YouTube – Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie. who doesn’t like stop-motion. via paul.

Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord – NYTimes.com. if you find yourself doing karaoke in manila, make sure you don’t sing “My Way”.


SNL – Two Worlds Collide. Another quality song from Andy Sandberg. via wes.

The Lee’s Palace Mural is Dead! Long Live the Lee’s Palace Mural! – Torontoist. i can’t believe they just threw the old one out. via ram

Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young performs the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” theme song. i feel like that might not have been Jimmy actually singing. either way, it’s pretty darn good. via ram.

LIPDUB – I Gotta Feeling. not a bad frosh week activity. 170 students from Communications at UQAM.

Chuck Klosterman Repeats The Beatles “Like most people, I was initially confused by EMI’s decision to release remastered versions of all 13 albums by the Liverpool pop group Beatles, a 1960s band so obscure that their music is not even available on iTunes. The entire proposition seems like a boondoggle.”

I Am T-Pain Auto-Tune iPhone App. youtube video of a vocoder app. this strikes me as endless drunken fun.

New York, I Love You – Trailer. that phoenix track plays well in the trailer.

D tour | A rock ‘n roll film about life, death and bodily functions. someone made a film about pat spurgeon, the drummer of rogue wave, and his journey of getting a kidney transplant. also, seeing that tube sticking out of his side makes me want to take better care of my one kidney.

Ottawa High School student going to the world Beatboxing championships – The Globe and Mail. youtube video is pretty impressive. and she goes to Ashbury, the fancy private school in Ottawa.

Rural Alberta Advantage sign to Saddle Creek. that’s a quality signing. they’ll be re-releasing their debut album and hopefully we’ll see some new stuff soon.

mux update: metric & fanfarlo

I made this update a couple weeks ago but forgot to mention it in a post. There’s probably no need to introduce Metric or the lead single off their new album Fantasies (which is set to release in mid-April) because the song is already all over the radio. The other track is a bit older (2007) from the band Fanfarlo and it’s from the self-titled single You Are One Of The Few Outsiders Who Really Understands Us. It randomly came up on last.fm a month ago and I listened to it quite a bit. It’s got that same great big sound as the Marching Band track also on my muxtape.

Also, not sure why the twitter plugin for my blog was posting all those random twitters. I certainly don’t speak Danish or whatever other languages came up.

T-PAIN v. His Vocoder. it’s alive! via ram.


Branford Marsalis: “What I’ve learned from my students is that students today are completely full of shit”. via rethink.

Single Ladies – Beyonce & Justin Timberlake on SNL. i think justin timberlake should be on SNL all the time. and paul rudd was clearly channeling Walken’s “More Cowbell” delivery. via auriol.

mux update: marching band & plushgun

I’ve made another update to mux.awardtour. First is Gorgeous Behaviour by Swedish pop-duo Marching Band. The track is off their debut LP Spark Large which is really quite good. The song, like the album, has a really rich musical ensemble and fantastic 2-part harmonies with a really catchy call-and-response chorus. I, sadly, first heard the song on How I Met Your Mother. The 2005 version of me would be very unimpressed by my 2008 lack of indie cred.

Second is Just Impolite by Plushgun off their debut self-titled EP. Like Marching Band, the band is a duo and the song also features some really nice 2-part vocal harmonies. The sound is could easily be compared to MGMT and since the band is a duo from Brooklyn I’m sure that comparison will be near constant.

Sonoma Wire Works – Fourtrack. iphone app that lets you do four-track recording. looks really nice.

Topspin » Northwest MusicTech Summit Keynote. CEO of TopSpin talking about the changing music business.

mux update: sigur ros & miniature tigers

Just made some more changes to mux.awardtour. I added my favorite track from Sigur Ros’ latest album, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, entitled Inni Mer Syngur Vitleysingur. It’s a gorgeous song and I don’t know why I didn’t include it in the original muxtape.

Second is another song by Miniature Tigers entitled Wolf. This one is very radio-friendly. It has the ring of Weezer meets Phantom Planet. Be forewarned, if you listen to this song you’ll probably find yourself singing “Everybody’s looking at you like they want you” for the rest of the day.