I recently went a 2200 mile road trip to visit friends and family and as per usual, I caught up on a lot of podcasts, but sometimes people talking could make be sleepy so I’d switch to the best music of 2022 playlist, but I’ve been hitting that so hard for the last month that …
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Said the Gramophone’s best music of 2022 is out!
Said the Gramophone is one of my favorite old school blogs that’s focused on music. I wouldn’t say music is absolutely vital in my life, but I do like to hear new bands and go to shows occasionally, but ever since I left college I basically have no time to keep up on new music. …
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How Jamiroquai did it
I guess I assumed the famous Jamiroquai music video from the mid-90s was filmed on some sort of magical Hollywood omnidirectional treadmill in a studio somewhere. The real behind the scenes story (recently uploaded to YouTube) of how they pulled off those shots is way more clever (and cheap!) than a super duper treadmill.
Mele Kalikimaka
I’m 5 years old and I’m in kindergarten, and December rolls around so we do a big elementary school holiday show one night that we spend most of the month practicing. To this day, I not only know all the words to Mele Kalikimaka, I remember the choreography from that night. So after all these …
Playing downloaded music on the go
Doppler is a good piece of software for a specific use case I encountered where nothing else worked. I was on a long road trip recently, and I’d already gone through hours and hours of old podcast episodes when I figured I’d head over to the Internet Archive and grab some bootleg concerts from bands …
Waiting for the drop
I love this video of The Red Hot Chili Peppers doing Can’t Stop live back in 2016 (sorry I can’t embed it here, you have to follow the link to watch it at YouTube). The gist is they noodle for several minutes before launching into the song and even though I think the audience reaction …
Rdio blog
The best new blog I've followed in many months is the blog for the music streaming service Rdio. I've been a paid member of Rdio since they launched, but I only occasionally use the service, since most of my music playing is in the car where controlling it via an iPhone app is problematic (for …
Weird ringtones
I've noticed over the past few months at least three instances of someone's phone going off and playing a really odd song, something completely unexpected. In no particular order, they are: ~60 year old male. He was a carpenter measuring for bookshelves, suddenly the chorus from Michael Jackson's Billie Jean starts playing. late 30s male, …
Scarring Party west coast tour
Over on MetaFilter Music, I've fallen for a band doing sort of old timey pirate shanty stuff called The Scarring Party. They recently threw a Kickstarter fund drive for their upcoming west coast tour, and I went so far as to donate at the level where they had to write a song about me. Here …
Re: Hip Hop
…It's his fifth album, and he's 27. It's interesting that hip-hop, because of its perenially underground nature, encourages very young people to keep trying, perhaps succeeding and perhaps failing, but keep trying until they can get good. And if/when they get good, they have a good decade on everyone else. That's from an email Mike Kuniavsky wrote …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 