Last night, I took part in Band Camp, “an evening of ridiculous noisemaking” put together by Kelly Seagram. She sent out a call to a couple of dozen musicians here in Accordion City to join her for a free-form musical jam at Guitar Girl studio. Since I love jamming with other musicians, I couldn’t refuse [...]
Category Archives: Music
Vintage Ad Against Using Recorded Music for Movies
November 29, 2007 – 12:10 pm
Back in the 1980s, I was a regular reader of Keyboard magazine. I always rolled my eyes at the two-page ad spread usually near the middle of the magazine that bore the headline “Don’t let them do DAT”, a campaign whose purpose was to keep DAT — that’s digital audio tape — recorders out of [...]
It’s the Final Countdown!
November 20, 2007 – 12:04 pm
It’s my last day here at Tucows, and at the risk of sounding like a film critic, I’m going to have to say that the feeling is bittersweet. Fittingly enough, this song is running through my head:
Can’t see the video? Click here.
And I can’t mention that song without making reference to the most painful cover [...]
Nine Inch NOELs!
November 16, 2007 – 5:35 pm
Perhaps it’s a bit early for Christmas-related posts, but this can’t wait: it’s Lore Sjoberg’s musical project, Nine Inch Noels, which takes selected Nine Inch Nails lyrics and sets them to a medley of Christmas tunes:
Head Like a Hole sung to the tune of Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Down in It sung to the [...]
T.S. Eliot vs. Portishead
August 30, 2007 – 12:54 pm
Here’s an interesting idea: someone took a recording of T.S. Eliot reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and added the vamp from Portishead’s Sour Times — which you couldn’t escape back in 1995 — as background music. It’s not bad, but I think it would work better if more variety could’ve [...]
When This Computer Fad Blows Over, I’m Joining This Band
August 10, 2007 – 10:54 am
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
How a Record Gets Leaked
August 3, 2007 – 9:00 am
(This article was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
Here’s an infographic explaining how a record gets leaked from a Spin article titled Days of the Leak:
Click the image to see it at full size.
According to the infographic, there are a number of opportunities for an album to make it into the public’s hands [...]
The “120 Minutes” Tumblelog
July 24, 2007 – 10:52 am
In case you needed yet another internet distraction, allow me to point you to the 120 Minutes tumblelog – that’s a weblog for very short entries — that features a sizable collection of videos from MTV’s alt-rock video show, 120 Minutes during its heyday (the early 90’s).
Here are five videos featured in the [...]
“Thriller” as Performed by 1500+ Filipino Prisoners
July 20, 2007 – 3:00 pm
There’s something about Filipino culture that makes every Filipino, deep down, want to be a game show host or entertainer. Think about that for a moment and suddenly my schtick — accordion-playing mixed with blogging and technical evangelism suddenly makes sense.
Take this cultural tendency and mix it with the general preference in the [...]
Guitar vs. “Guitar Hero”
July 20, 2007 – 1:24 pm
[Cross posted to Global Nerdy]
Click to see the comic on its original page.
Trust me, kids: learn to play a musical instrument reasonably well before college.
As for accordion playing, the “coolness graph” looks like this:
