I really love this song.
‘Fired Up & Ready to Go’ is by Fojeba, a musician born in Cameroon now living in Canada. His song is a Central African makossa. Fojeba uses samples from Obama’s speeches in the music including his signature “Fired Up, Ready to Go” as a refrain.
Via Calabash Music’s blog, which also features [...]
As a thank you to their fans for their continued support, NIN is giving away the new nine inch nails album free at nin.com. The music is available in several formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. Even better, the music is licensed under [...]
I just got the following email from Mike Doughty:
This summer, Mike Doughty makes his Broadway debut with Ruby Vroom: The Musical, a stage adaptation of the first Soul Coughing album, with book by Tim Rice and choreography by Twyla Tharp.
Ruby Vroom: The Musical tells the story of Ruby (Scarlett Johansson), a transgendered youth growing up [...]
Muxtape is a new web service that lets you easily create your own mix tape online. Thanks to Laughing Squid for bringing it to my attention.
I created my Muxtape at http://mike3k.muxtape.com/.
I’ve been listening to Vampire Weekend for a few weeks and I’m still enjoying it. While I had iTunes on shuffle today, “Mansard Roof” came up followed by “Super K” by Loketo. I noticed that the beat in Mansard Roof is almost the same.
Nine Inch Nails has joined the growing list of artists who are distributing their music by alternate methods, without the benefit of a label or distributor.
Trent Reznor explains:
“I’ve been considering and wanting to make this kind of record for years, but by its very nature it wouldn’t have made sense until this point. This collection [...]
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Arcade Fire played at an Obama rally in Nelsonville, OH. My favorite band promoting my favorite candidate.
A previously unheard live bootleg recording is available for download here (via Metafilter).
I had forgotten about Radio David Byrne since I rarely listen to streams until I saw a link to it today at Cool Tools. It’s available in iTunes Radio under Eclectic. David plays some really wonderful, obscure music. The playlist changes every month. This month it’s African Pop. Right now he’s playing Thomas Mapfumo, following [...]
Ashley Maher sent me this article about Magatte Sow, a Senegalese American drummer. Although he grew up in Los Angeles, he plays traditional drums like the Tama (talking drum) and Sabar. Check out the videos - he’s really great!
When I went to the iTunes Store today to download the free single of the week, I decided to check the “just for you” selections. One of the albums it suggested several times was Vampire Weekend. I listened to one song and bought the album immediately. This may replace Neon Bible as my favorite album.
Like [...]
Catching up on some older stuff, I came across this item at Metafilter with a collection of cover songs by Of Montreal. One that really caught my ear is this cover of “Jimmy” by M.I.A., which is based on a Bollywood song.
I haven’t updated the WorldBeatPlanet podcast in ages, since I’m careful to avoid copyright issues with the music I post there. Since there’s a lot of interest in Madagascar in the Mac developer community, I decided to post a very beautiful song from Madagascar, “Koba”, by Tarika.
Today I was reminded how much I miss Joe Strummer and The Clash. First, someone linked to this video. Tonight in the gym, “Bhindi Bhagee” came up in my shuffle playlist.
The Clash was so much more than a punk band. They blended genres from rock through Ska, Reggae, and World Music.
Sony will be selling DRM-free tracks through Amazon. Hopefully this means they’ll drop that stupid trading card scheme.
Now that Amazon will sell DRM-free tracks from all major labels, that leaves iTunes as the only significant store still selling DRM-crippled music. I’ve bought a lot less music in iTunes over the last year for that reason. [...]
Sony BMG can’t possibly be serious about wanting to sell DRM-free albums. The only explanation for their hare-brained scheme is that they want to be able to say that they’re dropping DRM without actually doing it.
To download one of their DRM-free albums (no individual tracks are avaialble), you need to go to a store, buy [...]
Reason.com: BBC Radio 1’s decision to remove the word “faggot” from the classic Christmas song Fairytale of New York angered their listeners until they finally reversed their decision.
It may have been done with the most progressive of intentions, but BBC Radio 1’s decision to censor a lyric from Kirsty MacColl and Shane McGowan’s Christmas standard [...]
Via Slashdot:
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “In an Arizona case against a defendant who has no legal representation, Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA is now arguing — contrary to its lawyers’ statements to the United States Supreme Court in 2005 MGM v. Grokster — that the defendant’s ripping of personal MP3 copies onto his computer is a [...]
With the Grammy nominations announced today, I decided to post my list of the top albums for the year, which is quite different.
Neon Bible, Arcade Fire I’m completely hooked on this album. The songs stick in your head with irresistible hooks. They make great use of unusual instruments like a hurdy-gurdy and church organ.
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On November 28, 2007, the Oakland Park City Commission unanimously voted to name the city’s new downtown park after Jaco Pastorius, The World’s Greatest Bass Player. Jaco’s hometown celebrates its most famous artist with a tremendous honor: a living memorial with a focus on the arts. The 2 1/2 year grassroots effort has come to [...]
