My buddy JB put together Indie Pop Cares a Lot, a free charity CD for people who donate to south-Asian tsunami relief. You send in a scan or photo of your donation receipt and you get a free CD of totally independent artists -- pretty rad. There was going to be some Brad Sucks on there but I 100% totally flaked + multiple ball droppings. My apologies to south Asia.
la Pate a Son - rearrange the machine to generate music. A lot of fun.
Popstrology: What's Your Sign? - Apparently I was born in the year of Rod Stewart.
Brain interface for music - 'a "brain cap" that recognizes musical ideas in the minds of composers'. Guess I'll have to lay off the liquor if I want to rock this thing.
What happens to my recording when it's played on the radio? - an interesting de-mystification article on why songs sound different on the radio than they do on albums. [via]
Radio David Byrne - cool radio stream by David Byrne of songs he likes.
Songs in list format - Cypress Hill songs make great lists.
Yahoo! Creative Commons Search - seems like a pretty big deal for the Creative Commons. It pushes them more into the mainstream, which is exciting.
Here's some remixes and also the first mash-up I've gotten:
- Making Me Nervous (Dubslate mix)
- Making Me Nervous (Tomas PhUsIoN mix)
- Dirtbag (Alexander Deeley mix)
- Making Me Nervous (Basic Training mix)
- Bad Attraction (Basic Training mix)
- Breaking Away From a Trend (Ratatat's "Breaking Away" mashup by Future Boy)
The latest remix source is for I Think I Started A Trend (61mb). As always, please deliver to me your remixes and I will be most pleased.
I'm going to be presenting an award on The Skinny on Sports' award show podcast - The Skinnies. Presenters include Adam Curry, Dave Slusher, Michael Geoghegan and some other familiar names. Apparently listeners have the chance to win a 1 gig iPod Shuffle and Etymotic 61 earphones, the show should be up on and after Wednesday.
I'm working on a lot of Brad Sucks related stuff and hope to start actually finishing some of those things soon or at the very least die in my sleep and have them released posthumously.
Hack your Creative Nomad Zen - got a 30GB Creative Nomad Zen in the mail today (thanks Microsoft!), turns out it's pretty trivial to install a larger laptop hard drive in there.
PDF chart of the US radio spectrum - this is a pretty awesome poster of all the radio frequency allocations in the US. [via]
DIY Album Cover Sketchbook - how to easily turn an LP cover into a notebook/sketchbook cover.
The Origin of Yelling 'Freebird' - a WSJ article on the origin of yelling 'Freebird' at concerts. I remember reading that when people yell 'Freebird' at Kid Rock he just plays it, which is somehow great to me.
Harmonica Beatboxing - this is incredibly awesome.
ODEO Podcast service - article and screenshots on the new podcast recording, hosting and publishing service.
The Beatles' Story in Comics - fan-made comic book about the story of the Beatles, available in English and Spanish.
While reading up on Hawaii for a vacation, I stumbled across HawaiiUP, subtitled "Podcasting in Paradise". Hawaiian podcasters? That's pretty awesome. Turns out there's a whole Hawaii Association of Podcasters and here's a list of them.
Lars helps out Beatallica - Sony has agreed to drop the case and beatallica.org will be back soon.
My album's included on the just-released Magnatune Tuneplug (the Rock Music Collection Volume One). It's a reusable USB flash drive that comes pre-loaded with the top 10 selling rock albums on Magnatune.
Included are albums from Artemis, Arthur Yoria, Brad Sucks, Burnshee Thornside, Emmas Mini, Fluid, Jade Leary, Myles Cochran, The Kokoon and Tom Paul.
It comes in various sizes, but it's $70 US for the 512MB model. I seem to remember that it'll be available at some retail outlets, but you can read more about it and buy it online here.