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Sneak Peek: Start Your Own Radio Station — Veilamp

https://veilamp.com/blog/sneak-peek-start-your-own-radio-station
Here’s the part that makes it Veilamp: there’s no central media server. Your audio streams peer-to-peer over the Veilid network, end-to-end encrypted, straight from you to your listeners. We’re not in the middle. There’s no company relay logging who tuned in, no account, no cloud bill. It’s the same private, friends-first networking that powers sharing your library — we just taught it to carry a live program.
#audio #music #nifty #p2p #veilamp
archive.org #38813

stemdeckapp/stemdeck: Stemdeck is an modern stem extraction platform for musicians,producers and hobbyists, designed to isolate vocals, drums, bass, piano and guitar for practice, transcription, remixing, and creative audio workflows through a modern and interactive interface

https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck
Stemdeck is an modern stem extraction platform for musicians,producers and hobbyists, designed to isolate vocals, drums, bass, piano and guitar for practice, transcription, remixing, and creative audio workflows through a modern and interactive interface
#daw #music #software
archive.org #38724

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy: WhatCD, Oink, and Spotify | Pigeons and Planes

https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming?ref=sidebar
At its core, What.CD was much more than a torrent tracker—it was a community of dedicated music fans volunteering their time, effort, and knowledge to create a labor of love. While the internet has opened up new doors for musicians, the increasing corporatization and algorithmic takeover of online spaces has done irreparable damage to organic music discovery and independent communities. Rather than bringing about the financial stability that was supposedly impeded by piracy, the recording industry has offered meager artist payouts and a product with a sterilized user interface. Nearly ten years since their unexpected goodbye, the magical feeling of logging in to What.CD has yet to be replicated by any streaming service. Though my days of stealing music are well in the past, it’s clear that musicians are still being stolen from.
#bittorrent #music #piracy #streaming
archive.org #38667

Endless • Polyend

https://polyend.com/endless/
Playground builds on a large library of DSP algorithms our team has developed over many years. The AI layer interprets your prompt, then combines or adapts these building blocks to produce new effects. Under the hood, multiple specialised agents handle different steps for parsing your request, selecting the right algorithms, generating code, and running automated tests during and after creation. We also designed the infrastructure to stay flexible about AI providers, so we can evaluate different models over time and choose the best balance of quality, reliability, and cost as the technology evolves.
#ai #music #pedals #synthesizers
archive.org #38405

Rush is a Band Blog: Rush fan uncovers rare, early Presto rough cut demo cassette tape

https://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2026/02/21/6434/Rush-fan-uncovers-rare-early-Presto-rough-cut-demo-cassette-tape
Rush fan Mike Z recently acquired an old rough cut demo tape of Rush's Presto that had been discovered amongst the belongings of a former Alex Lifeson guitar tech who passed away (likely Jimmy Johnson). The old TDK cassette tape was labeled RUSH Rough mixes, and included the Le Studio logo and address/phone. With the help of fellow Rush fan Danny de Hoyos, the pair digitized the cassette and made it available on YouTube
#music #presto #rock #rush
archive.org #38332

Warframe Mandascore

https://buff0000n.github.io/mandascore/
This is an app for viewing and editing Mandachord songs. The main motivation was to provide a way to be able to copy my songs into the game without having to pause a video. But while I was at it I went ahead and made it a full blown editor.
#gaming #mandascore #music #tools #warframe
archive.org #38163

Backing up Spotify - Anna’s Blog

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity. This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs. It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
#archives #data #metadata #music
archive.org #38139

Ribbons - Kinotone

https://kinotoneaudio.com/products/ribbons/
Customize a massive range of sounds from pristine hi-fi clarity to haunting lo-fi textures — all in stereo. You can emulate magnetic tape, vinyl, an old radio, or a vintage telephone. Even skipping CDs, and spectral mishaps of MP3s and early digital media.
#audio #hardware #music #retro
archive.org #38048

LouDnl/USBSID-Pico: USBSID-Pico is a RPi Pico (RP2040/W RP2350/W) based board for interfacing one or two MOS SID chips and/or hardware SID emulators over (WEB)USB with your computer, phone, ASID supporting player or USB midi controller

https://github.com/LouDnl/USBSID-Pico
USBSID-Pico is a RaspberryPi Pico/PicoW (RP2040) & Pico2/Pico2W (RP2350) based board for interfacing one or two MOS SID chips and/or hardware SID emulators over (WEB)USB with your computer, phone, ASID supporting player or USB midi controller.
#audio #commodore #hardware #music #retro #sid
archive.org #38030

Ladytron Submerge into Icy Cathode-Ray Bathed Depths With Video for “Kingdom Undersea” — New Album "Paradises" Announced — Post-Punk.com

https://post-punk.com/ladytron-submerge-into-an-icy-cathode-ray-glow-in-video-for-kingdom-undersea-new-album-paradises-announced/
The video was shot inside an analogue contraption originally built for those acid-house provocateurs, The KLF. You see Marnie, Hunt, Mira Aroyo, percussionist Peter Kelly, and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Hunt framed inside a maze of glitches, static bursts, overlays, and televisions emitting distorted colour: five figures playing in a room that looks like the future the 1980s hallucinated after too many strobe blasts.
#ladytron #music #postpunk
archive.org #38023

German Synthpop Act T.O.Y. Returns with Romantic New Single "Night & Day" — New Album "The Prophet" Announced! — Post-Punk.com

https://post-punk.com/german-synthpop-act-t-o-y-returns-with-romantic-new-single-night-day-new-album-the-prophet-announced/
It is wickedly romantic, trying to freeze time before the light breaks through. T.O.Y.’s Night & Day, from his upcoming album The Prophet, feels like a love letter written on the edge of dawn, when sleep still clings to your skin and reality hasn’t yet come knocking. The synths rise like fog over an empty street; the drums, clipped and clean, pulse with the same electricity that once ran through a smoky Berlin nightclub. It’s both ghost and groove, caught in the tension between staying lost and being found.
#music #synthpop
archive.org #37932

Gary Numan Unearths Lost Telekon-Era Track “Like a B-Film” for Album's 45th Anniversary Edition — Post-Punk.com

https://post-punk.com/gary-numan-unearths-lost-telekon-era-track-like-a-b-film-for-albums-45th-anniversary-edition/
Numan’s instinct to move forward remains intact. This year, Beggars Banquet opens his archives once more for Telekon’s 45th anniversary: an expanded reissue featuring four previously unreleased recordings, including Like A B-Film, an unearthed relic from the original sessions. Early versions of Please Push No More, Aircrash Bureau, and I’m An Agent reveal a restless mind still at work, testing limits even within success.
#garynuman #music #telekon
archive.org #37879

Our Tanks, Your Lawn! | The False Dawns

https://thefalsedawns.bandcamp.com/album/our-tanks-your-lawn
The False Dawns is the latest solo recording of Huw Darling (The Spanish Amanda and The Chickpea Darlings) and cements his reputation of being jangly indie-pop's 'Bard of the socio-politico polemic'. 1. Uh! 2. The Robot Girl Psychiatrist 3. Rest Easy 4. The King Of Bagel Mountain 5. Talk Of Our Love 6. Letchworth (International Capital Of Love) 7. Yorkshire Is Blind 8. Fuck The Tories 9. Back Into Drugs 10. Letchworth (Ville Érotique) 11. Abba & Novocaine 12. Shut The Fuck Up! 13. Send In The Love Marines The 15-track "Our Tanks, Your Lawns" album, (including two tracks only available on CD) by The False Dawns is out now !!! The False Dawns is the latest solo recording of Huw Darling (The Spanish Amanda and The Chickpea Darlings) and cements his reputation of being jangly indie-pop's 'Bard of the socio-politico polemic'. For fans of the jangly melancholy of subjangle labelmates PoPo and The Melancholic Men with huge nods to the indie-cult reference points of The Television Personalities, "Our Tanks, Your Lawns" will nestle perfectly in the coolest recesses of your indie-pop collection. Darrin Lee (Janglepophub Editor / Subjangle founder)
#dreampop #music #postpunk
archive.org #37845

Live Coding Techno With Strudel | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/16/live-coding-techno-with-strudel/
The super talented [Switch Angel] is an electronic music artist, with a few cool YouTube videos to show off their absolute nailing of how to live code with Strudel. For us mere mortals, Strudel is a JavaScript port of TidalCycles, which is an algorithmic music generator which supports live coding, i.e. the music that is passed down to the synthesizer changes on-the-fly as you manipulate the code. It’s magical to watch (and listen!) to how you can adapt and distort the music to your whims just by tweaking a few lines of code: no compilation steps, hardly any debugging and instant results.
#demoscene #music #strudel
archive.org #37829

Live coding – an interview with Lizzie Wilson (Digital Selves) - Music Hackspace

https://musichackspace.org/live-coding-an-interview-with-lizzie-wilson-digital-selves/
The live coding scene has been growing over the years. Despite this, for many the idea of watching someone create music in code might not have an immediate appeal, though live coders are now playing at top night clubs, experimental music venues, and festivals. As the world becomes more code literate it is likely to become more popular.
#demoscene #livecoding #music
archive.org #37729

Lizzie Wilson Research Page

https://lwlsn.github.io/research.html
My thesis explores the integration of autonomous agents into live coding systems to co-create music with human performers based on affective response, aiming to enhance musical expression and collaboration between humans and machines. By developing prototypes and conducting experiments, the studies conducted demonstrate that autonomous agents can facilitate the emergence of new musical ideas and patterns. The research outlines the creation of an Affective Live Coding Autonomous Agent (ALCAA) and a Markovian Agent for code generation (that leverages Haskell's strictly typed system) named Tidal Fuzz, which together form a hybrid system combining affective and computational models for generating expressive music through code manipulation. The thesis also proposes modifications the Consensual Assessment Technique for live coders, as a means of evaluating the creative outcomes of this collaborative process, acknowledging the subjective nature of creativity and ensuring nuanced evaluation.
#ai #cyborgs #livecoding #music
archive.org #37728

Faircamp

https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/
Point Faircamp to a folder hierarchy containing your audio files. Within minutes, Faircamp builds a complete website presenting your work. The resulting site requires no database, no programming, no maintenance, and is compatible with virtually every webhost on this planet.
#bandcamp #faircamp #music #webdev
archive.org #33270

Dancing In The Datacenter

https://youtubesequencer.com/about
Have you ever hit the number keys while watching Youtube? That simple action jumps the video to different timestamps - and creative musicians have discovered you can use this like a primitive sampler. This observation sparked an idea. As someone who loves experimenting with drum machines like the Arturia Drumbrute, I wanted to take this Youtube "feature" and transform it into something musical. I built Youtube Sequencer using TypeScript and Redux to create a robust, reliable music-making tool that doesn't miss a beat. The result is a sequencer that turns any Youtube video into an instrument. Traditional sampling can be time-consuming, requiring you to download, trim, and import audio files. Youtube Sequencer removes these barriers - just paste a URL and start creating.
#diy #music #youtube
archive.org #29649

MilkyTracker | About

https://milkytracker.org/about/
MilkyTracker is an open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility.
#mods #music #retro #trackers
archive.org #29681

The Math Behind The Music Of The 80s | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2024/12/11/the-math-behind-the-music-of-the-80s/
Part of the reason the DX7 was so revolutionary was that it was among the first accessible synthesizers that was fully digital, meaning could play more than one note at a time since expensive analog circuitry didn’t need to be replicated for multiple keys. But it also generated its tones by using frequency modulation of sine waves in a way that allowed many signals to be combined to form different sounds. While most popular musicians of the 80s used one of the preset sounds of the synthesizer, it could produce an incredible range of diverse sounds if the musician was willing to dig a bit into the programming of this unique instrument.
#music #synthesizers #yamaha
archive.org #29754

Trackers, video games, soldering irons and bitter rivalries: 5 reasons why the '80s was the ultimate decade for computer music-making | MusicRadar

https://www.musicradar.com/news/5-reasons-the-1980s-was-the-ultimate-decade-for-computer-music-making
When it comes to music production, the '80s will probably be remembered for great synths, rubbish synths, great music and terrible music. What it probably won’t be remembered for is its contribution to the history of computer music making. This is, frankly, wrong. Here's why…
#music #retro #trackers
archive.org #29795

“It’s rumoured to have been used by everyone from Björk to Aphex Twin”: The history of making music with video games consoles | MusicRadar

https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/its-rumoured-to-have-been-used-by-everyone-from-bjork-to-aphex-twin-the-history-of-making-music-with-video-games-consoles
For many of us, video games were a potent point of introduction to the world of music production. We take a look back at the games and consoles that have inspired music-makers over the years
#music #retro #techno #trackers
archive.org #29796

frntc/SIDKick: SIDKick -- the first complete SID 6581/8580-drop-in-replacement that you can build yourself

https://github.com/frntc/SIDKick
SIDKick is a versatile sound device for C64s and C128s: it serves as a drop-in replacement for the SID 6581/8580 sound chips, and at the same time provides Sound Expander-emulation (Yamaha OPL-based FM sound), a MIDI interface and can control LED stripes. It is based on a Teensy 4.1 and makes no compromises with regard to quality: the emulation is based on reSID and fmOPL. It also comes with a few extras.
#c64 #commodore #diy #hardware #music #retro #sid
archive.org #29887

The Cure: Songs of a Lost World, review: the best thing since their debut

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-review/
Surprisingly, this is not a depressing listening experience. There is something so cathartically bleak about Songs of a Lost World, so epically pessimistic and emotionally wrought, that the results are perversely invigorating, transmuting powerful feelings of loss, grief, anxiety, anger and self-doubt into a work of such grandeur it leaves the listener strangely exhilarated and uplifted. Like shaking a fist at an approaching hurricane, it is an album that’s very existence evokes defiance of terrible forces of destruction. In embracing darkness, Smith offers a potent Cure for the blues.
#music #postpunk #thecure
archive.org #29912

TR/ST Takes the Stage Once More in His Spellbinding Video for "Performance" — Post-Punk.com

https://post-punk.com/tr-st-takes-the-stage-once-more-in-his-spellbinding-video-for-performance/
This single, a tantalizing glimpse of his upcoming album Performance set for release on September 13 via Dais Records, unfolds like a vivid dream—where raw emotion meets a shimmering synth backdrop. Alfons pulls us into his world, where each beat and breath is charged with profound sincerity, inviting listeners to linger in the bittersweet space between melancholy and euphoria.
#goth #music #postpunk #tr/st
archive.org #30456

Pogo - Living Island - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?index=85&list=PLsD1tGMPZTNPqhUVe02CBptu9xbNTPsUl&t=0s&v=3HWG3h-IARU
Finally found the song that's been stuck in my head all day. Lots of cosplayers on Tiktok use this when they're doing poses. (Also part of a playlist of other songs from Tiktok.)
#cosplay #music #tiktok
archive.org #28140

my year of mixtapes: Week 42: The Year In Rave—1992 (Part 1)

http://yearofmixtapes.blogspot.com/2010/03/week-42-year-in-rave1992-part-1.html
Ok, so 1992 was pretty much the best year ever for music. The Rave scene was blowing up, and every week it seemed like dozens of amazing records were coming out—way more than little 10-year-old me could buy. This was the year that the UK really took the reins from Belgium & the States w/r/t dance music, and when the idea of "rave music" as a distinct thing from house/techno started to emerge.
#audio #imported:pinboard #mixtapes #music #rave
archive.org #24936

Moog Sound Lab | Phantogram | Moog Music Inc

http://www.moogmusic.com/sight-and-sound/sound_lab/phantogram
Vocalist/keyboardist Sarah Barthel sings hauntingly through an MF-104Z Analog Delay while playing not one, but two Moog synthesizers. Her left hand is in charge of the Minimoog Voyager Select Series providing big fat bass lines; the Little Phatty Stage II is arpeggiating in latch mode throughout the entire song. It is also being MIDI synced with the drum machine that percussionist Tim Oakley is performing on. In addition to the drum machine, Tim uses the Minimoog Voyager XL for a percussive sound. Meanwhile, guitarist/vocalist Josh Carter covers both the full sustain and the mute modes of the Moog Guitar. Going through an MF-104Z Analog Delay and the MF-102 Ring Modulator, Josh creates an ethereal backdrop with the tremolo arm of the Moog Guitar..
#imported:pinboard #moog #music #phantogram
archive.org #24925

Our Lady Peace: Curve | PopMatters

http://www.popmatters.com/review/157172-our-lady-peace-curve/
And then Mike Turner left. And no matter how many times the band’s members insist his departure didn’t matter all that much, the group’s legacy has subsequently been divided into The Years With Mike Turner and The Years Without Mike Turner. To this day, it’s hard to put a finger on what exactly it is that changed. Gravity, the 2002 album that brought Our Lady Peace its most mainstream success to date behind the infectious “Somewhere Out There”, was guitarist Steve Mazur’s first go-around with the band, and combined with Bob Rock’s production tricks, the effort showcased a decidedly harder sound with a more polished edge. So, you can point to that when trying to figure out where the change came from, if you’d like. But after the disappointing and rushed (their words, not mine) Healthy in Paranoid Times, they erased Rock from the equation and yet Burn Burn, Our Lady Peace’s first DIY-fueled album, still didn’t quite measure up to those first four records.
#imported:pinboard #music #ourladypeace
archive.org #32156

Our Lady Peace: Curve | PopMatters

http://www.popmatters.com/review/157172-our-lady-peace-curve
And then Mike Turner left. And no matter how many times the band’s members insist his departure didn’t matter all that much, the group’s legacy has subsequently been divided into The Years With Mike Turner and The Years Without Mike Turner. To this day, it’s hard to put a finger on what exactly it is that changed. Gravity, the 2002 album that brought Our Lady Peace its most mainstream success to date behind the infectious “Somewhere Out There”, was guitarist Steve Mazur’s first go-around with the band, and combined with Bob Rock’s production tricks, the effort showcased a decidedly harder sound with a more polished edge. So, you can point to that when trying to figure out where the change came from, if you’d like. But after the disappointing and rushed (their words, not mine) Healthy in Paranoid Times, they erased Rock from the equation and yet Burn Burn, Our Lady Peace’s first DIY-fueled album, still didn’t quite measure up to those first four records.
#music #ourladypeace
archive.org #24179

Grimes (musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimes_(musician)
In 2009, Boucher and her then-boyfriend from Tennessee constructed a 20-foot houseboat, named the "Velvet Glove Cast in Iron", with the intention to sail it down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans. The cargo included chickens, a typewriter, 20 pounds of potatoes and a gifted copy of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. However, the chickens caught eastern equine encephalitis virus and perished soon into the trip. Boucher and her companion adopted the names "Varuschka" and "Zelda Xox" for the trip.[14] Due to engine trouble and subsequent harassment from the Minnesota police, the journey was cut short and the houseboat and chickens were impounded.[14] Their diet consisted mainly of potatoes.[15]
#grimes #imported:pinboard #music #odd #to:fb #wtf
archive.org #22618

Matt Kantor prepares a nine-course meal inspired by Rush | Appetizer | Life | National Post

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/07/21/plates-of-prog-rock-an-epic-nine-course-meal-inspired-by-rush/
Kantor’s ambitious dinner was a testament to his Rush fandom (the New York state native fell in love with the band as a junior-high-school student in the early ’80s and never looked back), and also his latest foray in a culinary crusade. He hopes to help bring what he calls “thinky” food — reminiscent, let’s say, of a well-wrought Neil Peart lyric — to a city whose gastronomic endeavours, he finds, veer closer to the Top 40.
#dinner #food #imported:pinboard #music #rush #to:fb
archive.org #32718

Matt Kantor prepares a nine-course meal inspired by Rush | Appetizer | Life | National Post

http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/07/21/plates-of-prog-rock-an-epic-nine-course-meal-inspired-by-rush
Kantor’s ambitious dinner was a testament to his Rush fandom (the New York state native fell in love with the band as a junior-high-school student in the early ’80s and never looked back), and also his latest foray in a culinary crusade. He hopes to help bring what he calls “thinky” food — reminiscent, let’s say, of a well-wrought Neil Peart lyric — to a city whose gastronomic endeavours, he finds, veer closer to the Top 40.
#dinner #food #music #rush #to:fb
archive.org #22364

Bear McCreary – Official site

http://www.bearmccreary.com/#blog/albums/moon-breakers-soundtrack/
There’s little that ignites my imagination more than the swashbuckling outer space dogfights of yesteryear. So, I was excited to write a bombastic, retro-infused soundtrack for “Moon Breakers” – a multi-player online combat game from Imba Entertainment / Uber Entertainment that is now available to play for free on Steam.
#bsg #gaming #imported:pinboard #moonbreakers #music #nifty
archive.org #22190

UNDO DEL IUMA « ASCII by Jason Scott

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3613
6 years ago, John Gilmore (yes, That John Gilmore) saw that IUMA was in a zombie state and very unlikely to ever get out of the ICU. So he grabbed a copy of all he could – which wasn’t all of it, of course, but it was a hell of a lot of it. He stored them on some backup tapes, and as the site went down, disappeared, and faded into the mists of memory, he looked for a chance to have someone get a copy up somewhere. I was that person.
#archive #at:aadl #imported:pinboard #iuma #music #via:textfiles
archive.org #21865

IUMA (Internet Underground Music Archive) Collection : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

http://archive.org/details/iuma-archive
The Internet Underground Music Archive was better known by the acronym IUMA. The IUMA was started in 1993 by three students at the University of California at Santa Cruz: Jeff Patterson, Jon Luini and Rob Lord. The three men worked together to create an online music archive that would help musicians and bands who weren't signed by a major label. The site allowed these unsigned artists to upload files and send them to fans. The site also enabled the artists the opportunity to talk with their fans. The IUMA was first part of the Usenet newsgroups.
#archive #at:aadl #history #imported:pinboard #internet #iuma #music #via:textfiles
archive.org #21864

The DNA Lounge Live Collection : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

http://archive.org/details/dnalounge
Founded in 1985, the DNA Lounge (Dance Not Art) has provided live music acts as well as DJs and special events to the San Francisco area, and is one of the longer-surviving clubs of its kind. In 1999, the club was purchased by Jamie Zawinski, remodeled extensively, and re-opened in 2001. Since that time, it has hosted thousands of performances, all of which have been broadcast over the web and available for a short time after the event. These broadcasts have been downloaded over the last decade and compiled into this archive of shows, matched with information from the DNA Lounge website.
#archive #at:aadl #dnalounge #imported:pinboard #music #via:textfiles
archive.org #21863

RIAA claims Limewire owes it $72 trillion—that's "trillion" with a "T" | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club

http://www.avclub.com/articles/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-it-72-trillionthats-tril,75555/
According to documents recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the RIAA was asking for damages of about $72 trillion dollars, a figure that the judge in the case said is "absurd." Judge Kimba Wood wrote in a recent decision that, "An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to 'more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877.'"
#assholes #copyfight #copyright #imported:pinboard #limewire #music #riaa #to:fb
archive.org #32805

RIAA claims Limewire owes it $72 trillion—that's "trillion" with a "T" | Music | Newswire | The A.V. Club

http://www.avclub.com/articles/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-it-72-trillionthats-tril,75555
According to documents recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the RIAA was asking for damages of about $72 trillion dollars, a figure that the judge in the case said is "absurd." Judge Kimba Wood wrote in a recent decision that, "An award based on the RIAA calculations would amount to 'more money than the entire music industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877.'"
#assholes #copyfight #copyright #limewire #music #riaa #to:fb
archive.org #21854

Adam Yauch and Paul’s Boutique: How dumb court decisions have made it nearly impossible for artists to sample the way the Beastie Boys did - Slate Magazine

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/adam_yauch_and_paul_s_boutique_how_dumb_court_decisions_have_made_it_nearly_impossible_for_artists_to_sample_the_way_the_beastie_boys_did.single.html
How dumb court decisions and bad laws have made it all but impossible for musicians to sample the way the Beastie Boys used to.
#beastieboys #copyfight #copyright #imported:pinboard #music #remix #sampling #to:fb
archive.org #21701

Sinéad O'Connor: A Mea Culpa < PopMatters

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/154983-sinead-oconnor
It’s time to apologize to Sinéad O’Connor. Remember her? Ripped up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live before adding, “Fight the real enemy” to protest child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the complicity of the church hierarchy? Already a platinum record and a number one single to her name, Sinéad’s career was never the same again.
#abuse #imported:pinboard #music #religion #sineadoconnor #to:fb
archive.org #20991

The “Official” Ready Player One Soundtrack Mix Tape | Ernie's Blog

http://www.ernestcline.com/blog/2011/09/21/the-official-ready-player-one-soundtrack/
Many people have been clamoring for me to post an “official” Ready Player One soundtrack. I hate to be the cause of any sort of clamoring, so I compiled this list of nearly every song mentioned or referenced in the book, in roughly the order they appear. If you haven’t finished reading the book yet, here there be spoilers.
#imported:pinboard #music #nifty #playlist #readyplayerone #scifi
archive.org #33179

The “Official” Ready Player One Soundtrack Mix Tape | Ernie's Blog

http://www.ernestcline.com/blog/2011/09/21/the-official-ready-player-one-soundtrack
Many people have been clamoring for me to post an “official” Ready Player One soundtrack. I hate to be the cause of any sort of clamoring, so I compiled this list of nearly every song mentioned or referenced in the book, in roughly the order they appear. If you haven’t finished reading the book yet, here there be spoilers.
#music #nifty #playlist #readyplayerone #scifi
archive.org #20888

Kevin J. Anderson will novelize Rush's new album

http://io9.com/5884531/kevin-j-anderson-will-novelize-rushs-new-album
Prolific novelist Kevin J. Anderson has made no secret of his love for prog rock — and now he's taking his prog-rock fixation to the next level. He announced on his Facebook page that he's writing the novel version of Rush's new album, Clockwork Angels. Writes Anderson: After dropping hints for a while, finally the big announcement, a new project unlike any other I've ever done...and something that I consider very cool. Most of you are aware of my long-standing friendship with Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist from the legendary rock band Rush, as well as how much Rush has influenced my work. My first novel Resurrection, Inc. was closely inspired by the Rush album Grace Under Pressure, and I can point to dozens of other novels and stories that bear a clear Rush influence. For more than twenty years, Neil and I have wanted to collaborate on something MAJOR, a way we could tie together our imaginations, and at last that's happening. I'm writing the novelization of Rush's forthcoming album Clockwork Angels, their first new CD in five years. Imagine if someone had written the novel of The Wall, Tommy, or Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band when those classic albums were released. For Rush fans, CLOCKWORK ANGELS is that project. I worked together with Neil to flesh out the epic story told over the course of the music, as well as the artist Hugh Syme whose paintings fill the CD booklet. In a young man's quest to follow his dreams, he is caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos. He travels across a lavish and colorful world of steampunk and alchemy, with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life. To whet your appetite, Rush released the first two tracks, Caravan and BU2B - listen to those songs to get an idea of the story's beginning. I'm writing the chapters now, incorporating the lyrics into the narrative, and having a fantastic time. More details to come, but for now-to quote a line from Caravan: "I can't stop thinking big." [via Vintage Vinyl News]
#fiction #imported:pinboard #music #rush #scifi
archive.org #20722

?uestlove Talks Michele Bachmann Fiasco, New D'Angelo Album | News | Pitchfork

http://www.pitchfork.com/news/44776-uestlove-talks-michele-bachmann-fiasco-new-dangelo-album
With the Roots' new album undun due out next week, we spoke with ?uestlove on Tuesday about the Bachmann incident, which understandably had him a bit shook and scared for his job. But, as he told us with a laugh, one of his good friends and famed collaborators was actually hoping he'd get suspended: D'Angelo.
#bachmann #music #questlove #roots
archive.org #20149

Music: 7th Son – The Soundtrack | J.C. Hutchins: New Fiction And Author Updates

http://jchutchins.net/site/2011/12/01/music-7th-son-the-soundtrack
Early last month, I traveled from my Denver home to Rhode Island to meet Brandon Winrich, a music composition major at the University of Rhode Island. It was the conclusion of a remarkable artistic journey for him, and was a life-changing day for me — a day three years in the making.
#7thson #music #nifty #orchestra
archive.org #20114

Apple II drum sequencer surfaces for chiptune composers -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/30/apple-ii-drum-sequencer-surfaces-for-chiptune-composers
No, this isn't a recycled news item from the 1980s -- it's 2011, and MJ Mahon and 8 Bit Weapon have just announced the release of the Apple II DMS Drummer, a wavetable-based drum sequencer for Apple II-era machines. The monophonic synth reproduces eight drum sounds like bass, snare, rim shot, hand clap, tom, hat open, hat closed and "lazer," along with a sequencer that lets you plug in up to 16 drum patterns across 256 slots. Seems like just the thing for chiptune composers hankering for a way to make authentic eight-bit drum tracks using vintage Apple hardware. System requirements call for an Apple IIe, IIc, IIc+ or IIgs with 80-column capability and a 5.25-inch floppy drive -- you know, pretty modern stuff. A limited demo version is available, but if that doesn't satisfy, you can either buy it on a floppy for $14.95 or download a .dsk disk image for $9.95. Oh, and neither require a time-traveling DeLorean to go back to 1985.
#apple #music #retro
archive.org #20092

10 Things That Really Happened on 'A Very Gaga Thanksgiving' - NYTimes.com

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/10-things-that-really-happened-on-a-very-gaga-thanksgiving
Perhaps some time after your Thanksgiving dinner, possibly in a stuporous, tryptophan-induced state, you turned on your television to see a glistening, eyebrowless humanoid engaging in acts for your ostensible entertainment. And while you may have concluded this was all a dream or a hallucination, let us assure you that “A Very Gaga Thanksgiving” was an actual holiday special that featured the pop star Lady Gaga and was indeed broadcast on the ABC network.
#gaga #music #special #thanksgiving
archive.org #19934

Over 200 labels abandon streaming music and their future | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/18/2571658/200-labels-leave-spotify
NPD Group and NARM (the Music Business Association) recently conducted a study, which concluded that streaming music is damaging to record sales. That information has now caused distributor STHoldings to withdraw all of its music content — that's over 200 labels' worth — from Spotify, Simfy, Rdio, and Napster. STHoldings reported that only four of its labels said they wanted to continue streaming their content. It's a case of confirming exactly what some publishers want to hear: cheaper, user-friendly streaming services might be encroaching on the cushy sales models of years past. The reaction is reminiscent of the industry's bitterly reluctant adoption of the mp3 format in the heyday of CD supremacy, and we all know how that turned out.
#music #spotify #streaming
archive.org #19785

Rebecca Black's Latest Music Video Has Arrived

http://gawker.com/5859979/rebecca-blacks-latest-music-video-has-arrived
After her unintentionally horrible music video for "Friday" gripped the nation, Rebecca Black attempted to go legit with "This Is My Moment." Now we have "Person of Interest," Black's inane new teen pop pseudo-love anthem, which is set in an arcade and features the line, "Can't deny you're implicated in a mayhem in my mind." Pure poetry!
#music #rebeccablack #thehorror
archive.org #19712

Dinosaur Jr. reissuing first three albums on cassette, harnessing the latest jurassic technology -- Engadget

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/15/dinosaur-jr-reissuing-first-three-records-on-cassette-harnessi
Forget your Google Musics and Spotifys -- J Mascis, indie rock's favorite guitar-shredding gray haired curmudgeon and the rest of Dinosaur Jr. are stepping into the format time machine to reissue their first three LPs on cassette. Yep, Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me and Bug will once again be heard the way they were meant to be: on the terrible, tiny speakers of your dusty old RadioShack tape deck. The three tapes are being sold as the Cassette Trilogy, a $39 screen-printed box set, limited to 500 copies -- one for every working tape player in America. The box set follows the cassette release of 1988's Bug this summer. You can pick the box up online now, for the rock and roll luddite on your holiday shopping list.
#cassettes #music #retro
archive.org #19700

Check Out: Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, The Killers cover U2 « Consequence of Sound

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/10/check-out-nine-inch-nails-depeche-mode-the-killers-cover-u2
As previously reported, UK’s Q Magazine has assembled a massive U2 tribute album to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the band’s landmark album Achtung Baby. The compilation, titled AHK-toong BAY-bi Covered, features covers of Achtung Baby tracks by a number of music heavyweights, including Jack White, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, The Killers, and more.
#awesome #music #nifty #nin #nineinchnails #u2
archive.org #19608

An Open Love Letter to My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless | Underwire | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/11/my-bloody-valentine-loveless
“I just kind of found my own way, and my own feel, my own way of playing,” Shields said of his ax modulations in Mike McGonigal’s book-length analysis of Loveless from 2007. “I found that if there was only one guitar track whilst the vocals were going, split between different amps and mics, the sound was bigger, especially when you use open strings and tunings and the tremolo arm. I didn’t have to consciously think about it; I was able to express this constant feeling of expression. It’s hard to explain the sound of the guitar bending. What you hear is what it is between the sound.”
#music
archive.org #19562

The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music | opensource.com

http://opensource.com/life/11/11/drm-graveyard-brief-history-digital-rights-management-music
There are more than a few reasons digital rights management (DRM) has been largely unsuccessful. But the easiest way to explain to a consumer why DRM doesn't work is to put it in terms he understands: "What happens to the music you paid for if that company changes its mind?" It was one thing when it was a theoretical question. Now it's a historical one. Rhapsody just had the next in a line of DRM music services to go--this week the company told its users than anyone with RAX files has unil November 7 to back them up in another format or lose them the next time they upgrade their systems.
#drm #failure #googlereader #ifttt #music
archive.org #19511

Rush is a Band Blog: Clockwork Angels update: writing completed, recording underway

http://www.rushisaband.com/blog/2011/11/06/2892/Clockwork-Angels-update-writing-completed-recording-underway
The process which began early last year with the recording and release of Caravan and BU2B is finally starting to come to a close. According to recent interviews by both Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Rush's upcoming Clockwork Angels studio album is nearing completion. Geddy was interviewed by Rolli...
#blork #ifttt #music #rush
archive.org #19489

WDET Shows - Modern Music

http://www.wdet.org/shows/modern-music
If you enjoy being on the cutting edge of "what's next," Modern Music w/ Jon Moshier is your place for discovering the sounds of new and emerging independent artists. From rock to electronic, with touchstones to classic underground, it's all about the music. You now have two opportunities to hear Modern Music; Fridays from 9-11pm and Sundays from 2-4pm.
#bsh #music #wdet
archive.org #18762

Blaster Beam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Blaster_Beam
"The Blaster Beam is a concept electronic musical instrument consisting of a 12 to 18-foot (5.5 m) long metal beam strung with numerous tensed wires under which are mounted electric guitar pickups which can be moved to alter the sound produced. The instrument is played by striking or plucking the strings with fingers, sticks, pipes or even large objects such as artillery shell casings. The instrument produces a very distinctive bass tone, the sound of which is often described as 'dark' or 'sinister'."
#instruments #music #scifi #sound #startrek
archive.org #15282

About Us - The Echo Nest

http://the.echonest.com/company
"The Echo Nest is a music intelligence company founded by Tristan Jehan and Brian Whitman, who met at the MIT Media Lab while they were both getting their PhDs in music understanding and synthesis research. The company has since grown to a small but insane team of developers, designers, musicians and business people all housed in a cozy office in Davis Square, Somerville, MA, USA. We grow an intelligence platform that automatically reads about and listens to the entire world of music for developers to build search, personalization and interactive music applications. "
#echonest #intelligence #media #music #research
archive.org #13716

Countercomplex: Defining Computationally Minimal Art (Or, taking the "8" out of "8-Bit")

http://www.pelulamu.net/countercomplex/computationally-minimal-art
"The defining element is LOW COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY, as expressed in all aspects of the audiovisual system: the complexity of the platform (i.e. the number of transistors or logic gates in the hardware), the complexity of the software (i.e. the length in bits of the program code and static data), as well as the time complexity (i.e. how many state changes the computational tasks require). A more theoretical approach would eliminate the differentiation of software and hardware and talk about description/program length, memory complexity and time complexity."
#80s #8bit #art #generative #graphics #music #retro
archive.org #13042

:: Commodore C64 Modifications ::

http://www.bigmech.com/misc/c64mods/index.html
"In early June, 2006 Prophet64 made the bold move of releasing its SID music software on C64 cartridges. This completed the transition of the C64 from a computer system dependant on floppy and/or tape drives, to an independent piece of pro audio studio equipment. Could the union of Prophet64 with the C64 as a musical instrument be further improved upon? I thought so. The following pages explain what I have done."
#c64 #circuitbending #commodore64 #hacks #hardware #mods #music #retro #sid
archive.org #12945

Schism Tracker - SDWiki

http://eval.sovietrussia.org/wiki/Schism_Tracker
"Schism Tracker is a free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in-part. The player is based on a highly modified version of the Modplug engine, with a number of bugfixes and changes to improve IT playback. "
#music #schismtracker #trackers
archive.org #12919

The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard May Reveal Key to the Universe » Synthtopia

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/01/10/the-pythagorean-lambdoma-harmonic-keyboard-may-reveal-key-to-the-universe
"The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard, designed by mathemetician Barbara Hero, is an unusual MIDI controller that’s based on ancient concepts and fundamental harmonic relationships between notes. The keyboard is based on the Lambdoma Matrix, a mathematical grid attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras. The Matrix plots whole-number ratios, with whole numbers along on side (1,2,3,4….) and their inverse fractions (1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4….) along the other."
#keyboards #midi #music #odd #pythagorean
archive.org #12896

Burr Oak Software

http://www.burroak.on.ca/m3u2itunes.html
"M3U2iTunes is a helper application which overcomes the problems iTunes has with m3u playlists. iTunes, when downloading an m3u playlist, places all songs scattered throughout the main library (rather than, say, creating a playlist and organizing the stream tracks in it). M3U2iTunes simply creates a single playlist named "M3U Internet Stream" and places all songs from the downloaded m3u playlist into the M3U Internet Stream playlist."
#ampache #itunes #m3u #macosx #mp3 #music
archive.org #12753

:: arjanwrites music blog ::: Listen to Space Cowboy "Electro Pioneers" EP

http://www.arjanwrites.com/arjanwrites/2010/01/listen-to-space-cowboy-electro-pioneers-ep.html
"The producer invited some of the mavericks of '80s electronic music, including Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby and Erasure's Vince Clarke, to give his tunes a spin of their own. Listen to their revamps below. After all of those years, these three still have a fine knack for adding an eclectic flair to contemporary pop tunes. I'm especially digging Vince Clarke's bouncy remix of "Falling Down," and I must say that Howard Jones remix of "Devastated" is very reminiscent of a Lady GaGa hit. You can tell it comes from the same production house."
#howardjones #ladygaga #music #pop #spacecowboy #thomasdolby #vinceclarke
archive.org #12733

Some Notes On iTunes LP · Jay Robinson

http://jayrobinson.org/2009/09/11/some-notes-on-itunes-lp
"The iTunes LP experience is accomplished with HTML 4.01, CSS and JS. The interface feels very Flash-like, but there is no trace of it. The CSS animations are elaborate and smooth. ... As a music fan, and as a web developer, I couldn’t be more pleased with the new iTunes LP offering. If your audience is significantly Apple-oriented (e.g. a site about Mac rumors or a popular iPhone app) this proves that you can provide an incredible experience using only JavaScript and some proposed CSS3 properties."
#css #html #itunes #javascript #music #webdev #webkit
archive.org #12550

While My Guitar Gently Beeps - The Beatles - Rock Band - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16beatles-t.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all
"While over the years there has been no shortage of Beatles merchandise, some of it crass, the decision to release the game on the same date as the new CDs is, as well as an irresistible marketing tactic, a signal that the game is meant to be an authentic part of the band’s canon (as is McCartney’s decision to show footage from the game during his current American tour). The Beatles are positioning themselves to once again play a significant role in the evolution of popular music — this time by embracing interactivity. "
#beatles #gaming #music #rockband #system:host=www.nytimes.com
archive.org #12512

Sonic Youth To Perform on ‘Gossip Girl’ - Sounds Of Buzz

http://soundsofbuzz.com/2009/08/sonic-youth-to-perform-on-gossip-girl
"New York alt-rock legends Sonic Youth are about to out their stamp on New York's newest cultural institution: Gossip Girl. The band has agreed to appear on the show's fifth episode this season to perform an acoustic rendition of their 80's classic "Star Power." Text that, GG."
#gossipgirl #music #really? #sonicyouth #system:host=soundsofbuzz.com #wow
archive.org #12501

See you there, ninja. | MetaFilter

http://www.metafilter.com/83540/See-you-there-ninja#2666361
"Think about it. A key hallmark in this culture is the kind of soda that grocery stores sell to people who can't afford Coke or Pepsi. These guys, and their fans, are barely above the safety stage of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Forget love. Love is a fantasy. For a lot of these people, food and shelter without a psychopathic parent beating the shit out of you or neglecting you entirely is itself a pipe dream."
#culture #icp #juggalos #music #subcultures
archive.org #12453

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm
"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
#bbc #culture #funny #gadgets #history #music #nostalgia #retro #sony #walkman
archive.org #12444

Evil Avatar - Harmonix to Launch Music Creation Service, Allows for Sale of Songs

http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90424
"Back when Guitar Hero World Tour was announced, we found out that one of the features would be a music creation studio. Harmonix and MTV Games were asked about including a similar feature and responded that they were interested, but wouldn't release it till they could do it correctly. Looks like that time is approaching as Billboard has word that they will be releasing "Rock Band Network" which will allow users to create, upload, and even sell their own songs. When's it coming? Apparently later this year."
#awesome #gaming #harmonix #music #rb2 #rockband
archive.org #12424

GoatTracker - C64 SID music editor for Mac OS X

http://www.sidmusic.org/goattracker/mac
"GoatTracker is a cross-platform tracker written by Lasse Öörni, producing SID chiptune music for the Commodore 64, and released with source code under the GPL. It is notable for being possibly the only SID chiptune-composer NOT native to the C64, as many alternative composers (including JCH, and CyberTracker) only execute on the C64 or inside C64 emulators. Many SID tunes are available in various formats on the Internet, especially through the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC). GoatTracker is capable of directly exporting to the .sid (PSID/RSID) file format in addition to standard C64 PRG files."
#c64 #commodore #goattracker #music #osx #sid #trackers
archive.org #12400

wayneandwax.com » Songs as Shared Things

http://wayneandwax.com/?p=2106
"Songs have always been shareable and shared. People, young and old, share songs with each other – by singing or playing them - in a variety of ways and settings, through a variety of technologies and media or other manner of accompaniment (as well as a capella). Songs as recordings are not fundamentally different in this respect. Since the advent of recorded media, people have shared songs in this form as well: played for each other in private and public settings, on personally distributed mixes (mixed tapes / CDs), and, in the age of mp3s, as files sent via email, IM (instant message), torrent, third-party hosting site, or any manner of online sites and services. "
#capitalism #community #copyfight #culture #music #remix #sampling #social #songs
archive.org #12392

Are downloads really killing the music industry? Or is it something else? | Technology | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/09/games-dvd-music-downloads-piracy
"the reality is that nowadays, one can choose between a game costing £40 that will last weeks, or a £10 CD with two great tracks and eight dud ones. I think a lot of people are choosing the game - and downloading the two tracks. That's real discretion in spending. It's hurting the music industry, sure. But let's not cloud the argument with false claims about downloads."
#business #copyfight #filesharing #gaming #music
archive.org #12320

The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits | TorrentFreak

http://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing-why-the-fsf-cares-about-riaa-lawsuits-090513
"In one of RIAA’s high profile cases the Free Software Foundation backed defendant Joel Tenenbaum, much to the dislike of the music industry lobby. John Sullivan, Operations Manager at the FSF explains in a guest post why they think these cases impact not just music, but also free software and its technology."
#copyfight #copyright #freedom #fsf #music #riaa
archive.org #12217

VNV Nation - Reformation 01

http://www.stormingthebase.com/details.asp?ProdID=8143
"Reformation 01 is VNV Nation's first ever Boxset and is packed with material that any fan of the band will want to have. This deluxe hardcover embossed box contains 2 full length CDs, a DVD, and a 32 page booklet. CD-1 has 12 live tracks, the band's first-ever live CD release, CD-2 has 13 tracks of unreleased material and remixes, while the DVD has 8 live video clips from their last 2 world tours. The Boxset is limited to 9000 copies in North America (NTSC Format DVD) and 9000 copies in Europe (PAL Format DVD). "
#boxsets #music #vnvnation #wishlist
archive.org #12094

Chairlift-EvidentUtensil.mov (video/quicktime Object)

http://www.court13.com/Chairlift-EvidentUtensil.mov
I was seriously worried this video would crash the visual centers of my brain. "NORMAL QUALITY LOOKS LIKE BUNK. clink on "WATCH IN HD" to WATCH IN HD!!! HD stands for "HOLY DATAMOSH," which is what G-D bestowed upon us in the form of a MASSIVE COMPUTER GLITCH that eats up INDIE MUSIC VIDEOS and turns them into INTERNET GOLD."
#glitches #hd #indie #music #videos
archive.org #12007

Muzak files for bankruptcy - CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/11/muzak.bankruptcy/index.html
I thought "muzak" was a generic term - never realized there was an actual company! "Muzak, the company that put pop, string-filled arrangements of rock songs in your elevator, filed bankruptcy papers Tuesday after it missed a $105 million payment to creditors."
#goodriddance #music #muzak
archive.org #12004

Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect - TIME

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1877372,00.html
"If you haven't been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you've missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot of pop vocals suddenly sound great. Better than great: note- and pitch-perfect, as if there's been an unspoken tightening of standards at record labels or an evolutionary leap in the development of vocal cords. At the other extreme are a few hip-hop singers who also hit their notes but with a precision so exaggerated that on first listen, their songs sound comically artificial, like a chorus of '50s robots singing Motown."
#audio #autotune #music #pop #protools
archive.org #11995

iTunes music: The cost of removing Apple’s copy protection - Apple 2.0

http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/07/itunes-music-the-cost-of-removing-apples-copy-protection
"Leave it to Apple (AAPL) to turn the lifting of restrictions into a profit center. If users convert every one of the 9 billion songs purchased from the iTunes Store over the past six years, a rich new revenue stream will flow toward Cupertino. Techcrunch’s Erick Schonfeld calls it Apple’s “$1.8 billion music tax.”"
#apple #audio #drm #itms #itunes #music
archive.org #11843

Frotzophone

http://itp.nyu.edu/~ap1607/frotzophone
"The Frotzophone is an interface for making music with interactive fiction. The topography simulated in the game is used to generate sound, as is the player's path through the game. A Frotzophone "performance" looks just like playing a text adventure; but in addition to playing a game, you're also playing music."
#art #frotz #frotzophone #gaming #if #ifiction #music
archive.org #11536

WalMart now says they'll keep the DRM servers on forever - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/10/walmart-now-says-the.html
"All those companies (cough Amazon cough Apple cough) that say they're only doing DRM for now, until they can convince the stupid entertainment execs to ditch it, heed this lesson: you will spend the rest of your corporate life paying for this mistake, maintaining infrastructure whose sole purpose is to lock your customers into a technology restriction that no one really believes in. Welcome to the infinite cost of doing business with Hollywood. "
#copyfight #doh #drm #music #walmart
archive.org #11523

Mic to Mic: The mashed potatoes sample revealed!

http://mic-to-mic.blogspot.com/2007/06/mashed-potatoes-sample-revealed.html
"The source of a spoken sample used in the song "B-Boys Makin' with the Freak Freak" has been a topic of discussion in the Beastie Boys fan community since the release of Ill Communication, the album on which the song appears, in 1994. Uncredited on the album, the sample -- referred to as "the mashed potatoes sample" by fans -- has been a mystery. Fans have wondered and argued about who the comedian that says, "Shit, if this is gonna be that kind of party, I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes" is."
#beastieboys #comedy #mashedpotatoes #music #samples
archive.org #11521

Weird Al: Forefather of the YouTube Spoof

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-10/ff_weirdal
"Much like the big-name artists he once so expertly spoofed, Yankovic now inspires not just imitators but also competitors. He'll soon commence work on his 13th studio album, which will have to compete against his own singsongy progeny—the amateur satirists who can devise, record, and edit their own parodies in days, if not hours. To make matters more complicated, whereas Yankovic could once mine such inexhaustible icons as Jackson and Nirvana for laughs, he now has to contend with the likes of Jessica Simpson or Kevin Federline—celebrities who are more or less already self-parodies. Being a music satirist in 2008 is a bit like being a political cartoonist after the Harding administration: too many easy targets, too few sacred idols."
#comedy #culture #for:missadroit #music #weirdal #yankovic
archive.org #11494

Myspace.com Blogs - NEW SINGLE! - Weird Al Yankovic MySpace Blog

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?blogID=437292861&friendID=90827837&fuseaction=blog.view
"This is extremely exciting for me. One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every 3 or 4 years. Now, with the advent and popularity of digital distribution, I don't have to wait around while my songs get old and dated – I can get them out on the Internet almost immediately. It kind of boggles my mind – I thought of the idea for this new song a week ago, and next week it's getting released! "
#for:missadroit #itunes #music #nifty #weirdal #yankovic
archive.org #11483

Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans - Boing Boing

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/26/walmart-shutting-dow.html
"Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out about, if you've changed email addresses or if you're not a very technical person), your music will no longer be playable after October 9th. "
#copyfight #drm #mp3 #music #walmart
archive.org #11464

Rush Blog - Rush is a Band Blog: Rush makes-a-wish come true for one special fan

http://www.rushisaband.com/display.php?id=1596
"Samantha is a 16-year-old Rush fan from Summerville, Georgia who was diagnosed with cancer back in August of 2007. 3 months into her treatment she was approached by the Make-A-Wish Foundation and asked how they could help to make her wish come true. The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a nonprofit organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. They've granted wishes to 1000s of children since their inception in 1980 and are run entirely on donations. Samantha's wish was to meet her favorite band - Rush. This marked the first time Rush had ever been approached for a Make-A-Wish request. Here is Samantha's amazing story in her own words. "
#bands #makeawish #music #nifty #rush
archive.org #11447

eyeD3 0.6.16

http://eyed3.nicfit.net
Looks like this can add cover art among other things. "eyeD3 is a Python module and program for processing ID3 tags. Information about mp3 files (i.e bit rate, sample frequency, play time, etc.) is also provided. The formats supported are ID3 v1.0/v1.1 and v2.3/v2.4"
#audio #mp3 #music #python #software #utilities
archive.org #11230

Sound Chaser

http://www.yurisuzuki.com/soundchaser.html
"A train-style record player. Users connect the chipped pieces of records together to make new tracks. The records pieces are from cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops. This record player revives forgotten, old records."
#gadgets #hacks #hardware #music #sound #trains
archive.org #11016

Radiohead Blasted By Veteran Rockers KISS For Giving Their Music Away For Free - Entertainment

http://www.aol.com.au/celebrity/story/radiohead-blasted-by-veteran-rockers-kiss-for-giving-their-music-away-for-free/604011/index.html
Uhh... Yay? "Bassist Gene Simmons says the British rockers – who gave fans the choice to download last year's album 'In Rainbows' for free or pay a sum of their choosing - says their decision is contributing to the demise of the record industry and ins
#copyfight #free #kiss #music #radiohead #riaa
archive.org #10955

rifflet.com

http://rifflet.com
"A rifflet is a piece of a song--a bass line, a guitar riff, a drum beat or something else entirely. Share your rifflets and combine them with others, or even upload a finished song."
#music #sharing #songs
archive.org #10798

Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology - Publishing 2.0

http://publishing2.com/2007/12/28/music-recording-industry-will-be-first-traditional-media-industry-to-be-utterly-destroyed-by-digital-technology
"The maxim goes that new technologies don’t kill off old media — radio didn’t kill newspapers, TV didn’t kill radio, etc. But it’s not clear this maxim will hold true in the digital age"
#copyright #drm #music
archive.org #10139

jwz mixtapes

http://cerebrum.dnalounge.com/mixtapes
"I've decided to start putting together a weekly mixtape: a cassette-tape-sized chunk of music that I enjoy, and that you should enjoy too. Some will be new, some old."
#dnalounge #jwz #music #nifty
archive.org #9865

Recording Industry Bleeding Cash, Album Sales Down for Seventh Straight Year - Gizmodo

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/recording-industry-bleeding-cash-album-sales-down-for-seventh-straight-year-226380.php
"Of course, the sleazy grandma-suing record companies will blame pirates for poor sales, which is much easier than actually signing competent artists who don't crank out shitty music year after year. Most of the steaming heap is not even worth stealing."
#copyfight #funny #music #riaa
archive.org #8394

morons.org - InSoc Rocks Portland

http://web.morons.org/article.jsp?id=7108§ionid=13
"Followers of our podcast know that band founder Paul Robb recently reconstituted the group along with his former bandmate James Cassidy. Kurt Harland (who posts here as vector) elected not to participate, having a recently-born human to take care of with
#insoc #music #nifty #portland
archive.org #7462

Omega

http://www.childrenofthecpu.com/music/omega.mp3
Warm, synthy pop with sweet, disposable lyrics. Perfect for an analog road trip with your windows down.
#music
archive.org #6879

I Spy

http://www.childrenofthecpu.com/music/spy.mp3
Warm, synthy pop with sweet, disposable lyrics. Perfect for an analog road trip with your windows down.
#music
archive.org #6878

Slay Your Dragons

http://www.childrenofthecpu.com/music/dragons.mp3
Warm, synthy pop with sweet, disposable lyrics. Perfect for an analog road trip with your windows down.
#music
archive.org #6877

Kate Bush in MP3

http://www.norbry.net/kate-bush/mp3
While I have been led to believe that Kate is not fond of these early works, I can imagine it's akin to parents showing those embarrassing baby photos to a significant other, but all of us hardened (mad) fans love to hear these, just as we all love to see
#katebush #music
archive.org #6385

Glitch VST by dblue

http://illformed.org/glitch
"Glitch is a highly-adjustable, semi-automated, realtime audio manipulation system which allows you to alter your music in a variety of different ways ranging from quite subtle to extremely bizarre."
#glitch #music #nifty #sound
archive.org #6067

EarThumps - Griffin Technology

http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/earthumps/index.php
I wonder if these are any better than the iPod earbud caps they make? (Which suck, by the way) "EarThumps are earbuds that are designed to isolate your listening experience from outside sound by fitting comfortably inside the ears, to deliver rich, crys
#music #wishlist
archive.org #5888

allmusic ((( Aerial Review )))

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wluk6j8471l0~T1
"What gets created for the listener is an ordinary world, full of magic; it lies inside one's dwelling in overlooked and inhabited spaces, and outside, from the backyard and out through the gate into wonder."
#gaffa #katebush #music
archive.org #5791

Roku

http://www.rokulabs.com/products/soundbridge/SoundbridgeRadio
"SoundBridge Radio is a complete Wi-Fi Music System that brings the world of Internet radio to every room of the house in rich, clear, stereo sound. "
#gadgets #hardware #music #wishlist
archive.org #5463

Ink 19 :: Carrie Nuttall

http://www.ink19.com/issues/july2005/interviews/interviews/carrieNuttall.html
"The percussionist's wife, L.A. photographer Carrie Nuttall, has captured the essence of Peart the musician and perhaps the essence of Peart the man in Rhythm & Light, a new book of photos of the early Vapor Trails sessions."
#music #neilpeart #photography #rush
archive.org #5423

Internet Archive: Details: xoc - SMW

http://www.archive.org/details/xoc_SMW
"The complete soundtrack to Super Mario World, covered by one man using dozens of instruments. Roughly in game order, faithful to the originals, with some bizarre artistic license thrown around. A private hobby made public. Dedicated to Koji Kondo."
#funny #gaming #music #nifty
archive.org #5256

Multi-Track Cassette Looping

http://www.loopers-delight.com/tips/multitrack.html
"Using a typical answering machine 20-second loop cassette in any 4-tracker, you can record up to four layered parts and control their level of playback, overdubbing in the same method as you would to record in standard fashion."
#diy #music
archive.org #4991

AudioPad : Gizmodo

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/musical-instruments/audiopad-107348.php
"The AudioPad throws audio tracks, samples, and effects on a table, where the user controls all via little plastic pucks." Reminds me of the controls on Thor's ship on Stargate
#gadgets #music #stargate
archive.org #4824

Metropolis Records: Peter Murphy

http://www.metropolis-records.com/artists?artist=murphy
"Forget everything you think you know about Peter Murphy. Tear it up and then tape it all back together with your eyes closed." Need to get this album.
#music
archive.org #4083

Photon X25

http://alesis.com/products/photonX25/index.html
"With unique features such as the Axyz Controller dome and ten 360° endless knobs, you’ll have powerful MIDI control of your software plug-ins." Ooh. I want.
#gadgets #music #wishlist
archive.org #3757

Playlist: Joining the Mob

http://playlistmag.com/features/2004/10/musicmobs
Another music recommendation service, except this one requires an XML upload, which seems much less convenient than Audioscrobbler
#music
archive.org #3609

Morrissey comments spark Bush fire

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/119/119298_morrissey_comments_spark_bush_fire.html
"The ex-frontman of Manchester band The Smiths announced the death of the former US president at a concert in Dublin - then said he wished it had been President George W Bush who had died instead."
#bush #music #politics
archive.org #2800

Their Charming Man

http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/03/02/cover-arellano.php
"Morrissey sings to the disaffected, and God knows alienation is part of the assimilation tradition—the equal and opposite reaction of the immigrants drive to blend in."
#music
archive.org #2703

Synergy

http://synergy.wincent.com
"Synergy won't take up precious space in your Dock as it appears only in the menubar." Neat iTunes accessory. Unfortunately, on this 12" PowerBook, menubar space is *so* much more precious than dock space.
#apple #music #osx
archive.org #2678

Clear Channel scoops up live CD patent

http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1085512916.html
"Unfortunately, in a move that will put the brakes on an emerging industry, Clear Channel has purchased the patent from the inventors of the technology and is asserting that it is the only entity that can sell concert CDs right after gigs."
#music
archive.org #2580

Pump up the volume

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/guesteditors/story/0,14481,1201741,00.html
"Loudspeakers revolutionised the way we hear music - but not the way we talk about it"
#music
archive.org #2389

Wired News: 'Dude! This Thing Is Awesome!'

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,63273,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
"The music fan goes up to the touch-screen kiosk after the show and buys the keychain drive with a credit card from a dispenser alongside the screen." Wow, this sounds like such a great thing... although I'd hate to be in line waiting for the kiosk.
#music
archive.org #2377

Downhill Battle - iTMS Script

http://downhillbattle.org/itmsscript
'Finally, we start making our own XML "music store" files.' I've had an idea for awhile to make an HTTP proxy that pretends to be the iTunes Music Store servers but is actually a P2P network for indie music.
#apple #itms #music
archive.org #2287

Uematsu's Music

http://www.square-enix-usa.com/uematsu/black_mages/index.html
"It all started in February 2003. Uematsu produced "The Black Mages," an album composed of FINAL FANTASY battle music arranged in rock style. He formed a group called The Black Mages and performed as the keyboardist himself."
#gaming #music
archive.org #2149

Kempa.com: Vinyl Data

http://www.kempa.com/blog/archives/000053.html
".. there were a handful of records released in the late 70's and early 80's that contained computer programs as part of the audio." I had a lot of fun using a C64 and a 300 baud modem to decode the Information Society track when it came out
#music #nifty #oldschool
archive.org #2076

Neil Peart speaks about lyrics

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/01/27/112314.php
"I don't like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes. I can tell. Craftsmanship speaks."
#music
archive.org #1604

TunesAtWork

http://www.tunesatwork.com
TunesAtWork lets you listen to your personal iTunes music collection while at your office or lab, even though your iTunes collection resides at home.
#music #osx
archive.org #1453