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Category Archives: Music
iPod nono
And thus the shit hits the fan. I’m one happy space cadet for having bought a regular iPod instead of the nano — although to be fair, there already is one tiny scratch on my screen… :(
Posted in In The News, Music, Pop Cult
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Amadeus Amadeus
I, BLGR reports on an emerging revival of classical music with the kids. I’ve noticed it here in Belgium too — a more or less “hip” newspaper like De Morgen recently had an offer whereby you could buy high-quality double-cd’s … Continue reading
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Chocolate Poodles
When a Flemish singer/songwriter releases a song called “Weg Met Amerika” (“Down With America”), here’s what happens.
Posted in Music, Politics
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Jazz Is Not Dead…
iTunes as a hazard to the preservation of jazz: The digital music era should offer listeners more information about jazz, not less. The stakes are high. If jazz fragments into millions of digital files, future generations could be left with … Continue reading
Anton Webern Day
BBC’s Radio 3 has declared today Webern Day, 60 years to the day after the Austrian composer’s dramatic death. His complete works — about five and a half hours in total — will be broadcast in order of composition throughout … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Zappa Misc
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No Future
You know punk is dead when The Sex Pistols are added to the London Walk of Fame together with Benny Hill.
Ninth
Curse of the Ninth — in short, if you’re a composer and you’re about to write your 9th symphony: don’t. Or at least call it your tenth.
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RIP Clarence
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Louisiana-based singer and guitarist who among others, influenced Frank Zappa, has died in Texas after leaving New Orleans to avoid the ravages of Hurricane Katrina. Brown was 81 and suffered from lung cancer.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Misc
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Like Coldplay
Wouldn’t you agree that everything sounds like Coldplay now?
Posted in Amusing, Music
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Borg
Parodies of popular songs using karaoke-style backing music with vocals provided by audio pronunciation samples from online dictionaries — trust me, it’s funnier than it sounds.
iPod, You Pod
Well today I could no longer resist the sheer beauty and functionality of the iPod, so I went and bought me one. Not the Shuffle (1Gb, ha!), nor the iPod nano (4Gb, haha!) and certainly not the iPod U2 (U2, … Continue reading
Posted in Geek, Music
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When Cosby Sings
At waxy, a complete download of Bill Cosby’s 1971 album “Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs”. Slightly surreal, I should add.
Guitar poll (dot com)
This is a guitar-poll. Mr. Zappa is Nr. 9 – I don’t remember ever finding him that close to the leaders in a poll like this. A nice thing that the winner (although “he improved his teacher”) is also presented … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music
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R.L. Burnside Bit The Big One
RIP R.L. Burnside…
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The Perfect Album
Good thread at plastic.com about the phenomenon of the perfect album. “An album in which every track is great, each one worthy of being a hit. An album with not a single song you would skip past and nothing mediocre … Continue reading
Posted in Music
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