This is a video of Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner with the late great Warren Zevon from October 30 2002.

the dream of the 90s is alive in Portland

Detroit garage rockers The Dirtbombs know how to pay a little homage. They did so with 2001’s Ultraglide in Black, covering soul numbers from the ’60s and ’70s. The band’s new album Party Store goes a different direction, but the concept sounds promising enough: live renditions of ’80s and ’90s Detroit techno.

Seaquence is an experimental musical petri-dish.
Adopting a biological metaphor, Seaquence allows you to create
and combine musical lifeforms into unique, dynamic compositions.

      I love giant businesses.  I know that isn't a very "DIY" attitude, but most people who subscribe to the ole' DIY ethic are poor failures and that ain't me, babe. One of my favorite writers about business is Alfred Chandler and if you are ever looking to understand modern business corporations without being indoctrinated or terrified, Chandler is your guy.  The fact is, enormous corporations exist because they get the job done.  One of the great things about corporations in the context of capitalism, is that if they fail, they cease to exist.  No one ever give Corporations credit for that quality.  This is especially true as we move closer to the present day:  Longetivity...is impressive.

electro-music is made with synthesizers, home-made circuits, computers, found objects, voices, signal processors, wooden flutes, ambient recordings, and virtually anything imaginable that makes sound - even conventional orchestras. It can be slow and spacy, or fast and rhythmic; it crosses many genres. The primary motivation for its creation is artistic and spiritual expression, not show business.

this is a cute sequencer, but I seem to remember some other sequencers that were even easier to program; one with a grid of blocks? searching

Like many arts aficionados, Hofstadter views music as a fundamental way for humans to communicate profound emotional information. Machines, no matter how sophisticated their mathematical abilities, should not be able to possess that spiritual power. As he wrote in Virtual Music, an anthology of debates about Cope’s research, Hofstadter worries Emmy proves that “things that touch me at my deepest core — pieces of music most of all, which I have always taken as direct soul-to-soul messages — might be effectively produced by mechanisms thousands if not millions of times simpler than the intricate biological machinery that gives rise to a human soul.”

erika.net has been broadcasting a 24 hour mp3 stream since 1999. We hand-pick music and organize it freeform style: all types of music at all times of the day. Our goal is to bring you music you can't hear on other radio stations, presented in a unique style. You can listen using the shortcuts to your right, or by browsing to erika.net in the 'Eclectic' section of iTunes radio.

Tuesday Feb 9th around 7PM this blog got removed by Blogger/Google and we received an email informing us about the situation. Masala was one between many blogs to be removed that day. After this piece in The Guardian on Wednesday, and this one on line at The Daily Swarm, a lot of people on the internet expressed their concerns and the #musicblogocide2k10 tag was in the top trends on Twitter. The Guardian article was quoted in many places and we got contacted by people from all around the planet (Brazil, UK, USA, FR, South Africa). Yesterday night around 9PM, we received the following apologizing email from Google's Project Manager Rick Klau and the Masala blog was restored.

Paul Miles - singer, songwriter, musician has been bringing music to the world since his college days from the coffee shops at Bowling Green State University. While living in Southern California he showcased in clubs from San Diego to Los Angeles and in between. He's played such notable clubs as the Troubador-LA, former Golden Bear-Huntington Beach . While studying music at Golden West College -Huntingon Beach, he had opening acts for Blues great Taj Mahal, who showed him some guitar licks as well as advice in the music business. He was later was an under study for Keb"Mo in San Diego at the Globe Theater for a show "Lost Highway", where he did perform in one show and received an standing ovation for helping supply the music for Keb Mo who had a competiton at the Long Beach Blues Festival. Paul is a member of SAG and Actor Equity where he's performed children's theater playing guitar for the 12 Night Repertory Company-Studio City Cal. After moving from So Cal and living in Lousiana for a 2 years, he had the opportunity to visit New Orleans and picked up the flavor of the music to add to his talent pool. He now has been playing in the Detroit Area since moving here in 2000. As a solo artist he has played many of the top festivals events in greater Detroit,among the many are Arts,Beats,Eats-Pontiac,Detroit Festival of Arts, Detroit Winterfest,Alpena Blues Festival, Southfield Pavillon,venues range for the Former Attic Bar,5th Avenue-Comerica Park& Royal Oak,Baker's keyboard, Memphis Smoke, Farmer's Market-Birmingham /Rochester,Midland Antique Festival, Trenton Scare Crow Festival, Alibis-Windsor, Canada,Rosie O'Grady-Ferndale,All Star Blue festival London, Ontario, Internationally he has played Germany,France,and Switzerland. In Lucerne,Swizerland he played the Blues Sessions from 1996-2001 and helped to build that festival into one of the top venues in Europe. He is the first recipient of the Detroit Blues Society Solo Performer of the the Year in 2002,In 2007 he won his first Detroit Music Award as Outstanding Acoustic/Folk Instrumentalist. He has recorded a total of 9 solo albums the last being released in nov /2007 titled "Steppin Out" Two other albums Peace of the BLues /Deep Water BLues brought him finalist nominations as Best Blues Album by the Detroit Music Awards in 2005,2006 respectively. He has dedicated himself in keeping the blues alive as well as expanding his music. For the Super Bowl 40 he performed with the Original Vandellas at Campus Martius on WDIV-channel 9 for a pre-game celebration introducing an original song "Welcome to Detroit" In 2007 he has gone and recruited some top area musicians to also display his music with a band sound . The core members are Ken Murphy-Drums,Wendy Hayes-Bass,Joe Spina-Lead Guitar/vocals,Billy Furman-horns/vocals. He plans to do a album with that sound in 2008. He would also like to tour in 2008 to take the sound around. More on the way from the Blues Man.... He is known for his trademark high pitch wail that seems to come from his soul . He still believes world peace is possible and plans to continue to perform with the blessings of his ancestors. Paul recently won 3 Detroit Music Awards-2008 , categories Outstanding Blues Album "Steppin out",Outstanding- Blues -instrumentalist and songwriter... He would like to thank the Detroit Music Awards, family,friends media outlets radio/TV and print media as well as the internet and people like you for your support... The awards program was held April 25,2008... info at www.detroitmusicawards.com for complete winners list. Paul Miles Band won a preliminary Blues Contest June 25, 2008 and will be in the Detroit Blues Society finals on Nov 23, 2008, Winner there goes to Memphis for the international competition. He will record a band CD this early fall. Meanwhile he's written a song "Building Dreams" for Women Build of Macomb County,Michigan its posted on his home page.. singers Amber Williams/Dominique Krefeld provide the vocals... Paul has written a new song "Motown Still Our Town" will have different voices from Detroit singing an uplifting song for the City of Detroit...was recorded in November 2008, some voices on the song The Original Vandellas, Barbara Payton, Nadir, Michael On Fire,Sonnie Day, Carolyn Striho,Jill Jack,David Nefesh and others. Will premiere on Sunday ,Dec 14 7pm-7:30pm EST on www.wchb1200.com CD release party Jan 18, 8pm at Memphis Smoke.keep rockin" in a minute PM, you can hear the new song at www.myspace.com/motownstillourtownproject Paul finishes 2nd overall at River City Ohio Blues Contest-Marietta but wins the solo division and will go to Memphis in 2010 for the International Competition. Paul release's album number 9 'Blue Collar Man: on Sept 20, 2009, 14 new songs with 6 tracks being with a full band. Paul was nominated as a finalist for Best Blues Artist for the 1st Annual Detroit Black Music Awards which was held at Bert's Warehouse -Detroit,Michigan-october 11, 2009

f for some reason your order arrives defective, 'cause we know there would be no other reason to return such lovely music, please return the defective item within 10 business days to the following address and make sure to include a note stating the reason for the return and an address which we can ship a brand new shiny right-off-the-line replacement to.

Quite Scientific Records
2772 Page Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-6914

City Center's Spring St. is one of our most
unique releases ever! The latest from Fred
Thomas (Saturday Looks Good To Me) and
Ryan Howard (Canada), this four song EP
is offered as a limited screen-printed, one-
sided 12" that also comes with a download
card for high-quality, DRM free, 320kbps
MP3s. Pressing limited to 500 units.

United has demonstrated they know how to keep their airline in the forefront of their customer’s minds and I wanted this project to expand upon that satirically. I’ve been done “being angry” for quite some time and, if anything, I should thank United. They’ve given me a creative outlet that has brought people together from around the world. We had a pile of laughs making the recording and the video while the images are spinning on how to make “United: Song 2” even better than the first. So, thanks United! If my guitar had to be smashed due to extreme negligence I’m glad it was you that did it. Now sit back and enjoy the show.

Live at WFMU on The Cherry Blossom Clinic on 7/12/2002

What he says next is probably not intended as his verdict on Twitter - a Kraftwerkian development, if ever there was one - but it may as well be. "Everybody is becoming like ... " - he pauses - "a Stasi agent, constantly observing himself or his friends."

Miguel Angel Vielmetti + Hugo Contreras: Miguel Angel Vielmetti + Hugo Contreras

MEDIA: LP

CONDITION COVER / VINYL: vg+/vg

LABEL: Arquina 126

COMMENTS: Argentina. Conjunto Miguel Angel Vielmetti, canta Hugo Contreras, 14 songs , styles: Cumbia, Porro, paso doble, Merengue colombiano, Baion, Paso doble, Gaita.

Blip.fm | Just What I Needed – The Cars

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.

Robert Berner music compositions 1952-2007

a capella

The Florentine Camerata was a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama.[1][2] They met at the house of Giovanni de' Bardi, and their gatherings had the reputation of having all the most famous men of Florence as frequent guests.[3][4][5] The apex of influence for the Camerata was between 1577 and 1582, gaining influence before this time, and dying off afterward.[6]

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.

Cindy Kallet is a songwriter, singer and guitarist with five solo albums to her credit: Working On Wings To Fly and Cindy Kallet 2 on Folk Legacy Records, and Dreaming Down A Quiet Line, This Way Home, and Leave the Cake in the Mailbox - Songs for Parents and Kids Growing Up (chosen for the 2004 Parents' Choice Gold Award ) on the Stone's Throw Music label. She has also recorded two trio albums, Angels in Daring and Only Human (Overall Music) with Ellen Epstein and Michael Cicone, as well as a collaborative effort with Gordon Bok entitled Neighbors (Timberhead). Recently she has also been joining musical forces with Grey Larsen. Cindy has taught and performed extensively throughout North America. Her love for the natural beauty of the New England coast has been the inspiration for many of her songs.

FStream is a little WebRadio listener/recorder software.

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.

n another surprise, 80 per cent of the revenue came from 52,000 songs. What's eye-catching about the number? Well, the typical inventory of a conventional high street record store was around 4,000 CDs. Or ... around 52,000 songs.

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

Explain your logo “Visibility is a Trap”. / “It’s actually a quote from Foucault, from ‘Discipline and Punish’. It refers to surveillance, ie. being controlled through being visible to the authorities. So it has that meaning from the original quote but it also has what I think is important, that what I do is part of a collective and there is a certain degree of anonymity, so that it’s an invisible situation.”

Download it at http://www.acdcrocks.com/excel The world's first music video in an Excel Spreadsheet. AC/DC smashes through the corporate firewall with real rock 'n' roll. Watch the video playing back as ASCII art in Microsoft Excel!

The Community Music Academy serves every age group in the community, from early childhood classes through adult classes. We also offer private lessons for ages five through adult. Our instructors include faculty and students from EMU's Department of Music and Dance. Early childhood instructors hold certification from the Gordon Institute for Music Learning.

Many collectors of this unique slice of our musical heritage also collect original literature associated with the manufacturing and marketing of these wonderous machines. All too often, this segment of our collecting passion tends to be obscured by the highly visibile machines themselves, appealing to the 3 senses of sight, hearing and touch. Very often, these delightfully appealing machines are shared with the general public, be they home tours, local charity events, association events, and/or neighborhood gatherings.

However, serious research into the remarkable history of these music machines can only be realized through access to original literature. Regretably, much of this original literature tends to be hidden away in filing cabinets, workshops, libraries, et al, and all too often not accessible to serious researchers. In my own 40+ years in this delightful avocation, I too accumulated my fair share of original literature.

"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.

author of "time to get a gun" - lyrics include

last week a government man was there
when I walked out of my back door
he said I'm sorry to bother you son
but it don't matter anymore
'cause even while we're talking
well right here where we stand
they're making plans for a four lane highway
and a big old overpass

Nineteen men were drowned in June of 1958
In old Vancouver town
There were seventy-nine men working
To build this brand new bridge
To span the second and narrows
And connect up with the ridge
Till a big wind hit the bridge
And the bridge came tumbling down

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.”

1. Barack Lobster - The B-52's
2. Planet Barack - Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force
3. Barack Island Line - Lonnie Donegan
4. I Wanna Barack - Twisted Sister
5. Baba O'Bama - The Who
6. Barack Around the Clock - Bill Haley & Comets
7. Barack and Roll - Led Zeppelin
8. Sheena Is a Punk Baracker - Ramones
9. Baracket Reducer - MC5
10. Drop the Obama - Trouble Funk
11. Barack Box - Run DMC
12. Barack This Town - Stray Cats
13. Detroit Barack City - KISS
14. Castle Barack - Barefoot Jerry
15. Barack Steady - Aretha Franklin

Le Tigre (French for "The Tiger") is an American dance-punk band, formed by Kathleen Hanna (formerly of Bikini Kill) and Johanna Fateman in 1998. It also featured Sadie Benning from 1998 until 2001, and JD Samson for the rest of the group's run. Le Tigre is known for its socio-political lyrics, dealing with issues of feminism and the LGBT community. The band is currently on hiatus.

an interesting pattern in the halifax wiki is thorough coverage of local music

There's no doubt that SoundExchange has been strong-arming the Internet radio industry into oblivion. But most Internet radio stations like Pandora offer their services for free, or they offer accounts with more features at incredibly cheap prices. While some stations display ads on their website, Pandora hasn't done itself any favors by offering desktop clients and a wildly popular iPhone application (iTunes link) that rake in millions of users without so much as a single ad. Perhaps, for now, the "just build it and we'll figure out the business model later" approach won't be enough to save this experiment in new media.

But I am rediscovering the joys of vinyl. My dad, who passed away in 2006, had an extensive collection of LPs and 78s. He was a classically trained organist and opera buff, so his collection was top-heavy with organ and opera recordings. But he had a number of other recordings as well, mostly classical, but also Broadway and jazz. My mom, looking to clean out her basement, told my siblings and me to take what we wanted and she would get rid of the rest.

The arcade ambience project is an attempt of mine to simulate the audio ambience of a crowded arcade room during the golden age of arcades in the 1980s. This is a sound I think that has been lost over the years and does not exist in today's pitiful arcades in my opinion. My main motivation for this project was to create some ambience in my basement arcade, having a somewhat authentic arcade background hum while I or my guests play on my MAME arcade cabinet. I thought that maybe others who have cabinets (or just miss real arcade nostalgia) could also benefit from my work.

Topspin basics: we’re a startup, just over a year old, offices in Santa Monica and San Francisco (connected by a killer, cost-effective video conf setup from our friends at LifeSize), mostly software engineers, building software to help artists make money. In the same way ProTools brought software solutions to music production, we seek to apply technology solutions for music marketing. Regardless of your opinion of the future of the music industry, I think we all agree the old way is not the new way and one “new way” hasn’t materialized yet.

Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years. The name of the new record is Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. For the most part, Brian did the music and I wrote some tunes, words and sang. It's familiar but completely new as well. We're pretty excited. The album is available exclusively from this Web site. You can stream all of the songs for free and purchase it in a variety of digital and physical formats, including a limited edition Deluxe Package designed by Stefan Sagmeister. All formats can be downloaded immediately and physical CDs will be shipped in the Fall. David Byrne Midtown PS: If you like what you hear, please share the streaming player on the left of the page with your friends, or embed it on your Web site, blog or profile. Just click Embed/Share and you're good to go.

surreal, I mean it, in every way

"It's basically an inverted D-major seventh chord, composed of a D, then a high C sharp and ending with a low F sharp," explained Wes Chappell, a Fret Mill clerk and musician who identified Old Gabriel's notes at a reporter's request. "At the very end it slides down to an A-major chord."

Asked for his artistic interpretation, Chappell offered: "It starts out a little hopeful, then it gets a little dissonant, as if it's reminding you of something — like, to get up and go to work."

1969 song predicts Jott web service

"as an example, found via a twitter friend involved in this
music startup, popcuts. the intriguing that about popcuts,
which relies on social networking, is that there is a
user/artist connection. In addition to an attractive per/
song price point and the expected recommending services,
users benefit directly from their consumption practices:"

After graduating and teaching school for four years, Sis felt a need for theoretical training in radical politics and enrolled in Commonwealth College, an unaccredited radical institution. Of this most influential period of her life, Sis was later to state, "Commonwealth taught me the most important thing in my life. It was there that I learned that my father was right, by God, and that the Socialist System remains the only means by which this great country will survive." While at Commonwealth Sis began writing songs, among which were: "How Can You Keep On Movin’ Unless You Migrate Too" (Ry Cooder heard this song on a New Lost City Ramblers album and recorded it. Unfortunately, he labeled the song "traditional," which meant that Sis was deprived of payment for her song.); most of the well-known verses to "There is Mean Things Happening in This Land" (written with her father’s help) by John Handoox;

three day festival on frog holler farm in brooklyn mi

From the 30th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival: Utah Phillips and Joe Keithley tell stories and sing songs about "The Life And Times Of Ginger Goodwin"

Utah Phillips played the very first Vancouver Folk Festival and many many more after that. Phillips was a labor organizer, folk singer storyteller, poet and self-described "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He wass also a true eclectic, archivist, historian, activist, philosopher, hobo, tramp, member of the IWW, and just about everything in between. He described the struggles of labour unions and the power of direct action. Now, let's watch out for the yard bulls, hop aboard that northbound freight, and move along down the track.

You may know Joe Keithley as Joey Shithead from DOA. Joe has run twice for the Green Party of British Columbia. This Canadian punk rock icon still has a passion for music and politics.

A musical chord can be represented as a point in a geometrical space called an orbifold. Line segments represent mappings from the notes of one chord to those of another. Composers in a wide range of styles have exploited the non-Euclidean geometry of these spaces, typically by using short line segments between structurally similar chords. Such line segments exist only when chords are nearly symmetrical under translation, reflection, or permutation. Paradigmatically consonant and dissonant chords possess different near-symmetries and suggest different musical uses.

Department of Music, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, 34 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 • 7:30 PM • James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf
Dmitri Tymoczko Arthur Scribner Bicentennial Preceptor and Assistant Professor, Music, Princeton University
The Geometry of Consonance: Music and Mathematics
Elementary concepts of music theory can be translated into the language of contemporary geometry. Musical chords live in interesting geometrical spaces called "orbifolds"—spaces that contain unusual twists and strange "singularities," analogous to the black holes of General Relativity. Tymoczko provides an accessible, multimedia introduction to this new way of thinking about music, in which the audience can both listen to and watch pieces of music as they move along cones, Mobius strips, and other interesting spaces. He will conclude by explaining how Chopin's famously mysterious E minor prelude traces an interesting path along a necklace of four-dimensional cubes.

Other favorite kinds of Beatles' chords can be added to this grid. The parallel minors (iv, i, v) form another cluster of chords the Beatles, seemingly arbitrarily, interjected into their chord progressions. A further conspicuous feature of their songs is the lavish use of relative (II, VI, III) and parallel (flat-VI, flat-III, flat-VII) Majors, which according to O'Grady (1983: 63-64) can be regarded as the most obvious harmonic innovation of the Beatles' compositions. Next to these, we sometimes even hear the relative minors (vii, #iv, #i) of the parallel Majors themselves. To this, of course, we can add the seventh chords, so popular in blues, country and rhythm and blues. Except for the last one, all these chord clusters can be fitted into a diagram by adding them to the diagonal structure. As a result a grid emerges in which chords sharing two tones with each other can be substituted for each other (figure 2).

A new year has begun at Lawrence and many have noticed some changes around campus. One of these is the Spontaneous Musical Enlightenment and Education House at 203 N. Union St. While the house itself (known to some as "the yellow house") is not new to cam

on the variations of the song (and the implications from the tradition)

and the midnight funk association

The fourth single, however, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" became a gigantic single record reaching #1 on the national charts in July of 1973, ultimately selling more than 2,000,000 copies.

retro music nostalgia one year at a time; here's 1974.

Katherine Dawn Lang grew up in Consort, Alberta, a Canadian prairie town

annual June event

this is really quite awesome, in its own filk way - omgwtfbbq

summer fun on the ingalls mall

According to Leclair, his approach is inspired by the Canadian automatist movement of the 1940s that tried to achieve artistic expression without a preconceived idea of the outcome.

Leclair's plan of attack is simple yet devastating in its effect - tiny fragments of random radio signals are sampled and overlaid onto massive upbeat 130bpm tech/house loops in a cut and paste technique that would make even John Oswald proud.

canadian content - uses very small samples of music to create sound

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

The eight visually impaired students from Detroit's Bates Middle School played the bells at Kerrytown under the supervision of their teacher, Ann Arbor resident Patti Smith, and self-described "bell lady" Heather O'Neal.

heidi's review of the new Borders concept store; she liked it, but tellingly, it didn't have the book she wanted to buy and she walked out without the music she wanted

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the pachelbel canon in pop music

During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the po

Okay, the secret was out a while ago. Beck played at Yahoo for our Hack Day and the show was fantastic. Best of all is the video they made.