My Life According to Wilco
My turn with a fun little Facebook meme.
Hey Kid, try this. What is it? A Sony Walkman.
“I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down “rewind” and releasing it randomly - effective, if a little laboured.”
The Artistic Value of Thriller
“It could appear that Thriller is nothing but the hottest chick in school…but what happens when. you find out that there’s more there than just eye candy?”
Sunblinded
A new video from Chicago-based band, Brighton, MA.
Bren’s Running Tunes
A playlist for my brother to listen to as he runs the Boston Marathon on Monday in support of TEAM FOX.
The Economic News from Margaritaville
[Hat tip to Stumpy for the link]
Best Songs of 2008
Happy New Year, everybody!
Well, we took our little two week hiatus and I guess it’s time to get back to posting shit on the blog, huh? Dawn and I had an awesome time in Chicago for Christmas. I’ll probably upload some pictures next week, so I’ll save any stories I might have until then.
But in [...]
Dear Apple: Buy this, and put it in the next iTunes
From Tech Crunch’s MusicBox: a truly powerful visualization of your music library: “The idea behind MusicBox is that it analyzes every song for not only written metadata (artist, genre) but also beats per minute, length, tone, and a whole bunch of other semi-tangible quantities (check out the demonstration video). It then organizes them based on [...]
FluidImagination.fm
On my drive down to Boston last weekend, I started thinking about the annual Best Music of The Year playlist that I share with you folks (see last year’s and the year before’s). Now, I haven’t put it together yet, but as part of my thinking, I decided to check my charts on Last.fm to [...]
The folk songs were - the anger
From NY Times’ Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77: “Bob Dylan…said in a 1978 interview, ‘The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta.’ He said he heard something ‘vital and personal,’ and added, ‘I learned all the songs on that record.’” [Editor' note: I'm gonna be honest. I [...]
