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Okkervil River’s Will Sheff offers his ideas on file sharing. Working within space similar to cityofsound’s “A New Musical Experience,” Sheff looks at the aesthetic impact of the Internet on music.
The internet – with its glut not only of information but of misinformation, and of information that is only slightly correct, or only slightly […]
Barbarian Software recently released a new cross-platform iTunes visualizer called magnetosphere. I was worried that the fancy music-responsive graphics would burden my old G4, but the visualizer surprisingly ran rather quickly. Easy to install, the visualizer works on Macs and PCs, and I’m sure it runs beautifully on newer machines.
Here is an astounding video of Bob Dylan absolutely on fire in a live version of “Shelter from the Storm,” in Fort Collins, CO:
From the same May 23, 1976 show, here is an equally incredible version of Idiot Wind.
Produced by BBC4, “A Skin Too Few” documents Nick Drake, his life, and his music.
Part 1 (above), Part 2
“I always said that Nick was born with a skin too few”, says actress Gabrielle about her brother, the English singer-songwriter Nick Drake (1948-1974). This documentary approaches the silent landscapes, locations, people and music in the life […]
The newest Take-Away Show features The Shins performing in and around Montmartre in Paris. Download the full quality mp4’s (pt 1, pt 2), open full screen, press play, and enjoy.
Rue des Trois Frères, Montmartre (Amélie Poulain’s neighborhood). Amidst the lazy agitation and seething strollers of the neighborhood, people move through slowly, taking their time […]
On one nondescript January morning, the Washington Post hired Joshua Bell, a world-renowned violinist, to play anonymously in L’Enfant Plaza. Thousands will stream by over the course of the morning. Does anyone stop to listen for free to a virtuoso who regularly commands over $1,000 a minute? Does it matter?
Take a […]
Jascha Heifetz performs a stunning rendition of Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No.2 on solo violin:
Part 1:
Part 2:
For background information, here’s Wikipedia’s entry on the piece.
In case you missed the post a few weeks ago, check out the Traneumentary, a podcast dedicated exclusively to John Coltrane.
Blogotheque presents the Arcade Fire performing live in Paris. After a brief warmup, the group winds through the underground tunnels of the venue, stopping along the way to first perform Neon Bible in a packed freight elevator. They soon rise above ground and move into the middle of the crowd where they play […]
The Hold Steady’s new video for Stuck Between Stations was released a few days ago.
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