ministry of music

This is about a week old, but I’m just getting to last week’s Digg Digest now… Undercover Karaoke with Jewel from Jewel

Once upon a time there was a website called Lala.  I think I first heard about them in an issue of Wired as an alternative to filesharing.  Because, when Lala got started, it was all about cd trading — put the cd’s you don’t really care for anymore up in the pool, create a wishlist […]

I’m blissfully out of touch with most of what could be considered modern “pop” music, so I have very little opinion about Lady Gaga, per se, other than the fact that she seems a bit like an insane, overblown hybrid of Madonna and Britney Spears at their peaks.  That said, she says some things about […]

RPM is a couple months gone and I still haven’t gotten to listen to nearly as much of what came out of it as I would have liked.  However, one album that was recommended on the RPM forums was Charcoal Essex Park by Black Pepper Sea.  Working in the yard today, I loaded up my […]

coming back from a long road trip — for which i threw together several mp3 cds for the car in under a half hour — got me thinking about something i will call “the lost art of the mix cd.” i use the term “cd” fairly loosely because, before the mix cd, there was the […]

okay, let’s put an and to this ridiculous debate. there is a feud raging across the internet about whether the original “funny chatroulette piano” video is ben folds.  i’ve taken some heat on digg for suggesting that, um, yeah, it is.  so, let’s — just for the sake of argument — pretend that we don’t […]

it occurs to me that rpm came and went with very little said on this blog about it. i finished my rpm 2010 album.  it’s called you’ll have to wait for the book.  you can listen to it here, on bandcamp, or on alonetone, where my track 1 is currently in the top 40.  there’s […]

YouTube – OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – RGM version this via @neilhimself‘s blog

the entire catalog of the once-great and world renown experimental rock band, the loafmen is now available in its entirety for free download. okay, i lied about the world renown part.

sam rosenthal, of projekt records, is back on his piracy soapbox again.  he is asking each and every one of you to do your part to help stop piracy.  he breaks the world down into two camps: camp a says: “Music should be free, fuck you for thinking I should pay for your music.”  camp a is […]

gwoździec – more happiness buy the album and get all the source files in one download, or just download everything for free from the bandcamp site.  really happy to have this out there for people to enjoy as a full album as opposed to individual tracks. [clear]

i’ve decided to call the gwozdziec album done.  it’s been almost a year since i first started the project, and it hasn’t moved an inch for several months.  my goal was to produce 10-12 tracks for the album, but rather than trying to drag out a project i sort of lost interest in, i’m quitting […]