Tag Archives: music
BALOJI – KARIBU YA BINTOU feat. Konono N°1
I’m not going to tell you I understand more than a few words of this, here and there, but it sounds magnificent. (via Bruce Sterling – at least, this is where Baloji turns up in a search of Google Reader. … more…
links for 2010-02-01: Roger Eagle
Roger Eagle – Twisted Wheel Manchester – DJ, entrepreneur, club owner and important influence on the British music scene from the sixties to the nineties. Owned Eric’s club, Liverpool ran the Magic Village and Staxx Club, Manchester Roger Eagle interview … more…
History of Chicago Music 1908-1980
This three hour History of Chicago Music 1908-1980 runs from the very earliest recordings until just short of the development of house music in the early 80s. You will be wanting a different compilation for that. The James Reese Europe … more…
links for 2010-01-18: Eno and the end of records
Eno alludes in passing, to the end of recorded music as a way to make a living "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky." … more…
links for 2009-12-30: Vic Chesnutt
Boogie Woogie Flu: Of Loss and Longing and Sloppy Satori This is the best of the tributes to the late Vic Chesnutt that I've come across… (tags: Vic-Chesnutt RIP music)
links for 2009-11-24: King Midas Sound mix, pie crust recipe
Pie crust Whitehouse-approved sweet pastry recipe (tags: recipes food pie-crust Bill-Yosses) FACT mix 103: King Midas Sound trio of Kevin 'The Bug' Martin, Roger Robinson and Hitomi. Available for three weeks only, so they say. Thanks to John Eden for … more…
Soul Inventory – Stand By Me
YouTube – Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World. Soul check: if this doesn’t make you very happy, then you don’t have one. Sorry about that. (via Projo)
Jeff Mangum at the Starli(gh?)t Crypt
See Jeff Mangum, the (apparently) reclusive front-personage of Neutral Milk Hotel, being completely upstaged by a toddler during the (apparently) legendary performance in Athens, GA in 1997. For (apparently) one week only. Fair warning. (Owing to the peculiarities of the … more…
Logan Walters’ Wu-Tang Design Remix project
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | Logan Walters As you see, Logan Walters is doing a complete set of parallel universe Wu Tang album covers, primarily inspired by the Blue Note catalogue. It could be very tacky, but manages not … more…
Kevin Coyne – Marjory Razorblade
Amongst the (unusually worthwhile) comments, the following (which turns out to be from a 2003 Guardian 100 Best Albums You Have Never Heard) is quoted: Eastbourne Ladies flashing their knickers; Jackie in his boarding house, paper hat on head, pining … more…