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