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85 posts

  1. Favorite albums of 2012
  2. Fun fact: I have a podcast
  3. My homeboy Steve Reich won a Pulitzer
  4. The 14-Second Work Year
  5. DCPD Bangerz, Vol. 1
  6. Good news: back in October I wrote up my notes from Umberto Eco's lecture…
  7. Tonight I was thinking I'd love to hear hip hop that samples bluegrass music
  8. Carp Leaping Up a Cascade by Katsushika Hokusai
  9. I recommend Wieland Samolak's 1993 album, Steady State Music
  10. RjDj uses your iPhone and the environment you're in to make soundscapes, etc
  11. Weekly muxtape, heartbeat edition
  12. Weekly muxtape, unusual edition
  13. Weekly muxtape, daybreak edition
  14. Weekly muxtape, inclement weather edition
  15. Simply Noise generates white noise and pink noise
  16. Weekly muxtape, never edition
  17. András Schiff’s Lectures on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
  18. Weekly muxtape, citrus edition
  19. Weekly muxtape, dream edition
  20. Radiohead Not for Profit gathers live recordings, concert bootlegs, etc
  21. An audio slideshow about competing in the Barkley Marathon
  22. David Rakoff, who swore off TV in college
  23. Audio and video from the New York Public Library is now on iTunes
  24. You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living
  25. Koyaanisqatsi
  26. Tony Danza Reads “The Barber’s Unhappiness”
  27. The Catcher in the Rye
  28. NPR story on the names on paper bags
  29. The letters of Flannery O'Connor and Betty Hester
  30. BBC has a set of recordings of Ansel Adams talking about his work
  31. recordings from the 2007 Singularity Summit
  32. William Carlos Williams
  33. I would very much like to own a Monome 256
  34. This American Life: “Blame It on Art”
  35. A photo collection of handmade, miniaturized synthesizers from yesteryear
  36. The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop
  37. Recordings from the World Livestock Auctioneer Championships
  38. Mises University is happening this week at the Ludwig von Mises Institute
  39. Whitney Music Box
  40. Wow, 101 versions of Stairway to Heaven
  41. Here's the not-horrible music video for Midlake's song Roscoe
  42. points to the audio and video
  43. interesting, melodramatic essay
  44. The latest album from Feist is due out on May 1---which is far too long to wait
  45. On NPR, Terry Gross interviews cartoonist couple Robert and Aline Crumb
  46. animated interpretation of John Coltrane's tune, Giant Steps
  47. I wish I knew about the Hype Machine 10 years ago
  48. Lasse Gjertsen’s Music Videos in the Wall Street Journal
  49. The BBC has a four-part podcast series on our increasingly noisy world
  50. Where Audiophiles Go When They Die
  51. YouTube is reviving musical virtuosity
  52. Sally Shapiro Makes Me Want to Dance
  53. Andrew at Songs to Wear Pants to writes songs according to your instructions
  54. The Saints Row videogame for Xbox 360 has some pretty severe bugs
  55. New Yorker on cocaine and rap
  56. Comics legend Stan Lee talks with NPR about superheroes
  57. I just learned about Open Culture yesterday
  58. And then there's this guy, who chose his Top 2006 Songs from 2006
  59. A collection of 191 versions of the Wham!
  60. playing "Autumn Leaves" on 2 guitars at the same time
  61. Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century
  62. Pitchfork selects the worst album covers from 2006
  63. What happens when you put an iPod into a blender?
  64. Alex Ross links to a set of trumpet bloopers
  65. The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (review: 3.5/5)
  66. Why music critics need to (re)read the work of Lester Bangs
  67. ideas to bring young audiences to classical music performances
  68. great piece on Steve Reich in the New Yorker
  69. a fairly 'blah' review of the Zune
  70. A time lapse (music) video of a drive from Los Angeles to New York
  71. Opening Night at the Atlanta Ballet
  72. Here's a comprehensive, though not unbiased, guide to electronic music
  73. Music video for Bjork's tune, Bachelorette
  74. The Rest is Noise reminds us that Steve Reich turned 70 this year
  75. As Slow as Possible
  76. why DRM is a bad, bad thing
  77. Parkour-style urban freerunning
  78. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
  79. One-minute vacations are short sound recordings of various places on the planet
  80. The Mises blog points to another victory in patent warfare
  81. the British Library lets you explore almost 700 English accents and dialects
  82. Anoushka Shankar: Live at Carnegie Hall (review: 3/5)
  83. Lately it has become the "in" font for websites
  84. Atlanta Ballet Orchestra Given the Pink Slip
  85. Music is louder than it used to be