This only solidifies Fleet Foxes as my current favorite band.
Hippies were cool, but cocaine destroyed them.
-Robert Pecknold, lead singer of Fleet Foxes, to The Stranger.
Awesome
Posted by Jason
on Friday, March 21
Two great music videos today: a 10 year old Japanese (I think) girl covering Carry On Wayward Son on a keyboard, by herself and Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl performing a duet, live. The videos are below the fold.
Willy Porter
Posted by Jason
on Tuesday, June 26
A while back Kerri and I, along with her sister Margaret and Margaret’s seafaring boy friend Dan saw a guy named Willy Porter at the Regattabar in Cambridge. He was very good and one of the tracks (from that night!) that I really liked is the unreleased “Bradley Wilson”:
Andrew Bird
Posted by Jason
on Friday, May 18
Andrew Bird makes some excellent music. And this rendition of Why, recorded live on March 21, 2007, is particularly great:
Internet Radio on the Rocks
Posted by Jason
on Monday, March 05
The Copyright Royalty Board, a panel set up by the US Copyright Office to decide on issues having to do with royalty payments by internet broadcasters, recently issued a new set of royalty rates for internet radio stations. From the report at RAIN and a blog post by Radio Paradise’s Bill Goldsmith it looks like the new rates could be as much as 125% of a large internet radio station’s revenues. No, that’s not a typo. For smaller radio stations the royalties could be as much as 200% or revenues or more.
This could be the end of Radio Paradise and other “traditional” internet radio stations, but it would also do away with more innovative services like Pandora, Tourfilter and The Hype Machine which, because they allow people to listen over the internet, would also be subject to these new royalty rates.
I’m not completely sure what we can do about this yet but I figure that sharing these facts with the meager readership of these blogs is a good step.
Cool Music Tech
Posted by Jason
on Tuesday, January 30
There’s a whole lot of very cool web music technology in the works right now. Services are popping up to facilitate tour tracking, music blog tracking and seamless music experiences. I don’t really have much to say (for now) but here’s a good list of some cool stuff.
- Hype Machine - See what music all the cool kids are blogging about.
- Tour Filter - Track the latest and greatest live shows in your area.
- Archive.org Live Music Archive - Descended from the venerable etree, it seems these guys have something new every time I visit the site and an ever expanding hard drive.
- XSPF Music Player - Not so much a web site as a tool used on music sites. Build a play list, point the player at it, listen.
Know of any other cool sites and tools? Toss ‘em in the comments.