From time to time I like to tune in to the telly to see what bands are making the rounds on the late night talk show circuit on programs like Letterman, Conan, Fallon and the like…
So, last night this happened on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Not content to simply perform a tune from their [...]

Today I was turned onto a new online music creation application called Nudge. The user friendly widget allows anyone — even those without any musical knowledge or experience — to compose rhythmic, electronic-based music by “painting” in boxes in 8 different color-coded 16×16 matrixes.
The interface is pretty intuitive and easy to learn in about [...]

File this one under “This seems like something I should have known… but didn’t.”
This morning I was listening to the wonderful Seattle radio station KEXP online and heard a moody, grooving song by David Holmes called “Don’t Die Just Yet.”
(Holmes, you might know from being the musician, producer and DJ behind many film [...]

My cohorts over at NPR Music’s jazz blog A Blog Supreme have been curating a series of lists of some of the best jazz records from the last decade as a means to introduce new people to jazz. In the process we’re also sort of introducing a new modern canon of classic jazz records.
Now [...]

At my parents house going much of my old stuff. The best part of this normally terrible task? Going through my old albums to bring stuff back with me. Here’s just a tiny sample of the 100’s of LPs:

All summer Beck has been slowly trickling out tracks from his Record Club as he Nigel Godrich and cast of other friends and musicians have covered The Velvet Underground & Nico in its entirety. He has also been releasing ‘acoustic’ versions of his 2008 album Modern Guilt, interviewing Tom Waits and Will Ferrell and unearthing [...]

So I’ve heard some of The Beatles’ remasters coming out next Wednesday (9/9/09!!!) and all I can say is that they’re stunning. I’ve heard a handful of tracks from all the albums — standouts from what I’ve heard seem to be “I Am The Walrus,” “I’ve Got A Feeling,” “Daytripper,” “She’s Leaving Home” etc — [...]

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Lately I feel like this has become some sappy Flaming Lips fan blog, but this one was too good to pass up, and what can I say? I am fan.
Anyone who knows me even a little knows that I love a great cover song. One that’s not only a [...]