here’s a great example i found on thee ole youtube: = c
Category: music
Arpeggi
many of the tunes on the new radiohead album are not new but have just taken time to render themselves onto an album. one of my favorites is many years old. this is not the best quality but here’s where it premiered: in london at the ether festival: = c
Videotape
In Rainbows has occupied most of my weekend as i’ve finally had a chance to sit down with it and listen intimately without interruption. i’ve listened to it dozens of times. It’s had me simultaneously dancing around, in tears, open and grateful the way I like to feel whenever I experience great art. Reviews among…
All I Need
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All Hail Punk Floyd
Radiohead has stunned the music world once again only this time by announcing that its forthcoming album will make its debut as a digital download available for whatever individual consumers want to pay for it. Guitarist Jonny Greenwood announced on the band’s website on Sunday night that the new album In Rainbows has been completed…
Remembering Glenn Gould
arguably the finest composer of the 20th Century, Glenn was a beacon of fresh thinking and innovation. We miss you, Glenn. = c
Anton Karas
A friend of mine turned me on to this yesterday while we were sitting around plucking on my measly 4-string guitar. Anton Karas played this song at the end of the famous film The Third Man. we are in awe of Anton here: = c
Lordi, Lordi
Finland now holds the world record for the longest non-stop round of karaoke singing. The country already holds the record for the largest number of karaoke singers at any given time. The previous record was 145 hours, as held by China. However, in a karaoke bar in Kouvola, a small town on Finland’s southern coast,…
Are you Tone Deaf?
take this nifty test developed by Jake Mandell and find out in 6 minutes or less. if you are, don’t feel bad. Linda McCartney, first wife of Paul, often was the brunt of jokes about being perhaps the most tone deaf person to ever be in a band – Wings! = c
if thousands
Perhaps the Twin Cities should be renamed Trio Town because some folks seem to forget about a well kept secret: Duluth. Duluth is a mix between my last two residences: Juneau and Seattle. The waterfront on giant Lake Superior mixed with the actively creative population who live there [read Trampled by Turtles, Charlie Parr, If…
Roma di Luna
Roma di Luna is an acoustic duo whose music recalls early 20th century folk and country set to modern times. As husband and wife, Alexei and Channy Casselle co-write songs that are plaintive, sometimes dark yet “hauntingly soothing†noted for “simple instrumentation along with piercing, emotively beautiful vocals.†The songs are presented in a stark…
Shrine of Saint Tourista
the latest musical invention from yours truly, featuring upright and electric basses, four-string guitar, lapsteel, piano, steel drum, shaker, drumkit, harmonica and this time loops and effects as it was all recorded on an old, rebuilt 500Mhz Powerbook G4 lappie [except Insider] , mixed using Audacity and dumped out here for your discerning judgement. shrine…
Growing up with Newsweek
Newsweek loves to feature articles about Autism. People love to buy Newsweek and read articles about Autism. If the following cliche’ is true [about Autism] then most of the world is Autistic only they don’t know it yet: Work is play and play is work Sound like anyone in YOUR neighborhood? When was the last…
Halfmoon’s full sound
when i last knew Mr Lund he was a bass savant with the potential to be anything he so chose. well, he obviously still is, only now, evolved, he and Nico blend an assortment of instruments, she on keys, he on [gasp] guitar and effects, into this most original sound = HALFMOON. am i surprised?…
Ladies and Lords, we present Black Blondie
This morning where i work a very cool thing happened. instead of the usual mid-week ughs around eightish Black Blondie set up and played one of their earliest-in-the-morning gigs ever and ever so slowly, hypnotically melted and rendered the sleek yet somewhat stiff corporate environs into one that had me thinking of how subtle the…