Go Terk Yourself

I haven't listened yet but the Kleptones have a new album out: Uptime/Downtime.

Ramona Falls, "I Say Fever":

Beastie Boys vs. The Prodigy by The Kleptones (music) and DJ Tripp (video).

More Queen, this time with a Mario theme. (via Waxy)

Awesome:

Andrew pointed out today that I get a large amount of indie rock cred for pushing Fleet Foxes as the best band/album of 2008 way before Pitchfork did the same thing. So how do I redeem these points for cash?

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.

Heavy Rotation

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.

But wait, there's more!

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 makes some excellent music. And this rendition of Why, recorded live on March 21, 2007, is particularly great:

For your enjoyment I present Morris Day and The Time.

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.

1776 Million Kinds of Awesome

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.