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Category Archives: Music

Age of Consent

Friday, August 24, 2007

New Order performs “Age of Consent.” Note out of key guitar intro, angry removal of pop-screen from microphone, and ‘gay sperm’ on the amps. Kick Ass.

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Temptation

Friday, August 24, 2007

Video footage of New Order performing “Temptation” at the BBC studios live in 1984.

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I still love Beware of the Blog

Monday, July 16, 2007

WFMU revives an obscure bit of Velvet Underground lore. Lou Reed got his start writing music for a pseudo-Brill Building outfit and wrote and recorded a novelty single titled “The Ostrich.” The band recorded as “The Primitives” and also featured John Cale. It basically sounds like one of VU’s goofier singles. You can listen to […]

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Let them eat cake…

Monday, July 2, 2007

A very low-budget video with a simple concept from Low, but I can’t stop watching.

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Song Meanings

Saturday, June 30, 2007

The name might throw you off a little, but SongMeanings is actually a lyrics database. It has a lot going for it. A huge database of song lyrics,  no pop-ups or  spyware, and a discussion feature where users post their interpretations of the songs.

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There is a light that never goes out

Friday, June 29, 2007

YouTube strikes again. The (sole?) musician behind a project called Primrose League has posted several videos of himself playing songs by The Smiths. His recreations of Johnny Marr’s playing is obsessively close to the originals. Here’s an instrumental of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, a beautiful song, with or without vocals.

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Tonic Closes

Friday, April 13, 2007

Generally, I’m all real estate going to the highest value use. But the notion of value is actually pretty elusive because of the great many things you can’t put a dollar value on. One thing you really can’t put dollar value on is the cultural capital of New York. This cultural capital exists only in […]

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Velvet Underground Acetate

Thursday, January 4, 2007

If you missed your chance to hear the rare first acetate of The Velvet Underground and Nico, WMFU has now posted it. You can download all the tracks – many are different mixes and some are different version entirely from the commercial release.

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Zune

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Zune, considered harmful.

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Latency & Crystal WDM

Saturday, November 4, 2006

If you own a Dell laptop computer and you are a musician, you’ve probably run into latency issues on the built-in Crystal audio cards. Most recently I was getting 46ms of latency out of my machine. This makes live performance pretty difficult, you need to get that latency below 15ms if it’s going to feel […]

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