I Met The Walrus
This has been floating around for some time now, but I don’t think it’s been here and it is fantastic enough to mention for the um-teenth million time on the web. The short story on the video:
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack
hat tip to It’s Nice That for the reminder.
Big Star – Thirteen
A few days late by web standards, but RIP Alex Chilton
Home Taping is Killing Music
Lemmy, the Motorhead documentary
If we were in the 17th Century, don’t you think he’d be a pirate?
Chat Roulette’s Piano Improv Man
One question: could our hooded hero actually be an incognito Ben Folds?
(via)
David Byrne’s Ride, Rise, Roar
“The fact that they decided to combine modern dance with a rock show was risky,” director David Hillman Curtis told Wired.com by e-mail, ahead of Ride, Rise, Roar’s Monday premiere at the Paramount Theater, the first of three SXSW screenings this week. “It could have backfired quite easily. But it fits with David, since he is involved in many forms of art. They managed to pull it off through trust in collaboration.”
Musical Stairs
A creative way to promote exercise.
Surfer Blood – Catholic Pagans
The Weezer comparison seems to be common in my music circles. Pitchfork also makes it.
I just said
The song they’re singing next door sounds like Jimmy Buffett singing ‘The Best Part of Waking Up Is Folgers in Your Cup’.
Weaponizing Mozart
The headmaster of the school where children are forced to listen to classical music as a punishment for bad behaviour said infractions of school rules have dropped by about 60 per cent since he began the special detentions.
(via marginal revolution)
King Crimson – Lark’s Tongue and Aspic Part I
I like my metal either over the top or just plain weird.
The Middle East — Blood
A friend just introduced me to The Middle East. This track is mesmerizing.
Beck – Tropicalia
I figured I would go old school today.
Subway Sing-A-Long
Musicians in a Times Square subway station convince waiting commuters to sing along with the end of Hey Jude.
Micah P Hinson – Seems Almost Impossible
quote out of context
Ms. Travers disappeared by hiding in plain sight, living quietly with her parents in the house in Clifton, N.J., in which she had grown up. She remained there till well past middle age, through the death of her father in the 1980s and her mother in 1995. Afterward, she moved to a condominium nearby.
Hey, the absinthe was free.
People who had come expecting a[n Animal Collective] concert (despite the Guggenheim’s advance description of the event as a “kinetic, psychedelic environment”) chattered, drank complimentary absinthe cocktails, grew annoyed and left well before the nearly three hours were over.
Hot Chip – Apple Bobbing (Four Tet Remix)
I can understand why a guy would have this on repeat.
from the comments
Walt:
Having Nickelback perform at the Closing Ceremony may be the closest thing we Canadians ever get to knowing how you Americans felt being represented by Bush.
I Can Be Free
Yeah yeah, I know you don’t watch videos at work, whatever. You can even watch this with the sound off and it’s amazing.
I just… I just… Simone says it’s the best thing he’s seen all month, and I wholeheartedly agree.
Bowie, 1966
Atoms for Peace?
Hmmm.
Choke them, indeed
via Autumn
The Lemonheads – Rudderless
This song makes me unspeakably sad and nostalgic.
for instance
The guy who won Apple’s 10 billionth song promotion downloaded “Guess Things Happen That Way” by Johnny Cash.