earhead#101111

Hammock

2010-12-28T22:52:00.000-08:00

Discovered at Beautiful Noise.

2010-11-01T20:52:00.000-07:00

Discovered at gogoyoko.

Hua Lun

2010-10-08T22:22:00.000-07:00

Discovered on Beautiful Noise. There's more on youtube and here.

Sora Shima

2010-10-07T19:52:00.001-07:00

Destroy Electronica by Sora Shima

All India Radio

2010-10-04T20:59:00.000-07:00

A Low High by All India Radio

All You've Seen

2010-09-27T21:59:00.000-07:00

found on gogoyoko EP by All You've Seen

Annual Post

2010-09-08T09:45:00.000-07:00

Whoa... a whole year has gone by, and more -- I spend most of my listening time on SOMA FM, where I tune in to Suburbs of Goa. My latest favorite place for discovering new music is gogoyoko, which has a great selection of post rock sounds (lots of other stuff there too). I've also spent time at The 61, which recommends music, based on how you respond to music you hear. Haven't downloaded music

Elemental Gaze

2009-08-18T16:56:00.001-07:00

Heard this on the latest Lost Children compilation ( Volume #13). Elemental Gaze is from Indonesia.

Milhaven: sign of life

2009-06-09T22:07:00.000-07:00

I was happy to spot this sign of life from Milhaven, a new video posted on their myspace page.

Michael Waters returns

2009-05-31T16:21:00.000-07:00

Michael Waters returned to the Duncan Garage Showroom last week... another memorable concert. This time it was extra special, because it was an incredibly balmy evening in Duncan, the first of the year really, and there were just a handful of us in there gathered around the stage. Michael engaged us during the break. We talked about what part music takes in our lives. Michael made a comment

OUIM.net rediscovered

2009-05-04T17:27:00.000-07:00

I recently rediscovered OUIM net.label, loaded with psychedelic listening pleasures. The home page has 3 music streams and between the releases and DJ sets, almost 100 well curated psychedelia titles to download. I'm reminded of an old favorite by Fairytale, released the week before Christmas, it sounds like a drunken Christmas party at first. Soon it wanders into my

Lessig on Remix culture

2009-04-29T20:00:00.000-07:00

Cardamar Music

2008-01-30T22:46:00.000-08:00

I stumbled upon the mixes at the Cardamar Music website the other day. Hours of listening pleasure there. Globe Spinning

Plaistow: Recycled Criminals

2007-11-09T20:02:00.000-08:00

From insubordinations, a netlabel for improvised music, this release: [insubcdr02b] PLAISTOW : Los Criminales Reciclados En Conductores De Autobuses Yap Yap

Michael Bates

2007-11-09T19:32:00.000-08:00

Michael Bates' Outside Sources: On Equilibrium I'm back on The Island, and finally made it to the Duncan Garage Showroom. The Man (Longevity John) himself, told me I should come hear Michael Bates, and so I did. Such a memorable show. And suddenly I'm listening to jazz again.

MP3 generation heading for a silent tomorrow

2007-11-08T21:19:00.000-08:00

Saw this article about the iPod generation's future hearing problems. Hearing aids will cost thousands -- get custom earbuds: listen better, and protect your ears at the same time.

Dirge for George

2007-11-04T21:17:00.000-08:00

microtonner George II I heard this on the recent Blocsonic compilation netBloc Volume 9.

Lawrence Lessig's New Gig

2007-09-09T18:54:00.000-07:00

The San Jose Mercury News offers this interview with the founder of Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig remains as CEO, but he's started work on something new.

Ganga Giri

2007-07-22T23:51:00.000-07:00

Vacation, travel and other distractions... and I'm not sure I'm even back yet, but I did make it to the Vancouver Folk Festival... wow... Ganga Giri knows how to put on a show... though I'm not sure everyone would call this folk music. Festival rules say no dancing in front of the stage -- but for Ganga Giri, that's impossible -- everybody was dancing. post-rock instrumental ambient Enlightened False Consciousness Ode To A Departing Friend French Teen Idol (myspace): self-titled release Nishi netlabel release Shouting Can Have Different Meanings Lamb Many many gems here, hard to pick just two from each of these releases. This is

News Update

2007-04-17T20:33:00.000-07:00

The Sansa Connect is the newest MP3 player on the block, featuring wifi, and the ability to download from Yahoo's music service, as well as stream internet radio. Radio? What Radio? The copyright board didn't budge on it's decision to greatly increase royalty rates, and the future of net radio now hangs on an act of the U.S. Congress to restore the diversity we've become accustomed to. David

Noise Room

2007-04-13T19:27:00.000-07:00

Noise Room: The End of the Lord's Constellation LostChildren netlabel release post-rock post-metal instrumental ambient Friends Back. Vacation, visits with relatives and friends. All good. Thankfully Lost Children haven't been on vacation -- new releases await. I think Noise Room (from Italy) have personally welcomed me back with this anthemic homage to friends.

Michael Sandler

2007-03-24T22:40:00.000-07:00

Michael Sandler: archive.org myspace Farther From Home - archive.org release ambient, drones Spring is here. Time for another reset. I'll be returning to San Francisco soon, after spending a winter on Vancouver Island. It's always an adjustment switching homes. I scanned drone on archive.org -- lots to listen to there. Today's reset is an hour-long guitar drone piece: Michael Sandler:

This weeks copyright and copyleft buzz

2007-03-24T22:00:00.000-07:00

RIAA won a worst company in America contest. Halliburton came second: taxpayers are pouring billions down Halliburton's throat, but somehow RIAA is even worse than that. Meanwhile, RIAA says that students are settling piracy claims, but university of Nebraska wants RIAA to pay up for wasting it's time. The Copyright Board decided to review the webcaster royalties decision. The San Jose

Nic Bommarito

2007-03-21T17:01:00.000-07:00

Nic Bommarito - Taciturn - 12rec.037 - netlabel release I heard Nic Bommarito's music on the BlocSonic Volume 3 compilation... enough to get me listening to all of Taciturn. It's all good -- I'd have picked one of these for the compilation: The Academic (Life and Afterlife) Badly Asbestos Covered Check out Nic Bommarito's blog -- there's a lot more music there, including this gem from the

Seeq and ye shall find

2007-03-21T14:16:00.000-07:00

My friend in Halifax pointed SeeqPod out to me. It's a web2 music site... think Hype Machine with saved/shared playlists like Streampad, and add music recommendations to that. When you're listening to something you like, click "music", and get a page of listening recommendations that you can add to your playlist. There's no links back to the music blogs but I think that's okay -- usually

Iambic2

2007-03-20T19:11:00.000-07:00

Iambic2 released Under These Stars, We'll Sleep Again a couple of months back. Thirteen beautiful emotional indietronica tracks on the Laridae net label. Hard to pick just two from this release, since the whole release sort of works together, but these two caught my attention: Rain Drop Going Home

Death by Panda

2007-03-19T20:35:00.000-07:00

Here's one the good folks at Silent Ballet should notice... lovely post rock sounds in 3 releases on Beardology Records from Death By Panda: From EP1: My Sleep Machine From Arms and Allocation: Arms and Allocation From Arms and Allocation: Everything Was Gone From EP2: JFK Samples Video: Dichotomy from Arms and Allocation release

Gilberto Gil

2007-03-19T13:30:00.000-07:00

Musician turned policy maker, Gilberto Gil, Brazil's Minister of Culture, promotes Creative Commons in an effort to free digitial culture. If there were more musicians working in politics, maybe there'd be less business men (and it is mostly men) working for laws that restrict music fans.

Lawrence Lessig

2007-03-15T23:18:00.000-07:00

Lawrence Lessig, a founder of the Creative Commons, explains the licensing system ... (this video from summer '06 -- but still timely)

Internet Radio Update

2007-03-15T20:44:00.000-07:00

RJ Eskow chimed in about Patti Smith's dubious appointment to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I mean, considering what Rock and Roll has become: A multi-billion dollar industry that sues music fans and wants to stamp out internet radio. There's been a lot of media attention to this, and NPR is stirring over the new internet radio royalty rates. Meanwhile, Slacker is in the pipeline: a satelite/

Tantrum

2007-03-14T01:46:00.000-07:00

I'm still a sucker for loud noisy guitars. Tantrum, from Scotland, have two releases on Floppy Records. Some samples from Advice To Users: Liftoff Emergency Poncho I particularly liked Emergency Poncho, that's exactly what the weather is like here on Vancouver Island at this time of year. Some lovely dreamy sounds from the earlier release, Maisie's Friend: Pills and Dreams Filmsong part 2

The Music Wars

2007-03-14T00:52:00.000-07:00

Fighting on at least four fronts right now: internet radio, file downloading, MP3 patents (hardware, software). And artists get less than a nickle of each dollar earned from downloads. Too bad we can't just switch to OGG, that's half the battle right there. Meanwhile, the RIAA P2P Lawsuits website makes a good read -- check out the FAQ... RIAA still claims downloading kills CD sales.

Observation Point

2007-03-10T13:05:00.000-08:00

The music and sounds of Observation Point (myspace) are inspired by the surroundings and atmospheres of Port Talbot, South Wales: abandoned buildings, decaying industry, looming hillsides and deserted beaches provide the backdrop to deep space collages, ambient rhythms and dark experiments. And it's all good, in fact, I've been listening to it all for days... here are highlights in the

New Releases from Archaic Horizon

2007-03-07T23:37:00.000-08:00

There are a few new releases at Archaic Horizon since I last looked... lovely drones and beautiful careful ambient listening from Sora Shima: Sora Shima - Distancing EP: Monsoon Hills West spins lovely jazzy dreamy sounds on this track: Hills West - Glare: Sonsun

Save Net Radio (dot org)

2007-03-06T11:30:00.000-08:00

Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora, sounded the alarm about the new royalty rules for streamed internet radio, and encourages all those who care about this to email their elected representatives. Here's a discussion of the legal implications, and the cost implications. Maybe the future of internet radio is people sharing links to artists websites like Blue Foundation and Xploding Plastix --

Michael Waters

2007-03-03T22:57:00.000-08:00

I saw Michael Waters at the Duncan Garage Showroom tonight... authentic Vancouver Island talent, performed on a stage adorned with driftwood and candle lanterns. His music takes you somewhere really good. Here are some samples from his latest project Acoustic Psychedelic Chill: Anaconda King Velvet Letters 3

Verian Thomas - video

2007-02-22T22:57:00.000-08:00

Verian Thomas releases the Massive follow up to Miniatures. Get the music at the Negative Sound Institute net label. The Fireflys video reminds me a little of Picnic at Hanging Rock...

The Silent Ballet - Volume 3

2007-02-22T22:35:00.000-08:00

Another great compilation from The Silent Ballet on the Lost Children net label. Some samples: Jatun: The Temptation of Joy Miaou: Anything Goes

Blocsonic: netBloc Volume 2

2007-02-22T20:43:00.000-08:00

Another Creative Commons compilation from Blocsonic. A few noisy ones on this release: Microtonner: Frequency Giraffe: A lot of history in a very short time

The week in news

2007-02-22T19:03:00.000-08:00

The RIAA has sent complaints about illegal downloading to 15,000 students at 25 schools. We didn't have illegal downloading when I was a student -- but we did have great independent radio. And thanks to the internet, I can listen to that radio anywhere I have an internet connection. Not for long, if the RIAA and SoundExchange, have any say. They have bureaucratized internet music streaming

Time.Space.Repeat

2007-02-16T22:25:00.000-08:00

Another Lost Children release... Time.Space.Repeat is a London/UK post-rock band (myspace). Loved the opening anthem... These tracks are from Early Transmissions: Joy / Sorrow Meditation #1

Apple, the new Microsoft

2007-02-16T17:10:00.000-08:00

I would never choose an iPod over my AAA battery, removable storage SanDisk MP3 player. And I suffer considerable indignation because artists make only a couple of pennies from a track sold at the iTunes Music Store, while the RIAA sues "illegal downloaders" $1000's for each of their lost pennies. So I was happily surprised to see Rolling Stone's opinion on Apple, the new evil empire. The

Transit

2007-02-14T22:03:00.000-08:00

I'm still listening to Lost Children releases... Transit is a Belgian post-rock band (website, myspace). I love how they blend simple quiet melodies and big noisy sounds. A track from their first EP: Harmattan: Maza From their second EP, Broad Leaves vs. Conifers: Reflections Upon The Asfalt

Music business challenge

2007-02-14T21:25:00.000-08:00

RJ Eskow writes about Steve Jobs' recent proposal to consider selling DRM-free music, and suggests a new free market approach to develop artists... maybe something like sellaband.com, where bands raise money from fans who buy a share in ad revenues from the bands' music download sites.

Phonocake compilation

2007-02-08T13:13:00.000-08:00

Electro chilled and ambient sounds from Phonocake, a net label based in Dresden (Germany). There's something for everyone on this release: Graf: Ein Muehlstein Wird Nicht Moosig Bad Comfort: 060727 (steps)

Aphex Twin - Monkey Drummer

2007-02-07T22:07:00.000-08:00

I stumbled upon this video -- I've always wondered how this drum'n base sound was made:

Recent news in music

2007-02-07T17:58:00.000-08:00

The RIAA was in the news again recently. A teenager has accused them of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats, and has counter-sued them for damaging his reputation, interfering with his school work, and for legal fees. Prince performed at the Superbowl and made news for some questionable shadows cast onto a huge screen on the stage. Worried

Museum of Modern Betas

2007-01-30T00:16:00.000-08:00

Recent Web2/music MoMB related posts at Museum of Modern Betas: Boomba: flickr for audio files ChartU: new music, playlists, ratings. Grooveshark: share, review, and discover new music. (Downloads) Midomi: name that tune. (Search by singing ... see also Musipedia)

Loss Of A Child

2007-01-27T01:28:00.000-08:00

I think Zune's play 3 times sharing system is okay. That's my rule of thumb... if I want to play something a fourth time, I figure I should write about it here. I've been listening to Loss Of A Child all week. Two albums on the Lost Children net label... samples from The Future Symphony: The Future Symphony One Wish A couple more tracks from Caught And Lost: Like Dancing In Rain DTA

This Week in News

2007-01-26T23:44:00.000-08:00

Gurdonark (co-proprieter of the Negative Sound Institute net label) is interviewed on bleepwatch. A new music blog, blocsonic, releases a mix of music made to share, and explains the buzz about net labels exactly ... may net labels continue to proliferate. The State of Connecticut will help one of it's residents defend herself in a music downloading lawsuit brought against her by the RIAA.

Spiders On Drugs

2007-01-22T23:09:00.000-08:00

An off topic post...sorry. I'm not known to listen to flute music -- but this video, made by some local talent here on Vancouver Island, has beautiful flute music:

Lost Children - net label

2007-01-22T14:08:00.000-08:00

The Lost Children net label focuses on emerging post-rock bands. Together with The Silent Ballet, a wiki/ezine with a decided preference for noisy post-rock sounds, Lost Children has released two compilation disks so far. Some samples from Volume 1: MT: Add Obvious Errors Up-c Down-c: Simple Reminder (Anger Is Not A Motive) Some cool surprises on Volume 2 -- but I won't spoil the plot

Corwin Trails

2007-01-17T23:51:00.000-08:00

This Corwin Trails release, on Archaic Horizon Records net label, is pretty hard to classify -- this time we journey through a surreal landscape of found sounds and smooth melodic phrases: Corwin Trails: Palindromes Corwin Trails: Sand Castles

Archaic Horizon Records - net label

2007-01-17T22:49:00.000-08:00

I like the Archaic Horizon Records logo. It reminds me of the ocean, sure to attract a closet surf music groupie like me. The music takes us on a trip to somewhere between here and there. The first release brings us back to ambient territory with Peter James: Peter James: Still Peter James: In The Face Of Loss Orange Crush gets us there just a little faster... Orange Crush: Spring Breaks

Music for Martin Luther King Day

2007-01-15T01:01:00.000-08:00

It's Martin Luther King Day in the USA today. Wouldn't it be cool if all radio stations played music like this: Circle of Willis: War No More DJ Kryptide: Equal (Chupacabra Remix) René Vis: Rosa Parks

Maldroid

2007-01-14T18:02:00.000-08:00

I read this story about Maldroid... more local talent. They're video won a YouTube contest. I'm up in Canada visiting my mother these days, the video made me homesick... the subway system makes a terrible screeching sound, captured beautifully on this video. And the subway gates work just like this: when you're in a hurry -- forget about it -- they won't cooperate.

The Government Against Music Fans

2007-01-14T17:50:00.000-08:00

Ars technica published this article about my senator (Diane Feinstein) who is writing law to require internet audio streams to "protect" music with DRM. I'm disappointed that Diane thinks music fans are thieves, and that she thinks DRM can stop thieves. If you don't have time to read the ars technica story, at least consider sending email to your senator, and let them know what you think of

Droog - Name Your Poison

2007-01-13T00:19:00.000-08:00

I'm encountering a lot of cool ambient music these days. Droog's "Name Your Poison" is a first release for Norbu, a Belgrade net label. drencrom synthemesc

Verian Thomas

2007-01-06T12:58:00.000-08:00

A little more mind clearing for the new year, this is a beautiful release, Minatures by Verian Thomas, released on the Negative Sound Institute net label. Memories of childhood, "pristine in their imperfection", encoded here in beautiful ambient tracks made with a guitar. Listen well... follow the track titles, or create new titles from your own memories. It's hard to pick just two to

The Houston Drone Concern

2007-01-03T00:12:00.000-08:00

The new year is here -- good time for a reset -- here's a start... The Houston Drone Concern: Variation 3

NPR: The Year in Memorable Concerts

2007-01-01T23:47:00.000-08:00

Great performances of 2006 -- an apt title for this series of live concert programs from NPR: Paul Simon, Neko Case, Sonic Youth... many more. NPR also updated the James Brown concert page, which features a podsafe mp3 download.

Australia Outlaws mp3 Links

2007-01-01T21:27:00.000-08:00

A new law in Australia outlaws mp3 links... it's explained in this post. I think the mp3 links are illegal if they are in a "catalog of copyright infringing content". Which puts me (a non-Australian website) right on the edge of Australian law... I've heard this is the case for Switzerland as well. This seems to have put a bit of a chill in the Australian music blogging scene... Anyone a Lawyer?

FineTune.com

2006-12-29T01:08:00.000-08:00

FineTune.com -- this is what epitonic.com could have become. FineTune has it all, shared playlists, regular radio, music preference based radio, and a huge catalog. I'm waiting to see how this will play out -- it's hard to imagine someone being faster than Pandora at getting new music in the catalog. And musicovery has that multi-directional next button. They're all good.

Far From Showbiz net label

2006-12-29T00:05:00.000-08:00

Netlabels.org pointed me to this recent release on the Far From Showbiz net label: Dark ambient, drone, martial... and many more delights here. Darkness and Silence: Semper Fidelis Occidit, Occidit Spes Omnis soundZcapa: The Night Of The Accident

Brian Eno Installation

2006-12-28T23:59:00.000-08:00

Saw this story about Brian Eno's installation at the Venice Biennale.

DJ Tiesto video

2006-12-27T22:50:00.000-08:00

Saw this video on StumbleUpon videos... this is a performance last year by DJ Tiesto at a music award show in the Netherlands. The best part of the video comes early -- somebody holding up a sign for their grandmother to see on TV. Am I missing something, or do DJ's just not get this kind of respect here on these Pacific shores?

Dave's Imaginary Sound Space

2006-12-27T22:12:00.000-08:00

Dave's Imaginary Sound Space found this earhead blog six months before I found him. There's probably many cool Windows Live Spaces out there, but this is the first one I've noticed, and it will save me a lot of time to keep checking in with his lists. Many useful music related links and a lot of web 2 goodness too. Make sure to check out his media distribution list.

FilterMusic.net

2006-12-27T21:04:00.000-08:00

FilterMusic is a net radio portal that sorts radio stations by genre. It doubles as a screen saver, with a feed of beautiful and dramatic background images (scroll down to get the "full screen effect"). Very useful.

Milhaven

2006-12-27T20:14:00.000-08:00

I heard Milhaven on Bleepwatch. They're a German post rock band that released their EP I.M. Wagner this past November. Long, lovely sounds, and starting with a song about the Pacific Ocean that sounded like they'd be right at home playing here at Ocean Beach. Oh! Great Pacific Clean Room Milhaven has an earlier release, which includes this song with an Apocalypse Now! theme: Bars Closing

Musicovery

2006-12-24T02:03:00.000-08:00

Stumbled upon Musicovery today. Sorry for the old news -- just in case someone else missed it too... Musicovery is what you get when you combine LivePlasma (music mapping) and Pandora (musically mapped radio). Just pick a mood (or a genre) to turn on your radio channel. Your channel is illustrated with a map of "nearby" tracks. Instead of clicking the next button, click on any of the nearby

Heard on Bahgheera's Orbit

2006-12-20T13:09:00.000-08:00

Another highlight from Bahgheera's Orbit...: A big beautiful sound... The Big Sleep: Sleepy Kid Waltz

Recording Industry News

2006-12-20T12:46:00.000-08:00

Three stories about the RIAA this week made me lose even more respect for them -- I know... I am occasionally given cause to pitch music CD's here, but how can anybody buy music in good conscience anymore, when they know it puts money in these pirates pockets? The RIAA is pressing forward in this case against children... whatever happened to the old "slap on the wrist"??? With all this talk of

TuneGlue vs LivePlasma

2006-12-20T12:10:00.000-08:00

TuneGlue, another musical preferences mapping service, hit the news last week. TuneGlue draws on data from last.fm and amazon.com. I saw it mentioned on The Music Weblog and Hypebot. I can't really see much difference between that and LivePlasma, which in addition to mapping out "music that sounds like " also maps out movies and directors that draw on similar viewer preferences

Music for Christmas

2006-12-13T23:06:00.000-08:00

Just 12 days 'til Christmas... it's high time for a thematic post, and what better place to start but with the Messiah himself... Dan Sindel shares a multi-track solo guitar spectacular: Exerpts from Handel's Messiah It's a San Francisco tradition -- we go to Ocean Beach and watch the surf. Surely, it's a perfect moment for some Pollo Del Mar seasonal surf sounds: Carol of the Bells New computer

OWL: Find Music Through Music

2006-12-12T00:07:00.000-08:00

Yet another cool tool for music discovery: OWL. Pick any MP3 file from your collection, upload it to OWL, pick the bit of the track that makes it special to you... and it will search it's database of Creative Commons shared works, and recommend music with similar sounds. I tried two tracks and was very impressed by what it found -- some of it was stuff I already knew I liked, but there was a

tribalmixes.org

2006-12-11T22:45:00.000-08:00

I was lost at tribalmixes.org for a few days... the first time I've dabbled in P2P (peer to peer) BitTorrent style downloading, so it took awhile to adjust. For e.g., there's no preview, so you must download, and you pay for downloads either with money, or by sharing them with other downloaders. Now I'm sharing a dozen mixes (or, in bittorrent speak: I have a dozen torrents seeded), I

Psytrance Day

2006-12-06T16:03:00.000-08:00

I returned to listen to an old favorite today, Flower Powder, who keep a great collection of DJ mixes on their blog. They also perform live mixes psystream radio and tribalmixes radio. Other psytrance radio I like is the Digitally Imported chillout channel, and HBR1.A recent Flower Powder mix from the Chill Bill series on tribal mixes: Flower Powder: Chill Bill #3

Bleepwatch

2006-12-06T15:29:00.000-08:00

I stumbled upon Bleepwatch today -- I think bleep must be short for "net label release," because that's what it watches. There are lots of treasures to find here... heard these among today's releases: VS: Silencio Atomic Death Circle: Travel Beyond C / Chapel of Light Monoton: Cycklamat

Dirty On Purpose

2006-12-05T20:10:00.000-08:00

In keeping with yesterday's theme about radio... here's a funny video I spotted on FreeIndie.Com. Dirty On Purpose - No Radio Hear more music from Dirty On Purpose here.

The Internet Killed The Radio Star

2006-12-04T13:49:00.000-08:00

I remember the last time I listened to music on the radio -- it was the day Clear Channel banned John Lennon's "Imagine" from the airwaves in 2001. Six years later, people are starting to accept the fact that we can listen to what we want to listen to here on the internet, and the RIAA can't stop it by suing music fans. The Transmit conference in Vancouver, Canada, last weekend discussed

Negative Sound Institute

2006-11-27T23:25:00.000-08:00

Dava Sobel was featured recently on indieish CC track of the day. His music is released by Negative Sound Institute, a net label with a catalog that offers a variety of ambient treats: Dava Sobel: Berzelii Park Closet Ballerinas: Roaring Silence Gurdonark: Galveston Island in December Thomas Nunnally Trio: After Image (2)

Alcian Blue

2006-11-26T21:08:00.000-08:00

What a beautiful noise... and I missed it -- Alcian Blue just split up after 10 years of making music. They've released an album this year, and left a beautiful legacy of shared music, including these: Never Go Away Angelica Take Me Down

DJ Maer

2006-11-25T22:34:00.000-08:00

I continue to enjoy mixes by San Francisco local, DJ Maer. He is involved in several net music websites, including OEM Radio and the Dub Beautiful Collective net label. Samples: DJ Maer: Where No Dub Fears To Tread Adham Shaikh with Shankar: Tongu - Mbira Remix (Live)

Dora Flood

2006-11-20T23:25:00.000-08:00

Heard Dora Flood on reloda, they're a Bay Area band. I love my local talent. They've shared their whole catalog... unfortunately, I must wait for the new CD. Forget about shoegazing -- there's a lot of stars to count here... from Deep Purple, Procol Harum, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Guess Who, and all the way up to Radiohead. A chronology from five releases: 1301 EP: Faith in Doubt Walk A

Streampad Web Music Player

2006-11-18T19:33:00.000-08:00

Earhead#101111 has joined the ranks of the 1700 bloggers that elbo.ws aggregates. I found some very useful posts in the forums there, including one about Streampad. Streampad is an ajax/web2 style music player that has some overlap with Songbird in it's usefulness for finding music on the internet. I particularly like the Streampad playlist feature. I can organize music I've found without

Free Download of the Day

2006-11-15T18:51:00.000-08:00

Many sites with large catalogs have either a featured artist of the day, or a free MP3 download of the day -- or both. I like them because it's a good way to follow who or what is new in all genres. Four I follow are: indieish.com -- cc:365 -- track of the day with a Creative Commons license, usually accompanied with a link to the netlabel release. GarageBand -- Face Off, actually two free

Creative Commons goodness

2006-11-12T19:59:00.000-08:00

I saw two posts in the last couple of days about artists that mash up other artists work on videos uploaded to YouTube. One on Digital Music Weblog and this one on Brown Sweater, White Cat, created by CCmixter contributor gurdonark who mashes up a Lisa DeBenedictis tune with a selection of CC photo's from Flickr: There's also some fan made videos of Sigur Rós on YouTube.

She, Sir

2006-11-12T18:23:00.000-08:00

She, Sir is a Texas band I heard on 3hive. Thankfully, somebody is picking up where My Bloody Valentine left off. She, Sir: It's My Way of Staying Connected

Blue Foundation

2006-11-07T18:30:00.000-08:00

Spotted this on The Digital Music Weblog... another great Danish band raises it's head on the internet: Blue Foundation -- lots of tunes there to listen to on their web player. Update May 31, 2009: Blue Foundation disabled embedded video's -- but it's definitely worth a click.