This year in the charts, we’ve gone all soft. The songs are sexy and defiant, less macho than in previous years. Accordingly, I’ve selected Coldplay as the instrumental track, giving the whole year a sort of symphonic feel. This edit is called “Viva La Pop”, and I hope to post more edits soon.

And here’s the thing – Ford never left New York City. Instead, he downloaded the SXSW 2008 Torrent File, which included single mp3s from 763 of the bands that went to Austin. (Just under half the total acts that appeared there.) And then he listened to every single one of them and wrote a six-word review of and assigned a rating to each one.

We didn't name it the Sansa® Clip for nothing. Clip it to your jeans. Clip it to your jacket. Clip it anywhere you want. But our smallest MP3 player still has big sound and a screen so you can sort through your music, FM radio stations and audible books with ease. It also has a built-in mic and is available in four fashionable colors. Because limiting size shouldn't limit features.

Dar is currently touring in support of her latest studio album, Promised Land, which you can still catch if you live in the New England area. If not, I've provided three quality recordings from a September show at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan for free download.

cph.jpgFor the past two years around Christmas, I’ve shared this wonderful album performed by the children in the Inpatient Music Therapy Program at the University of Michigan’s Children’s Psychiatric Hospital. The response has always been fantastic. Tracks from the album have found their way onto the playlists on WFMU in New York, have been used as background music in between shows at the Music Box Theater in Chicago, Illinois, and, judging from the many emails I’ve received and from my server logs, has been enjoyed by hundreds of people all over the world.

Manically funkified remix of the quirky Jacob London 'hit' tune "Return To Squirrel Mountain"

awesome mp3 blog of tapes from africa via new york city

This week in the magazine, Malcolm Gladwell asks why we equate genius with precocity. Here Gladwell talks about how artistic prodigies differ from late bloomers and the kinds of support over decades that some artists need to realize their gifts.

Listen to the mp3 on the player above, or right-click here to download.

"triple chrome dipped", "swiss glide" tracks. After moving to Miami in the mid-90’s, he co-founded the pioneering Secret Frequency Crew, who deftly mixed instrumental hip-hop and electronic into a coherent whole. Their appropriately titled 12” “Miami Eyes,” became an underground hit and caught the attention of a then-unknown Diplo who would ask him for production work. SFC’s debut LP “Forest of the Echo Downs” also put Adrian on Ghostly’s radar as it was one of label founder Sam Valenti IV’s top LPs in 2004.

So Mr. Brandenberg gets a copy of the song, and puts it through the newly created MP3. But instead of the “warm human voice” there are monstrous distortions, as though the Exorcist has somehow gotten into the system, shadowing every phrase. They spend months refining it, running “Tom’s Diner through the system over and over again with modifications, until it comes through clearly. “He wound up listening to the song thousands of times,” the article, written by Hilmar Schmundt, continued, “and the result was a code that was heard around the world. When an MP3 player compresses music by anyone from Courtney Love to Kenny G, it is replicating the way that Brandenburg heard Suzanne Vega.”

Ann Arbor band from the early 70s, lovingly recreated as a web site with history pulled in part from the John Sinclair archives

So many songs, six words each

awesome project to collect and digitize and distribute archives of oral histories of the science fiction world.

Assistive Media works to heighten the educational, cultural, and quality-of-living standards for people with disabilities by providing free, copyright-approved, high-caliber audio literary works to the world-wide disability community. The internet enables

FREE FULL-LENGTH SONGS. DOWNLOAD. BURN. SHARE. ENJOY.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore sits down with Democracy Now! ahead of the release of his new film SiCKO. The film is a seething indictment of the US healthcare system. It focuses not on the more than 40 million people who don't have healthc

collection of sounds from japanese rail system

my favorite from this collection is "if the metro don't go there it don't exist" about the DC transportation system

recorded lectures from all over the net; a decidedly .edu bias (that's good)

original recording of Rhapsody in Blue to Edison cylinders, good stuff

I'm going to be at a conference in Chicago in May with Joe Janes doing the keynote - looking forward to seeing him again.

my neighbor Peter Ho Davies reading

WHY DO PRESS RELEASES GO OUT WITH TITLES IN ALL CAPS.

Jon Udell interview of dchud, sounds like a good one, will be sure to listen to this one.

perry marshall mp3 interview series. not quite a podcast, because you have to give up your name to get info (and you will get more marketing directed at you as a result)

Too much brainpower in one place! Superpatron Ed Vielmetti and Drupal-guru John Blyberg joined Jon Udell in discussions for a podcast.

jon udell with me and john blyberg about working with the ann arbor district library

Assistive Media works to heighten the educational, cultural, and quality-of-living standards for people with disabilities by providing free, copyright-approved, high-caliber audio literary works to the world-wide disability community. The internet enables

spoken word recordings of essays and stories from the New Yorker

via tozier

podcasts of city council and school board meetings from Ypsilanti, Michigan

portable play/record audio devices used in tandem for editing - listen in one device, talk into the other. best to do when you have a long walk somewhere quiet.

"what the heck is the point of that?"

from the ghostly crew

$500 + $100 for 1G memory gets you an all-digital portable recording device

griff has a growing podcast selection

read for Assistive Media

Moving

Shannon Clark's conference in Chicago, sessions in MP3

podcasting audio productin help

free mp3s to try out their pay service - this may be how I get legal copies of akufen

electro synth on 8 bit computer and game consoles

micro-house glitch blues

Berkeley band playing Sesame Street and Muppet Show covers

let me know if you see any mp3 bloggers doing music that might play at The Ark