Music

Possibly the best dog song ever.

Not sure the 101 Dalmations montage works, but this is a great song.  My dog totally could have written this song.
YouTube - Your Adorable Beast.

Top Tunes, 2009

My friend Tim’s effort to guilt all his friends into providing him new music to listen to — otherwise known as his annual “Top Tunes” email, has finally made it online on his new blog. Of course, this is a mutual benefit society and everybody in the loop finds some great new tunes this [...]

2008 Music Review

Inspired by my buddy Tim’s annual email, I’ve posted some of the musical highlights of my year.  Unlike Tim, I am unable to summarize my musically year based on items released that year, so excuse the random assortment of new and old…but here’s what I’ve been listening to this year, in no particular order.
Deer Tick, [...]

Radio Free JP

My long-time friend and fellow music freak John “JP” Palmer is now working the 4-6am free-form programming slot on Tampa’s WMNF 88.5 Community Radio. This probably provides him a bit more satisfying creative outlet than his day job as a Bank Vice-President…at least, I assume it must to make the hours worth it.
Luckily, the [...]

Magnetic ribbons

The Asylum Street Spankers’ tribute to magnetic ribbons is brilliant. Love these guys. Watch some of their other ones while you’re there.

Noble creatures

The Gourds are back with a new record and fancy new website. I’m a sucker for their obtuse mashup of traditional American music and obtuse lyrics. You gotta love a record that starts out: “Jammin’ on the old cartoons with the swagger of the immune, Sleeping like a fat racoon – diabetic on [...]

Man, Elvis is cool!

Elvis is so drippingly cool that I really found myself enjoying the superficially catastrophic pairing of his archive footage with Celine Dion on American Idol last night. Wow.

Free acoustic guitar ringtones

I’ve intended to do this for a while, but tonight I actual sat down for a few minutes and did it. Here for your listening pleasure, are a couple of quickie acoustic guitar ringtones. I gated them down and mixed them for looping. They probably don’t sound spectacular on a good speaker, [...]

My year in music, 2006

The biggest and best things in my musical life this year are more about the distribution channel than the music. The first is eMusic, the second Pandora.
If you are a regular music consumer, ie, not a casual listener, but a person who regularly explores and purchases music, you need to get an eMusic account [...]

Chatham County Line: Route 23

Artist: Chatham County Line
Album: Route 23
Rating: 5 out of 5

Media: CD
Genre: Bluegrass
Favorite songs

Parlor Light
Route 23

While not the newest record, Route 23 is the best thing I’ve dug up with my new eMusic membership. I love bluegrass, but I often find the song writing rather dry. So many of [...]

RIP, CBGBs

I’ve posted about the CBGBs saga before, but it’s appeared that the end is near. Actually, I think it’s perfect that they are going to take everything out and build a replica of the original in Las Vegas. That’s just so strangely ironic, yet cool, at the same time. The home of [...]

Jackie Greene: Sweet Somewhere Bound

Sweet Somewhere Bound

Artist: Jackie Green
Rating: 5 out of 5

Media: CD
Genre: Folk Rock
Favorite songs

Emily’s in Heaven

My friend John Palmer introduced me to this record on a trip to Florida in February, and it’s been a favorite even since. It didn’t really grab me until the 3rd or 4th listen, but [...]

Music: Let Her Go

This one still needs some work, but I haven’t posted any tunes of mine in a while, so I figured I’d go ahead an throw it up. So, without further ado, my GarageBand rendition of the Louvin Brother’s Let Her Go.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Fun job

My friend Jim just IM’d me…"Hey, I’m on Jeff Tweedy’s tour bus." That’s Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.
"O," I say, "is it nice?"
"Yea, 42 inch plasmas in the bunk beds. How can you have wireless Internet in a moving bus?"
His job definitely seems more fun than mine at the moment.

Pandora

Pandora is the best music-related technology I’ve run into in a long time. Simply put, it’s custom streaming radio based on your musical tastes. Doesn’t sound that revolutionary, but the “Music Genome” project underneath it does a really good job of coming up with new music that fits your tastes, based on seed [...]

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