Back from the dead

The writers from the once-living Stylus Magazine have come together for a review of the recent decade that was. Great stuff over at The Stylus Decade...

The old site is still there, where you can find some fun, nerdy articles like the "Playing God" series, where writers would resequence their favourite (and not-so-favourite) albums, On First Thought, On Second Thought, and so on. Take an hour and lose yourself in their archives, you'll be glad you did.

A couple of my favourite music podcasts

What can I say, I'm a sucker for public radio.

CBC Radio 3 has a couple awesome podcasts you should check out. Turn your speakers down as the page features the annoying auto-play feature.

NPR's All Songs Considered covers all sorts of music but mostly rock and pop. Check out their year end and decade end shows. Lots of live concerts to check out as well.

Politically questionable, but still clever

Obama does Taxman:

Matt likes minimalist opera

The best part kicks in around 3 minutes, but watch the whole thing... so good.



The Canadian Opera Company is bringing this to the stage next year, I'd love to attend if the price isn't in the bourgeoisie range... though I hear they'll be doing standing room tickets for $12. Might be worth it, who knows.

[Nixon in China]

What's on Bowie's iPod?

This is pretty cool, I've been listening to a lot of John Adams lately as well...

What's on David Bowie's iPod?

From the Swarm

Performance of a Steve Reich piece

I've been listening to a lot of Steve Reich lately, this is a pretty amazing piece.



[Waveformless]

For fans of comedy...

I present: The Grammy nominees.

I gave up on this show a while ago, but the whole "train wreck fucks a train wreck" factor keeps bringing me back...

OK Go and Embedded videos

Here's an articulate article on the state of the music industry on the Interwebs.

I'm also reading this guy's book, Appetite for Self-Destruction, a fascinating history of the economics of the music industry. Definitely worth a read if you're into that sort of thing.

Lifetime Movie, or Megadeth song?

Given their shared preoccupation with kidnapping, family dysfunction and untimely death, it’s sort of surprising that Lifetime and Megadeth don’t share more fans. Can you tell the difference between the titles of Lifetime movies and Megadeth songs?

[Daily Swarm]

Still on Twitter

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Neil Peart's new Hockey Night theme

A little over the top, just like Rush.



[MusicRadar]

I love this blog.

What are they listening to on the subway?

[Daily Swarm]

Basement music #6 is up

Over at the Basement music blog... Check it out here

Smooth Grizzlies

Here's the master of smooth, Michael McDonald, taking lead vocals on Grizzly Bear's "While You Wait for the Others"

This one doesn't sound real...

AC/DC could kill off rare bird species [Music Radar]

New Jackson music

This one's pretty terrible, I hope the Jackson vault yields better results than what we've seen so far...



[Mashable]

DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2009

Mashup of a bunch of top pop tracks of last year... listen to this and watch the video then try and tell me that mashups can't be an art form. This is pretty brilliant: