I never realized how much time I spent finding new music until I couldn't spare the time any more. I still try to find new stuff, but it's a lot harder, since it sort of has to come to me now ( Read more... )

You often hear about musicians getting into crappy contracts with record labels, etc. I think this is the first time I got to read a court document and resolution, especially for an artist I cared so much about.

If you care, you too can slog your way through a long but surprisingly readable document about Poe's troubles in 2001-2003Based on the ( Read more... )

This has to be one of the most interesting Lady Gaga covers I've ever come across ( Read more... )

Popular bands have remix contests sometimes. And usually, they're slightly boring since everyone already has a strong idea what the artist intended the song to sound like, and everything is heavily based on that or compared to that ( Read more... )

I've always known there was a musical niche for bass-heavy music designed pretty much exclusively for use in "watch me rattle the house windows as I roll by in my ride with the stereo cranked" type situations. Songs with almost no melody or lyrics, just drums and bass so low that most stereos can't even reproduce it, despite the fact that it's ( Read more... )

Since they're hitting my happy buttons today and it's been a while since I last tried to pimp them, here we go again ( Read more... )

Video for "Just" by Radiohead (the original) - Very striking, serious, and kind of sad.

Video for "Just" by Mark Ronson (feat Phantom Planet) (a cover) - Totally awesome and quite hilarious, but only if you already know the first video, otherwise just confusing ( Read more... )

Orbital put out two new singles a couple months ago and I wasn't paying attention. They are selling it through digital distribution or 12" vinyl only.

For reference, the new song names are ‘Don’t Stop Me’ and ‘The Gun is Good’.

Now I need to go see if I can find copies to listen to...

So, some guy named Peter Peter Hughes wrote a song 23 years ago about the idea of (then-alive-but-now-deceased) F1 race driver Juan Manuel Fangio driving a Saab SPG through the Andes on a mission to assassinate former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet ( Read more... )

I haven't posted about music in forever. Here's a list of songs that have caught my attention on the radio recently, with links to their videos (most of which I watched for the first time today):

• Dessa - "Dixon's Girl" - Don't know much about her, but this one song keeps getting stuck in my head. The video is really slick even if unrelated to ( Read more... )