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Thursday 5 June


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Friday 16 May


Tuesday 15 April


Wednesday 27 February

  • A month behind the hype : Vampire Weekend (12:19) - In 6-8 weeks time Vampire Weekend went from nowhere to the cover of Spin. Generally I stay away from the "oh my Gawd, have you heard of ....." bands because they always seem to disappoint. The last time a band... | 2 Comments

Friday 22 February

  • Korean Toddler Sings the Beatles (11:17) - A must watch for any Beatles fan, this 3 year old South Korean boy rocks out classic Beatles songs. Link to more videos in the title link, however the 'Hey Jude' performance below is by far the best one I've... | 2 Comments

Friday 8 February

  • Jack Endino and the year 1989 (12:33) - I was flipping through my record collection today when I started thinking about how much impact Jack Endino has had on the music I listen to. Jack Endino's greatest claim to fame was Nirvana's first album, 'Bleach'. Endino helped Nirvana... | 0 Comments

Wednesday 23 January

  • Super Mario 2 ... with Drums! (14:08) - I hate to post another youtube video.. disjointed is turning into a youtube repository, but anyway this one is too good to pass up. Italian drummer Andrea Vadrucci has a number of videos online of him adding percussion to various... | 1 Comments

Thursday 17 January


Tuesday 18 December

  • Hip Hop Violin (14:32) - Damn good session with a violinist and a DJ. Hip Hip Violin And DJ - Amazing videos are here Click here for the mp3... | 1 Comments

Wednesday 31 October

  • Trent Reznor was a member of OiNK (17:00) - Trent Reznor was a member of the now defunct private bittorrent tracker OiNK. The driving force behind the Nine Inch Nails isn’t frightened of talking about file-sharing. Back in May 2007 he admitted to sharing himself: “I steal music too,... | 1 Comments
  • The Lonesome Crowded West (14:33) - Quite possibly Modest Mouse's greatest album, The Lonesome Crowded West, turns 10 years old in a couple of weeks. I've compiled as much as I could of the album from Seeqpod (a little more than half the album) to give... | 1 Comments

Saturday 15 September


Friday 24 August

  • Morrissey turns down $75M Smiths Reunion Offer (10:20) - Morrissey money shocker! According to a new press release about Morrissey's previously reported fall U.S. tour, "In an effort to stop the speculation and kill off the rumor mongers who seem to use these things to take advantage of committed... | 0 Comments

Friday 3 August

  • 20 Years of Appetite (11:11) - Two weeks ago Guns N' Roses' debut album Appetite for Destruction turned 20 years old. At the impressionable age of 8, Appetite was the 3rd album I ever owned (free drink to anyone who can guess what the first two... | 3 Comments

Thursday 26 July

  • Chocolate Rain (23:07) - I ate mexican food tonight. But anyway, if you play this song it *will* get stuck in your head. ... | 4 Comments

Saturday 30 June

  • Good Drumming (22:19) - And the kid happens to be twelve. He needs to be in a metal band right now. ... | 0 Comments

Monday 21 May


Saturday 19 May

  • The Guitar Zeros (15:13) - The Guitar Zeros are a 4 piece band with a drummer, a bass controller player and a guitar controller player? What is a bass controller and a guitar controller? A modded Guitar Hero 2 controller hooked up to a PC... | 0 Comments

Monday 30 April

  • Courtney Love to Auction Kurt Cobain's things (13:45) - "My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant ... bag full of flannel ... shirts," says Love, former frontwoman of the rock band Hole. "A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to '(Smells Like) Teen Spirit' -- that's what my... | 2 Comments

Monday 23 April

  • Debris by Farbrausch - Breakpoint 2007 PC Demo Winner (09:47) - The demo scene is alive and well. Debris by Farbrausch [download for PC] was the winner for best PC demo at this year's Breakpoint demo party. At only 177K in size, it is 7 minutes of amazing 3D. If you... | 2 Comments

Monday 9 April

  • Detroit techno videos (15:18) - It's been a long time. Happy Easter and shit. Four videos, all awesome in their own special way, and all somehow related to Detroit techno. Detroit Institute of Techno is my new project. Holla.... | 2 Comments

Friday 16 February

  • picard's song (19:51) - Here is the full song, not the watered down ytmnd version. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!!... | 0 Comments

Monday 12 February

  • beatboxing flute super mario brothers theme (18:39) - He doesn't really take off until about 30 seconds into the video. I'm having a really hard time trying to figure out if this is cool or dorky. ... | 0 Comments

Monday 29 January

  • K-Fed Nationwide Commercial (22:27) - My main man Kevin Federline is starring in a Nationwide "Life Comes at you Fast" commercial for this upcoming Superbowl. Nationwide put the commercial up on their website today. Click here to watch the video. They say he only sold... | 2 Comments

Thursday 4 January

  • The Grey Video (13:54) - Man, I'm behind on things. Someone put together a great video based on the Encore track from DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album: ... | 0 Comments
  • New Modest Mouse single (13:42) - You can now stream the new Modest Mouse single Dashboard, from the upcoming album We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. The album is due out Jan. 16th. ... | 1 Comments

Saturday 10 June


Tuesday 21 March

  • The Night John Lennon Died (10:33) - A recording of a scan of the FM dial in New York City shortly after the news that John Lennon had been killed. Nearly every station is either playing the Beatles, Lennon, announcing the news of his death, or talking... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 14 March

  • Pandora (13:59) - Pandora is an interesting site to help you find new music based on your current tastes. It is part of the music genome project, a project that set out to break down songs in to their basic components (music genes)... | 5 Comments

Tuesday 7 March

  • Salty Salt (14:15) - I saw this dude and his pimpin' truck at Venice beach the other week. The back window of the truck was covered in a vinyl sticker that read, "Tha Whole Salt an Nuthin' but the Salt." Salty Salt was out... | 2 Comments

Tuesday 14 February

  • who is doug martsch? (13:10) - The recent leak of the forthcoming Built To Spill record shows that the band has a sense of humor yet are determined to get paid for their work. The only leak available of “You In Reverse” samples from Mike Jones,... | 3 Comments

Monday 9 January

  • While my Guitar Gently Weeps (19:38) - Amazing rendition of the Beatles' "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" played on a Ukulele by Jake Shimabukuro. Stick with it, this kid has incredible hands.... | 1 Comments

Friday 30 December

  • Nerdcore (15:47) - Lazy Sunday Enjoy... | 3 Comments

Wednesday 21 September

  • Interviewy goodness (13:24) - This is a great interview with Mark Mothersbaugh, the guy from Devo who is now a composer for movies and television. We went at it for a really long time until one of the DJ's - the local radio station... | 0 Comments

Saturday 6 August

  • Jeffrey Atkins or Curtis James Jackson III? (17:26) - Ok, I realize that I miss out on a lot of cultural things while living outside my country, but I had no idea what's bin droppin' tween these two from the same corner of an NYC block. So 'cause ain't... | 3 Comments

Tuesday 26 July

  • Nerdcore (14:09) - From Wired News by way of Slashdot. The article chronicles some of the "big names" in geek hiphop. My favorite has got to be Purdue PHD Candidate MC Plus+. "The stigma that was once attached to computer geeks and role-playing... | 0 Comments

Friday 22 July

  • Crazy Eyez Killah (17:11) - Philadelphia DJ, Low B put down some beats for Crazy Eyes Killah's "I'm coming to get you": it's a mashup of one of my favorite Curb Your Enthusiasm Episodes. Download the mp3... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 19 July


Tuesday 5 July

  • Live 8 (18:18) - I keep trying to post a reply to JT's comment about Live 8, but disjointed keeps giving me an error. So I thought I'd paste my comment here. Live 8 was a lot of fun, it was like a citywide... | 14 Comments

Thursday 30 June

  • live 8 setup (22:25) - With Live 8 two days away, I took a walk over to the Art Museum to see how construction was going. Nearly everything needs to be in place by tomorrow morning as the artists are scheduled for rehearsals throughout the... | 3 Comments

Sunday 26 June

  • who shot ya? (10:20) - Jurors hearing the Notorious B.I.G. wrongful death suit were sent home early after lawyers told the court Friday that they had received a dramatic eleventh-hour tip linking two rogue Los Angeles police officers to the rapper's 1997 slaying. A Louisiana... | 1 Comments

Tuesday 31 May

  • Live 8 (18:55) - LONDON (AP) -- Twenty years after the Live Aid concerts, musical superstars are joining in a five-city spectacular to push a political solution for African poverty. ... Musicians including Madonna, Paul McCartney, U2, Bon Jovi, Brian Wilson, Crosby Stills &... | 0 Comments

Tuesday 10 May

  • Scouts can earn anti-piracy merit badge (13:01) - HONG KONG (AP) -- Boy scouts typically prove their mettle with fishing and camping skills, but now they can win laurels by showing their awareness of copyright laws. The Hong Kong government has launched the "IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) Scout... | 0 Comments

Monday 21 March

  • dead hensons (19:03) - I saw The Dead Hensons on Saturday night at a local bar. The Dead Hensons are an eight piece rock band exclusively covering the upbeat songs from early Jim Henson projects (mainly Sesame Street, the Muppet Show, and the Muppet... | 3 Comments

Wednesday 9 March


Monday 28 February

  • Hamster-Powered MIDI Sequencer (11:01) - In keeping with our brave new, hamster-powered world, Levy Lorenzo has submitted his contribution to society in the form of the hamster-controlled MIDI sequencer. "It's three note polyphonic. Each channel is controlled by two hamsters, one for the melody,...

Friday 18 February

  • Modest Mouse as sung by 7 year olds... (13:45) - I was watching some Scooby Doo yesterday when a commercial came on for Kidz Bop 7. The premise of the CD is little kids singing along in chorus to today's "hottest hits." I had recently come to grips with one...

Thursday 17 February

  • Sleater-Kinney doesn't want you downloading their new album (09:39) - It's scary to imagine that this leak might actually affect our livelihoods, but ultimately this isn't about the fear of people not supporting us financially as indie artists. We don't think of 'The Woods' as some product getting out...

Thursday 3 February

  • Self-amplified 1950s hand-powered record-player (13:34) - Cory Doctorow: This "self-amplified" 1950s promotional record for Skippy peanut-butter was played by inserting a pencil into the record-hole and turning the disc by hand, while a needle attached to a cardboard tone-arm transmitted the sound to the cardboard...

Sunday 23 January

  • Folk Straight Outta Compton (17:27) - Nina Gordon (of Veruca Salt) has recorded a folk version of NWA's "Straight Outta Compton". I would have given her some credit had this not already been done before. If you'll remember, Dynamite Hack did a folk cover of NWA's...

Thursday 6 January

  • Poor Ashlee (17:17) - This is Ashlee Simpson getting heckled after her 'performance' at the National Championship game's half-time. I'm starting to think Ryan's favorite singer has no talent at all. He's gonna be crushed....

Friday 10 December

  • Vulgar Display of Power (00:22) - COLUMBUS, Ohio Dec 9, 2004 It looked like something out of a macabre heavy-metal video: The lights dimmed in the smoke-filled nightclub, the rock band Damageplan launched into its first thunderous riffs, and then a man in a hooded...

Thursday 9 December

  • Bag of Coke found in ODB's stomach (01:09) - During Ol' Dirty Bastard's autopsy, a double wrapped plastic bag filled with white powder was found in his stomach. Unfortunately, the bag had sprung a leak. The toxicology tests have not come back yet, but I doubt the results will...

Saturday 13 November

  • Ol' Dirty Bastard Dies (20:31) - Pour some liquor out, this news sucks. Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard died on Saturday (November 13) in New York, according to his spokesperson.Sources close to ODB said he had been complaining of chest pains earlier in the day....

Wednesday 10 November

  • Gil Mantera (14:23) - If you live in Columbus or around Youngstown you may have heard of Gil Mantera's Party Dream. Even though I have heard so much about these guys, nothing could have prepared me for the complete night of awesome that I...

Wednesday 27 October

  • Eminem - Mosh (00:04) - Video for Mosh off Eminem's new album. Has it come to this, that Eminem is the voice of the people, the troops, the poor and disenfranchised. He hasn't quite come out on Kerry's side but he makes one thing clear......

Sunday 24 October


Monday 18 October

  • looking for new music? (13:04) - At musicplasma.com you can enter a band or artist you listen to and get a visual map of similar/related music. It is a good way to find something new to listen to....

Saturday 18 September

  • It rubs the lotion on it's skin (20:32) - Someone wrote a song about Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. It's accompanied by clips from the movie (not safe for work). It's a really catchy tune, I wish I knew who wrote it. Ween maybe? It sounds like...

Thursday 16 September

  • Cocaine is a hell of a drug (22:33) - To add to my previous post regarding Rick James... "The coroner listed nine drugs, including prescription medications for anxiety, pain relief and heart failure, along with cocaine and methamphetamine that were found in James's body." Here's the complete article on...
  • Johnny Ramone dead at 55 (00:25) - Johnny Ramone, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band the Ramones, has died at the age of 55. Ramone died in his sleep Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 15) at his Los Angeles home surrounded by friends and family, his publicist...

Monday 13 September

  • There's Nothing Wrong With Love (00:22) - My favorite album is 10 years old today. On September 13, 1994, Built to Spill released "There's Nothing Wrong With Love." ...

Tuesday 7 September


Monday 23 August

  • slambush.net - Hip Hop battle to oust Bush (11:28) - Slam Bush is looking for a national champion; someone whose voice could represent Hip Hop in a face-to-face debate against the President, either in the streets or behind the podium. Hip Hop can help send George Bush back to Texas...

Friday 6 August

  • I'm Rick James, bitch! (17:18) - Super Freak Rick James is dead at 56, apparently beaten to death by Eddie Murphy and his brother Charlie over mud stains on a new couch. Not really, but you can read about it here. In other news, Dave Chappelle...

Thursday 5 August

  • A Really Expensive Record Player (13:21) - Nordic Concept Reference turntable with Vitus Audio preamp: U.S. Retail price: $15,500- And it can't even be used for DJing. ...

Monday 28 June

  • Lollapalooza 2004 Cancelled (11:35) - With the first good lineup since maybe the first couple of Lollapalooza's, this summer's festival looked worthy of a visit. Unfortunately Lollapalooza 2004 is no more....

Thursday 24 June

  • Hatebeak (20:08) - Face-crushing guitars, head-pounding drums, bass so low itll make you vacate your bowels, and vocals so scorching, so extreme, they cant be human. Theyre not. This death metal outfit with a parrot for a singer takes your head off with...

Wednesday 23 June

  • mp3s for rubles (07:31) - Gear Live has a writeup about allofmp3.com, a russian website offering mp3 downloads for a penny a megabyte. At this price you can pick up a full length album for about a dollar, and you get to choose the format...

Wednesday 16 June

  • Plastikman | Live (13:48) - On June 4th at the Mutek electronic music festival in Montreal, Richie Hawtin performed his Plastikman material live for the first time since 1995. "The performances from that era, Glastonbury, the Fuk tour, etc, have gone down in the annals...

Thursday 27 May

  • Sony Hi-MD (02:07) - I've always been a fan of the minidisc. I think it is one of the most underrated devices out there. In January Sony announced the Hi-MD format. The Hi-MD format uses 1Gb disks that are capable of storing up to...

Friday 30 April


Monday 26 April

  • songs to wear pants to (16:25) - At Songs to wear pants to you can email your song ideas and lyrics to this dude and he might just write a song for you....

Saturday 17 April

  • Bent Mp3s (12:13) - Samples of various bent electronics making sounds they were never meant to make. Including this Furby. [via waxy.org] ...

Sunday 11 April

  • Windows Remix (15:29) - It's well known that the Microsoft Windows "sound" was made by Brian Eno. But what music lies waiting in the other famous Windows sounds like chimes and ding.wav? Some of us merely ponder while others beat on SNDREC32.EXE until they...

Thursday 8 April

  • 10 Years Later (11:35) - Kurt Cobain killed himself 10 years ago today. Strange how I can remember so many details from that day. Polamex was getting his haircut, but I was hanging out at his house while he was at his appointment. I was...

Wednesday 7 April


Friday 20 February

  • Li'l G n'R (13:04) - What happens when you mix 9 year old girls and Guns N' Roses? You get Li'l G n'R, the first Guns N' Roses child tribute band. They are playing at CBGB's in NYC this Sunday. I'm trying to decide...

Tuesday 10 February

  • Flute Beatboxing (03:02) - Flute Beatbox, n: The art of woodwind percussion. Flutes don't sound as funny as harmonicas....

Friday 6 February

  • Flyers (00:31) - A collection of oldschool flyers from parties (read: "raves") from over a decade ago. When's the last time Moby played at a rave? They are all ones where Detroit DJ Eric Haupt performed and so are mostly in the Detroit...

Sunday 1 February

  • Advertising (22:29) - A member of Negativland, who are known for their culture jamming art and sampling controversies, presents the film Value-Added Cinema, a collage of pure, unadulterated product placement shots. I'm waiting for the rest of the Superbowl ads to get updated...

Friday 19 December

  • Record Industry May Not Subpoena Online Providers (11:59) - There is some very promising news on the legal end of the digital front for once. The Times reported that the DC Court of Appeals rejected the RIAAs claim that internet service providers should have to respond to subpoenas for...

Wednesday 26 November

  • QFO Update (02:54) - Video of Qbert working out the QFO. Seriously, what better product marketing is there than this....

Sunday 9 November

  • QFO (23:22) - Qbert poses with the new, portable QFO from Vestax. Pics from turntabletv and skratchworx. "if it were a Sony product, it would be called a 'skratchman'."...

Wednesday 29 October

  • Low-tech Music (03:12) - Remember "Real music is made with dot-matrix printers". Behold! Tree wave: Music made with dot-matrix printers. Or: Music which is both agressive and delicate at the same time. Complex rhytms microconstructed from broken machines, corrupt video and faulty sound modules....

Wednesday 22 October


Tuesday 14 October

  • Radiohead Experiment (17:08) - I'm not a big Radiohead fan, but this article is rather entertaining. As an experiment to get unbiased views on the latest Radiohead album, 5th graders were exposed to the album while armed with markers and paper to sketch their...

Monday 29 September

  • Ryan's Free, Audible guide to Indie (18:15) - If anyone is embracing mp3s as they should its the indie record labels. Below I have posted links to the mp3 pages on a few of the more prominent labels out there and some of my musical suggestions to download...

Wednesday 13 August

  • This quiz hurts my feelings... (10:44) - How indie are you? i am not indie at all! Who are you trying to fool? Just because you own a couple of Weezer albums doesn't mean that you're uberindie. Indie people don't hear about cutting edge new bands from...

Tuesday 12 August


Thursday 7 August

  • Built to Spill @ Newport (17:10) - Built to Spill is playing at Newport on Sept 20th. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. They generally sell out Columbus. Who wants to go?...