Kaki King – Guitar Goddess
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on September 18, 2008 by admin in Music
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be A Bad Person?
I’ve been completely in Love with Kaki King since I first ran across the video of her performing Playing With Pink Noise (left). If she would let me, I would sit patiently at her feet just watching her play for several hours a day, wondering why I’ll never be that good. Okay…enough fanboy idol worship. Now go buy some of her music
Zoe Keating’s Quantum Superstring Cello
[ 3 Comments ]Posted on September 4, 2008 by admin in Music
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Stick that in your SooperLooper
If you want to hear some transcendently beautiful solo cello music, take one part Fripp & Eno
Everything That Happens Finally Happened Today
[ Comments Off ]Posted on August 18, 2008 by admin in Music
Monday, August 18th, 2008The new Byrne Eno Release is available with streaming previews
David Byrne sent me an interesting e-mail today. He let me know that the The new Byrne/Eno collaboration Everything That Happens Will Happen Today was happening today. They’ve done some creative things with this release, one of them being the dirty trick of offering a Deluxe Package for $69.99 that includes four bonus songs, a short film about the album, a screensaver app (meh), an “Everything That Happens” miniature hardbound book, and immediate access to download all the songs in various formats. They’ve also cleverly offered the little embedded player seen here. A little advice David: you’re pretty tech savvy; your people could’ve made it resizeable, and they could’ve included a frigging volume control! I’m going to ponder spending the $69.99 after I stream the songs for a bit, a nice option.
Before the Music Dies
[ Comments Off ]Posted on August 8, 2008 by admin in Music
Friday, August 8th, 2008I wonder if Don McClean did the soundtrack?
If you listen to pop music with any regularity and intelligence, you may have noticed an extremely high suck quotient in the major label releases of the past couple of years. This, while the quantity of really high quality indy material has grown almost exponentially and provided the artist with a higher income-making potential while unit prices plummeted. Well, someone else seems to have noticed too, and made a film about it. Perhaps a bit melodramatically titled, Before the Music Dies features interviews and performances with Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Branford Marsalis, ?uestlove and a wide variety of others. The film promises to explore the phemomena of “the homogenous corporate product that is spoonfed to consumers and the diverse independent music that finds devoted fans online and at clubs across the country”. The teaser with Erykah Badu, left, is hilarious.
Building a PC-Based Studio for Less Than $100 (Part 2)
[ Comments Off ]Posted on August 6, 2008 by admin in Music
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Downloading and Installing dyne:bolic
Downloading and Installing dyne:bolic
This is part II of a series. See part I here.
The Machine
So, there were no organic life forms living in the PC we’re using, which was surprising, given the spider-infested storage area from which the machine was retrieved (see photo). Next, we need to download dyne:bolic. Their download page is a little hard on the eyes. What you’re looking for is either the link that says “download using BitTorrent” (provided you know how to use BitTorrents ) or the section that says “download via ftp from mirrors”. We chose the BitTorrent option, although we aren’t endorsing it; our download still took almost an hour-and-a-half because the torrent wasn’t very well-seeded. You might want to try a regular FTP download. Read the rest of this entry »