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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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Sunday, November 26, 2006
Zune, considered harmful.
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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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Find every former member of the band The Fall. Not a trivial task for a band that has had 40-odd members over its 30 year existence.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The story of the making of The Police’s “Every Breath You Take.” Sting playing bass on a trampoline! How irritating!
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Saturday, September 2, 2006
I’ve been waiting a while for Benjamin Biolay’s official site to release his videos. At last, they are all available, covering most of his major studio releases, as well as some videos of him at work in the studio recording his latest album, A L’Origine. Also a New York Times profile on Biolay from last [...]