Links tagged with “music”
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Said the Gramophone: BEST SONGS OF 2009
I’ve failed to keep up with music blogs this year, so this is a lovely catch-up. I’d like more variety of genre, but maybe I should look further afield.
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Techtech2009
I was never hugely into techno, but I’m enjoying this mp3 blog. Great for working to. (via Haddock)
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Playdar - Music Content Resolver
The idea is to play any song that’s available on your computer or anywhere online. Requires compiling. Oh well.
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Thomas Dolby’s Blog » Blog Archive » ‘Gig’ announcement!
I’m unreasonably excited about this.
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Cadence | your music. your motion.
Mainly for Cadence Desktop, which claims to apply BPM values to your iTunes songs. I’ve heard that before, but you never know. (via Lee)
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100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words - Ars Technica
How companies have complained that new technologies will destroy content industries over the past century. Like when home taping killed music. Wasn’t that terrible. (via Kottke)
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zSHARE - Jaguar Skills x Kid Potential - 30 Years Of Hip-Hop In 60 Minutes.mp3
If you haven’t already, you want that inconspicuous “Download this File” link. 538 tracks in an hour.
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Dandelion Radio - Festive 50
Don’t know how I missed that someone had been continuing Peel’s Festive Fifties. I’m loving the radio too.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Swan Songs? - NYTimes.com
On the changing state of the recorded music industry, mostly for the fascinating ‘Music Sales’ graphic on the left. (via Daring Fireball)
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Paul Morley’s showing off … Classical | Music | guardian.co.uk
Somehow I was unaware of the BBC programme and now it’s off iPlayer. Grrr. Sounds awesome and I’ve only read ‘Critic to Composer’ so far. (via Blackbeltjones)
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Spotify playlist: Chart Hits 83
I made a playlist of that K-Tel double cassette compilation I was banging on about a while back. A few omissions, but otherwise it’s all there.
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Spotify + sharemyplaylists.com = good
I had exactly the same problem with Spotify — unsure what to listen to. ShareMyPlaylists does seem like a good way in.
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Last.fm + Spotify + Find new albums
Find albums by your top artists on Last.fm that have recently been added to Spotify. Although many are albums I already have, which is how I’ve listened to them on Last.fm… (via Tom Taylor)
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John Harris asks whether the best writing about pop music hails from a different era | Music | The Guardian
While I’m at it, I enjoyed this too, about whether music writing isn’t as good as it used to be. It never was. Or maybe it’s always moving so it’s not where you left it.
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Potlatch: what’s going on with the music formerly known as ‘indie’?
A nice piece about how mixed up music is today and what counts as “timeless”. I need to read more good music writing. Maybe I can NewspaperClub my own NME/MM. (via Matt Jones)
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Stupidfresh: Highs in the low 70s
A nice summery bunch of summery tunes for the summer. (via Soul Sides)
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My Cassette’s Just Like A Bazooka?
A complete discography for all the tapes/records/CDs given away by NME between 1981 and 1988. Also some good commentary on the music and the paper. All we need now is a torrent…
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YouTube - Unit Four Plus Two — Concrete and Clay
1965(?) video for the song, filmed on the building site that was to become the Barbican.
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Schmusic [House is a Feeling]
An interesting write-up of a talk, with lots of YouTube examples, about Chuck Roberts’ “In the beginning there was jack…” a capella “My House” sermon and how well it works over different instrumentals. (via Soul Sides)
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Festive 50 - Lists between 1976 and 2000 « www.indiefy.co.uk
Spotify playlists for (incomplete) John Peel’s Festive Fifties. (via Paulpod on Twitter)
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Main Page - Lyrics from LyricWiki
Never trawl through those oodles of banner-ad and ringtone laden sites filled with scraped and inaccurate lyrics again. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this before.
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Twee as Fuck
Fanzine, monthly London club night, record label. Looks great. (Warning: the naughty page plays music when it loads.)
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Clapclap.org is serially monomaniacal: Hallelujah
2007 article about Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ and its covers. Also good on ‘The OC’. More decent writing about TV please. (via Blech)
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Jacob Borshard - A Glow In The Dark
His new, third, still FREE album. Usual stuff: twee, ukelele, love, Star Trek references.
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How does it feel to be loved? - london club night playing indie pop, northern soul, tamla motown, girl groups, sixties heartbreak
Sounds like an awesome club. Not that I ever go to clubs.
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Rockbox - Open Source Jukebox Firmware
I had no idea there was open source alternative software for MP3 players, including early iPods. (via Boing Boing)
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Pillow Speaker With Volume Control: Electronics & Photo: Amazon.co.uk
Years ago I tried a Laurie Anderson sculpture that pretty much did just this and it was lovely. Hmm… (via Haddock)
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Playlists and Archives for Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture
New favourite podcast. Completely corking. I think it’s what characters in William Gibson novels listen to.
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Opentape
Host-your-own version of Muxtape. What happens when a centralised system is squashed by lawyers: thousands of individual versions flower around the edges. (via Infovore)
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The Online 78 rpm Discographical Project
Detailed information about thousands of 78 RPM recordings. I love the Internet.
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My Collection of Recorded 78 RPM Records - Free MP3 Downloads
Currently 3,739 free MP3s ripped from one guy’s 78rpm records. That’s a lot of listening. (via Boing Boing)
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Stone Cold Pimpin’: NASA’s Forgotten Ambient Albums
“Space music” from 1992: “raw, uncatalogued space sounds data … we selected random information from the raw data and processed it to produce ‘Symphonies of the Planets’”. Ambient “music”.
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Daytrotter | A Constant Reminder That People Burn And So Does Time | The Mountain Goats
MP3s of four newish songs recorded specially for this site by the Mountain Goats. Lovely lovely.
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MuxFind: Search for Muxtapes
Finds muxtapes (online playlists) similar to artists or other muxtapes you like. (via Haddock)
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Soundamus - new and upcoming music releases from the artists you listen to
Looks at your Last.fm playlist and tells you when new music by your listened-to artists is released. Could do with some kind of threshold, but still very useful.
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Zamzar - Free online file conversion
Convert a file to a different kind. Audio, video, text documents, archives, etc. Plus download YouTube etc videos in a different format. (via Cool Tools)
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Purgatory Creek
For the “Digital Piano Shootout” — MP3s of dozens of different digital pianos for comparison.
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YouTube - Design Coding
Rap: “Please don’t use tables even though they work fine, when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time. Make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide, remove font-type, font-color and font-size.” Awesome. (via Haddock)
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Philgyford.muxtape.com
My Muxtape. Which may or may not update occasionally.
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YouTube - Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
Fun animated video for one of my favourite tunes of 2006 AND 2007. The animation bears no relation to the song, but still… (via Drawn!)
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The Colorblind James Experience: Absolutely More!
History of the band, with MP3s to download, by people in the band.
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Video - The Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton
(A reluctant) Eddie Argos out of Art Brut singing along with the Mountain Goats at the Union Chapel a week ago. Made me very happy.
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Indiepop Radio
Fantastic. “Indie songs with proper tunes and proper lyrics: Indiepop, Sarah Records, Brit-Pop, Shoegaze, Twee…” Streaming radio and a podcast.
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Journal.nonesuch.com: Nonesuch to Release Music from Five Years of “The Wire”
Sounds good… and only six weeks to go until the fifth season begins.
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Under the Radar - Miki Berenyi
Nice down-to-earth interview with the Lush lead singer. Reading about ex-pop stars having normal lives is odd. (via Blackbeltjones)
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Soundtrack To War
Good 90 minute documentary on what music US troops in Iraq, and Iraqis, listen to and make. Mostly: white troops listen to metal, black troops to rap.
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Marseille Figs
Much much more on the band.
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Room Thirteen - Where Music Rocks - Marseille Figs - The Dirty Canon
Good review for Dorian and co’s new album, which is very fine.
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YouTube - What’s He Building?
Excellent Tom Waits track. I love the (spoken) lyrics and the video lives up to them. (via Haddock)
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Mudd up! » archive » Defending the Pig - Oink Croaks
A nice defence and obituary for Oink, by an artist whose music was shared by people on the site. (via Infovore)