first time then it doesn’t count and your “two times” has to start on t
The Seattle Times: Local News: Keeping deaf fans rockin'
'A sponsorship waiting to happen' - baltimoresun.com
Tunatic: free music identification software
Rolling Stone : Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview
The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events
Pause Online: Music Videos
files are of the form http://www.submarinechannel.com/content/pause/musicvideos/videos/DaFunk.mov