A Month In Music -
"There are 10,513 MP3s on my hard disk. According to iTunes, that’s nearly 30 days worth of music. It has taken half my life – 15 years – to build this collection but I decided to listen to them all in one go. One continuous concert, playing songs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I wanted to revist all the songs I'd once loved, and the memories and places they called up. The only choice I made was the first track. After that, the computer randomly decided what was going to play. No stopping. No skipping. No changing the volume. Music, all the time, for a whole month. The Month In Music blog charts the progress of the playback project, updated once a day with original writing and photography."
[via
mefi projects]
posted by radioedit
on Nov 25, 2011 -
70 comments
Colin Stetson is an unusually gifted sax player. He's worked or is working with Tom Waits, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, GY!BE, Bon Iver and others. He's opened for Arcade Fire, Tim Hecker, and The National. What's most unusual about Stetson is that he's able to make all the sounds you hear with one horn, utilizing no loops or overdubs.
Stream three tracks and
download one or watch
two videos of him play.
posted by dobbs
on Mar 17, 2011 -
28 comments
Dave of
Low Light Mixes spins together all manner of textural musical goodness into solid, themed sonic experiences. Component parts include but are not limited to ambient, jazz, "jazz", noise, field recordings and one hell of a lot of Brian Eno.
posted by colinmarshall
on Mar 18, 2009 -
2 comments
In the 1980s, songwriter, artist and cultural critic
Momus recorded a number of albums for the legendary indie label Creation Records, combining influences as diverse as Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, Pet Shop Boys-style synthpop and Balearic acid-house. These have largely languished in Sony Music's vaults over the past few years, occasionally fetching hefty prices on eBay. Now, Momus has taken the step to commit auto-piracy and release his Creation albums online, for free; over December, he will post MP3s of all six albums to
his LiveJournal blog, each with freshly written liner notes. The first one, 1987's
The Poison Boyfriend, is
here.
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posted by acb
on Dec 9, 2008 -
15 comments
"Radiodiffusion Internasionaal is devoted to the evolution of popular music from Africa, the Middle East, India and Asia and the proliferation of Western influences on these non-Western cultures. The focus is primarily the music from the mid 60's to the mid 70's."
(Description from the front page of the site.) Slightly differently formatted version of the website
here. Nice set of
links, too
(scroll down to the Words and Pictures section).
posted by cog_nate
on Aug 13, 2008 -
8 comments
Have a crush on someone you only know online? Want to make them a mixtape but you don't have their physical address? Not a problem, thanks to
Muxtape, an online mixtape manager. Just upload up to 12 tracks, and a custom URL is provided.
Via.
posted by jonson
on Mar 25, 2008 -
55 comments
At the Isle of Wight Festival, Dylan was the only monster on the bill capable of attracting a monster of an audience. In refusing to play the Woodstock Festival and in then letting himself be talked into playing the Isle of Wight, Dylan in effect was telling England's counterculture: ''C'mon. Let's hold our own Woodstock.'' And so, on the Isle of Wight, a dot of land that certainly wasn't the easiest place in the world to get to, Dylan almost single-handedly proved an enticing enough attraction to collect an audience sometimes estimated to be as few as a 125,000 and sometimes as many as 250,000.
My Dylan Papers: Part 2 The Isle of WightAnother scrap from the late Al Aronowitz, the self-styled Blacklisted Journalist, and former Dylan courtier, recalling the only full concert Dylan gave solo or with the Band between 1967 and 1973 and sung in his Nashville Skyline voice, to boot, no less. And now you can have it all to yourself....
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posted by y2karl
on Jan 26, 2008 -
10 comments
Tom Smith is your average guy who likes comic books, Harlan Ellison short stories and
Julie Newmar in a Catwoman suit (who
dosen't?). Except the thing is, the guy can sing and write music too.
And he releases a free song every week at his iTom page. Like most artists his music can be hit and miss, but there's some great free music to be found there such as
Contessa and the awesome Jim Henson tribute
A Boy and His Frog. Oh, and he also runs the '
Digital Acoustic' livejournal, where he discusses all manner of things such as comics, politics and of course, music. Sure, he's no
cortex, but he's pretty damn good and well worth a listen.
posted by Effigy2000
on Apr 24, 2007 -
6 comments
17 Dots is a new blog by employees of
emusic. Not much there yet but for MeFites who use the service, this looks like it could prove handy for keeping on top of what's worth checking out.
posted by dobbs
on Feb 22, 2007 -
9 comments
iConcertCal - The most awesomest iTunes plugin ever--tells you when bands you have MP3s for are playing your town.
{via an email from this dude.}
posted by dobbs
on Feb 1, 2007 -
59 comments
OH NO! THERE GOES TOKYO! GO GO
GODZILLA!
(Nearly) every Godzilla soundtrack.
(Thanks to my girlfriend for hipping me to this)
posted by klangklangston
on Oct 10, 2006 -
28 comments
Brian Eno and David Byrne released
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in 1981. It's a great album--and now it's available with a Creative Commons License. "
This is the first time complete and total access to original tracks with remix and sampling possibilities have been officially offered on line."
posted by dobbs
on Mar 30, 2006 -
44 comments
Ukulele Ike. We know his quavering, tentative, high tenor voice from his voice work as
Jiminy Cricket, but Cliff Edwards -- aka Ukulele Ike -- was much more than that. Wikipedia offers a brief
introduction to the man, his life, his works, and his lonely death. But, to my tastes, the best introduction to this once hugely popular singer is
the man's own voice (mp3 links).
posted by Astro Zombie
on Feb 24, 2006 -
5 comments
So, you want some hot mp3's? Well,
this is the place (Russian, but English cookie-set option in top-left). Huge repositories of
legal music, yours to download for only $0.01/Mb! If that's not enough, they'll even serve it up to you in
any format or bitrate you require (MP3, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMV). Add on to that the fact there's no DRM built into the files downloaded, and the option to pay with Paypal is a nice touch too. So, I ask you, MetaFilter, what
is the catch?
posted by metaxa
on Jun 10, 2004 -
41 comments
Chalghi's Online collection of Iraqi music The Best way to understand others cultures is to listen to thier thoughts and baring that, thier music.
For whats it's worth, Not sure if I saw this on Boingboing, Fark,Blort or what, But I can't take credit for finding it only sharing in here..
posted by Elim
on Feb 16, 2004 -
4 comments
Apple's iTunes Music
Store sold over
1 million songs in its first week of operation, almost instantly making it the largest and most successful online music company in the world. Though we've already discussed at great length how it compares to free downloads
here, my question is: how is this going to affect the traditional (legal) distribution channels? With an ever growing library (3,200 songs added today to the 200,000 they started with), incredible convenience ($1, 1 click, and ~1 minute download to get that song you've been dying to hear), and the ease of use we've come to expect from Apple, I think that they're no longer competing with
Kazaa and
Limewire, they're starting to pose a serious threat to
Amazon,
Tower, etc.
posted by rorycberger
on May 6, 2003 -
60 comments
The Valentine's Day EP. A quick pointer to some free-'n-legal mp3s with which to construct a mini-opera of lovin'. Alejandro Escovedo,
Rosalie -- Aching song about distance and longing. Hem,
Valentine's Day -- beautiful cover of the Springsteen tune. (Amazon, reg. req'd.) Soltero,
Communist Love Song -- "If you're ever less than certain, I will be your Iron Curtain." This is a sentimental, downtempo set, but there's plenty out there for a heartbreak EP (or 50) as well. No doubt someone will post it -- and lots more free mp3s -- inside.
posted by blueshammer
on Feb 14, 2003 -
3 comments
Electraum is a great collection of amazing electronic and ambient mp3s(try the
Cerebellum,
Red Lines or
Kunstner for good examples), mostly from unknown artists. The mp3s rotate monthly, and there's a mailing list you can join to remind you when the music changes. You've already missed the previous seven installments, but there's plenty more to go around...
posted by 40 Watt
on Sep 26, 2002 -
4 comments
I’m probably really late to the boat for
Epitonic, but goodness, if you’re looking to sample mp3s, videos, sometimes
entire albums, for indie or otherwise unknown bands this here is it. Genres from punk to folk to various electronica-delectica all the way back out to hip hop, jazz and
contemporary composers. They’re all here:
Styles of Beyond,
Solex,
Blue Six,
Sporto Kantes,
Couch (Alle Auf Pause),
Gonzales, on and on. They must eat bandwidth like Jim Morrison and mescaline caps.
posted by raaka
on Mar 31, 2002 -
11 comments
