Music

Moog unveils new guitar with infinite sustain

6500.00 dollars means I won’t be buying this anytime soon, but it sounds cool. I have a monophonic analog Moog source synthesizer that I love.
The special sauce: strings that have “a specific metallurgy designed to work with the Moog pickups.” Marketing manager Chris Stack told Listening Post, “the pickups are simultaneously listening to the strings [...]


Earliest Vocal Recording Found from 1860 - Earlier than Edison by 17 years

This is a fascinating story. The earliest human voice recorded by smoke blackened paper. Amazing. The recording will be presented on Friday at a conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections at Stanford University in California, Giovannoni said. It is also posted on the Web here

Listen to an Mp3 of this first recording
American researchers [...]


Movies: Dune is being remade

While some purists dislike David Lynch’s interesting 1984 release of Dune , I have always liked the movie. Its not perfect but for the most part it matched up fairly closely with my mind’s eye that was formed while reading the books when I was a child. Sometimes movies look quite different from what I [...]


Music Video: Phil Western, Tim Hill and Omar H.

Phil and Tim have been friends for years. Their music works well in this video.


Marketing to different Cultures: Old Nintendo - Legend of Zelda Commercial

Haha. What a world, what a world.


Music: Nine Inch Nails’ new album is fan friendly

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails have a new 36 track instrumental album that you can buy. This money goes directly to the artist, the way it should be in my opinion. Trent has been experimenting with new business models and ways of making money from music, and sharing publicly on how each of these [...]


Music Business: SlicethePie.com

I recently read about an interesting approach to the currently failing / struggling / changing-/ evolving /-eating itself music business. I have a theory about the music business - their focus on short term success and hit singles has not been healthy. The music industry has never treated the artists fairly. The R.I.A.A always seems [...]


Love Hate War: The Watching Alice Story

LOVE HATE WAR: THE WATCHING ALICE STORY 320 KBS MP3
EARTHLING 
SLAVED

DOLL HUT SLUT 
KINGS OF SLEEP / BIT PLAYERS TRILOGY 
PATHETIC LITTLE FREAK

JUST LIKE IT NEVER WAS 
CAREERS
EVANDELLOR HOLLIS ON TOP OF THE WORLD TONIGHT
CONGRATULATIONS DAY 
Skot Pollok: Guitars
Freddie Clagg: Guitars
Darrin DelCastillo: Drums
Tony DelDuca: Bass
Geoff (Hefe) Yeaton: Saxaphones
Chance Derek Gregory: Vocals
All songs pretty much by Watching Alice except for “Doll [...]


Japan: The Band

Japan was an influential band from the late 70’s and early 80’s. They have a cool sound, with great bass lines.
Wikipedia Article

History
Original members:
* David Sylvian (original name David Batt): vocals, guitar, keyboards
* Mick Karn (original name Anthony Michaelides): bass guitar, saxophone, oboe
* Rob Dean: guitar
* Steve Jansen (Sylvian’s brother, Steve Batt): drums [...]


Beatbox Chef

In this video which is rather clever - a “chef” or “cook” is creating a parody of cooking shows while beatboxing to create the illusion of mixing up different sounds.



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