I kind of think of her as a modern day David Byrne, not that he's in the past or an afterthought or anything, but it made perfect sense to me when they did an album together a few years ago. Speaking of her doing albums with people, she apparently sings on multiple songs on the new (and soon to be released) Swans album...which I didn't see coming at all though I love them both.
I thought I was the only person on earth that like The Smiths and Pantera and it turns out Pantera likes The Smiths. Something tells me Morrissey wouldn't speak so fondly of Far Beyond Driven or Vulgar Display of Power. Just a hunch.
Went to a record show last fall. Got four CD's, three of them of John Tavener's work, and a fourth an old Fela Kuti disc that I had on cassette. The highlight was watching a woman who was probably between 50 and 60 absolutely ripping on hipsters for their shitty taste in music, and terrorizing any kid who looked like he might've wanted to get discs for his dj-ing collection: "hey homey" she said to one white kid: "no way you'll find any grooves on that. How dumb are you?" The hipsters had no idea what to do. I also liked the vinyl nerds who'd brought their girlfriends who all lost interest really, really fast.
Hilarious. The silver lining here is, even though hipsters' tastes are interesting, they haven't discovered most of the stuff I like. Case in point, the Thievery Corporation jazz compilation I found for $25. The other side I don't get is the dealer who brings thousands of 45s only to watch nobody buy anything. And for the record - the Estonian Community Centre hosts the best show in these parts.
another pretty good article...looking for a date... http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...stranger-171758593--abc-news-celebrities.html
So, 4,000,000 songs on Spotify have never, not once ever, been played. That will change with Forgotify... http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ing-spotifys-4-million-unheard-tracks/283484/ The idea first came to Lane Jordan when he heard an odd little fact: Around 20 percent of tracks on Spotify—some four million songs—had been played exactly zero times. Four million songs! That got Jordan thinking. What were those songs? And don't they, too, deserve a little listening? Jordan brought the idea to his friend, J Hausmann, and together, along with the help of a third friend (Nate Gagnon), they built Forgotify, a discovery engine for Spotify's unplayed tracks. Forgotify is built upon a database that the trio created to crawl Spotify's API for pieces with a play count of zero. Once a song has been played, it disappears from the site, rendering it oddly reminiscent of an old, archival audio cassette which, once played, may never play again. Playing it destroys it. (Except, of course, in the case of Forgotify, the songs still live on in Spotify proper.)
NPR had a story just now, and they played a few. Some were... well, not really worth the time or bandwidth it takes to record and play them. But a couple were things I've actually heard or heard of. It's just that no one who uses Spotify has looked for them
Yeah, one article I read about it said the guy stumbled across a bunch of archival rembetiko music, which is stuff I'd love to hear if I knew how to find it.
Sidenote: after watching the Beatles tribute last night and remembering all the "Who are these old guys?" tweets of the last couple Grammys, it's my prediction that in 50 years time the most enduring English-language songs in the history of recorded music will not be the self-important songs of the 1960's and 70's but the disposable pop music of the 80's. Like this song. And "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun."
It's weird seeing guys you're friends with have an album on NPR's first listen: http://www.npr.org/2014/02/09/271517906/first-listen-st-paul-and-the-broken-bones-half-the-city
Little known fact: Sex Dwarf was also a cover of a Simon & Garfunkel tune (sort of an autobiographical Simon tune, really).
I'd heard that -- in fact, I'm pretty sure he does a cameo in the banned video for the song, wearing the gimp mask and coming out of the box. (for those who aren't familiar: probably NSFW)
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of their debut album, De La Soul is offering their entire catalog to download FOR FREE over a 25-hour period starting today at 11am EST. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/de-la-soul-to-make-entire-catalog-available-for-free-20140213
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band in Australia joined by Eddie Vedder and Tom Morello for a cover of "Highway To Hell." I can't help it, this puts a big goofy grin on my face.
Couple years old but here's an interview with Billy Gibbons on one of the greatest pictures on the internet tubes. http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/billy-gibbons-“zee-zee-top”-prom-photo