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hearhere.org

Automagically create audio/video playlists of upcoming shows & whatever else. Basically, a mashup of eventful.com and youtube that creates playlists so you can see/here what artists are coming (plus a simple text search). [more inside]
posted by zazerr on May 24, 2011 - 4 comments

Dustys Discover Internet!

My band the Dustys have a new website to showcase the songs we've been recording for the past year (instead of touring). We'll be releasing a new video and song every few weeks. We're especially excited about the video for Blueberry, which we shot in Montana with a cast of many!
posted by Potomac Avenue on May 18, 2011 - 1 comment

Bullet in a Quiver

Just self-released my debut LP, Bullet in a Quiver, and thought that fellow MeFites might appreciate it! It's a completely DIY affair, recorded at home in Minneapolis and in the Harvard Lampoon's semi-secret castle headquarters while it was drained of people for spring break. It's a sort of a concept album about cats, hues, prime numbers, alien invasion, and subprime lending, so if you are interested any of those things, however vaguely, by all means, check it out and pass it along! It is free, so ⌘C/⌘V away.
posted by DNAshwood on May 10, 2011 - 2 comments

Lifelong EP

My solo project, Vapor Lanes, released an EP yesterday on the netlabel BFW Recordings. It's been described by various folks as "intense, grainy electronica" with "destroyed but beautiful shoegazey synths," like a "corroded M83."
posted by naju on May 3, 2011 - 9 comments

Melodic Expectation

Every week day, I post a link and a little write-up to a free album, single, or EP. By free, I mean a recording posted by the artist or their label that is available for instant download, pay-what-you-want download, or we'll-email-you-a-link download. (I research enough to be sure the download is legitimate and working at time of post.) Genres are all over the place but include electronic, ambient, indie rock, pop, chiptune, etc. Want to fill your mp3-playing-device for free? Do it here.
posted by sleeping bear on Apr 25, 2011 - 2 comments

Godspeed You! Black President

A site that throws together Godspeed You Black Emperor and a pitched-down Barack Obama. Sounds like the nervewracking end to a long night in the Situation Room, with only a bottle of scotch, some childhood memories, and the nuclear launch codes for company. [more inside]
posted by so_necessary on Apr 15, 2011 - 3 comments

The Electric Lightsaber Orchestra

My friend Matthew and I started coming up with music acts that ought to exist in the Star Wars universe. Before you know it, we had an entire imaginary music festival. And a poster. And a domain to host the poster. I think we got a little carried away. Anyway, if you've ever dreamed of seeing Darth Cab for Cutie share a stage with Kessel Run-DMC, then Tatunes is the festival for you.
posted by yankeefog on Apr 14, 2011 - 4 comments

A Painting for Win and Regine

My boyfriend is a painter who does life-size portraiture. Inspired by this photo, he made a painting of Win & Regine from Arcade Fire, and would like to give it to them as a gift. I made this little site to publicize our quest.
posted by crackingdes on Apr 14, 2011 - 5 comments

Inside the John Lennon Educational School Bus

The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus helps kids write songs, record tracks, and film music videos — all in one school day. [more inside]
posted by Lillitatiana on Apr 1, 2011 - 0 comments

Songs for the Cure 2011

A multi-disc album (available for download or CD purchase) of original and arranged music, spanning a huge range of genres, for which all proceeds go to the American Cancer Society via UCincinnati's Relay for Life program. The roster is a Who's Who of indie game music, including the composers for Super Meat Boy, Minecraft, and Unreal, and the guys behind Metroid Metal and Overclocked ReMix (and ..MeFi's own jake). The goal is to raise $10k by the end of April.
posted by jake on Mar 29, 2011 - 0 comments

GLTI.CH Karaoke

is a virtual jukebox oozing with time-delayed, glitchy fun. Streaming live over the web, London and Kumamoto will be joined in a sing off to end all sing offs. The first GLTI.CH KARAOKE event will laugh in the face of the nine hour time difference, of poor bandwidth, bad lip syncing, and terrible foreign language translations. All that matters is that the interwebs keep running and the participants keep on singing. From our first event we will encourage a whole series GLTI.CH Karaoke happenings. Using webstreaming software our eventual aim is to link up multiple cities across the globe for an all-out, Noon til Noon, 24 hour Karaoke marathon. This means we need YOU to help host future events, with all proceeds raised going to The Japan Society Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund. [more inside]
posted by 0bvious on Mar 25, 2011 - 0 comments

Collaborative Jukebox

As promised, I have made available the source code for my Collaborative Jukebox project. This code will run a social website where visitors can upload music from their computer into a shared queue, which is then played in order for everyone at the same time. [more inside]
posted by narwhal bacon on Mar 15, 2011 - 12 comments

Art International Radio

Last month, I finished designing a new website for an art gallery and radio station in NYC: Art International Radio (formerly known as WPS1). We've got and oodles oodles of rare and interesting content, interviews, music shows, recordings, performances. Listen to an interview about Fururist noise music boxes called the Intonarumori, or an interview with Jim Jarmusch, Gregg Araki, or Michel Gondry. Listen to Genesis P-Orridge ruminate on life and art, or tune into the latest interviews from the Brooklyn Rail. We've acquired some historic audio tapes, and am digitizing them in the process, so that you can listen to Allen Ginsberg (and his father!) talk together. There's music, too: Listen to a curated show on Minimalist music, a recording of a chiptunes/NES-driven performance, some really great disco/house mixes, a curated selection of contemporary Brazilian music (expect bossa nova!), or a wonderfully John Peel-inspired indie rock show. If you want something more experimental, then you can listen to a series of short radio micro-compositions, cassette-tape-generated noise, industrial percussion music performances. --- And if you're overwhelmed, check out the AIR stream, and just sit back and listen... [more inside]
posted by provolot on Mar 11, 2011 - 0 comments

Clang Jingle Clang. A new piece of music every day.

Yeah, it's been done, but not as weirdly as it's done here. Using drums, cello, ping-pong balls, wine glasses, bicycles, air pumps, trains, umbrellas, sixxens, piano, feedback, vacuum cleaners, bassoon, birthday candles, kazoo, flute, gankogui, shakuhachi, electric guitar, and most of all Audacity and a hand-held recorder, I'm making a piece that's short and interesting every day. Examples appear on the MeFi Music wall from time to time.
posted by daisystomper on Mar 7, 2011 - 1 comment

You are listening to Los Angeles

Live LAPD radio chatter & CC-licensed music from SoundCloud come together in this weird chillout mashup. Enjoy? [more inside]
posted by idontlikewords on Mar 6, 2011 - 16 comments

The Cassette Masters (1988-1994)

From the ages of 12 to 18, I recorded thousands of songs in my bedroom studio with the help of friends, family, and some seriously outmoded synthesizers. This blog chronicles my "life and times" as a precocious, introverted, and frighteningly prolific synthpop prodigy coming of age in the Midwestern flats with an array of Jurassic technology. (WARNING: Blog moves chronologically. It may take a while to reach wholly listenable material.)
posted by mykescipark on Mar 6, 2011 - 2 comments

Tens of Dollars

This is a music video I directed about a bank robber who falls in love with the beautiful teller he tries to rob. Would love to hear your brutal opinion. Thanks. [more inside]
posted by Bobby Bittman on Feb 15, 2011 - 7 comments

Start to Finish, A Metafilter Music Podcast

I've been listening to the songs on Metafilter Music - all the songs! - from the very beginning. On weekday mornings, I'll add a song I like. It's a song of the day podcast. The most popular tags for the music I like so far: electronic, pop, dance, ambient, rock, electronica, synth, techno, instrumental, & indie.
posted by Pronoiac on Feb 12, 2011 - 3 comments

The top 10 greatest classical composers

... according to my not-so-authoritative, highly personal opinions. Includes YouTube clips for each composer and a bonus list of "honorable mentions." Inspired by the New York Times series by Anthony Tommasini. [more inside]
posted by John Cohen on Jan 22, 2011 - 0 comments

Here, I Taped This!

I'm borrowing terrapin's cassette deck so that I can digitize all my old cassette tapes. Among them are various mixtapes, as well as cassettes chock full of songs I taped off the airwaves in Boston in the early 1980's (probably while doing my homework). Here's where I share my tapes with you -- and I invite you to share your old cassette tapes with me, before they deteriorate or that little fuzzy nubbin falls off the cassette. I have about forty of my own tapes to go. Hope you enjoy my first foray into Projects!
posted by not_on_display on Jan 21, 2011 - 4 comments

Dym: Swarm cover art

I recently completed artwork for my friends' new EP. It's a pretty complex photo collage, mostly of pictures that I took myself. The link above goes to Deathwatch Asia, where the EP version with my art is being released. You can go here to see the whole booklet, as well as the collages without text. If you like your music crunchy, give them a listen, they're pretty great.
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 on Jan 11, 2011 - 1 comment

New Year's Day Song Project

Every January 1st, a new song! Since 2006 a group of us (we're not in a band) have written and recorded a song on new year's day tangentially related to something that happened the night before. Each time, we pick a different genre and hold ourselves to finish it before midnight. 6 years and 6 songs running! [more inside]
posted by kakarott999 on Jan 4, 2011 - 0 comments

The Dow Piano

Stock trades determine the songwriting in this audiovisual presentation, translating the ups and downs of 2010 into musical notes. Using a five-note scale spanning three octaves, pitch is determined by the daily closing numbers of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
posted by edlundart on Jan 2, 2011 - 5 comments

The Ballad of Nasra Ismail

Since May 2009, PlanetSlade has been bringing you the true stories behind classic murder ballads like Stagger Lee, Knoxville Girl and Hattie Carroll. The site’s latest essay details my efforts to write a fresh set of lyrics in this old tradition, describing a real 2004 murder near my home in North London. The victim was a young Somali prostitute, picked up by her killer while working the streets around King’s Cross. Her death was barely reported at the time, which is one reason I decided to try and commemorate her in song. The folk singer Pete Morton liked my first set of lyrics enough to add some music and record them for me (free download here), and Iowa’s own Scott Riley shot some YouTube footage of himself performing my second version of the song – again, with his own music. PlanetSlade previously: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
posted by Paul Slade on Jan 1, 2011 - 0 comments

The 2010 Koprivshtitsa Festival Orgy®

Every five years, in the Bulgarian village of Koprivshtitsa, over 15,000 performers and 250,000 spectators gather to celebrate the national music and folklore of Bulgaria. This Orgy consists entirely of original recordings made on location during the 2010 festival, featuring hundreds of songs from every folkloric region of Bulgaria as well as field recordings made around the town. It will be broadcast on WHRB Cambridge, 95.3 fm, from 5 am until 11 am EST, and streamed over the web at http://whrb.org.
posted by Kit on Dec 5, 2010 - 1 comment

Studio Multitracks

I've started a blog devoted to isolated tracks from songs. Really acts as a search engine for this amazing new phenomenon where you can hear recordings track by track.
posted by Henry Baum on Dec 4, 2010 - 8 comments

Synthbot

I built some synths and put them in robots and now they're going to be on show at Deluxe Cafe, Kent Tce, Wellington, New Zealand for two weeks starting Monday 15th.
posted by mhjb on Nov 9, 2010 - 7 comments

"Music for Supervillains": Lab rock at its finest.

My buddy Doctor Pinkerton, mad scientist supreme, just released his latest album. It's fourteen tracks of genre-leaping silliness, with a comic-book style cover by yours truly. And if you can make it to the release party in New Orleans this Saturday, you can get a free comic book based on the album, too!
posted by egypturnash on Nov 5, 2010 - 1 comment

MIDIPilot

I have recently written a MIDI control surface app for the iPad. It currently has six layouts, consisting of combinations of piano keyboards (with pitch bender), and ribbons and XY pads, which can be configured to send different MIDI control events. It works over WiFi, talking to the open-source DSMIDIWiFi client. [more inside]
posted by acb on Nov 4, 2010 - 5 comments

Musical keyboard design concept

To quote myself from the page: "Most MIDI keyboards look like cheap toy spaceships from 1982. But music production is now a home activity. Here’s a keyboard you'd be proud to have around."
posted by edlundart on Nov 2, 2010 - 5 comments

Soul Possession, Ben Hamper's radio show arhive site

Best selling author Ben Hamper (Rivethead) has a vast knowledge of music. He hosts two radio shows, Soul Possession and Head For The Hills, both broadcast on community station WNMC 90.1 FM located in Traverse City, MI. Here is an archive of the streams for both shows. 'Soul Possession' is two hours of classic R&B, Funk, Soul and Blues, while 'Head For The Hills' is an hour of old Country, Hillbilly and Western music. Ben digs deep and mainly plays obscurities, B-sides and other rarities. There is also a link to listen to the streams live. I've been maintaining the site for over a year now and felt that there is enough material on it now to share with the Blue. Enjoy!
posted by peewinkle on Oct 19, 2010 - 0 comments

Ama Qhella

This site serves as a repository of all my recent creations, including murals, drawings, music, writings and movies. An online portfolio, if you will. [more inside]
posted by cloeburner on Sep 27, 2010 - 4 comments

OK Monkees Parody Mashup Video Remix

OK Go's latest video (four guys playing with a bunch of dogs) instantly reminded me of something I might have seen in an old episode of The Monkees. I Monkee-ified the soundtrack with a fitting song and made a few adjustments to the video to achieve this result. 1966 meets 2010!
posted by mikepop on Sep 21, 2010 - 8 comments

The Peter O'Tooles

My Celtic punk band, featuring me on the electric guitar and banjolele and Coco Mault on bodhran and other drums. We play especially filthy songs that derives as much from American protopunk as from traditional Irish music. [more inside]
posted by Astro Zombie on Sep 8, 2010 - 5 comments

Map and streaming playlist of the best non-commercial college radio stations.

After discovering two amazing college radio stations in my proximity (KZSU - Stanford and KFJC - Foothills College), I began listening not only from my car but wherever I had a high speed internet connection. Thus I began a mission to identify all similarly awesome stations in the USA/Canada. The result is 77 high-quality streaming commercial-free radio stations that you can load into a convenient playlist. Surely this beats the repetitive, commercial music discovery sites out there. It has been an extremely rewarding project for me, and I hope you enjoy it too! [more inside]
posted by foraneagle2 on Sep 7, 2010 - 14 comments

Radiant City by Good Old Neon

Radiant City, the second album by Good Old Neon, is now available as a free download from our website in a range of formats. Tracks are published under Creative Commons, so feel free to use them in your own non-commercial works. It's electronic indie/pop/rock - Katamari meets Tango-era Fleetwood Mac, or Brian Eno jams with Yeah Yeah Yeahs after Karen O gets on the wrong plane. Something like that. [more inside]
posted by Cantdosleepy on Sep 7, 2010 - 0 comments

Caerse Muerto

The awesome (horror movie) blog Kindertrauma premiered a short film/music video I put together today. [more inside]
posted by sleepy pete on Aug 16, 2010 - 0 comments

rage

This thing converts episodes of ABC TV's music video program, rage, into excruciatingly minimalist youtube playlists.
posted by plant on Aug 13, 2010 - 12 comments

Monotoning Music with Echo Nest Remix

I got an idea a while back to try and automatically "monotonize" music using the Echo Nest Remix library. This is a presentation and explanation of my initial process and some of the more interesting examples I've produced using the script I wrote. See for example Comfortably Numb as a one-chord song or Suzanne Vega's favorite note. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Aug 9, 2010 - 9 comments

Singing Whilst Driving

A blog devoted to scenes of singing in the car (or bus, or helicopter) from TV & the movies. [more inside]
posted by jontyjago on Aug 5, 2010 - 3 comments

I am in an opera.

"The Last Dreams of Helene Weigel or How to Get Rid of the Feminism Once and for All" - The Voice hated us, but I love it. I, under my non-Metafilter name Tom Swirly, am playing Berthold Brecht. Four more performances at Surreal Estate in Bushwick, come and see! You can pre-purchase tickets online...
posted by lupus_yonderboy on Jul 28, 2010 - 0 comments

"The Brothers Buffett" - The Combined Oeuvre of Jimmy Buffett and Warren Buffett

(They're not brothers.) I know squat about music, and jack squat about investing. But I'm taking every Warren Buffett letter (there are 32) and every Jimmy Buffett album (there are 32...kismet) and breaking them down on a weekly basis. And I'm investing $32,000 and writing a song a month to show what I learn. And, in general, being a jackass about it.
posted by johndavi on Jul 22, 2010 - 0 comments

The Whistling Monster

I teach music at an elementary school, and the students and I spent the year creating a long-form musical story, which became a CD. It's based on a folk tale from an Amazon tribe. All the music, singing and sounds are by the kids. [more inside]
posted by argybarg on Jun 27, 2010 - 4 comments

Nine Inch Niles - The Seattleward Spiral

A bizarre auto-mashup album I made today using Echo Nest Remix: it's a frankensteinien reconstruction of The Downward Spiral using only a few minutes of audio from the show Frasier.
posted by cortex on Jun 4, 2010 - 17 comments

Patterns in the Smoke

SLAMVYT - Single Link Ambient Music Video YouTube. [more inside]
posted by malocchio on Jun 3, 2010 - 0 comments

Our Own Devices by Stereo Sons - a rock record

My band's first full length album is available for digital download. [more inside]
posted by chaff on Jun 1, 2010 - 0 comments

TV Theme Quiz using HTML5 Audio

I occasionally make web-based quizzes for my friend's and co-workers to argue and compete over. They seem to enjoy them, perhaps you will too. How many well-known TV themes can you discern from this jumbled medley? An earlier quiz is also available.
posted by AndrewStephens on May 25, 2010 - 0 comments

Occasional Bong

An extreme ambient music project. [more inside]
posted by motty on May 23, 2010 - 5 comments

Inchoatery, an album by Josh Millard

I spent the month of February writing and recording a rock album, as part of the RPM Challenge. It's done and I'm pretty proud of what I pulled off. It's available for streaming and download on my new music site, music.joshmillard.com, and there's a bunch of album notes available on the site as well.
posted by cortex on Mar 1, 2010 - 5 comments

Josh Millard, Musician

My new music blog and archive. I've spent the last several weeks collecting and organizing several hundred recordings I've made by myself and with others in the last fourteen years or so, and this is the result. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Feb 1, 2010 - 7 comments

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