RIP Bo Diddley

Because everyone is posting their favorite YouTube clips in honor of the man, here’s mine. The video is nothing, but that song… that’s the one that makes you want to stand up and say Bo Diddley is a god…

Subjects: youtube, music

In Rainbows

The new Radiohead album is their best work since OK Computer. Go buy it. Pay whatever you want.

Subjects: web, music

Proof that Spanish Music rules

This man’s name is Raphael:

Subjects: music, spanish, youtube, video

Gothamist: High Line Festival

Gothamist: High Line Festival
David Bowie playing out in the open on the West Side?
Sweet.

Subjects: music

The Kleptones

There’s a certain kind of genius to the Kleptones new mash-up album 24 Hours (free download) which mixes together other people’s songs to make new, strangely familiar yet bizarre music.
Subjects: music

Sun Ra and The Blues Project Do Batman and Robin (MP3s)

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Sun Ra and The Blues Project Do Batman and Robin (MP3s)

In 1966, a toy company in Newark, New Jersey released a children’s record called Batman and Robin to cash in on the popular Adam West TV series of the same name. The music on the LP was credited to “The […]

Musical Theory and Cosmology in Ancient Sumer

Musical Theory and Cosmology in Ancient Sumer

Some very cool stuff about Sumerian music and worldview