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Finding The Fall

Monday, October 30, 2006

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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Making of “Every Breath You Take”

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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Biolay Videos

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 […]

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Dub Be Good To Me

Sunday, August 20, 2006
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Music Video Elation

Thursday, August 10, 2006

MTV’s twenty-fifth birthday came and went with little fanfare. VH1 Classic celebrated by playing the first videos played on the day MTV debuted, and those videos are almost uniformly awful (Talking Heads, Once in A Lifetime is the sole exception in my book.) Everybody knows that MTV doesn’t play videos anymore and hasn’t for so […]

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Gallery of strange, wonderful musical instruments

Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Oddmusic, a site about experimental music, instruments, and musicians, has a wonderful gallery of musical instruments. The pictures and descriptions of the instruments are intriguing enough, but they also post sound samples of the instruments being played. At this site, I had the pleasure of hearing for the first time the hypnotic and soothing sounds […]

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Harvey Matusow

Monday, July 31, 2006

A piece on the extensive resume and deranged music of Harvey Matusow. Incredible stuff from WFMU, as always.

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Brooklyn Bridge Sounds

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a fantastic post today on the sounds made by bridges. Included is an mp3 of the Brooklyn Bridge recorded in 1982. Guaranteed to bring back memories for some people – the bridge no longer sounds the way it does in the recording due to the road being replaced.

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Connie Chung, Lounge Singer

Monday, June 26, 2006

I dare you to watch the whole thing. That’s right. I dare you.

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Grant McLennan, RIP

Monday, May 8, 2006

The world lost one of its greatest songwriters when Grant McLennan died yesterday. I’m sure this will raise the profile of the Go-Betweens somewhat. It’s a shame that sometimes that is what it takes. Nevertheless McLennan left behind a enviably broad and deep catalog of songs. If you’ve never heard them before, there are nine […]

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