This kills me… about artists, licensing, royalties, etc. see attached. I have always been so curious about music as art, IE a personal compulsion that creates it vs desire to make money and be (more…)
I am not so sure Sting knows how to clap?
Saw this Bruce Springsteen this weekend: Apparently Sting has no idea how to clap: Oh it is a thing. http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/sting-has-no-idea-how-to-clap#.oy83R12MR Well, (more…)
The Cure, “I hate Rock & Roll”, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, and a moment of music history.
Robert Smith sound checked with The Cure, 17 October 1980, in Amsterdam. He named the beginning of the check “I Hate Rock n Roll”, which then led into “The Holy Hour”, which Robert dedicated to Ian Curtis (more…)
An Ode to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy of my Youth; A Love note to Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; A Love note to Douglas Adams (dates not precise) About 1984, my father bought an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive and 3.5 floppy, with a Hayes 1200 baud modem. Â It was (more…)
Sip from my firehose… been too busy to post one offs, so enjoy a random link roundup.
——–> Psychedelic experiences with the ultimate end of audiophilia http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/31/4379774/ecstasy-for-my-eardrums-tripping-through-the-psychedelia-million-dollar-hi-fi THAT (more…)
Touch…. Hold on. If love is the answer, you’re home.
The line “Hold on. If love is the answer, you’re home” is one of the most eloquent, beautiful, timely, and moving lines I have heard in a song in a decade, easily. Vulnerable, elegant, grace……
Why Flavorwire’s Tom Hawking completely misses the point about Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories”
That’s *EXACTLY* why Giorgio is on there… there isn’t much to do but revisit the roots, at this point. Unless the author suggest more dubstep bass squishes under *literally* deafening treble scratches & sirens??
So… look to the past. Enjoy the past. Look to our history to protect the future. Huxley had some opinions about that: “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
So check some of this out. That’s the point of this review. Dig deep little archivists. It’s time to take a note from another album and move backwards towards your future discovery.
Getting Stuck video – and the analog synthesizer “WheelHarp”, bowing keyboard instrument
Hilarious and haunting video about getting stuck…. BUT THIS: http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/01/22/antiquity-music-intros-wheelharp-string-keyboard/#more-47069 That freaking thing…. “Wheelharp” (more…)
Robot Quadrotors – cooperative drones playing music, and Weyland’s TED 2023 speech – “We are now Gods”
Drones playing 007 – Ted 2023 – Weyland telling us we’re gods. You know what? Whether #darkmatter produces a big crunch, or we planet hop to a frozen entropic infinity – until then? We *are* (more…)