Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA. no surprise there.

cbc radio kicks ass

I just wanted to make a quick comment about CBC Radio. The comment is that it is awesome. I drove from Toronto to Ottawa today and decided to see what makes the Sunday morning program. First up was Sunday Edition which had this amazing piece about Canada’s new “Guest Worker” visa program which basically brings people into Canada to do unskilled labour that no one in Canada will do (like work at Wendy’s or work on farms). Next up was The Late Show which profiled a late author named Martha Blum who resided in Saskatoon and was a Holocaust survivor. The piece on her was phenomenal. Next, Vinyl Cafe did a show about covers which included crazy stuff like William Shatner’s Mister Tambourine Man, some standards like Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah, but the one that really surprised me was a cover of the BeeGee’s Islands in the Stream by The Constantines & Feist. The Debaters was pretty good and then Wiretap was fantastic (I especially loved the bit about Josh trying to “rid himself of his material possessions and hit the road, wandering-hobo style”).

I really wanted to point this out because radio in Toronto is genuinely atrocious and it’s so nice to see that the CBC has such diverse, entertaining, and quality programming.

rubyfringejazz.muxtape.com. Nick Sieger did a talk at rubyfringe about the evolution of jazz and how it relates to ruby. this is the muxtape of what he played.

Torontoist: Feist Really Likes the Number Four. on seasame street. that’s awesome. via ram.

Twitter / amazonmp3. they post their daily deals. includes some $2 full albums for great bands. oh wait, they’re not available in canada. luckily i still have my US credit card.


YouTube - Pork and Beans. internet meme overload.

Estelle with Kanye West - American Boy. via jody.

Daytrotter | Rogue Wave. The acoustic version of Lake Michigan is really something. I feel like you could drown in the all the layers.

Amazon.com: The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV. another appearance of fela kuti. zombie is my favorite track by him as well.

Making Out with Portishead - The Stranger. “Thirteen Writers on the ’90s’ Most Ubiquitous Mood Music”

Weakerthans acoustic performance at KEXP. i listened to this while i drove up to vancouver for thanksgiving which is funny as kevin cole mentions how the new album is “great for driving”. the interview about 11 minutes into the set is quite good too.

Springwise: Prefunded, crowdmanaged music festival. get a local sponser and have the audience decide who, when, and where.

DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys. PlayForSure has to be one of the biggest fuck-up misnomer brands ever. via ram.

Nigerian Gangster - The Jay-z, Fela Kuti mashup of American Gangster. full download. if new hiphop sounded like this, i’d probably listen to more of it.

Nikolay Saveliev, Pop Matters. “Nickelback: the recursiveness of professional mediocrity”. now that’s great.

Muxtape + Fluid + AirFoil. turn muxtapes into a stand-alone app and pump it to your airport express.


YouTube - Bono talking about Roy Orbison and Mystery Girl. i had no idea Bono wrote Mystery Girl. Orbison’s voice is unreal in that song.

jstn.cc : Muxtape, 24 hour mark “8,685 users / 19,731 songs / 35,000 visits / $118.17 on S3″. that’s gotta be getting expensive. via josh.

Apple passes Wal-Mart, now #1 music retailer in US. that’s insane. via josh.

THE GQ&A: KEITH RICHARDS. Long interview. Random funny stories about being a rock legend.