Last night, Jon Stewart had some fun discussing the Master of Library Science's sister degree, the Master of Archival Studies. (Fast forward to 1:40).
The Pop Songs blog was set-up for the author to do an analysis of every song in the R.E.M. catalogue. This led to Michael Stipe himself contacting the site and ending up answering numerous reader questions about R.E.M.'s songs and their genesis – how cool is that?MetaFilter has a thread titled “What is 'Try Not […]
This will possibly be the end of GPS companies such as Garmin and Tom Tom (their stocks have already plummeted since the announcement):Google also announced that soon, any search for a song or band will result in a stream of the song being returned from various partners which will be able to be played in […]
Well, definitely last year anyhow and I think back in 2006 too from the look of things. I'm sure I did this in 2007 too but the post wasn't tagged, keyworded or referred to in any identifiable way. (Uhm, NP: “First Snow of the Year” – Hawksley Workman by the way.)
iNudge is a pretty fun web-based music making program. Or to put it another way, WELCOME TO MY RAVE!!!
Here's a couple very quantitative way to determine which Beatle added more to the group…– assign point values in descending order based on who wrote each of the Top 50 Most Played Beatles Songs on last.fm (Paul has a slight edge over John)– using the Beatles #1 album, count who wrote more of their #1 […]
Sorta interesting but not as cool as hearing what's on his iPod.
Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices. Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion, an anti-war song written using the words of the UK's last surviving WWI soldier, Harry Patch who died earlier this summer.– and a brand new song, “These […]
Shea thought I was joking when I said I wanted to go see MC Hammer play our local summer exhibition here in Regina. I wasn't…but I didn't make it so I guess this clip I found will have to do:I recently blogged about songs I could listen to over and over and “U Can't Touch […]
I'm trying to free up some space on my hard drive (70 GB of music on a 200 GB drive will do that to you) so am looking through my duplicate MP3 files (which make up ~10 GB of that collection). Looking closer, I see that there are a few songs that I have no […]
