A cover of micayetoca's wonderful Veronica.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 2:10 PM on June 12, 2008 (14 comments)

Here's a garagy tune i've been producing for my cousin, Vonesvonic.
posted to MeFi Music by 6am at 8:26 AM on April 29, 2008 (13 comments)

Is there still a Metafilter Cafepress store? I'd like to buy another "Coffee is for Closers" mug, but the store seems to have disappeared. If it's truly gone, is there a (non-Cafepress?) alternative where I could get the same mug? (The non-MF mugs I've seen aren't as nice).
posted to MetaTalk by gd779 at 12:01 PM on May 22, 2007 (30 comments)

This is a song a friend of mine named Audrey Johnston wrote that I think is pretty.
posted to MeFi Music by Corduroy at 6:04 PM on February 27, 2008 (3 comments)

Another song from my forthcoming album "Save You From Yourself", featuring my buddy Michael Spaly on mandolin.
posted to MeFi Music by scottandrew at 12:01 AM on January 13, 2008 (9 comments)

Glitter-and-Be-Gay-filter: Chenoweth, Anderson, Dessay, Damrau, Gruberova, Sumi Jo, Leigh, Young Dessay, Chenoweth again.
posted to MetaFilter by flug at 1:28 PM on November 7, 2007 (36 comments)

can ya feel the holy ghost? can i get an a a a men?
posted to MeFi Music by kimyo at 9:14 PM on September 19, 2007 (9 comments)

It sounds like a bad Newfie joke: the Newfoundlanders who had never seen a black person before and tried to scrub the colour off his skin. But the story is real: in 1942, Lanier Phillips was the only black survivor of the wreck of the USS Truxton off the coast of Newfoundland. Like the white survivors, he was half-dead and covered in oil when he arrived on shore, and the women nursing the survivors were puzzled when they could not clean the black colour off his skin. What happened next affected Phillips' self-perception and prompted him to push for equal treatment in the US Navy. He went on to become the first African American US SONAR technician, and continues today, at the age of 84, to speak across the US about his experience with the people of St. Lawrence. [previously]
posted to MetaFilter by hurdy gurdy girl at 2:53 PM on August 28, 2007 (39 comments)

Mashup I made for fun, had laying around on my hard drive, and remembered while reading this thread. The tracks are "Crash" from Gwen Stefani's "Love. Angel. Music. Baby." (written by her and Tony Kanal) and "Mr. Xcitement" from They Might Be Giant's "Mink Car" (and featuring Mike Doughty on vocals.) What I like about it is that neither track is an acapella track, and that both singers (like both music tracks) are overlapping throughout, but it still works -- other than a tempo (but *not* pitch) change to speed up "Crash" and a few measure movements/cuts, no other changes were necessary. Note that release of the TMBG/Doughty track predates the Stefani track, and that I cut off the spoken word intro and painfully long musical ending of the TMBG track (which the Stefani track did not overlap) to save you all download time.
posted to MeFi Music by davejay at 3:45 PM on July 22, 2007 (7 comments)

Written last year for the sole purpose of having an easy, super-poppy song to learn to play the crappy used drum kit I had just bought in Kensington Market. This song wanted to go in a Beatle-y direction, but sadly I think it came out sounding more like The Oneders. It is what it is.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 2:16 PM on July 7, 2006 (22 comments)

A song by my band, the Notes and Scratches, kind of about Vivian Eliot and featuring a bunch of water. I sing and play the acoustic and the harmonium.
posted to MeFi Music by verysleeping at 6:53 PM on July 5, 2007 (14 comments)

Some stuff that happened. A mild case of OCD. A neighbourhood mom played the violin.
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 9:33 PM on July 10, 2006 (57 comments)

"REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony" debuts tomorrow night in New York. South African composer Philip Miller listened to hundreds of hours of audio cassettes from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings - the testimonies of torture victims, as well as their torturers who were given pardon in exchange for their testimony - and composed music around the samples he selected. It premiered in Capetown in late 2006; utterly haunting excerpts available here and here.
posted to MetaFilter by jbickers at 5:26 PM on July 5, 2007 (7 comments)

Here is Uncle John Scruggs singing and playing Little Log Cabin Round the Lane in RealAudio Dial Up and DSL format. The dancing is great and I do like the walk-on kitten part, myself.

That's from the Center For Southern African-American Music Video Link Page. Their audio link page is a wonder, too with individual artists galore. But, for the real deal, check out the Various Artist compilation album pages. Those may be 20 second of so mp3 clips but, still, those Yazoo, Document and Folkways albums are the bomb and there you get a taste of what they offer. And anywhere you can hear, for example, even a few bars of Blind Alfred Reed's How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live ? or Estil C. Ball and Lacey Richardson's Trials, Troubles, Tribulations rules in my world.
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl at 2:13 PM on June 29, 2007 (9 comments)

In 1965, Peter Watkins produced a fictional documentary called The War Game in which the aftermath of thermo-nuclear attacks in Britain was depicted. The BBC declared that it was "too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting" and was not aired until 1985. Watch it here (warning: graphic depictions of effects of radiation). Related, When the Wind Blows (parts 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), a sober animated tale of a British couple who try and survive nuclear holocaust based on the civil defense manual "Protect and Survive." (Previously).
posted to MetaFilter by champthom at 10:32 PM on June 14, 2007 (74 comments)

Say What Again [audio NSFW] Pulp Fiction dialogue done with motion typography. [via]
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 8:24 AM on February 23, 2007 (26 comments)

Din Da Da
posted to MetaFilter by pwedza at 1:22 AM on January 28, 2007 (62 comments)

The New York Times on Being Black and Indie You're an African American, but you prefer Bloc Party to 50 Cent. Fear not, young "blipster," you're no longer the only black guy at the indie rock show! [via]
posted to MetaFilter by dhammond at 6:44 PM on January 28, 2007 (73 comments)

Acoustic cover of Wilco's Jesus Etc.
posted to MeFi Music by kdern at 1:11 PM on October 15, 2006 (1 comment)

I made this in 2003 or 2004, when minimal house music was getting big. It's not minimal house music, per se, since the beat is too twerky. However, it does steal from the genre.
posted to MeFi Music by subtle-t at 5:43 PM on December 1, 2006 (2 comments)

Written and recorded for SongFight! [MeFi FPP] in March of 2005, with my wife contributing vocals. SongFight! is still around, and though I've done a few other songs, this is the one people seem to like so I thought I'd share it. If you like early 80s TV show theme songs, or musical theater, this will probably appeal to you. If not...well, consider yourself warned.
posted to MeFi Music by davejay at 10:10 AM on December 12, 2006 (4 comments)

The End of Ingenuity (NYT OpEd by Thomas Homer-Dixon)"..cheap energy is tightening, and humankind’s enormous output of greenhouse gases is disrupting the earth’s climate. Together, these two constraints could eventually hobble global economic growth and cap the size of the global economy." See also The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization. (2006).
posted to MetaFilter by stbalbach at 5:01 AM on November 30, 2006 (61 comments)

GQ interviews Al Gore. "I have a battery-powered hubris alarm on my belt. And it's set on vibrate, and it's going crazy."
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 7:24 AM on November 30, 2006 (153 comments)

Withnail & I on the YouTube:

Drinking the Lighter Fluid
In the tearoom
Withnail and Danny argue about drugs
Withnail and the Telephone Box
Monty and I
Withnail's monologue in the rain

Withnail & I - A review, Sanjek on Withnail and I
Concerning film maker Bruce Robinson
Withnail & I - The Screenplay
Withnail & I  locations, Withnail and I  quotes and picturesand...
Kids, don't try this at home!--Regarding the Withnail & I drinking game
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl at 11:58 AM on November 24, 2006 (49 comments)

Today's Election Day in the United States. Political Wire provides a list of all poll closing times.(The first closings will be at 6:00 PM EST) CNN and Fox News both have up their websites where you can start tracking all state and localized races as results come in. Exit polls are being conducted, but have been quarantined until polls close. And if you want to put any money on this, you're short on time. Good luck following the winners both in your state and on MetaFilter.
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 12:44 PM on November 7, 2006 (969 comments)

Wrote this few months before the Iraq invasion, as it became obvious what was about to happen. America's favorite restaurant.
posted to MeFi Music by bendybendy at 10:49 AM on July 7, 2006 (5 comments)

A calm and smooth falsetto song with lyrics lifted from an emergency first aid poster (with some additions turning it into a love song). Features guitar, bass, piano, and electronica-style rhythmic vocal snippets.
posted to MeFi Music by edlundart at 2:11 PM on September 25, 2006 (11 comments)

Music from Morrisania: Dr. Mark Naison, urban historian at Fordham University and principal investigator of the Bronx African-American history project, leads a musical tour of one South Bronx neighborhood from the 1950s to the present, describing how hot summers, open windows and a fertile mixing of ethnic groups influenced landmarks in American musical history -- from Tito Puente to "Watermelon Man" to KRS-One.
posted to MetaFilter by Miko at 8:04 AM on May 18, 2006 (8 comments)