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Category Archives: Music

Tim Minchin continues to apply for Saint of Science status

Internet-only art forms

I am a citizen of the planet, my president is Kwan Yin…

via Louv Really, really good and interesting song. Just a little cheesy, but really nails a sense of the re-opening of the future. I’m packing for London. I have a feeling that I’m going to be doing a lot more traveling in the next couple of years than in the last few, so I’m sort [...]

Ach, I’d forgotten how good Primal Scream are

Ride are also sublime. (audio’s quiet on this one) Underworld also do fabulous things. Great stuff indeed. I wonder who fills this niche for folks who’re turning those critical ages today?

amazing little sound toy

Here’s one I made earlier. Hit “unmute” to hear it. http://www.dyspxl.com/gallery/orbs/296-theme-song

Fiona Apple is the female Leonard Cohen

Interesting evening listening to classical music. Cuing up Fiona Apple afterwards was interesting, because I’d gotten kind of sensitized to a different range of instrumentation. Well well well, she’s emotionless. It’s all in the words, not in the voice.

Year Zero

Trent Reznor has, it turns out, not only not lost it, but matured into a really profound voice. YZ is cheesy in places. It cannot be denied that there are a few place where he’s going for an effect that nobody can quite pull off except live. But songs repeat, and repeat, and repeat, and [...]

Remarkably beautiful old pop video (Marc Bolan, T-Rex)

Must be catch up day: DJ Thor at Sirkus, F**K the 90s, last Saturday night (i.e. a week ago)

Tellingly, this is an event I don’t have much in the way of photos or video from. I took like one lame still. And no, you can’t see it. But there is a soundboard recording of the entire thing, which is spectacularly good, and which I’ll hope to be able to share online at some [...]

These guys rock

Honey Trap covering Bodyrokerz “I like the way you move.” Tip from David Bowie, who is blogging about music and telling interesting life stories online.