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In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead “3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects.” And the video was made entirely with visualizations of that data. You can watch the video below and find out more about the making of the video [...]
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Tinysong.com offers a service that’s rather impressive. You go to their homepage, search for a song, and then you can listen to it online and share it with a friend (via a specially created url). Just how it all works (copyright included), and just how deep the collection actually goes, I am not totally sure. [...]
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The Roller Coaster…
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YouTube is highlighting today a video that features a young girl playing Mozart around the world. Hence, the video’s title “Where in Heaven is Mozart?” Now, the idea is nice. But why is Pachelbel’s Canon the soundtrack for the clip? Is Eine kleine Nachtmusik no longer recognizable enough? Kind of suggests that we’ve officially achieved [...]
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Pioneering guitarist Bo Diddley passed away yesterday at 79. You can find a nice video tribute here. Among them, you’ll find this good old chestnut:
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File this under “Random” …
Contribute to The Power of Dreams Music Education Fund at www.detroitsymphony.com and click on Education or go here.
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The always handy Lifehacker has pulled together resources that will teach you to play guitar, drums and piano. Some of these lessons are taught via video, others with podcasts. And if you’re looking to teach yourself music theory, then head over to Musictheory.net. They’ve got you covered.
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FirstSounds.org has gathered some of the earliest sound recordings. This clip, dating back to 1860, features someone singing the French folksong “Au Clair de la Lune” on April 9, 1860, and it “is the earliest audibly recognizable record of the human voice yet recovered.”
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Jazz fans, here you go. A list of the most essential jazz albums compiled by David Remnick (editor of The New Yorker) and Richard Brody.
And, for the fun of it, I’m throwing in a video of David Brubeck playing the classic “Take Five” circa 1961. (Also find it on our YouTube playlist.)
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Surviving members of the Grateful Dead announced Thursday that they will be donating their archives to UC Santa Cruz. This podcast (Feed - Web Site), featuring Bob Weir and Mickey Hart (among others), gives you insight into the thinking behind this move…
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A nice little find for Dead Heads: The Internet Archive hosts a large collection of the Grateful Dead’s live music. Some concerts (usually recorded by members of the audience) can be downloaded. Other audio (usually taken from the soundboard) can be streamed. You can access the overall collection here.
A few items worth sampling include: Live [...]
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Below we have an outtake from one of the earliest rock mockumentaries, which paved the way for the venerable This is Spinal Tap. Co-produced by Eric Idle (Monty Python) and Lorne Michaels (Saturday Night Live), “All You Need is Cash” traced the career of “The Rutles,” whose resemblance to The Beatles was “purely – and [...]
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With the recent 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, there has been no shortage of podcasts dedicated to Mozart’s masterpieces. First, Radio Sweden (iTunes - Feed - Web Site) reissued a digital archive of Mozart recordings by the Royal Swedish Opera from the 1940s and 1950s. And, along very similar lines, Danmarks Radio (Feed - Web [...]
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Sir Paul talks about his classical album “Ecce Cor Meum” (Behold My Heart). It was performed live at Royal Albert Hall, and it’s now being released on DVD.
via The New Yorker’s Goings On blog
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It’s right up there with the Ukulele Orchestra performing ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit.’ Both are added to our YouTube Playlist, which now has 130 subscribers, which is not bad for a fledgling collection.
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Is this blogworthy? Amusing? You be the judge:
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“Across the Universe” was written by John Lennon in 1969. On Monday, NASA will beam “Across the Universe” literally across the universe, straight to Polaris, the North Star. According to Wired Magazine, the song traveling at the speed of light will take 431 years to reach its final destination, which is a mere 2.5 quadrillion [...]
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This looks like it’s the real deal — Yoko Ono’s tribute to John Lennon on YouTube. Among the video clips housed in the collection, you’ll find footage that recaptures the “bed-ins” that John and Yoko famously staged in Montreal and Amsterdam in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War. As Lennon puts it, there’s no better [...]
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Astoundingly good footage of Hendrix playing Voodoo Chile live. The date is 1969, in London. (Video is added to our YouTube Playlist.)
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This creative bit has been making the rounds in the world of web 2.0. If it holds appeal, you can also check out the George Bush version of U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday and Tony Blair doing the Clash’s Should I Stay or Should I Go?. All videos have been added to our YouTube Playlist. [...]
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In August 1971, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar staged two benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden in NYC to raise money for refugees in Bangladesh. (More on the concert here.) Also appearing on stage were Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr. Below, we’ve posted some footage from the show, and also included it in [...]
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Last night in London, Led Zeppelin played its first full show together since 1980 (though they did play a short set at Live Aid in 1985, which I was fortunate enough to see). Here’s the first video clip to make its way onto YouTube.
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I just picked up a copy of the new Robert Plant & Alison Krauss album (CD - MP3), and I’m frankly hooked. As Amazon put it, only “King Kong and Bambi could be a more bizarre pairing,” but the results are brilliant. More on the new collaboration below.
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First there was the folk Bob Dylan. Then came the electric Bob Dylan. And it all happened one night at the Newport Folk Festival. The date was July 25, 1965.
In the clip below, you can see how the transition was received. In a word, not well. Appearing in front of a folk audience that lamented [...]
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What’s Thanksgiving without Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant?”
The video is below. The lyrics to the song, originally released in 1967, are here. An interview with Guthrie is here (use Real Player to listen).
Have a good holiday. We’ll be back on Monday (maybe sooner).
Arlo Guthrie Alice's Restaurant
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Today, U2 is releasing a remastered version of the album that turned a popular band into a super band. Commemorating its 20th anniversary (how can it be that old already?), the Joshua Tree is being re-issued in four versions — 1) a remastered single CD, 2) a 2-CD set that features the remastered album [...]
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With last year being the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, there was no shortage of podcasts dedicated to Mozart’s masterpieces. First, Radio Sweden (iTunes - Feed - Web Site) reissued a digital archive of Mozart recordings by the Royal Swedish Opera from the 1940s and 1950s. And, along very similar lines, Danmarks Radio (Feed - [...]
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It’s the number one song on Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. But could a magazine with its name say otherwise?
As a quick PS, check out the new Bob Dylan Podcast (iTunes - Web Site). Hosted by Patti Smith, this podcast looks at Dylan’s friends and early influences, and [...]
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In mid-October, Radiohead released its latest album, In Rainbows, and began a fairly novel experiment. They cut the record labels out of the equation and let fans download the album directly from the Radiohead web site, for whatever price they saw fit. A few weeks later, some financial figures are coming out, giving us a [...]
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Head over to Wired and you’ll find a “How-To Wiki” that lists web sites where you can stream or download music online for free. As you’ll see, Wired is not shy about admitting what it’s trying to accomplish here. The wiki page is called “Cheat the Music Industry: Never Pay for Music.”
To access more online [...]
