April 2010
The Story of The Chillout Song by Ze Frank →
(via laughingsquid)
Ze’s still got it…
Trntbl.me →
jesusplaza:
michaelstandish:
bg5000:
Type in anyone’s tumblr name and get a playlist based on the songs they’ve posted. It’s almost like turning a personality into music. Try it!
This is really fantastic. (via adeandabet/everybody
VITAL SERVICE. awesome
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Broken Bells (10)
Cass McCombs (9)
Anais Mitchell feat. Justin Vernon (7)
Anais Mitchell (5)
Anais Mitchell feat. The Haden Triplets (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by…
Can Two iPads Replace the Turntable? [VIDEO] →
After you watch that last video, check out the one posted here for more of how Rana came up with her iPad DJ setup and some of her thoughts about it. Really interesting stuff. (via @stevegarfield)
Longform.org →
We post articles, past and present, that we think are too long and too interesting to be read on a web browser.
We started this site to bring together our enthusiasm for both great longform reads and the excellent Instapaper reader.
longform.org is edited by Aaron Lammer & Max Linsky.
Watchvbbeachbum:
Break Dance Stop Motion
Mr Lee - The Holga Story - 'Out of My... →
Something everyone but me probably already knows:
jacob:
Type “open .” in a Terminal window to open the current directory in Finder.
Nope didn’t know. Very cool…
Even Harder Times for Renters →
abbyjean:
The National Coalition for Low Income Housing released its annual report on rental costs yesterday, and the outlook is pretty grim for most families. The average fair market rent for a two-bedroom apartment is just under $1,000 a month, and a family would need to earn about $38,000 a year, or $18 an hour, to be able to comfortably afford it. That’s $4 more an hour than they actually...
'High Violet' stream already removed from NYT →
crumbler:
Apparently it was up for a couple hours, but if you look now you won’t find it. Music journalists, investigate!
bijan:
Hot Chip - Graceland
This cover goes out...
High Violet Streaming - This Friday April 23rd on...
ayse:
tntl:
As you may have heard, there is a low quality leak of our new album, High Violet, spreading across the Internet as we speak. We wanted to let you know the New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com - will be streaming the real thing starting Friday April 23rd. We hope you’ll take the time to hear the album at its intended level of quality.
High Violet will be released by 4AD...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
Harlem (28)
Broken Bells (19)
David Bowie (12)
Low (8)
The Morning Benders (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
abbyjean:
Cibo Matto - Birthday Cake
it’s...
WatchThe Morning Benders - “Stitches” (by Bryan Derballa)
Saw these guys at TT the Bear’s in Cambridge last night. They were awesome…
WatchSharon Jones & the Dap Kings “It’ll Still Be True” (by Yours Truly)
WatchCalifone - Funeral Singers (by Yours Truly)
Watchtrishutchinson:
randomitus:
Photographer Jim LoScalzo went to rediscover the lost coal mining towns of Appalachia, but instead of just taking pictures, he shot video
This is a wonderful short film, you can really see the influence of still photography and the stillness of that kind of framing. Thanks Randomitus for posting.
Quite moving…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-11) →
Band of Horses (16)
The Arcade Fire (15)
Adrian Belew (14)
Rilo Kiley (6)
Arcade Fire, The (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchparislemon:
Breakdance Fighting In Japan on Vimeo
This is just all kinds of awesome. Taken in Osaka, Japan.
Holy shit…
I'M HERE – A LOVE STORY IN AN ABSOLUT WORLD →
Online screening of the 30 minute film by Spike Jonze (info).
Watchsimplyann:
This is STOOPID son! STOOOOPID
I liked it…
On Rachmaninoff's Birthday →
lumpy-pudding:
It is your 86th birthday and I am sitting crying at the corner of Ninth Street and Avenue A one swallow doesn’t make a summer this coffee is terribly tepid
sometimes the 2nd symphony sounds like Purcell sometimes it sounds like Wozzeck’s last act
where is J.F. Donnelly and his Russian wolfhounds? where is his wife, Helen? where is the cigar-smell and the hootings in the studio...
