Glasgow School of Art trio SHITDISCO have made a really clever video for this song OK. It's the kind of video that makes you smile because you know it's a great idea and you wish you'd thought of it first but you didn't so you just enjoy it instead. Oh yeah, the music ain't bad […]

It's the 80's all over again! These artists bring the nostalgia back like a boomerang. You'll want to get out your leg warmers, neon colored sunglasses and your Atari 2600 and relive the best decade evar. Crystal Castles self titled debut album. ($6.99 MP3 from Amazon!) Cut Copy's new album In Ghost Colours. They also […]

I came across this yesterday while searching for a bit of history of one of the dance floor staples from the early 90's. A user named “statenhal” has digitized and uploaded (to YouTube strangely enough) dance tracks from vinyl. Featured on the left, is Dajae's “U Got Me Up” Cajmere's Underground Goodie Mix (which incidentally […]

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Check out this great ambient streaming radio station called Bluemars. Music for the Space Traveler. It's great music to drift off to sleep with. There are two other stations from the same source, check those out too and let me know what you think. Link. Thanks, Al!

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter. Link.

NIN releases first four tracks from the new album “Year Zero” for free as Garage Band compositions, perfect for remixing. Thanks Trent. Capital GMy Violent HeartMe, I'm NotSurvivalism

Apple and Modest Mouse have created a contest open to students to create a music video for the single “Missed the Boat.” Provided on the site are 13 videos of various angles of the band playing the song shot in front of a green screen. The footage is great if for nothing else than archiving […]

Recently, I've been tunned into last.fm nearly everyday. I like the way it picks music based on an artist that you already know and like by grouping artists that are similar in style, sound, and substance based on other user's tags and preferences. It's a great way to discover new music. Link.

Thanks to the LAME Project and Pyehouse Development we now have a convenient way of creating MP3 audio files right from Quicktime Player (when you have purchase a “Pro” key). Download both the framework and the Quicktime component from this page. Place the framework in /Library/Frameworks and the component in /Library/Quicktime. Restart Quicktime Player and […]