July 2010
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The Earwormery →
Help researchers at the University of London learn more about earworms by taking a short (<10 min) questionnaire.
[via Music Machinery]
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In the beginning of the 90s indie was an... →
A loaded question, but nevertheless some interesting answers by the likes of Kristin Hersh and Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot.
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“I’ve always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and...”
– Herbie Hancock, quoted in 3quarksdaily
[ht: Ethan Hein]
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KLF - The Manual: How To Have a Number One the... →
In parts of this manual we will patronise you. In others we will cheat you. We will lie to you but we will lie to ourselves as well. You will, however, see through our lies and grasp the shining truth within. We will trap ourselves in our own pretensions. Our insights will be shot through with distort rays and we will revel in our own inconsistencies. If parts get too boring just fast...
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The secret origins of Scott Pilgrim:...
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“I-dosing involves donning headphones and listening to “music” — largely a...”
– From Wired’s Threat Level, which provides the requisite snark. NPR does the reality check.
Allow me to recommend my dealer, Anti-Gravity Bunny.
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“No one really writes honest, hateful love songs. The kids never hear it like...”
– Aidan Moffatt, Arab Strap
Visit zed equals zee to download MP3s from their first two CDs, The Week Never Starts Around Here and Philophobia, which are being reissued in August.
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Ask the Indie Professor →
Cultural anthropologist Wendy Fonarow, author of the brilliant Empire of Dirt: The Aesthetics and Ritual of British Indie Music, has debuted a column at Guardian Music where she answers readers’ questions.You know there’s stuff you’re dying to ask, and she promises that you won’t be graded.
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The Name Dropper →
Think you know a lot about music? Put it to the test!
Paul Lamere, of The Echo Nest, wrote this neat game that lets you test how deep and wide-ranging your knowledge of musical artists is by picking out imposter artist names from lists, which become increasingly obscure. Read more about it here.
For the record, my highest rank was 66 at the time of this posting: not quite good enough for the...
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WatchNomadic Sound Systems: Think marching band, but with bass, mid and treble speakers instead of instruments. Instant dynamic site-specific music piece!
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“I do feel pretty confirmed in my view that Bauhaus’ song ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead‘ is...”
– Peter Murphy, quoted in Underwire.
While he certainly has a claim to it, I think someone might want to introduce Murphy to the concept of first-person plural. And also the concept of ‘zeitgeist.’
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“…[T]his “deeper meaning” found in Gaga’s video relates to mind control, a...”
– The Vigilant Citizen (“Symbols Rule the World, Not Words or Laws”) on Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”.
Because really, who doesn’t want a little paranoid conspiracy theory along with their exegeses of Lady Gaga videos?
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Handicapping the mobile music services →
A cheat sheet to current and emerging services that stream music to your phone.
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Because if you're bringing da funk, ya gotta tell...
Just a few funk bands with the word ‘funk’ in their name:
Altered States of Funk
Funk Shui
Lady A & the Baby Blues Funk Band
Papa Grows Funk
The Enumclaw Equestrian Bandits Funk Review
Excerpted from a much longer list.
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Just a big, red REC button →
The REC button on any device is the one most freighted with possibility.
Via Dave Haynes.
“We got a lot of media coverage the ten years I was in Sleater-Kinney. We were...”
– Janet Weiss
SHE’S SO TIGHT.
(via earsopenfortheboat) (via hypem)
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