Category: music

On Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing: Sound as Image

translating information from one sense into another, especially sound to image, is one of the things technology does well case in point is Close Encounters of the Third Kind is this captivating? in the case of Close Encounters it is. however, personally, i can only say that in other cases, such as the one below,…

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Yacht Rockers live on!

If there was ever any doubt that Yacht Rock would live on, may it be quashed by this and this and have a listen for yourself:

MIT Media Lab: Personas

Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. Here’s…

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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

I just cannot seem to get enough of this band lately: I’ve been sleeping for forty days and Yeah, I know that I’m sleeping cause this dream’s too amazing She got gold doorknobs where her eyes used to be, yeah One turn and I learned what it really means to see, yeah It’s the magical…

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Cranies (sic)

I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today. Is that how we say SMS in the plural? Doesn’t really matter. Case in point: “I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today.” It was from my father, who’s never cared much about his spelling, only about the message: Cheers, Pop. Happy Birthday,…

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My Body is a Cage : revisited

Win’s voice is nearly shot in this footage taken from Glastonbury in 2007, but the song doesn’t lose any of its momentous meaning: “My Body Is A Cage” My body is a cage that keeps me From dancing with the one I love But my mind holds the key My body is a cage that…

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Fleet Foxes : Live

Can’t get enough of these fellas lately: From Wikipedia: Robin Pecknold and Skye Skjelset both attended Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, a suburb of Seattle, and soon became close friends. Pecknold and Skjelset bonded over a mutual appreciation of Bob Dylan and Neil Young and began making music together. Their parents influenced their musical…

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Garage Sale Jukebox

Here we see a picture of David Browne posing for his pseudo-wedding portrait [long story] back in 2006. He and his bride, Sarah Lukacs, are old pals of ours from our days living in Seattle, where these two still live and are always up to one scheme or another. His latest is Garage Sale Jukebox….

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Searching for a Heart of Gold

My new pal, David Cevoli, wrote earlier this week about the influence Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and others of that era have had and continue to have on him. He’s a gifted musician and though I’ve not had a chance to listen to him in person, I’ve listened to the demos he’s posted on ReverbNation…

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2008 : A Viral Year

Cheers to the ones who threw some of these together. Things will get interesting this year, indeed, on many sides of the pictures. Here’s a glimpse into some of the *viral* culture that, for better or worse, shaped our world last year: “The take-home lesson here is…” = c

Crooked Fingers : Forfeit/Fortune

My pal Bryan and I went to listen to Crooked Fingers at the Turf Club last week. Eric Bachmann and his band were in town to help promote their new album : Forfeit/Fortune I’ve been biased towards his work ever since I first met him while living in Chapel Hill, NC all those years ago…

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Admit it…

…you want to learn how to yodel like cowboy Wylie here : From Wikipedia : Yodeling (or yodelling, jodeling) is a form of singing that involves singing an extended note which rapidly and repeatedly changes in pitch from the vocal or chest register (or “chest voice”) to the falsetto voice, making a high-low-high-low sound. This…

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