Making of Band Aid

Just a little late for Xmas, but still cool to watch:



[Production Advice]

Daft Punk samples

Some of these are spot on, and some of them... er... well, listen for yourself. Nice attempt at least.

Worst audio trends of the decade

5 Worst Audio Trends of the Noughties [MixBlog]

Featuring this gem: Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music

Wait... Disintegration is 20?

Pretty heavy write-up on the 20th anniversary of the Cure's best album (and one of my all-time favourites), Disintegration.

[Waveformless]

Merry Xmas y'all

RATM for Xmas

On the BBC:

High school students make lip dub

Set to Hall & Oates - You Make My Dreams Come True. Lots of fun:

New NIN videos

ninofficial @ YouTube

Season's Greetings from Can

Free holiday music from the German rock pioneers, Can.

Anatomy of a sound collage

A sample breakdown of The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up":



[wire to the ear]

Some crazy avant garde stuff

This is actually really cool:



[Everyday Listening]

Worst songs of the decade

Perfect. A great article, sufficiently cynical as well.

Gibberish rock song written by Italian composer to sound like English

[boing boing]

Another song I should have been paying attention to this year

Washed Out - "Feel It All Around"

Bowie's reply to his first U.S. fan

Very cool link over at Waveformless

On repeat

This one's heavy... Richard Swift with Lady Luck:



Found this one on Pop Matters' Top Singles of the Year. Not sure if I dig the video though... Kind of a new twist on Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love. Killer song though. I love when the bass comes back in at 3:33.

Some of my friends have a new band

Check out Azores on Myspace if you like Weezer and lo-fi indie pop.

That time of year again

The AV Club's always awesome and hilarious round up of band names from the past year...

No more Flight of the Conchords TV show

Probably a good idea... quit while they're way, way, way ahead.

Your new favourite song

Check it out... Phoenix with "1901"



Mmmmm.... power pop.

Way back Play back

This song just popped up on shuffle in iTunes. This song takes me right back to grade 9. It's Sister Hazel with All For You. I remember listening to this one on the old Mix 99.9. Yes I will admit to listening to that station at that time.

iTunes top stuff of the year

iTunes has put up their year end list. Worth checking out, there might be some stuff you missed. As I did. Off to Hype Machine!

Xmas music season is well underway...

Here's a gem from Michael McDonald's great Xmas album, In the Spirit. The album is worth checking out even if you're a non-ironic fan of his.

Free stuff

Music from Carl Sagan's Ghost

I just saw this post on Synthopia... just downloading the music now, but with an artist name like that, who could go wrong?

More Pfork love

Check out the readers poll here. It's really quick. And fun. Enjoy.

Rave: New Flight of the Conchords album

It has all the chords printed in the lyric book... I've never seen that before! Very cool! Definitely worth a pickup if you're a fan of the band... Also the album cover art parodies Seals & Crofts. Can't beat it.

Pfork's Worst Album covers of the year

Worth a read!

K'Naan song chosen as official 2010 FIFA World Cup anthem

K'naan's song 'Wavin' Flag' has been named as the official anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

[NME]