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| Friday May 3, 2013 | Bohemian Rhapsody in Blue. to Music by isosceles |
| Sunday Mar 31, 2013 | Imagine if Primus, Gwar and Die Antwoord had a flipper baby together. The result is Winny Puhh. to Music by isosceles |
| Sunday Feb 24, 2013 | There's a subreddit devoted entirely to mashups and remixes of the theme song from Space Jam. Or, perhaps, you would want the Brony version. to Music by isosceles |
| Sunday Jan 13, 2013 | Steamboat Willie overdubbed with the Koyaanisqatsi theme. Oddly unsettling, on many levels. to Music by isosceles |
| Saturday Jan 12, 2013 | Sanskrit death metal, funk, dubstep, and smooth jazz. to Music by isosceles |
| Sunday Aug 12, 2012 | My Little Wu-Tang Clan. to Music by isosceles |
| Tuesday Jul 10, 2012 | Hatred for Justin Bieber runs deep. to Music by isosceles |
| Thursday Jun 14, 2012 | Tay Zonday has a take on the Call Me Maybe song. Yes, Virginia, turds can be polished. to Music by isosceles |
| Sunday May 13, 2012 | Bring Me Edelweiss reminds us that cocaine is a hell of a drug. to Music by isosceles |
| Saturday May 12, 2012 | Techno rasta turbo polka megamix. to Music by isosceles |
| Only the best Chinese song ever? to Music by isosceles |
| Thursday Apr 12, 2012 | Fans of Scandinavian music will love It's a Trap. to Music by isosceles |
| Wednesday Apr 4, 2012 | It's 2012 and mashup culture is still around. Adopting trends from dubstep and moving more toward long-form megamixes rather than one-offs, the state of mashups is best exemplified by Loo and Placido. to Music by isosceles |
| Monday Dec 10, 2007 | The Four Squeezins are two gentlemen (one of whom apparently dwells in the Uncanny Valley) who play musicfarting sounds. Throughout all of this, however, they maintain the utmost in decorum, amid all the pomp and circumstance. to Music by isosceles |
| Friday Mar 16, 2007 | Tempo and duration aren't fixed in classical music. Conductors exhibit a fair amount of flexibility with tempos but they also tend to slow with age. From a statistical analysis of 363 performances of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. to Music by borges |
| Saturday Dec 23, 2006 | Rob Paravonian explains why he hates this particular piece of classical music. to Music by roo |
| Sunday Oct 1, 2006 | Do we have enough examples of rap/glam-rock hybrids that take place on wooden sailing ships to justify a genre? to Music by isosceles |
| Friday Sep 29, 2006 | Morrissey says that Kristeen Young's "Kill the Father" is "the best song I've heard for 50 years".
It's the latest result of her collaboration with legendary producer Tony Visconti, which has previously yielded duets with David Bowie, Placebo's Brian Molko, and some amazing
live
performances. to Music by roo |
| Thursday Jun 8, 2006 | Certainly, the Beatles were influnced by Indian music in a positive way. But I wonder if the same could be said for the influnece of the Beatles on Indian music. to Music by fool |
| Friday May 12, 2006 | Augh! As if letting
John Ashcroft's eagle soar wasn't painful
enough, now terrifying conservative mummy Orrin Hatch is
getting musical, too.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 5, 2006 | Remember,
metal fans, that a month from tomorrow is the
National Day of Slayer.
Keep it holy! to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 9, 2006 | The Knockoff*Project catalogs album artwork with suspicious originality. to Music by fool |
| Thursday Jan 5, 2006 | Only punk rock muppets will lead you to the awful truth: "Hi, this is Henry Rollins -- TV's Punky Brewster -- and you're watching Pancake Mountain." to Music by faisal |
| The popularity of 50 Cent has given rise to spin-offs that range from Jewish Hip-Hop to 80s Pop mixups. to Music by pjammer |
| Friday Dec 9, 2005 | So, you wanna be
a rock star? Well, here are
some important poses
that you should master first. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 7, 2005 | Two minutes and Twenty-Two Seconds into "Come on! Feel the Illinoise!" on Sufjen Stevens' Illinois, all of a sudden The Cure's Close to Me starts up. I guess, that's a bit like Jazz people quoting each other or Puffy using some pop hook. But why does it feel so wrong?
to Music by fool |
| Sunday Nov 20, 2005 | What's wrong with your state? Taxes too high? Taxes too low? Unemployment on the rise? Or is it just time to replace your state song. to Music by faisal |
| Tuesday Nov 15, 2005 | Keith Schofield makes unusual Music videos. His clients sometimes make unusual music about basic mathematical concepts. The two are combined to create a bizarre hommage to children's television. to Music by caspian |
| Sunday Nov 6, 2005 | In the future, all of our music will be randomly generated by midi robots! to Music by 7layerburrito |
| Thursday Oct 27, 2005 | John Cage's Suite for Toy Pianoand the Loser's Lounge performance of The Zombies' "Butcher's Tale" got the toy piano going in the 20th century. But now, they're extensible. to Music by dha |
| Friday Oct 7, 2005 | Questioning the
originality
of Britney Spears. to Music by roo |
| Monday Sep 26, 2005 | Roll and Roll Confidential's
"Hall of Douchebags"
is equal parts mocking and photographs of brick walls.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Sep 4, 2005 | The late O.D.B. covered Sussudio. Tupac Shakur covered In the Air Tonight, as did DMX and Lil' Kim. Bone Thugs N' Harmony covered Take me Home. This raises the question: Why do rappers love Phil Collins? to Music by isosceles |
| Wednesday Jul 6, 2005 | Gigposters has
put together a staggering collection of nearly 45,000
concert posters, indexed by band
and designer,
for you to browse and discuss.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jun 1, 2005 | Sleater-Kinney was inspired by this
New Yorker article
about Golden Gate Bridge suicides, so
they
wrote a song.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 13, 2005 | Hundreds of bootlegged concert recordings are yours for the enjoying at
the Bootleg Browser to Music by riotnrrd |
| Monday Apr 4, 2005 | Keith Schofield is a music video director that's no stranger to karaoke, video scratch, or jellyfish. to Music by fotbon |
| Tuesday Mar 29, 2005 | In some kind of hellish synergy,
furries +
filk =
mind-numbing
horror.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 3, 2005 | I'm a robot, programmed not to know ... that I'm a robot but some bonehead emailed me the computer code that makes up my soul ... now I'm running around trying to forget what I know. - Pete Miser to Music by pjammer |
| Saturday Feb 26, 2005 | The Chipmunks and the Chipettes have blessed us with a cover of our favorite song, the Time Warp. Enjoy a familiar song in an unfamiliar key. to Music by isosceles |
| Thursday Feb 10, 2005 | Need more cowbell? How about a digital cowbell? Rad Monkey Cowbells is the answer for all those of you seeking to emulate the beloved (but nonexistent) Gene Frenkle. to Music by caspian |
| Wednesday Feb 2, 2005 | Mix tapes for all occasions. And we do mean all. to Music by yoyology |
| Wednesday Jan 26, 2005 | Everything I need to know,
I've
learned from Iron Maiden. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jan 23, 2005 | When the layman thinks of electric guitars, he usually remembers the Fender Stratocaster or perhaps the Gibson Les Paul. Why doesn't anyone recall the Solo II, or this Soviet double-neck bass/electric, or this hot-rodded Ural electric, or the Czech Jolana Diamant electric bass, or whatever the hell this handmade thingmabob is? Well, usually because they were hideous pieces of crap that went out of tune quickly, sounded awful, and fell apart under light use. Some, however, were keepers, like the Czech Futurama. Largely, they were just plain cheap and cheesy guitars , which naturally makes them appealing to collectors, like Lord Bizarre. By the way, some luthiers consider it a challenge to turn a weird and cheesy guitar into a good one. to Music by fatherdan |
| Friday Jan 21, 2005 | Take a glimpse at the gene pool of house and hip-hop music,
with this collection of frequently
used samples from jazz, funk and disco songs.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| The iPod Shuffle is for suckers. But for those of you who
want to make your own flash-based MP3 player, make sure to
make
it minty!
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 7, 2005 | Pictures of
rockstars as kids
(in Portugese). to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 6, 2005 | No long distance charges +
one Tommy Tutone
song =
a complete inventory of
everybody's
favorite phone number. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Dec 31, 2004 | "Hallo!" "Salud!" to Music by crikey |
| Monday Dec 20, 2004 |
Christmas in Tijuana
means more than just santa hats on the
donkey show girls, it also means..
MUSIC! to Music by riotnrrd |
| From 1963 until 1969, the Beatles recorded small Christmas records for
their fan club.
Sci-fi Hi-Fi has converted
them to MP3 for your much-delayed enjoyment. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Dec 8, 2004 | Earworms,
now in
thrilling, high-quality MIDI.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 7, 2004 | "Dear visitor, we bid you welcome to the Furry Music Foundation, dedicated to furry music and musicians. We give you the latest and best of music, provide information, trivia and news about musical events, and much more. Have a nice time, and happy surfing!"
to Music by isosceles |
| P Funk has its own, very explicit, mythology that dimly recalls strains of Tolkien, Ziggy Stardust, Romper Room and a grand mal seizure. It reaffirms one's faith in Funkentelechy and makes one wonder on the sanity of better-known prophets. to Music by isosceles |
| Gatas Parlament is a radically leftist group of Norwegian rappers. Their musical stylings have included the typical Scandinavian campiness. Yet these rappers and their friends also can get intense, whether addressing feminism, defending graffiti culture or imploring us to "pump our fists" and "put our middle fingers up for Big Business." This is made more ironic by the fact that, in Norway, all the areas most Westerners associate with "Big Business" are nationalized. to Music by isosceles |
| Sunday Dec 5, 2004 | Virulently anti-American and typically campy Norwegian rap music video.
to Music by isosceles |
| Friday Dec 3, 2004 | Björk aside, it seems Scandinavians in general have perfected the art of integrating kitsch and music. Examples from: Denmark. Norway. Sweden. to Music by isosceles |
| Thursday Nov 11, 2004 | A slow Sunday night show turns into The Best Gig Ever. to Music by gator |
| Wednesday Oct 13, 2004 | Barney is
West-side representin'! (WMV file) to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Oct 8, 2004 | Heavy metal bellydancers?
Yeah, you heard me.
Heavy metal belly dancers! to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Oct 7, 2004 | Carl Lewis may be able to run much, much, much faster than you but,
unlike him, you still have your
dignity (QuickTime).
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 23, 2004 | How
to Make a Violin, in just 45 pictures.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Aug 17, 2004 | WARNING! GUITAR FUCKER IS COMING!!! AND HE'S RAW! OUTRAGEOUS! SEXUAL! WILD! SAVAGE! to Music by fatherdan |
| Monday Aug 2, 2004 | Jewish Hip-Hop was just the beginning ... rapper Raj offers music from da Pakistani 'hood as The Punjabi Rapper. to Music by pjammer |
| Tuesday Jul 13, 2004 | We all know that E Pak Sa is a hip-hop dub master, but did you know he also wrote the most awesome disco anthem ever recorded? to Music by roo |
| Friday Jul 9, 2004 | Celebrate summer by making your own
whistle
from a
willow branch. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 29, 2004 | Giorgio Moroder is well known as the composer and producer of many famous soundtracks and songs. He also designs sports cars, makes short films, and buildings. Truly, Giorgio is a renaissance man. to Music by caspian |
| Tuesday Jun 22, 2004 | In a classic David and Goliath confrontation, Irdial-Discs, experimental
independent music label from the UK, brought a High Court action against WEA
International over their CD release "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" by the group Wilco,
which flagrantly infringes Irdial's copyright.
"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" bears a track entitled "Poor Places", which contains one
minute and thirty seconds of sound from "Phonetic Alphabet Nato" lifted directly
from disc one of the quadruple CD "The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave
Numbers Stations". The Conet Project track features a female voice repeating
over and over the phrase, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", which Wilco took for the title
of their critically acclaimed CD.
to Music by wheezer |
| Monday Jun 21, 2004 | Grindcore is now transhuman, thanks to Caninus and Hatebeak. to Music by fringehead |
| Sunday Jun 20, 2004 | The Avalanches got permission before they copied other peoples' copyrighted material. Did the Beastie Boys? to Music by roo |
| Thursday Jun 17, 2004 | After nearly six years, the Beastie Boys finally have a new album out.
But don't get too excited. Turns out, if you try to play it in
your Windows machine or Mac,
it
installs "copy protection" software without your permission, which
you may not even be able to uninstall.
People
aren't
very happy about this.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jun 11, 2004 | Chiff & Fipple: your gateway to tinwhistle greatness. to Music by yoyology |
| Monday Jun 7, 2004 | If you take a cool album, and find its best song, and then you listen
to just the coolest part of that song, it's possible that your ears might
explode from sheer sonic awesomeness. Are you prepared to
TAKE
THAT CHANCE?
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 3, 2004 |
Enjoy the world's most popular form of short cinema with this archive of
dozens
of music videos from
famous directors
and film collectives.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 27, 2004 | They have their own personals, their own slang, their own philosophy, and a combined IQ of about 85. Oh, and their own porn, too. to Music by fringehead |
| Monday May 17, 2004 | This bizarre tube defines poor fidelity and does various horrible things, especially in
this circuit. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 13, 2004 | Thrill your ears with the sounds of a
crazed Japanese beatbox/a cappella singer
covering some of pop music's greatest hits. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Apr 6, 2004 | "There is something going on here, Mr. Jones, and you don't know what
it is, do you?" Actually, I do, Bob. It's called licensing your music
to make a
vaguely pornographic
ad for Victoria's Secret.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Mar 18, 2004 | Who needs Michel Gondry and a studio budget to make your offbeat techno music video when you've got Japanese pop culture and Flash?
to Music by lampbane |
| Tuesday Mar 9, 2004 | Sure, it's amazing that Ray Charles
and Stevie Wonder, can play despite
being blind. And it's equally impressive that Django
Reinhardt's
left hand didn't keep him from being a blazingly fast jazz guitarist. Pikers!
Rock the fuck on, Dalty
and the Angry Amputees! to Music by fatherdan |
| Friday Feb 20, 2004 | Learn the difference between
"Nu Style Gabber"
and "Hard Acid Techno"
with Ishkur's amusing and informative
guide to electronic
music.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Feb 13, 2004 | Sid Vicious says:
check out this
huge
collection of punk rock and hardcore album covers,
or he'll kick you in the face.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 4, 2004 | Welcome to the Jungle (Gym): Anne Geddes meets Axl Rose and together they STAB YOU IN THE FACE. to Music by scromp |
| Sunday Jan 4, 2004 | There ain't no party like a hobbit party, 'cause a hobbit party don't stop! to Music by riffraff |
| Saturday Dec 20, 2003 | I don't know what scares me more about American Brandstand: is it that its tabulation of product references in Billboard chart-toppers shows just how much music and advertising have become indistinguishable? Or is it that the site pours on such a huge amount of fawning approval for this sort of corporate name-dropping, as if this mergence was some sort of godsend to the music world? to Music by monde |
| Monday Dec 1, 2003 | Marissa Marchant
has a pretty voice,
pedestrian lyrics,
and a
insanely inflated
sense of her music's worth.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Nov 21, 2003 | Type in a simple message and
"Let Them Sing it For You"
will stitch together clips from popular songs and sing it back to you. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Oct 29, 2003 | Midgets + KISS =
rock and roll!
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Monday Oct 27, 2003 | The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has done it's best to help you get a headstart on the insanity of the holiday season this year by producing an unholy collection of "solstice carols." Sing along with songs like Carol of the Great Olde Ones and I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth and you'll be out of your mind in no time. to Music by scromp |
| Friday Oct 24, 2003 | Evocative and mystical, Elvendrums unlocks the magic of the Faerie realm. to Music by scromp |
| Monday Oct 13, 2003 | Baby Got Back in Greek and Latin. to Music by isosceles |
| Thursday Sep 25, 2003 | The traditional "Hawaiian" nose flute (actually played in a number of other places) is a true woodwind, with finger holes, a fixed-note scale, and a proud history. The other version, often sold as a novelty, is microtonal, like a kazoo or slide whistle, and uses the slightly open mouth as a resonating chamber for pitch changes. The Vancouver Noseflute Ensemble performs on the latter type, and has one of the lowest thresholds of entry of any musical group around. to Music by yoyology |
| Tuesday Sep 16, 2003 | DOKAKA smells like Japanese spirit (streaming mp3), and hums, err, beatboxes, err, scats, well, give it a listen. But they do it well. "All songs,All parts,MOUTH WORKING ONLY." to Music by dnm |
| Monday Aug 18, 2003 | Download digital music, old skool style. to Music by fringehead |
| No way, mensch. You gotta kick it kibbutz with Two Live Jews, the work of the great (?) Jonny Coz. to Music by yoyology |
| Sunday Aug 17, 2003 | If you like your Jewish Hip-Hop to have a more traditional sound, listen to the Klezmer Hip-Hop of Solomon and Socalled. to Music by enigma |
| Saturday Aug 16, 2003 | Jewish Hip Hop artist 50 Shekel may not have the audience of 50 Cent but ... wait. JEWISH HIP-HOP!? to Music by pjammer |
| Sunday Jul 20, 2003 | Remember how on
They Might Be Giant's Then: The Early Years
there's
a version
of "Particle Man" sung by schoolchildren?
I think I know where that teacher
might have gotten the idea
. There's some
strange
stuff
here, but people seem to
enjoy it.
to Music by thurston |
| Wednesday Jun 18, 2003 | If you want to learn to beatbox, you can take courses at humanbeatbox.com.
to Music by isosceles |
| Monday Jun 16, 2003 | Laci Peterson's murder was a dreadful thing, but someone has found a way to make it all better. to Music by fringehead |
| Saturday May 31, 2003 | Daler Mehndi is the Badshah of Indipop. to Music by isosceles |
| Monday May 12, 2003 | Cats
paint.
Elephants
paint,
but elephants also
play the harmonica.
(And
drums, xylophones, etc.)
See video
in Swedish.
to Music by belford |
| Wednesday May 7, 2003 | Forced Exposure and Midheavean are two of the better mail-order record shops. Using them you can get introduced to acts that are harder to come by, even in an good record shop. to Music by fool |
| Wednesday Apr 23, 2003 | Will the Real Saddam Hussein Please Stand Up? to Music by faisal |
| Thursday Apr 17, 2003 | Be a P2P DJ and start putting that 30
Gigabyte mp3 collection to good use. to Music by asosa |
| Monday Apr 14, 2003 | Did last year's movie Drumline get you all hyped up? Join the Drummin' Men.
to Music by yoyology |
| Tuesday Apr 8, 2003 | If you can't get your song played on a Clear Channel station or seen on MTV, post it on Protest Records. to Music by yoyology |
| This woman has quite possibly the most bizarre collection of multimedia ever. to Music by isosceles |
| Friday Apr 4, 2003 | When a songwriter has run out of ideas, they can always rely on the Truck Driver's Gear Change to generate some false excitement. to Music by borges |
| Tuesday Mar 18, 2003 | G.I. Joe! The greatest American..
nerd rap/cosplay trio? to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Feb 12, 2003 | John Cage, deceased modernist composer, answers the question: "Just how slow is 'as slow as possible?'" to Music by fotbon |
| Despite historical
precedence and
common sense,
the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is planning to reanimate the corpse of
the ill-fated musical,
A Shoggoth On The Roof, at the
Defiant Theatre in the fall of 2003. If you go, make sure to have
an unbalanced
breakfast first. to Music by scromp |
| Sunday Feb 9, 2003 | Hip hop has had it's band from the future. Now the trance and dance crowd get one too: live form the year 2043, courtesy of BSO recordings; Ashintaro!
"Finally, they are knowing in the rest of the world" to Music by caspian |
| Tuesday Feb 4, 2003 | Apparently Haddaway still maintains a strong Web presence, even if it's entirely in German. This is very confusing, as Haddaway is not German, rather hailing from Trinidad and Tobago. to Music by isosceles |
| Sunday Feb 2, 2003 | Shooby Taylor is the self-proclaimed
Human Horn.
His preferred genre ---
"scat-singing"
over gospel
and
lounge
hits --- is fairly common. What is unique is how
utterly
weird
he is.
to Music by isosceles |
| Saturday Feb 1, 2003 | Like chess, yo-yo, and tangrams, the practice of change ringing (a subspecialization of campanology) is an ancient art that holds a singular fascination for modern mathematicians. to Music by yoyology |
| Thursday Jan 30, 2003 | Whether you sing lead, tenor, baritone, or bass, you can quickly get together with three other guys and form a Barbershop Quartet. Don't know what one is? SPEBSQSA is the source for everything you need, including sheet music, contest rules, tchotchkes, etc. Of course, for the ladies, there's the Sweet Adelines. to Music by yoyology |
| Monday Jan 27, 2003 | The complete KISStory of drumsitcks: one man's mission to doccument the extensive list of drumsticks used by various KISS drummers on tour, and separate the real paraphernalia from the
fake. to Music by caspian |
| Wednesday Jan 15, 2003 | Sick of MTV telling you what's cool? Don't like that the music your radio station plays is paid for? Join the Avrilution -- the only thing we'll end up losing is the RIAA.
to Music by kade |
| Thursday Jan 9, 2003 | Girls got rhythm at two minutes to midnight. Surrender in mysterious ways.
to Music by fringehead |
| Monday Jan 6, 2003 | With Sebastian Bach running around playing Jesus, some people are wondering about his former Skid Row bandmates. It seems they've been playing their hearts out on the State Fair circuit. I wonder what it's like standing on stage screaming "We are the YOUTH GONE WILD!" when you're pushing 40. to Music by yoyology |
| Sunday Jan 5, 2003 | Carrying on the grand traditions of white rap and
geeky music,
nerdcore
hiphop is sweeping the nation with such artists as MC Chris,
MC Front-a-lot and
MC Paul Barman. to Music by geofforama |
| Monday Dec 16, 2002 | Straight outta Middle Earth, yo. to Music by fringehead |
| Yngwie Malmsteen:
guitarist, musical innovator and
obnoxious
airplane passenger.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Monday Dec 9, 2002 | Ever Been Caught Wankin' while thinking about The Girls of Porn or Darling Nikki? Got any Pictures of Lily you use for Turning Japanese? You could be a Jizzlobber or even an Orgasm Addict. Check a list to find out for sure. to Music by yoyology |
| Sunday Dec 8, 2002 | Remix relays are albums in which each successive track is a remix of the previous. But what of the first track, of what is it a remix? Well in the case of Endlessnessism the first track was freshly minted. However in the case of Chinese Whispers the inital relayer was given mysterious DATs of samples composed anonymously by Stereolab. As an interesting twist, Stereolab also remixed the final leg of the race. to Music by fool |
| Wednesday Nov 27, 2002 | Settling down for a good creep-out courtesy of H.P. Lovecraft, but lacking sufficiently haunting and bizarre avant-garde chamber music to properly set the mood? Check out Yuggoth Records, which boasts darkly malevolent and unthinkably alien song samples and paintings. Also featuring the ten-year Yuggoth Set Project, which has to date worked its way to Azathoth. to Music by cricket |
| Friday Nov 15, 2002 | Those having trouble keeping track may wish to consult
A Photographic History of Michael Jackson's Face.
to Music by joshua |
| Saturday Nov 2, 2002 | When did dub become the stylish genre? The Infinite Wheel portends a strange union of anime, 70s kitsch and, head-candy groove. At least metal will never change. to Music by urog |
| Wednesday Oct 30, 2002 | When found audio meets loop-based editing, the inevitable result is Owny Woo. to Music by ron2112 |
| Tuesday Oct 15, 2002 | In the same
Borgesian
vein as
The Invisible Library, comes the
Rocklopedia
Fakebandica: a list of fake bands from movies and TV shows.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Oct 5, 2002 | Kitties rock! to Music by roo |
| Thursday Sep 26, 2002 | Whitney Houston vs. Kraftwerk and other fruits of plunderphonics and its diy twin uploadphonix.
to Music by fool |
| Wednesday Sep 25, 2002 | Although intended to help colleges and other organizations book acts
for
music
festivals, Clear Channel's
detailed
price list of musical and
spoken-word acts also lets you to do the cold, harsh math and find out exactly
how many
Carrot Tops it takes to make a
Mr. Show. to Music by riotnrrd |
| Monday Sep 23, 2002 | What is it about a David Hasselhoff music video that reminds me so much of other stale web phenomena? to Music by wheezer |
| Friday Sep 20, 2002 | Extremely good news for Nirvana die-hards. Courtney Love, Dave Grohl & Krist Novoselic have finally come to an agreement regarding a long-awaited new album. To be included on the upcoming compilation is "You Know You're Right" -- one of Kurt's many unheard songs.
to Music by dross |
| Thursday Aug 29, 2002 | Six years and eight months later, the Publius Enigma is still unsolved. to Music by 7layerburrito |
| What happens when you fuse glitch and hiphop? Some would say Prefuse 73, but those who come from San Francisco would say Gold Chains mother$#@%er.
to Music by fool |
| Wednesday Aug 28, 2002 | Hey hey,
we're the
Monkees! And some
of us are still
hacking away at it. to Music by fatherdan |
| Sunday Aug 18, 2002 | Parody king Weird Al Yankovic, like everything else in American pop culture, now has a parallel universe version of himself for the born-again set. listen and compare if you dare. to Music by fringehead |
| Saturday Aug 17, 2002 | Forget The Two Towers, what you really want is this ~4MB QuickTime movie about Bilbo Baggins, sung by a man who needs to eat more salsa. Or, if you'd prefer, just listen to a RealAudio version of it here. Or, hell, just go get drunk. to Music by crikey |
| Tuesday Aug 13, 2002 | When I was a young lad, I would often see cartoons of
Yosemite Sam singing the first few bars of
"Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum." Little did I realize what an
utterly gruesome song it was.
to Music by isosceles |
| Wednesday Jul 17, 2002 | Coagula is an image synthesizer -- create and manipulate images and then turn them into sound by the inverse of the spectrogram function.
to Music by joshua |
| Sunday Jun 23, 2002 | Sometimes a tribute album is true to the original. Sometimes, the music is given a new spin.
to Music by n |
| Thursday Jun 6, 2002 | The Dead Kennedys are currently touring sans presidential candidate and ex-lead singer Jello Biafra. The legal spat between the band and Jello have caused fans to create boycott shows opposite Dead Kennedys concerts or, in one case, put Jello back on stage with the band. (Video of the gelatin assault is here) to Music by george |
| Wednesday May 22, 2002 | If you've been jamming to Star Wars inspired songs like
MC Chris'
"Fett's
Vette"
and Supernova's
Chewbacca,
maybe you should consider buying that
special
guitar
and make your own.
Jam on, you
rockin'
Mandalorian!
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 16, 2002 | Looking for a band that plays world music with a heavy Nordic influence? Try Cardinal Points - the band that the Vikings would almost certainly pillage to, if they were still pillaging today. Check out their tunes, buy some shirts, and then check them out at the Blackhorse Music Festival. to Music by riffraff |
| Monday Apr 29, 2002 | Only the Pet Shop Boys would have the balls to sing a song about homosexual love with Eminem. to Music by isosceles |
| Sunday Apr 28, 2002 | When Flash animators became too lazy to make their own good music, the internet band was born. Take K-rad for example, who has done just about every song featured on Presstube.com. A little less popular perhaps, is E*Rock from Audio Dregs, who you might recognize from the trippy Mumbleboy animations. to Music by 7layerburrito |
| Friday Apr 26, 2002 | Hey everyone! Let's
filk
about food safety! to Music by fringehead |
| Wednesday Apr 24, 2002 | Richard D. James (a.k.a. afx, aphex, aphex twin) doesn't just make frenetic music and videos. He also sneaks images into the spectrograms of his tracks. If you're knowledgeable about fourier series transformations it's probably straightforward, though it certainly makes backmasking seem childish by comparison. Think it's a hoax? Download a spectrogram tool and take a look at the title track (#2) on Windowlicker.
to Music by fool |
| Tuesday Apr 23, 2002 | Matthew Herbert, Herbert, Radio Boy, Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain, The Music Man, whatever you may call him, he's a electronic musician with a very clear vision. And a new album, under his Radio Boy moniker, available for download on the net, with a loud political message and Henry Kissinger, a Big Mac meal and cans of brake fluid as sound sources. to Music by wheezer |
| Wednesday Apr 17, 2002 | Speaking of the Time Cube, find out what happens when somebody has the time cube read via a text to speech converter and the resulting robotic tirade is recorded onto an bizarre MP3 with a twisted spoken-word version of Copacabana tacked on to the end. to Music by isosceles |
| Monday Apr 15, 2002 | Still searching for a name for your Math / Emo rock band? How about Probability of Two? to Music by fool |
| Friday Apr 12, 2002 | The Music from TV Commercials site misses one of the most puzzling TV commercial music choices ever made: Volkswagen's use of Psychic TV's Roman P, a song about the brutal Manson family murder of Roman Polanski's 8-month pregnant wife Sharon Tate. to Music by roo |
| Monday Apr 8, 2002 | That car commercial had really catchy music! I wonder who recorded it.
to Music by joshua |
| Da Yoopers are Northern Michigan's greatest band, with their discography including such timeless classics as If I Could Fart Like My Dad. to Music by isosceles |
| Wednesday Mar 27, 2002 | Some people think music has gone
too commercial,
but maybe the real threat is
businesses
trying to become musical.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 20, 2002 | Jandek,
an enigmatic, reclusive
"outsider"
musician,
has been described as "just like the Beatles... if you strip away melody,
catchy hooks, rhythm, and harmony,
vocal and instrumental ability,
and any trace of human feeling other than dull, lingering pain."
Clearly, opinion is divided on whether he's
a genius or just
a freak
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Mar 6, 2002 | Vaunted composer Philip Glass (be he
loved, loathed,
or both) now has a fairly cool interface to his work, making it all the easier to find that perfect music for life's little moments. to Music by goboro |
| Tuesday Mar 5, 2002 | Wow! I can't believe it! A select few of my favorite musicians have good websites! Amon Tobin is among the few and proud. Most notably is Warp Records, created by The Designer's Republic. An entire record label of web goodness.
to Music by 7layerburrito |
| Sunday Mar 3, 2002 | Il Canto di Malavita
proves that gangsta isn't just for rap anymore.
Traditional Calabrian melodies like
I Cunfirenti
beckon the listener to a Mediterranean isle... complete with
Mafiosi.
The
CD
contains such evocative
lyrics
as You are a spy and you are a traitor / Life is the price to pay for whoever makes mistakes like you. Available online. to Music by voidptr |
| Thursday Feb 28, 2002 | Steven Adler, former member of Guns n Roses, has his own little web page. Also known as Popcorn, Steven has stopped doing drugs and has plans for a book. Maybe one day ALL of the original Gunners can get back together. That will depend on Axhole Rose. to Music by lucky |
| Friday Feb 22, 2002 | Clan Mortal Teamwork asks you kindly to bang your head until you stutter. to Music by wheezer |
| Wednesday Feb 13, 2002 | With DJ'ing having become something of a pop phenomenon, and the competition in the various championships being as hard as it is, now would be the perfect time to branch from the vinyl to another semi-obscure music medium - the cassette. Heck, maybe one can still win those championships...
to Music by wheezer |
| Monday Feb 11, 2002 | Did you know that No Talent Ass Clowns of Tech Support have their own theme song? to Music by faisal |
| Saturday Feb 9, 2002 | I sit on the couch. I watch TV. But no matter what I do, I can't get Magical Sound Shower, one of the songs from a Sega arcade game OUT OF MY HEAD. You can listen to it at The Arcade Museum, if you dare. I tried to find some other videogame music to drive it out, and stumbled onto the "Party Remix" (what the fuck?) version of Saria's Song from the first N64 Zelda game, The Ocarina of Time, at vgmusic.com. If you can tolerate the cheesiness of MIDI, it's pretty neat. Excuse me, I have to go listen to the theme to Sonic the Hedgehog again and again and again and again... to Music by peterb |
| Friday Feb 8, 2002 | In one corner: mild-mannered public
radio host Terry Gross. In the other: KISS'
Gene Simmons.
Ready...fight!
to Music by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Feb 6, 2002 | As far as your music conspiracies go you've got your Paul is
Dead and the more recent Richey James Edwards is not dead
(well, except for maybe legally). There is the idea that Morrissey foretold the death of
Princess Diana and there is the infamous Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz connection. But don't ignore the enormous One Love
Story. It suggests that everything
the Stone Roses did (their lyrics, their cover art, even magazine cover
appearances) was a clue to a higher meaning. Drummer Reni is the
Messiah, while the rest of the band, Noel Gallagher and Richard Ashcroft are all Angels. Some are hopeful, but alas, Mani (the Roses'
bassist) shot the story down in an
interview. to Music by gsean |
| Monday Feb 4, 2002 | Back in September, experimental German composer Karlheinz
Stockhausen was accused of callously calling the World Trade Center attacks the greatest
work of art ever. Turns
out it's not so. How could we expect anything less from a man who both earned
the 2001 Polar Music Prize (along
with Robert Moog
and Burt Bacharach)
and was a cover
star on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
to Music by fatherdan |
| Saturday Jan 26, 2002 | The video for Star Guitar is quite hypnotic. It was directed for the Chemical Brothers (the infamous purveyors of big beat), by Michel Gondry. But then Gondry has got quite a portfolio already.
to Music by fool |
| Saturday Jan 19, 2002 | Recombinant Music has been around since the late 19th century. Now there is a powerful online tool for fans of both the samplers and the sampled. to Music by cadastral |
| Friday Jan 18, 2002 | Do you like low pitched instruments?
Is the
upper end
of the
bass clef
just a bit
too high
for your taste?
Are you fascinated by
musical
instruments
that register on
seismographs? Maybe you
need help.
to Music by blk |
| Thursday Jan 17, 2002 | Your chances of finding the meaning of life at RockWisdom.com are rather slim. Please look elsewhere for answers.
to Music by borges |
| Saturday Dec 22, 2001 | Hey kids, the infamous, lovable Sunday-evening livestream experience formerly known as Roemerstr31.com has moved, and now that the dust has finally settled, it's time to ring in the new year in style, with a 72+ hour (starts on the 28th of December) eclectic elated electronic stream extravaganza, moving from city to city and residence to residence. The best is yet to come, you too(tm) can be a part of this seminal milestone in webstream history! to Music by wheezer |
| Friday Dec 14, 2001 | "Tape mixes are the dominant form of creativity
for modern Americans." So show off your music skills
and dubious compilation titles at
The Art of the Mix. to Music by tregoweth |
| Thursday Dec 13, 2001 | Forties big band leader and jazz genius Artie Shaw isn't just alive, he's online.
to Music by fatherdan |
| Monday Dec 10, 2001 | The glory days of the past echo again with today's new technology: MP3.. Flash.. KAZOOS! to Music by fringehead |
| Friday Dec 7, 2001 | Classical
music hottie Lara St. John
had a terrifying brush with death by...peroxide
poisoning! No, it wasn't on her hair
at the time. to Music by fatherdan |
| Meet El Duce: the late lamented singer for the Shock rock sensation of the 80s, an idol to many, and possibly the key to the Kurt Kobain Konspiracy. to Music by fringehead |
| Wednesday Dec 5, 2001 | Sometimes, musicians want to make computer games (or cheap facsimiles of thereof) about their music; Sometimes they make music videos that look somewhat like video games. But (aside of professional game musicians, of course), few make "videogame-like music" that would go to market - especially if it's not connected to any particular game. Jukka Tarkiainen, a Finnish electronic musician, has now released his first CD - and couple of the tracks are also available for download. He even has a hilarious music video that is very videogame-like in spite of being mostly live-action... to Music by wwwwolf |
| Tuesday Dec 4, 2001 | The Nelson Brothers are still at it except now they are doing it country-style. Matthew's wife Yvette is picking up the slack with her own album. Gunnar is cool and wants to inspire us while continuing to use the "f" word. All of this makes me miss the old days when the band Nelson meant long hair and the beautiful, metalli-cheese of songs such as After the Rain. Oh well, at least the boys don't have to listen to the stupid Ozzie/Ozzy jokes anymore.
to Music by lucky |
| Friday Nov 30, 2001 | Bang your head! Metal flash will drive you mad!
to Music by lucky |
| Wednesday Nov 28, 2001 | "You can make music with anything, even a piece of toast," said Einstürzende Neubauten frontman Blixa Bargeld in an interview once - nontheless, it's always fun to see this concept translated in practice, even if it's with the lowly, slightly more high-tech (than toast, mind you) cellular phone. to Music by wheezer |
| Tuesday Nov 27, 2001 | Dictionaraoke is not one of those "wish i'd thought of that" ideas, but it's good for some laughs. I enjoyed the infinitely less angry cover of the Sex Pistols' seminal Anarchy In The UK. to Music by obvious |
| Thursday Nov 22, 2001 | I'll never forget when the four
strangers rode into Cadillac. Who
were they? Where
did they come from? What
strange supernatural powers did they possess? Where
the hell did they get those boots? All
we knew
then was
that our
little town
would never
be the
same again. to Music by fatherdan |
| Monday Nov 19, 2001 | I never knew Uncle Tom's Cabin
could be so
rocking!!!! to Music by lucky |
| Friday Nov 16, 2001 | "This is the story of Billy
Tipton, a female jazz
musician who lived
as a man from the time she was nineteen, until she died
at age seventy-four."
to Music by lucky |
| Monday Nov 12, 2001 | Not content with just music, pirates move on to swapping album cover art.
to Music by joshua |
| Friday Nov 9, 2001 | Do you have a smooth, deep, throaty voice and an abiding love of classical music? Interested in becoming an announcer for Chicago’s only classical station, WFMT? Take their infamous announcer audition. If you can work your way through such tongue-twisters as Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Nicanor Zabaleta, and Hans Knappertsbusch, you might have a chance at baroque music stardom. Think of the groupies! to Music by fatherdan |
| Friday Nov 2, 2001 | Imagine if Richard D. James, Plaid, Squarepusher, Leftfield, and all their IDM friends were IRC denizens.
to Music by dnm |
| Wednesday Oct 24, 2001 | Wait a minute, is that Madonna? to Music by fool |
| Friday Oct 12, 2001 | Chris Korda, International Deejay Gigolo and Reverend of the Church of Euthanasia, likes to watch the plane coming in. Save the planet, kill yourself. As seen on Jerry Springer! to Music by wheezer |
| Monday Oct 8, 2001 | The Avalanches' videos are crazy as a coconut.
to Music by fool |
| Wednesday Sep 26, 2001 | "Cuchi-cuchi cu!" to Music by mrradon |
| Monday Sep 24, 2001 | Roy
Wood and the Wombles (Not to
be confused, naturally, with other Wombles). The
Wombles are - depending on what source I
look at - appear to be either bear-like things or rodent-like
things. They started as children's fiction, apparently, and became
recording artists. Roy Wood, on
the other hand, was a founder and main songwriter for the incredibly
influential band The
Move. Both have done songs about Christmas: Roy - "I Wish
It Could Be Christmas Every Day"(),
Wombles - "Wombling Merry Christmas". Now, due to... well,
some unknown force that we should all fear, we have "I Wish
It Could Be A Wombling Merry Christmas Everyday". There's
even a video.
What really frightens me is that I'm considering getting the CD.
to Music by dha |
| Wednesday Sep 12, 2001 | The newest album by the rap group
The Coup
has an.. unfortunately
timed
cover design
(album
review in Wired).
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Aug 29, 2001 | Before Clint Mansell scored films like Pi and Requiem for a Dream he was the front man of the band Pop Will Eat Itself. to Music by klint |
| Take your kids to Sunday school...ARGGGHHHH! SATAN IS GOD! These and
other musical blasphemies may be found at the Bran
Flakes' site.
to Music by fatherdan |
| Saturday Aug 25, 2001 | Looking for a new sources for musical inspiration? It all depends on how you look
at it. Harry Partch looked
between the staff lines to explore microtonal
composition, and built some new
instruments to make it possible. Metasynth
can help you uncover some synesthetic
possibilities. For some, the vision of future
music is inspired by planets,
Mandelbrot sets,
or..cats? to Music by asosa |
| Thursday Aug 16, 2001 | Who's Bob Young? He plays guitar..he
sings. He doesn't dance. He writes songs. He has never worn a speedo. However,
he has been fat and worn polyester.
to Music by fatherdan |
| "Insturments be political prisioners up inside computers." Or so says Saul Williams. to Music by fool |
| Happy day of Elvis's Death. Visit one of many Elvis shrines, like Joni Mabe's Panoramic Encyclopedia of Everything Elvis. Or pay homage to all of the Elvis impersonators out there.
to Music by aimz |
| Sunday Aug 12, 2001 | You may remember that by downloading MP3s, you're downloading communism. But now that Napster has "sold out", if you pay for your mp3s, you're rockin' out with The Man! (By the way, if you think that this sort of propaganda only works in parodies, think again...) to Music by wwwwolf |
| Friday Aug 10, 2001 | Used by the Nazis in World War II to kill millions of people in the multiple concentration camps, Zyklon-B became a synonym for certain death. Nowadays, it seems it's become the name of choice for so-called mass murder metal bands.
to Music by cain |
| Friday Aug 3, 2001 | Why have you never heard of Mike Keneally? Why did Frank Zappa call him "The best new guy I ever had in the band"? Why do Steve Vai, Robert Fripp, Andy Partridge, and Henry Kaiser think he's brilliant? Why would fans come from around the world to organize and attend a festival in his honor? Why would tapers devote an entire domain to trading recordings of his live shows? Someday Mike's music is going to be huge, and you can say you knew him back in the day. to Music by ron2112 |
| Wednesday Aug 1, 2001 | Fluffertrax broadcasts the finest in adult movie soundtracks. Aww yeahh... to Music by tregoweth |
| Saturday Jul 14, 2001 | Some ex-members of Alien Sex Fiend have started a new project called XFIEND. to Music by roo |
| Friday Jul 13, 2001 | Hear your audio files played in a giant grain elevator in Montreal. While you're at it, check out [The User]'s project, symphony for dot matrix printers.
to Music by aimz |
| Wednesday Jul 11, 2001 | Robert Moog didn't really
invent the synthesizer, but he made it usable. He also wasn't the only inventor in that family. to Music by jcs |
| Monday Jul 9, 2001 | Oulu, that most noteworthy Finnish city, features, amongst more standard fare, one of the fiercest musical competitions this side of the equator - the Air Guitar World Championships!
to Music by wheezer |
| Sunday Jul 1, 2001 | There is more than one way to tune a musical instrument (or a MIDI score). Or make your own. Or sample them all. to Music by keiths |
| Saturday Jun 30, 2001 | People have played some strange instruments: bones, sackbut, Jew's harp, many strange harmonicas like the pipeolian and the rolmonica, the ukelin, sitar guitar, ophicleide, orchestrion, and even the glass harmmonica (armonica), which Ben Franklin invented. NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art, has a strong musical instrument collection.
to Music by keiths |
| Sunday Jun 24, 2001 | I'd like to see somebody pair up this creepy singing child portrait with the dancing talent of this Mr. Nice. to Music by singe |
| Saturday Jun 16, 2001 | The bunnybass is a 20 lbs monster bass guitar that looks someone cut off Hello Kitty's head, glued two ears to it, and pierced the top of its head with a bass neck. Oddly enough, the best part of the site is a great photo collection of women musicians, most of whom wouldn't be caught dead with that behemoth bass. to Music by skallas |
| Tuesday Jun 5, 2001 | Blöödhag
reminds you that "the faster you go deaf,
the more time you have to read."
to Music by mrnonrespondo |
| Monday Jun 4, 2001 | Why not treat your garage band to a new name and help some starving artists?
All proceeds go to buying
beer. to Music by roughneck |
| Saturday Jun 2, 2001 | We said
if you don't got Mojo Nixon
then your store could use some fixin'.
to Music by tregoweth |
| Wednesday May 30, 2001 | Men who look like Kenny Rogers. to Music by wheezer |
| Tuesday May 22, 2001 | The Dismemberment Plan, Spoozys, Aislers Set, and other indie acts never quite seem to make it to your town? Luckily for you, supersphere.com has archived a lot of indie performances in Realmedia. to Music by skallas |
| Monday May 14, 2001 | If Apple made an iPiano, I wonder what it would
look like?
to Music by enigma |
| Friday May 4, 2001 | What the world needs now are more songs about Star Trek and superheroes. And monkeys too. to Music by lampbane |
| Thursday May 3, 2001 | The bitches know me because they know that I can rock. Pikachu!
to Music by therubal |
| Thursday Apr 26, 2001 | Expose an indie rock phenomenon to 10 and 11 year olds and the end result is hilarious. to Music by skallas |
| Wednesday Apr 25, 2001 | Now is the time when limber and smartly dressed professional instructor Rene will teach you dance fundamentals. Make sure to choose the Deutsch option for the full Sprockets effect. to Music by saucy |
| Sunday Apr 22, 2001 | fals.ch, a mp3 label catering to friends of high-quality electronic music, has recently released their first compilation. With a large catalogue of releases, artists such as Oval and Jodi contributing, what's still keeping you here?
to Music by wheezer |
| Saturday Apr 14, 2001 | Daniel 3:5 (in the King James version) mentions a number of odd instruments. The flute and harp are well-known, and our readers may know the dulcimer, but how many of you know what a cornet, sackbut, or
psaltery is?
to Music by sck |
| Wednesday Apr 11, 2001 | Damn! I broke a string on my oud.
Perhaps I should switch to the saz
or cumbus. to Music by fatherdan |
| Thursday Apr 5, 2001 | When five Asian-American college students with too much time on their hands feel the need to satirize irrationally popular boy-bands, the results can be surprisingly hilarious. Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for the smoove sounds of ... N'Chink! to Music by pjammer |
| Tuesday Apr 3, 2001 | Why bother with a
Shockwave Theremin
when you can buy a real one and
join the club?
to Music by wolfereeno |
| The Rare Music site hasn't been updated in years but is a great cure for that sudden Mistadobalina sing-a-long craving. There are many amazing audio rarities by the likes of Uri Gellar, Heino, and Muhammed Ali as well as the soulful noodlings of Sun Ra. to Music by wolfereeno |
| Offering "No hits, None of the time", WFMU's been called the greatest radio station on Earth. Be sure to listen to the audio archives. Samples of some great moments: The museum of cardboard & flexi records, the Beauty of Skipping Records Show, That's Irritainment! - a guide to Unpopular music with Kenny G (not that Kenny G!) and the fabulous Incorrect Music Show. to Music by wolfereeno |
| Thursday Mar 29, 2001 | What happens when a country band from Austin does a cover of Snoop Dogg's "Gin & Juice"? Snoop likes it and sings along. to Music by mrbill |
| Monday Mar 12, 2001 | I want candy.
I want a new drug.
I wanna be sedated.
I wanna be a lifeguard.
Who do you want to be today?
Oh, yeah!
I love rock and roll.
Call me -
867-5309.
to Music by moose |
| Thursday Mar 1, 2001 | The Bjork Remix Web would like to remind you that 47 versions of Joga are not enough.
to Music by urog |
| Tuesday Feb 20, 2001 | Blonde Redhead
rocks my world. The current members are Amedeo and Simone Pace, twin brothers from Italy, and
Kazu Makino from Japan.
Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons - a brilliant album -
is on
Touch and Go Records.
But don't take my word for it, if you live in San Francisco catch them at the
2001 Noise Pop Festival. to Music by birgitte |
| Wednesday Feb 14, 2001 | In 1906, beautiful dreamer Thadeus Cahill longed to bring music to peoples'
lives via the Telharmonium,
a gigantic device capable of generating and piping music into your home via
the phone lines. The Telharmonum
created sounds ranging from a piccolo to a tuba,
and could rightfully be considered the world'searliest electronic musical instrument. Its size, frequent breakdowns, and
unpopularity with musicians, however, bankrupted Thadeus, causing him to die
a lonely and bitter man. Nothing remains of the Telharmonium
today but a few photographs and testimonials by Mark
Twain
and others. Especially sad is the fact that no recordings were ever made of
the Telharmonium.
to Music by fatherdan |
| Monday Jan 29, 2001 | Counter to what Ken Burn's Jazz series would have the world believe, there is a wealth of great jazz music that doesn't fit into Winton Marsalis' stale, stodgy, music history revisionist world. Take, for instance, the history of jazz organ music, which is exhaustively detailed at the International Archives for the Jazz Organ. Or perhaps you'd like to know about the history of jazz after Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong? Freejazz.org is full of running commentary and discussions about where jazz has been and where it’s going. Latin Jazz Network covers just about any questions about its nebulous history. And what exactly is Brasilian jazz? Swedish jazz has a long history too. Chicago station WNUR has a useful music map/flow chart on the evolution of jazz as well as a useful and simple list of jazz musicians, which includes most of the major players in current and modern jazz, a number of entries which have their own links to more in depth information. And many important artists have their own sites or comprehensive sites about them, including Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Pharoah Sanders, Anthony Braxton (and the Tri-Centric Foundation), John Zorn and his Tzadik label, Eric Dolphy, George Russell, and one of the better sites about Cecil Taylor is nothing more than a thesis on his music.
to Music by mrradon |
| Sunday Jan 28, 2001 | Ragtime music is more than rinky-tink
whorehouse piano music; it was a delightful syncopated American hybrid of African
and European music. Around the turn of the century, it was played by everyone
from string bands to orchestras.
In short, its rich history deserves to be explored
in depth.
to Music by fatherdan |
| Friday Jan 12, 2001 | Wanted: Drummer for rock band. Must have own equipment. Must be able to play weekends. Must be a Midget.
to Music by skyhook |
| Thursday Jan 11, 2001 | Back in the stone age of recording, music was recorded on wax
cylinders. Since mass production techniques had yet to be developed, performers
often recorded the same songs hundreds or even thousands of times. George
Washington Johnson probably held the record with The Laughing Song.
to Music by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Jan 10, 2001 | Behold the
insane discography
of bassist and
Chapman Stick® owner
Tony Levin.
to Music by obvious |
| Sunday Dec 24, 2000 | In spite of his relative obscurity (I saw him play a Moroccan bar in the basement of a Greenwich Village cafe), the solid song-writing and multi-layered harmonies of Mike Viola make him one of the undiscovered gems of the New York club circuit. Originating from the Boston music scene, you might have heard Mike Viola & the Candybutchers on a number of movie soundtracks including "Zero Effect" and as the vocals and music behind the song "That Thing You Do" from the movie of the same name. Find out what Mike's listening to, and where & when you can find him and the band live. to Music by rich |
| Friday Dec 15, 2000 | A very opinionated but educational Flash-driven guide to electronic music and a humorous "dictionary" of raver vocabulary.
Courtesy Ishkur.
to Music by gen |
| Who is this gorgeous woman who's jammin' with James Brown's horn section a.k.a. the JB Horns (Maceo Parker, Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley)? Candy Dulfer of course! to Music by gen |
| Wednesday Dec 6, 2000 | The Big Mouth Billy Bass -- it's not just for late night TV infomercials any more! to Music by roo |
| Monday Dec 4, 2000 | There's something intriguingly retrotechnological about listening to Sullivan's ethereal The Lost Chord as recorded ona wax cylinder in 1888, as recorded by NPS in MP3 format in the late 1990's.
to Music by mpc |
| Sunday Dec 3, 2000 | I can't believe I've never posted anything about Ensimismada, an original and experimental quartet of college students who happen to be wonderful songwriters and musicians... to Music by djinn |
| Monday Nov 13, 2000 | Ever wanted to know if you caught all the references in "We Didn't Start the Fire"? And who are all those people on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"? to Music by djinn |
| Saturday Nov 11, 2000 | Droplifting: "the reverse of shoplifting. It involves dropping a disc of your music in the racks of a record store without knowledge of the store's owner or staff."
to Music by tregoweth |
| Friday Nov 10, 2000 | Whether you love them or hate them, it is difficult to deny the accomplishments of these four guys from Liverpool. In the eight years between 1962 and 1970, The Beatles released TWENTY LPs, reached the top of the U.S. Singles charts TWENTY times, starred in five movies, and took a brief sabbatical in India. On November 13, 2000, thirty years after they broke up, The Beatles' official website goes live. to Music by rich |
| Tuesday Nov 7, 2000 | Do you find Napster too inconvenient to set up? These guys set up a web interface to Napster and Gnutella that you can use on any computer. Now you can download tunes at any Internet cafe. to Music by rsf |
| We already know that robots can slither, walk and fly, but did
you know they can rock? Last night
Captured by Robots played
their first NYC show at CBGB's
Gallery. to Music by roo |
| Sunday Oct 29, 2000 | Take hip-hop and mix in a strong dose of progressive politics and you'll end up with Beastie Boy Ad-Rock's Countdown. to Music by skallas |
| Sunday Oct 22, 2000 | If you were a robot this is the classic rock you would be listening to. to Music by skallas |
| Thursday Oct 19, 2000 | Electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Babies is neither soothing nor suited for children. From listening to these samples its best suited for teenagers experimenting with mind altering substances. Lets keep the incredible power of analog synthesizers in the hands of the 12 and older crowd,please.
to Music by skallas |
| Wednesday Oct 18, 2000 | In the
appropriating/sampling
tradition of
Negativland
and
®TMark (distributors of the infamous
"Deconstructing Beck"), comes the
Evolution Control Committee,
and their hilarious
Dan Rather
CBS Evening News
cut-up
opus
"Rocked By Rape" (mp3).
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Listen to the first singing computer as programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum in 1961, which later influenced a famous scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey. to Music by skallas |
| Wednesday Oct 4, 2000 | So it appears that out of traditional and traditional/punk Irish bands composed entirely of native Germans, Fiddler's Green and The Black Velvet Band are the most interesting... Now if only I could figure out how to order CD's in German. to Music by mpc |
| "Elvis has left the building," but he has not left our hearts & minds. Twenty-three years after his 'death', Elvis remains an icon in American culture. I don't know what's scarier to me -- Elvis or the devotion of people who worship him. to Music by rich |
| Sunday Oct 1, 2000 | For an intricate look into the electronic underground, check out Roemerstr31.com. The site where live mixes and sets are broadcast literally out of someone's living room, usually on Sundays. Webcam and chat included. to Music by wheezer |
| Monday Sep 25, 2000 | The last thing I usually expect to find when I'm sitting in a Starbucks in 516 [Nassau County, Long Island, for you non-New Yorkers] is an unique and entertaining blend of folk-pop and improvisation. Last Saturday night, instead of the usual bold expressions of Komodo Dragon Blend at the Starbucks on Hempstead Turnpike, I sampled the intriguing and fun blend of 28 Orange Street. Comprised of premium sharp-witted lyrics spontaneously blended with a perfect balance of only the finest honey-voiced, self-effacing vocalists, this flavorful group is truly exceptional. Distinctive and assertive, yet full-bodied, smooth, deep and earthy. Yum. to Music by rich |
| Friday Sep 22, 2000 | The Brazilian electronic music group Golden Shower's recent video, Video Computer System (mirrored here and here) will remind you of all the great games for the Atari 2600 VCS.
to Music by joshua |
| Sunday Sep 3, 2000 | Monotonik is an online mp3 network label that distributes mostly electronica for free. While many of the artists, including Lackluster (with deFocus) and Dharma+Dice (with Moving Shadow Records) got their start in the MOD and demo scene, they now distribute their music in mp3 format.
to Music by joshua at Ars Electronica |
| Saturday Sep 2, 2000 | "If Jamaica can have a
bobsled team,
Wisconsin can have a
Steel Drum Band!" Check out the
good work at
mp3.com (with perhaps special attention paid to the
polka). to Music by goboro |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | Jump onboard the
70's retro-train
with
KISS!
Hear the
music!
See the
costumes!
Read the
comic book!
(Printed with
Gene Simmons' own blood!)
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Friday Aug 25, 2000 | The
world's biggest
harp. to Music by goboro |
| Monday Aug 21, 2000 | Fairtunes, at least in theory, should be a more viable solution for supporting our favorite digital addiction than Save Napster. Considering that the company, founded by two students, has only been in existance since May of this year, the results are at least somewhat encouraging.
to Music by wheezer |
| Friday Aug 18, 2000 | With the rise of the cult of the DJ and the popularity of electronic dance music, let us not forget what it takes to make a great record. to Music by gen |
| Wednesday Aug 9, 2000 | Writing pop songs for guitar is really this easy. Its exactly what your musician friends you're so jealous of do, at least at first.
to Music by skallas |
| Ah, more archives of everyone's favorite song to analyze and parody. There's also a FAQ, for those new to one of the world's longest songs. to Music by djinn |
| Tuesday Aug 8, 2000 | This obviously inflammatory and ghostwritten speech by Courtney Love has become an internet staple when discussing the music industry, while Steve Albini's superior and much more informative essay is largely ignored. to Music by skallas |
| Friday Jul 28, 2000 | Popular music these days is in a sad state.
Signs
are
obvious,
I hope. Every time
Art turns into an Industry, it's hard for the good stuff to
rise from beneath the drivel.
Well, at least we still have
J. S. Bach
(who just got a more or less nice, new website for himself).
to Music by wwwwolf |
| Thursday Jul 27, 2000 | This one goes to 11. to Music by borges |
| Sunday Jul 16, 2000 | This guy has too much
time on his hands. He has catagorized
ALL of the 12 Days of Christmas parodies there ever were,
including one a
friend and I wrote. I especially like the
Twin Peaks and
Spaceghost variants. to Music by laurel |
| My favorite radio station, WFMU is the long time host of the Incorrect Music Hour, a show dedicated to archiving obscure, underfinanced, and shut-in artists. As host Irwin Chusid would descibe it "A true 'Incorrect' artist must be sincere and lack self-awareness. A severe irony deficiency helps. Any humorous overtones to their work must be unintentional." Other exciting developments include a companion book and CD, which focuses on some of the the show's better finds. If you don't happen to live in the NY-NJ area, you can still listen on the web.
to Music by borges |
| Monday Jul 10, 2000 | I'm glad the acapella band Da Vinci's Notebook
is around to tell me what is cool
and not cool.
to Music by laurel |
| Saturday Jul 8, 2000 | And in other cone-related news, Robyn Hitchcock is known amongst fegmaniax for his collectible cone art. to Music by eclipse |
| Friday Jul 7, 2000 | "The Large Hot Pipe Organ is the world's only MIDI controlled, propane powered explosion organ. The LHPO's pyro-acoustic explodo-rhythmations will throbbatize your earholes and dance-ify your booty and make you realize what 'Industrial Music' REALLY means!" to Music by faisal |
| Wednesday Jun 28, 2000 | Having grown up on the hardcore suburbian streets of Miami, the city that begat Vanilla Ice and Two Live Crew, I've always been partial to Old School Rap. Thanks to the Internet, you can test your knowledge from back in the day, or try your hand at laying your own tracks.
to Music by rich |
| Tuesday Jun 27, 2000 | Douglas Hofstadter
has written all sorts of books
about all sorts of things. Turns out while he was writing them he was
composing as well.
to Music by goboro |
| Monday Jun 26, 2000 | A beautiful, photo-realistic robot is assembled with visual echoes of Japanese anime (like Ghost in The Shell). The robot has Bjork's features (again, photo realistic), which begin singing. Another Bjork-faced gynoid (female android) joins in the duet, they fall in love and tonsil hockey to the instrumental fade-out. Kinky, cybery, beautiful, all wrapped up in the All Is Love video. to Music by cricket |
| Saturday Jun 10, 2000 | Jeskola's Buzz is a novel realtime music synthesizer that allows for the easy creation of new sound generation and filtration plugins. Not only does it sound great, but there are many free synthesis modules available. BuzzTrack, a news site covers the day-to-day development of Buzz. to Music by joshua |
| Tuesday Jun 6, 2000 | Another wrinkle in the grand MP3 Debate; the Coalition For The Future Of Music is mostly a manifesto at this point, but hey, it's an attempt to move away from the currently equally ugly choices. to Music by mpc |
| Thursday Jun 1, 2000 | Eminem. Enya. Eminenya. to Music by che |
| Originally from the UK, and produced in
Japan,
the music of
Boa
has only recently been popularized, mostly through
their contributions to the incredible anime hit
Serial Experiments: Lain.
(They did the opening song)
Their latest full-length album,
Race of a Thousand Camels,
is
available,
although not in the US, yet.
You can, however, get
t-shirts.
to Music by blk |
| Friday May 26, 2000 | Geek trivia department: MP3 was invented by Karlheinz Brandenburg, of Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits. The compression algorithm was modeled on Suzanne Vega singing "Tom's Diner", which is of course readily available as an illegal MP3. Ah, irony...
to Music by cricket |
| Friday May 19, 2000 | For those of you in the NYC area, Deridian is a
bastion of originality in the live music scene. Select songs are available
here, but they're a grim shadow of the
live shows, the next of which is Monday, May 22 in the downstairs lounge at
Wetlands, 10pm. to Music by caviar |
| Tuesday May 16, 2000 | Aside from a select few, most Americans are unaware that the phenomenon known as techno was started in Detroit. Finally the city has decided to honor its heritage with this festival. to Music by wheezer |
| Sunday May 14, 2000 | Why is listening to audiobooks on your Rio player so painful? Partially it's the user-hostile Audible.com website (e.g., you need to wade through several pages of "I agree to receive spam" before they'll even relinquish a sample). But mostly it's because Usability and Avoiding Legal Accountability are contradictory goals. See, Diamond Multimedia created Rioport.com in early '99 as the dedicated support site for the Rio players. Enter lots of lawsuits involving the illegal distribution of MP3s, for which Diamond made the leading portable player and operated an MP3 distribution website - any copyright lawyer would advise them to split their concerns into separate legal entities, each of which could claim that piracy is someone else's fault. Not surprisingly, Diamond (now a division of S3) spun off RioPort, Inc. in October. The downside for the user is that although they theoretically have a new support site (RioHome.com, which still clumsily refers to itself as Rioport), people visiting RioPort seeking the support promised in the software and manual are left in the cold.
to Music by cricket |
| Friday May 12, 2000 | What is a Song-Poem? Cynics would say it's just amateur crap lyrics sung by tapped out studio musicians for vanity recordings. Refined esthetes, however, appreciate the homespun madness of this preserved folk art and its tormented creators. to Music by fringehead |
| Wednesday May 10, 2000 | This band wants you to know that they would rather you check out their unofficial site,
"phonebashing."
to Music by gen |
| Monday May 8, 2000 | Poor Metallica. Apparantly they're losing so much from the likes of Napster, they've had to sell some other things to get by.
And if you think there's still anything there worth saving, you can make a (non tax-deductible) donation to help Lars and the rest of the guys out. So far they've netted $247! to Music by eclipse |
| The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences puts tax dollars to work collecting the lyrics of children's songs. Now you can finally learn all the words to "Nobody Likes Me", just in case you're still being ostracized by the other kids and need something to sing while you're rocking back and forth, sucking your thumb. to Music by jacquez |
| Friday May 5, 2000 | Worst of the Worst at mp3.com has pointers to some hilariously bad tracks. I suggest starting with 'Funky Mystery' and then getting your nerve up before trying 'The Ten Commandments' The hate mail from the artists being ridiculed is also worth reading. to Music by obvious |
| Thursday May 4, 2000 | So the Great Music Flamewar seems to involve a system giving artists minimal recompense for their work and a system giving artists no recompense for their work. The Street Performer Protocol proposes an escrow-like system for producing intellectual property; it reminds me of cosource's escrow-based development model. to Music by mpc |
| Instead of listening to electronic music, how
about making your own, online and experimental, naturally.
to Music by wheezer |
| Tuesday May 2, 2000 | IDM stands for Intelligent Dance Music, but what I find most ironic about the term, is that most of the music I've run across that is given this term, is hardly music you could dance to. Usually there are beats, but often they are a bit too disjointed for dancing. And, it's not all just Autechre and F.S.O.L. For example, Saundart Recordings releases some vinyl and CDRs that are given descriptions as strange as song titles and band names. If you find this intriguing, read through posts at the IDM Newsbase. Recent postings toss out such things as links to IDM labels and distributors, or the fascinating Richard D. James Lyrics Transcription Resource Project. And if this isn't enough, join the IDM list and you'll be on top of the opinions and suggestions of hundreds of fans. to Music by mrradon |
| Monday May 1, 2000 | Unlike the low-capacity portable mp3 player, a number of companies are shipping home-based systems suitable for inclusion in a hi-fi stereo, such as Turtle Beach's Audiotron, the Kerbango, Lansonic's Digital Audio Server, and AudioRamp's iRad. to Music by joshua |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 | Glenn Gould Interviews Glenn Gould About Glenn Gould, among other things by and about the great Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. to Music by borges |
| Sunday Apr 16, 2000 | Mac users! Bummed out by all your PC-using friends constantly telling you how great Napster is? Well, here's what you've been looking for! to Music by riffraff |
| Friday Apr 14, 2000 | Memepool music test: Who is Barbie's friend? DJ Christopher Lawrence
or DJ Blaine?
to Music by gen |
| Wednesday Mar 29, 2000 | It is unfortunate that Britain's premiere pop musician/poet Martin Newell isn't
more widely revered. Despite having such better known figures as
Captain
Sensible (late of the The
Damned) and Andy Partridge of XTC work with him, Newell has
trouble making a dent, particularly in the American market. Since
about 98% of Martin's output is out of print, you may have to send to
Germany
to feed your jangly habit.
to Music by dha |
| Monday Mar 27, 2000 | For reasons I still can't explain, I've recently had the bizarre urge to track down and listen to that old "Mickey Mouse" song by Sparks. While the closest I've gotten so far is "Angst in My Pants", I did stumble across the biased history of british glam rock in the process. It's a shame the evil imposters had to come along cheapen all the wonderful glitter and eye shadow and hairspray. What kind of sad world is it where Elton John walks freely through society while Gary Glitter gets locked up? to Music by nyarl |
| Perhaps the ultimate American electric piano, the Fender Rhodes is featured on thousands of recordings worldwide, by a wide range of artists including Ray Charles,The Doors, and Frank Zappa. The best known (and most commonly heard) version is probably the Stage Piano Mark I. Most of these are in poor shape these days, 30 years of constant bashing taking their toll on the mechanics. One person's journey toward rehabilitation is documented with audio samples and images. There's a constant fanbase supported by a Onelist discussion group, and a few sites in the Vintage Keyboard Webring are devoted to their `board. The Fender Rhodes FAQ is also handy.
to Music by urog |
| Wednesday Mar 15, 2000 | Life is hard when you're a wanna-be rock star. to Music by eclipse |
| Monday Mar 13, 2000 | I just can't cope with the three facts that
1) there's a rap group called Commodore 64,
2) Amazon flags their latest album as containing
EXPLICIT LYRICS,
and 3) that track five on that album is called
"Proof of the Riemann Mapping Theorem".
to Music by sburke |
| Friday Mar 10, 2000 | If you have that rare combination of a love for surf music and the urge
to be a secret agent, The
Penetrators are the band for you! Join the Southern Surf Syndicate
today! to Music by dha |
| If you want a guitar that makes you look like you should be in
Man or Astroman, perhaps you should
consider getting a
Teuffelguitar!
They certainly look as though they should be played by non-humans... to Music by dha |
| For all you metal fans out there, there's
Metal Sludge, a heavy metal
magazine with a sense of humor. Their sprawling website contains
interviews,
record reviews,
a concert calendar
and
pitiless mocking
of press packs.
Make sure, also, to check out
Donna's Domain:
a collection of gossip and
penis rankings
by world-class crew-slut Donna Anderson.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 28, 2000 | If your huge investment in cassette tapes is holding you back from the MP3 revolution,
Rome MP3 has the answer for you.
to Music by caviar |
| Saturday Feb 26, 2000 | It's been eight years since their last album, but The Sisters of Mercy are still around with a seriously deranged website. Ask their drum machine a question, find out how to blow off music critics, and the all-important list of women they'd like to sleep with. to Music by nyarl |
| Monday Jan 31, 2000 | Well, I think this takes care of all my Inuit music needs for the rest of my lifetime. to Music by mrradon |
| Saturday Jan 29, 2000 | If you love music that is simple, stripped-down, and unbelievably soulful, you'll enjoy the clumsy acoustic twangings of Toronto's Hayden. to Music by succa |
| Friday Jan 28, 2000 | The Flashified sector of the site for the pop-hop band Supreme Beings of Leisure pushes the medium to its edge--and then sails right past it. If you want to see what websites will all look like in 5 years, check this out. Too bad that their music wasn't anywhere near as interesting as the web design. (But since this sort of thing is what I get off on listening to, of course I'd think that.) to Music by monde |
| Saturday Jan 22, 2000 | Before the inevitable court injunction, try the 10-day-old My.MP3.com. The site plays CDs that you own in Real and MP3 format, even if you just bought the CD online. to Music by rogers |
| Thursday Jan 20, 2000 | Noodle is a free software toy which provides a visual metaphor for music-making that's so simple to use a non-musician will take to it instantly, so play-friendly and sophisticated experienced musicians will love it. It was built by the uberbrains from Realworld (who Peter Gabriel has tapped several times for CDRoms and stuff). Noodle is one of those oddities that reminds me software can be so good it makes you weep or laugh or call old friends to proselytize. to Music by cricket |
| Monday Jan 10, 2000 | Building your own loudspeakers is never as easy, cheap, or reliable as purchasing them but it
is indeed an extremely rewarding construction project for the ambitious and toolhandy.
Perhaps the best place to start is the relatively evolved Speaker Building Page.
Then perhaps you should move on to the DIY Loudspeaker FAQ and then read the section covering speakers in the
FAQ from rec.audio.* which has a nice bibliography and reference list.
Speaker Builder Magazine is the canonical dead-tree
periodical for the field. A smallish webring
showcases both hobby and commercial projects, including S. Westenskow's decent
audio page and a collection of his relevant technical articles.
Brian Steele has his own set of subwoofer related
articles for the infrasonically challeneged. The diary of the
proprietor of PhilsAudio is either a pile of design clues or a case study in obsessive compulsive disorder. And finally,
do not miss the unannotated yet thoroughly mondo mother of all audio links.
to Music by urog |
| Saturday Jan 8, 2000 | You've heard of math rock, but how about high energy physics rock? Les Horribles Cernettes claim to be the one and only high energy rock band, loved by tens of thousands of high energy physicists worldwide. They can't be too bad; after all, they even have a fan club. to Music by magus |
| Friday Jan 7, 2000 | R. Stevie Moore may be the king of underground pop music. Most of his home-recorded output -- 232 cassettes -- has been released through his personal cassette club. If you don't have half a lifetime to wade through all that music, click this link for his indie release records. Then, taste a sample of his fractured genius. to Music by borges |
| Saturday Dec 25, 1999 | I was going to recommend Pharoahe Monch, Mos Def, and maybe some other artists to the more hip-hop inclined amongst us, but it's easier to just recommend Rawkus Records who are responsible for bringing us them and haven't yet put out a bad album that I've heard of. to Music by keith |
| Friday Dec 24, 1999 | You may have not have heard of any of the bands which you'll find reviews of on Big Orange Crayon, but read what Nick has written and start buying some good music. to Music by dnm |
| Wednesday Dec 22, 1999 | "Worms destroy lethargic terror/I secrete nocturnal graves/My slave grovels gloomy requiem/Wolves conspire nocturnal decay." Of course this is just one stroke of morose lyrical confusion. Generate more at the Random Goth Lyric Generator. to Music by mrradon |
| Friday Dec 17, 1999 | DJ Bertus offers his Tips on being a DJ
and as a bonus you can see his ex-girlfriends
gallery. to Music by moose |
| Tuesday Dec 14, 1999 | If you must touch someone's crotch, touch David Bowie's. to Music by nyarl |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 | The
Annoying Music Show! is a wonderful little
radio program conceived and hosted by
Jim Nayder, and aims to offer only the worst
possible listening experience. For that
experience, check your local listings or
call 888.590.OUCH to order the compact disc. to Music by goboro |
| Sunday Dec 5, 1999 | I remember when the state of the art in computer game
soundtracks was an AM radio next to the box. Nowadays kick-ass game
tunes are a dime a baker's dozen, and The Best Game Music in
the World probably has a copy of your favorite ones.
to Music by braino |
| Friday Dec 3, 1999 | This hippie commune seems to be an example of a group with a nice place out in the boonies, and a mellowed-out manner of doing the survivalist Y2K thing...but is that MIDI file that plays when you load the page REALLY "Smells Like Teen Spirit"? It's a little too scary for words. to Music by monde |
| Monday Nov 29, 1999 | Curious to see what was online about early electronic music composer Ilhan Mimaroglu, I discovered the ever helpful Short History of Polyphonic Music in Turkey, and as well, the even more helpful and enlightening History of Electronic Music nestled smugly in the bosom of Dartmouth's Women on the Web-Electronmedia site. Not as much as I'd hoped for, and yet too much at the same time.
to Music by mrradon |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | Near the Big Muddy, south of Memphis, at the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49 is Clarksdale, Mississippi, the legendary birthplace of the blues. Clarksdale is also the home of the Delta Blues Museum to Music by jack |
| Tuesday Nov 9, 1999 | Oh Fortuna, Velunt Luna, Statu va-ri-a-bi-lis!. to Music by mpc |
| Saturday Nov 6, 1999 | "It's a technological solution to the nonexistence of God; It makes us feel like our calendars are counting something." Y2k, the song. to Music by cricket |
| Friday Nov 5, 1999 | First there was a parody that some people thought was real. And now there is a TV show about the making of a ‘real’ boy band. Be the first in your neighborhood to try out! to Music by birgitte |
| The theme of nearly everyone's prom who graduated from high school in mid 80s to early 90s was Alphaville's "Forever Young." Unfairly dismissed as a "one-hit wonder" band, Alphaville is still alive and kicking with new material as well as remixes of old favorites like Big in Japan. to Music by pjammer |
| Thursday Nov 4, 1999 | Before CD's, cassettes, 8-tracks and even vinyl, there was the wax cylinder, on which music was recorded to play on the first phonograph. www.tinfoil.com offers an interesting history of early recorded sounds, a resource for buyers and sellers, and a Cylinder of the Month, a wax cylinder recorded into digital format for you to hear. to Music by eclipse |
| Following in the footsteps of Jewish rappers such as the Beastie Boys and Third Bass is
MC Paul Barman. Check the mp3 single, Joy Of Your World. Also, there's an article in Mired. to Music by keith |
| Monday Nov 1, 1999 | Sometimes intoxicating, sometimes a poor excuse for over-production and too much reverb,
the
traditional music of the Andean Indians remains quietly popular
throughout the world. Learn how to make a
flute that isn't, or get a
guitar that isn't,
or get yourself a set of
the Panpipes of Doom and play along! to Music by goboro |
| Friday Oct 29, 1999 | Want some truly underground music? Detritus archives the forbidden sounds of "appropriative" music, including John Oswald's classic Plunderphonic, Negativland's infamous U2 material , and scores of links to seditious attacks on copyright. The links page itself is an artistic anarchist's delight. Don't miss gunderphonic's take on Chuck D. and Herb Alpert. to Music by fringehead |
| I have religiously grovelled the MOD newsgroups for years, and every
couple months a new cover of the song "Popcorn" arrives in my spool.
The last time this happened, I decided to make a web page with all the
different "Popcorn" songs I could find. While researching for the
project, I discovered that someone already has a site dedicated to
"Popcorn". As of this writing, there are 69 different versions
archived there.
to Music by braino |
| Monday Oct 25, 1999 | Gourd Music is an independant music label specializing in acoustic music. In addition to offering
select acoustic music from other labels, they offer
sound recordings of Shaker Music,
Americana,
Celtic Music, and even strains from Holiday Seasons Long Past. to Music by goboro |
| Edgar Meyer, oft lauded as the best bassist living (and equally at home in both classical and folk camps) has an extensive catalog of offerings. His latest effort (teaming up with
classical violinist
Joshua Bell and bluegrass virtuosos
Sam Bush and
Mike Marshall) combines classical and folk into a dizzying, wonderful
collusion that simply doesn't last long as it ought to. I cannot recommend it enough. to Music by goboro |
| Monday Oct 18, 1999 | Idle hands
are the devil's
playground. to Music by avi |
| Saturday Oct 9, 1999 | Everybody knows that he had a website. Everybody knows it was really lame. to Music by peterb |
| Friday Oct 8, 1999 | Somewhere between the
banjo
and the
mandolin
lies the
Banjolin. to Music by goboro |
| If you're tired of all the commecial interruptions
on the radio at the office and you've already listened
to all of the CDs in your cube but yet yearn for
fat beats and fresh mix,
GrooveTech
offers live turntable work
14 hours a day, both
with and
without
a live video feed of the artists at work
(RealPlayer Required).
to Music by goboro |
| Friday Oct 1, 1999 | Both Drummergirl and
Drumhers are useful
resource pages for XX-chromosoned percussionists. Practice, ladies, and someday
you might get as good as Janet. to Music by crikey |
| His baby done left him, he was thrown out into the street
without even his shoes, his own momma told him
he was a no-good dirty dog, but
at least he still has a web site. to Music by peterb |
| Wednesday Sep 29, 1999 | You want to watch something different? Catch
Modulations, Iara Lee's documentary on electronic music. Here's an
interview with Iara Lee, documentary film maker of "Modulations" and "Synthetic Pleasures."
You'll also want another interview,
a review,
and a timeline of electronic music.
Of course there's also Salon's rise and fall of rave culture.
to Music by gen |
| Tuesday Sep 28, 1999 | Hideously overpackaged media monstrosity or clever little Letterman prank? I don't know about these things. All I know is that you've gotta be fresh to fresh with the Fresh, er, what was it again? to Music by magus |
| Sunday Sep 26, 1999 | Sure the MP3 revolution is great, but too much attention is paid to a lot of pantywaist pop music for sissies. The real excitement is in MP3.com's Adult Country Music directory. Where else could we have found Government Chicken Boy? to Music by fringehead |
| Sunday Sep 19, 1999 | Opera For Everyone, a series-in-progress of recordings of famous operas with a narrator explaining the context, is certainly a noble idea... to Music by djinn |
| Friday Sep 17, 1999 | High-class karaoke via the WWW. to Music by machita |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | My favorite band lately has been The Old 97's. Their most recent
album, Fight Songs, has been getting a bit of press due to its
barenakedladyesque production values, but I'm still
a sucker for the west-texas-meets-pop feel of
Too
Far To Care, and lead singer Rhett Miller's
songs about drinking and girls. to Music by peterb |
| Wednesday Sep 8, 1999 | ARTS (Analog Realtime Synthesizer)
is a software-based modular synthesizer running under linux. Now you don't
need a soldering iron and PAiA schematics to build that super-rad ARP knockoff.
While you're considering audio for linux, you should really spend some time surfing
the metalinks at Dave Philips' linux audio links.
to Music by urog |
| Saturday Sep 4, 1999 | Ahh, the 70's. You know,
Disco may never die.
Not only can you go back to the
Boogy Wonderland but you find out what the heck the
words were, too.
But if you really want to remember the horrors of the Disco Days, just think about
that great Disco Era TV classic:
Solid Gold.
to Music by moose |
| Thursday Sep 2, 1999 | You can listen to complete albums on-line for free at
broadcast.com's CD Jukebox.
Personally, I'm most fond of
Digital Underground's latest, Who Got the Gravy, but that may just be me. to Music by keith |
| Wednesday Sep 1, 1999 | Don't settle for a theremin--you can get a
Theremax!
Or maybe you want a phat analog bass
synth for your MIDI setup? These and other kits for electronically-inclinded
musicians can be had at PAiA Electronics.
to Music by xrayjones |
| Wednesday Aug 25, 1999 | Not surprising: the first video game music live concert. to Music by faisal |
| Sunday Aug 22, 1999 | Revolutionary socialist rap may not be everyone's cup of tea, but if you think you could dig it, check out CDnow's
interview with
The Coup. to Music by keith |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | New technology, old time rock and roll: therollingstones.com. New technology, low cost high quality self defense products: ledzeppelin.com. Uh.... to Music by faisal |
| Sunday Aug 15, 1999 | The Shareware Music Machine is a nicely organized, and comprehensive looking, index to music software on the net. Lots of platforms, too. to Music by obvious |
| Sunday Aug 1, 1999 | I wish I had the skills to build my own subwoofer. to Music by peterb |
| Tuesday Jul 27, 1999 | GEMM lets you search many online sites at once for music (be it on CD, cassette, LP, regardless of if it's out-of-print, in print, used, or new). to Music by crikey |
| Wednesday Jul 14, 1999 | If you like to party, and you like infectious pop dance music, you need to visit the Vengaboys web site. Requires shockwave for the full impact of Lion Kim, Roy Loverboy, D-Nice, and NRG Robin. Oh, also, stop surfing the web and get out somewhere and dance already! to Music by peterb |
| Friday Jul 2, 1999 | You've always wanted to find an online archive of synthesizer pictures. Weren't you looking for that FAQ on analog synths as well? Lucky you. to Music by gen |
| Monday Jun 28, 1999 | Lyrics World compiles lyrics from all the Top 40 hits from 1930 to the present. While it's not quite complete, it does have some pretty obscure ones, as well as others we'd rather forget. to Music by boneyard |
| Friday Jun 25, 1999 | Oh no. Weird Al Yankovic is back, and he's doing the Star Wars thing. This can't be good for anybody. to Music by succa |
| Sunday Jun 20, 1999 | At last! That classic ode to video games,
Pac-Man Fever, is
finally available on CD! to Music by tregoweth |
| Monday Jun 14, 1999 | The new Public Enemy
album, There's a Poison Going On
is out. Buy the
CD
or mp3
version. Oh, and while you're there, be sure and get
your own Public Enemy e-mail address.
to Music by keith |
| Tuesday Jun 8, 1999 | Play MP3-encoded audio in your car. Run Linux in your dashboard. Say no more. Empeg is finally shipping.
to Music by urog |
| Thursday Jun 3, 1999 | Call me excessively retro, if you will, but when I pop
a newly acquired Quad tape into my car's player, I'm in pure
Heaven. If you're joining me on
cloud nine, and you want to stay in tune with the now, be sure to check out
the 8-track of the moment. to Music by keith |
| Overtone singing is the practice of aligning one's throat, larynx,
mouth, and tongue to sing polyphonically by using upper harmonics,
creating eerie, twisting descants of pure sound. It's an art
practiced
by folks who hail from a place
called Tuva, as well as New York's Harmonic Chior, as
led by David
Hykes.
Undertone singing
is the sister discipline of singing polyphonically using lower
harmoinics, as famously practiced by
The Gyuto Monks.
to Music by goboro |
| Tuesday Jun 1, 1999 | This part-time music
historian
has done quite a bit of research into this part-time historic
musician.
He also has a excellent radio
program, available weekly on a Public Radio
International station near you. to Music by goboro |
| Tuesday May 25, 1999 | When I seize control and institute my own dystopian
society bent to the matrix of my idiosyncratic
neurosis,
listening to
Van Halen will be mandatory for all citizens.
In the interim time, those who seek to curry favor
with your future overlord should check out the
Van Halen FAQs, and read all the text that
was flashing on the screen during their
"Right Now" video. to Music by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 18, 1999 | Synthmuseum contains photos and histories of hundreds of vintage electronic musical instruments. to Music by joshua |
| Vintage Synth Explorer is an ever-growing archive of images, sound bytes, and documentation for over 200 popular retro-vintage synthesizers. Everybody needs a 303! to Music by joshua |
| Tuesday May 11, 1999 | Now you can listen to some of the excellect rare on-air tracks
from KCRW's groundbreaking show Morning Becomes Eclectic. to Music by peterb |
| Saturday May 8, 1999 | A comprehensive list of mondegreens,
otherwise known as misheard lyrics. to Music by peterb |
| Wednesday May 5, 1999 | Looking for that ancient Lexicon reverb unit but have no idea how
much it should cost? Well look no further than
The Used Gear Price List
. This is yet another automated Usenet reader that compiles the low, high,
and average prices for various musical instruments -- the stuff of
rec.music.makers.marketplace
to Music by urog |
| Thursday Apr 22, 1999 | When I seize control and institute my own utopian society, listening to Foetus will be mandatory for all citizens. In fact, my new Declaration of Independence will be nothing more than the lyric sheet for Nail. I CAN DO ANY GODDAMN THING I WANT to Music by nyarl |
| Monday Apr 19, 1999 | The All-Music guide, a free online
version of their
popular reference book,
contains descriptions of thousands of performers, bands and
albums in addition to careful descriptions of different musical
genres
and how they
interrelate to Music by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Apr 15, 1999 | If you find yourself in a
deep karma canyon, why not visit Bob Mould's
web site, and find out what's going through the mind of the creative visionary
behind seminal wall-of-noise band
Hüsker Dü?
to Music by peterb |
| Tuesday Apr 6, 1999 | Blues Legend
McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield
was born on April 4, 1915 in Rolling Fork
, and was put to rest in Worth, IL. Click here for a sample of some of Muddy Water's original recordings (MP3's).
to Music by jack |
| Wednesday Mar 31, 1999 |
Christianity is stupid.
Communism is good.
Give up. One of the most innovative bands (or, really, performance artists) of the 80s and 90s, Negativland will educate you on intellectual property issues, why U2 sucks, and give you access to Pastor Dick's jukebox. Makes extensive use of the newly-discovered primary color, squant. to Music by peterb |
| Tuesday Mar 30, 1999 | Arrrrrr, mateys! Teach your parrots to sing these
sea
shanties. to Music by crikey |
| Friday Mar 26, 1999 | Imagine Radio
lets you set up your own RealAudio radio station
and listen to the stations of other users. Somewhat
limited musical selection so far, but it's got
enough to stay interesting.
to Music by crikey |
| Wednesday Mar 17, 1999 | For the finest in electronica, check out Amsterdam's
Staalplaat.
A great independent music label, a radio program,
shop, and distribution company for anyone
interested in ambient and avant-garde electronic
music. to Music by crikey |
| Tuesday Mar 16, 1999 | Operation Re-Information couldn't find the sort of electronic music software they wanted for their performances, so they wrote their own and give it away free. to Music by nyarl |
| The
Slink-e is
a serial-port controller for S-link, Control-A, Control-S, and infrared equipment. It comes with CDJ which lets you interface your Sony 200-disc CD player with the CDDB. to Music by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 9, 1999 | All this time we were lacking an equalizer for
Unix audio apps; x11amp source finally
becomes available, and then I discover
mpg123 has had the
capability of, but not an interface to, an equalizer, since version 0.59o
or so!
to Music by shadow |
| The details behind CDDB's
license are just a bit hazy.
While you wait for free software freedom fighters to fix it,
you might want to grab
a copy of the database.
to Music by shadow |
| Now, rather than wandering the web aimlessly until you luck out, you can find
out which operas are playing in Milan (or any other music event in any other city in the world) at a glance.
to Music by peterb |
| Friday Feb 26, 1999 | Csound
is a free software package for pure mathematical sound synthesis. Aside from the
rich and powerful core program, there are abundant add-ons, instruments, and front ends for
Linux,
Windows, and most other
modern operating systems.
to Music by obvious |
| Thursday Feb 25, 1999 | tip for the clueless:find your nearest symphony
orchestra and attend performances until your mind opens itself to greatness. most people
learn the value too late in life or not at all. to Music by akk |
| Tuesday Feb 23, 1999 | If you like all your music to have the exact same structure and be about rocking, kicking, or sucking ass, then boy oh boy is Wesley Willis the artist for you. Rock over London, rock on Chicago! Mentos -- the freshmaker! to Music by nyarl |
| If you've ever watched a
Warner
Bros. cartoon or Ren
& Stimpy, you've probably heard the music
of Raymond
Scott, underappreciated composer and
electronic music pioneer. to Music by tregoweth |
| Monday Feb 22, 1999 | If you're looking for an acoutic guitar and money
is of little concern, it's hard to go wrong with a
Martin.
to Music by goboro |
| Monday Feb 15, 1999 | Track down those obscure samples and breakbeats in
the Encyclopaedia
Breakannica. to Music by tregoweth |
| Wednesday Jan 27, 1999 | Don't sit around wondering what type of drugs to take when listening to Motorhead!
Ask Lemmy! to Music by peterb |
| Friday Jan 22, 1999 | Ryuchi Sakamoto is one of the most interesting and versatile popular composers of the late 20th century.
to Music by faisal |
| Thursday Jan 21, 1999 | Brainwashed, your one-stop shop for "music which deserves better recognition on the net and the rest of the world". Experimental, apocalyptic, and industrial bands all have official homepages here, in addition to other features such as a Weekly Digest and MP3 Jukebox. to Music by nyarl |
| Tuesday Jan 19, 1999 | The Man
shuts down
the International
Lyrics Server.
to Music by tregoweth |
| Tuesday Jan 12, 1999 | Public Enemy disses the music industry on their
new
MP3/MP4 single. to Music by tregoweth |
| Thursday Dec 31, 1998 | 1999: The Special Edition! to Music by tregoweth |
| Sunday Dec 20, 1998 | Can a Christian enjoy late 90's glam-rock? Evidentally not without
going to hell for it.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 1, 1998 | I've got a mushy head? to Music by mfp |
| Friday Nov 20, 1998 | One rather large cross-index of Music and HiFi topics, including many DIY projects.
to Music by urog |
| Tuesday Oct 13, 1998 | What happens when second-rate actors fall perilously off the narrow tightrope between subtle self-parody and outright whoring themselves for a job? Joe Pesci gets a record contract! to Music by nyarl |
| Monday Oct 12, 1998 | RIAA files an injunction against Diamond. So much for the right of first use.
to Music by faisal |
| Thursday Oct 1, 1998 | The voice of the most famous starship captain ever
can be yours to
enjoy, at least until your eardrums explode. to Music by jacquez |
| All you could ever need to make it big in the club
scene: two
Technics SL-1200MK2 turn tables, some sampling
and looping gear, and a
whole mess of drum beats. to Music by goboro |
| Tuesday Sep 29, 1998 | Take your blatant copyright violations and go far away. to Music by nyarl |
| Monday Sep 28, 1998 | The navigation architecture is clumsy, the selection is still limited, and
the quality is mediocre at best. These factors still aren't enough to prevent LiveConcerts
from being a neat way to kill bandwith. to Music by akk |
| Wednesday Sep 23, 1998 | Looking for obscure, industrial, or gothic music? Forget most of the other web-based cd stores and head to Middle Pillar. Better selection, better prices, and quick delivery make it a great place to blow all your cash on pissed-off Germans banging on sheet metal or screaming Nordic chants over incessant scratching sounds. You may also want to check out Soleilmoon, another American distributor for similar music. to Music by nyarl |
| Thursday Sep 17, 1998 | The International Lyrics Server isn't the most
complete, but where else are you going to find the words to that song stuck in
your head at three A.M. in the morning?
to Music by joshua |
| If you're ever in Troy, NY there's a concert hall with world-famous acoustics.
You can buy tickets for events there here
to Music by bah |
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