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AudiogoN high-end Audio Community
I've heard this is a good marketplace for nicer vintage audio equipment.
audio  music  shopping  vintage 
february 2011 by McChris
Josh’s Blog: OSCemote
"OSCemote is a remote control application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It lets you send Open Sound Control messages to other programs like Max/MSP, Puredata, OSCulator, etc."
iPod  music  neato  projects 
july 2009 by McChris
Nick Sibicky, Composer - My Music
I saw "Life and Afterlife " performed last night at the Eyes, Ears, and Feet recital and I really enjoyed it.
music  mp3  utexas 
may 2008 by McChris
Create Digital Music: Record Sales Up — No, Really, Actual Records
Vinyl LPs appear to be the only segment of the physical music business that is growing. I suspect music fans prefer the tactility and size of the LP format.
vinyl  technology  music  business 
may 2008 by McChris
Exclaim News: Converse Launches Kurt Cobain Sneakers
The Nike-owned brand is introducing versions of its sneakers that commemorate the work of the dead singer. The insole reads "Punk rock means freedom."
music  creepy  punk 
march 2008 by McChris
film music: mobygratis.com
Electronic music artist Moby has made selected works free for non-commerical media use. It's a pity he didn't use a creative commons license.
music  freeculture  film 
february 2008 by McChris
currybetdotnet: Copy-protection for vinyl in the 1970s
This blog post examines some techniques used to keep listeners from taping albums on wax.
DRM  vinyl  music  oldmedia 
february 2008 by McChris
Pitchfork Feature: They Don't Know
"Grime is the UK's rap (not rap), syncopated urban music with people rhyming over top. Like Jamaican dancehall, there's an obvious kinship with U.S. hip-hop, but once you start drawing parallels they collapse pretty quickly. Grime is its own culture, with
music  to:read  subculture 
february 2008 by McChris
Pitchfork Feature: NO!: The Origins of No Wave
This article provides an interesting production history of the No New York compilation of post-punk bands.
punk  music  history 
january 2008 by McChris
Danger Room: Army Seeks "Professional Celebrity Rock Music Band"
"The band should be an active rock band, with a music genre consisting of Southern Rock, Pop Rock, Post-Grunge and Hard Rock. At least one member of the band should be recognizable as a professional celebrity."
music  war  military  silly 
january 2008 by McChris
When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.
This impassioned article argues that the record industry alienated fans in copyright wars and deserves to go out of business.
copyright  file-sharing  business  music  law 
november 2007 by McChris
NPR: Monitor Mix
Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein is now blogging at NPR's new music portal. It strikes me as a little awkward when NPR tries to get hip like this, but I imagine Sleater-Kinney is now sufficiently middlebrow to fit in with the NPR set.
blog  indie  music  NPR  indierock 
november 2007 by McChris
The Pirate Bay: Hipster Pack - A Douchebag of Music Videos
Are hipsters now embracing the douchebag label?
bittorrent  weird  music  music_video 
august 2007 by McChris
Daily Herald: The CD is still second to vinyl in the hearts of music buffs
There's nothing really new here about how hipsters thing vinyl sounds better than CDs, but it provides a nice historical context for the idea that the CD is a dying format.
vinyl  music  end-of-life  history  technology 
august 2007 by McChris
Germanfolksong.mp3
The demo tune from Casio's classic calculator/synthesizer VL-Tone.
geek  music  whoa  ringtone 
july 2007 by McChris
toneshared.com
This site has a plethora of mobile handset ringtones created by artsy electronic musicians like Caribou and Loscil. It's too bad they're only in mp3 and not mmf format.
ambient  audio  music  telephony 
june 2007 by McChris
OUPblog: The LP is Unvieled
I missed this anniversary, but it's worth linking to this commemorative story.
music  history  technology  vinyl 
june 2007 by McChris
Peter Saville fonts?
These fonts look like the ones Peter Saville used in designing the covers for famous Factory records releases.
font  music  punk  typography 
june 2007 by McChris
Design Observer: Are JPEGs the New Album Covers?
This article lamenting the loss of the album cover in the age of compressed music files reminds me of the same discourse when the little paper booklets in CD cases replaces the 12 inch sleeve. And, yeah, I bought an LP of New Order's _Brotherhood_ because
music  mp3  design 
april 2007 by McChris
Daring Fireball: EMI to Offer DRM-Free Online Music
John Gruber makes some insightful remarks on the new Apple-EMI partnership to sell DRM-free music at a premium.
Apple  business  music  mp3  DRM 
april 2007 by McChris
Unknown City: SXSW Free SHows 2007
Lou from the J-School maintains a list each year of free showcases at SXSW, which is perfect for cheap grad students like me. Someone has to go to the free Public Enemy show with me Friday night.
music  gradschool  austin  sxsw 
march 2007 by McChris
mediageek: Next Big Retro Thing: The Cassette Revival
I'm not sure tapes will re-emerge as a trend, but Paul has another great essay about old media.
oldmedia  music 
february 2007 by McChris
Music as torture/Music as weapon
This interesting academic paper examines the development of aural weapons. Did anyone catch the rave-meets-Clockwork Orange scene in "Lost" last night?
music  audio  war  academic 
february 2007 by McChris
Radel India : Electronic Musical Instruments
These inexpensive Indian electronic instruments are wild to these Western ears. Think Buddha Machine for musicians.
India  music 
february 2007 by McChris
Pitchfork: Kevin Shields: MBV Will "100%" Make Another Album
Hmmm, maybe someday.... 1991 was a long time ago.
shoegaze  music  interview 
january 2007 by McChris
Guardian: Independents' day
This discusses the role independent labels play in promoting hot UK rock acts, and the shift in what it means to be independent. I think it over-emphasizes the production (and textual) side of indie-ness at the expense of discussing distribution issues or
indierock  politicaleconomy  music 
january 2007 by McChris
phonophilia | The Love of Sounds
Steev Hise has relaunched his site devoted to sharing field recordings.
audio  music  Web2.0  neato 
january 2007 by McChris
Pure Data
Pure Data "was created to explore ideas of how to further refine the Max paradigm with the core ideas of allowing data to be treated in a more open-ended way and opening it up to applications outside of audio and MIDI, such as graphics and video."
media  music  opensource  geek 
january 2007 by McChris
My Cage (Silence for Cellphone)
Jonathon Keats has adapted John Cage's four minutes and thirty-three seconds as a mobile phone ringtone.
music  art 
january 2007 by McChris
Bill Laswell's arrangement of Hakim Bey reading from T.A.Z.
It's great this is available online as mp3s. I love Bill Laswell stuff from the late seventies and early eighties, but the stuff from the nineties – my introduction to Laswell – is a little too new-agey or something.
music  mp3  anarchy  TAZ 
november 2006 by McChris
Songbird Media Player
Cross-platform ,Mozilla-based media player that seemingly supports every media file out there. This looks promising, but it's only up to version 0.2.
music  media  OSX  opensource 
november 2006 by McChris
cassette tape wallet! yay!
Instructions on making a wallet from an old audio cassette tape chassis. I think I may make one for business cards.
craft  music  DIY 
november 2006 by McChris
Chunklet: Are Earplugs For Sissies?
Chunklet interviews indie rockers on their attitudes toward earplugs.
indierock  music  interview  health 
november 2006 by McChris
Pitchfork: Weed Makes You Listen to Indie Rock
A new PSA from the ONDCP and the Partnership for Drug-Free America suggests that using marijuana turns kids into wannabe indie fans.
stupid  drugs  indierock  advertising  music 
october 2006 by McChris
YouTube - Suicide - Ghost Rider
via Cory Arcangel
music  awesome  YouTube  punk 
october 2006 by McChris
Pitchfork: Cory Arcangel's "Tenth Avenue Freeze Out"
"Cory Arcangel decided that he would write his own glockenspiel parts to fit all of the songs on [Bruce Springsteen's album] Born to Run that don’t already feature that instrument."
music  freeculture  weird 
october 2006 by McChris
Break.com: Smells Like Teen Spirit
A high-school orchestra performs the Nirvana hit in this amateur video. No fair: the coolest thing we ever got to play in high school was "Caravan."
music  video  education 
october 2006 by McChris
Making Music with Cosmic Rays
The Kosmophone is a device that generates music based on high-frequency radiation.
music  geek  dorkbot 
september 2006 by McChris
Newsweek: Gary Glitter Songs Banned by NFL
The NFL has asked teams not to play Glitter's stadium classic "Rock and Roll Part 2" at games after the glam rocker was convicted of child molestation charges in Vietnam.
music  sports  silly 
september 2006 by McChris
Independent Online Edition: Sole survivors: the legacy of shoegazing
This article contends music fans have forgotten shoegaze. I didn't forget.
shoegaze  music  indierock  history 
august 2006 by McChris
"I Started a Blog Nobody Read" by The Sprites
Via Waxy, this song sounds like a Rentals out-take, but the lyrics pretty much nail it.
mp3  blog  music  indierock  audience 
august 2006 by McChris
Top 10 Overlooked Moments in MTV History
My friend Marjorie contributed to this list. I'd add Thurston Moore's interview with Beck on 120 Minutes. Beck responded to one of Moore's questions by taking off his boot and throwing it at a backdrop, producing an audible thud.
TV  cable  history  music  humor 
august 2006 by McChris
The Cult of Pitchfork: How former record-store clerks and obsessive music nerds turned a Web site into a hit machine
This Austin Chronicle feature on the hipster music site reveals the early origins of the site and discusses its influence on the indie rock world.
music  media  indierock  records  reception 
august 2006 by McChris
Arthur Lee, 1945 - 2006
Jon Lebkowsky has a nice remembrance of the Love leader and underground rock pioneer.
music  prison  guns  subculture 
august 2006 by McChris
RockStrap
These hip holsters for wireless microphones retail for $199 at Muscian's Friend. I hope I never see an act that uses one.
stupid  music  cheese 
july 2006 by McChris
"in ten years Radiohead will occupy the same place in history as Marillion"
Long, insightful blog post about the eroding distinction between indie record production and major labels. I recently saw a collectors edition of one of Radiohead's later albums in the clearance bin at Waterloo, provoking a bit of schadenfreude.
indie  music  co-optation  longtail  business 
july 2006 by McChris
Pitchfork Interview: David Byrne
Byrne discusses My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, a recently reissued collaboration with Brian Eno.
interview  music  islam  records 
july 2006 by McChris
Paper Thin Walls
This looks like Digg for hipsters. Yeah, yeah, whatever.
bubbler  Web2.0  music  meme 
july 2006 by McChris
Pitchfork: Ian Curtis Movie Begins Shooting
Pitchfork has more details about *Control*, a movie about Joy Division.
film  punk  biopic  music  history 
july 2006 by McChris
Control - A Film By Anton Corbijn
about Joy Division.
music  punk  film  biopic 
june 2006 by McChris
Madison, Not London
John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats' take on the new Dr. Octagon album. I've been listening to the old one a lot lately, and I had no idea a new one was coming out!
music  hip-hop  blog  weird 
june 2006 by McChris
"Deadheads Are What Liberals Claim to Be But Aren't": An Interview with Ann Coulter
Jambase.com sits down with the professional troll to discuss the Grateful Dead.
music  politics  scary  fandom 
june 2006 by McChris
Kurt Cobain's Suicide Letter vs. Google AdSense
Cory Arcangel has created a page with Kurt Cobain's suicide note embedded with Google AdSense ads to see what the contextual algorithm will drop in the text. I had to whitelist AdSense in my Adblock extension for it to work.
music  punk  google  hack  advertising  art  humor 
june 2006 by McChris
Unhappy Hour - New York Times
The author has a negative response to hearing Brian Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" in a bar. Phillistines...
ambient  drone  music  humor  awesome 
june 2006 by McChris
Punknews.org | Kubrick Toys launches Sex Pistols figures
These aren't amusing like the Kurt Cobain action figure, they just seem kind of silly.
punk  toys  music 
june 2006 by McChris
RoombaMidi: Roomba as MIDI instrument
This reminds me of Paul Slocum's band Treewave that makes music from dot-matrix printers. Maybe he could open at the first Roomba concert/cockfight.
geek  DIY  hack  music 
may 2006 by McChris
'Circuit Bending' Lets Old Toys Play Tunes - Yahoo! News
Mainstream media coverage of the circuit-bending phenomenon.
geek  music  DIY  hack 
april 2006 by McChris
Rip It Up & Start Again: PostPunk 1978-1984
Online, in-process footnotes for the Simon Reynolds book. It should have an RSS feed.
music  blog  DIY  history  punk 
april 2006 by McChris
Arthur Lee has leukemia
Jon Lebkowsky says the Love leader is out of prison and in the hospital.
music 
april 2006 by McChris
TuneFeed Music Widget for Blogs
This seems like a cool service, although it apparently hasn't launched yet. This could be fun for making blog "mix CDs."
Web2.0  music 
april 2006 by McChris
Kurt Cobain Immortalized/Desecrated as Action Figure
Pitchfork reports on a forthcoming Kurt Cobain action figure. Sadly it's not an Archie McPhee product like the Jane Austen action figure, but more static and less campy "sculpture."
music  punk  commodification  camp 
march 2006 by McChris
Indie Band Survival Guide
Advice from an indie band about dealing with copyright issues and business in general. The section on file-sharing is particularly interesting.
music  indie  business  freeculture  copyright  file-sharing 
march 2006 by McChris
TagWorld :: snakesonaplane
The upcoming Samuel L. Jackson vehicle _Snakes on a Plane_ is inviting bands to submit music for the project's soundtrack.
music  film  cheese  camp  meme 
march 2006 by McChris
Ticketed for wearing earphones on a bus
Yet another reason I'm glad I didn't move to Orange County. I don't think I saw a bus the whole time I was there.
lawenforcement  stupid  surveillance  power  music 
march 2006 by McChris
Unknown City: Free SXSW
Lou keeps track of free events during SXSW. Day shows are really pretty fun and often have free beer.
sxsw  austin  music 
march 2006 by McChris
Gatas Parlament: Antiamerikansk dans med Promoe
For some reason, the Natalie Portman video from SNL last night reminded me of this Norwegian hip-hop clip. Norwegian doesn't strike me as a language particularly suited to hip-hop, but this is better than the Portman clip.
music  anti-war  hip-hop  TVontheWeb 
march 2006 by McChris
Kircher’s Cat Piano
I wrote a paper about Kircher for math class junior year, and I remember thinking the cat piano was funny. The paper was about computational music composition.
music  math  humor 
february 2006 by McChris
End of an Ear
looks like the best record store has a website.
austin  vinyl  music  records 
february 2006 by McChris
soul sides: ALL ROADS LEAD TO APACHE
music  mp3  hip-hop  history 
february 2006 by McChris
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
UCSB library project to digitally preserve the content of old wax phonograph cylinders. r4d!
oldmedia  archive  records  music  history 
february 2006 by McChris
Man-Child in the Promised Land
Lovely <i>NYTimes</i> profile of Daniel Johnson
austin  art  music 
february 2006 by McChris
Official Tags for SXSW 2006
Designated folksonomic tags for SXSW bands.
austin  semantic_web  music  folksonomy 
february 2006 by McChris
Internet Archive: Details: Loscil - Stases - [one023]
album uploaded to archive.org by Loscil
copyright  music  glitch  drone  freeculture 
january 2006 by McChris
eBay: V/A "Mambo For Cats" LP Exotica Bassa Nova Jazz
mambo for cats!
mambo  music  records  orthophonic 
january 2006 by McChris
Life Distilled » Waterloo Keeping Austin Weird
Local record store Waterloo records now accepts gift cards from corporate competitors like Best Buy and Target. Waterloo still pales in comparison to Philadelphia's AKA Music.
music  records  localism 
january 2006 by McChris

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