Category: Audio

  • Some musical Youtube vids to knock your ears off

    Blue Man Group performs Donna Summer’s classic song, I feel Love. (The singer Venus Hum  is excellent too!) . Here is Donna Summer’s original song  and here is an amazing techno version of the song (which I consider to be the definitive version).  Apparently there are a 100+ remixes of this song on youtube. Here…

  • New SXSW Torrents!

    The new  Torrents are here! The new torrents are here! Download 5 gigs of free alternative music from South by Southwest music festival now. As an added bonus, the 20 gigs of older torrents are still kicking (links on the same page). This year’s torrent has about 1000 songs. I find about half of the…

  • Selena Lives…and lives and lives (Rare Concert Footage)

    One nonobvious fact about me is that I am a gigantic fan of Selena, the Tejano singer born in Corpus Christi who was killed by her fan club manager at the early age.  News of the murder came to me just days after I learned after I would go to Albania for the Peace Corps.  …

  • E-rotic Europop: Mindless, Sexy and Embarrassing (and very fun!)

    I lived in Albania for 2 years during which I sat in many a bus travelling for hours from one city to another. We were at the mercy of the bus driver’s musical tastes. I remember vividly hearing La Macarena all the time (it was an incessant  banality even in Albania ).  Every bus driver…

  • Who is Jessica Jay? Answers are here (Maybe)

    A TX blogger uncovers the identity of the 90s Europop singer Jessica Jay.

  • Goth Musician Dies (and Bereaved Mother asks tough questions about health insurance)

    While reading a digg post about Nataline Sarkisyan (the girl who died after CIGNA refused to pay for a liver transplant) , I found a comment on the bottom (with 0 diggs) by Sharon Bach. The saddest thing is that she wrote it on Christmas. Gee, some Christmas. If the argument that someone would have…

  • Facelift for Jamendo!

    I’m intrigued by the new facelift for Jamendo. Jamendo is an amazing creative commons music sharing site, but over time I noticed annoying things about search, the player window and other small things. Unfortunately, a few months ago, jamendo totally erased my online playlists I had diligently composed. I was angry, but how long can…

  • seinfeld does the talk show circuit.

    Wow, an amazing hour long interview with Jerry Seinfeld on Charlie Rose. (video should be online in a day or so). Good insights about the TV show, the nature of comedy, etc. I’m sure Charlie Rose has other good guests. Gunter Grass, John Updike, E.L. Doctorow. Listening to the entertaining sci fi Asimov classic Nightfall…

  • Notice my New RSS Feeds!

    People who follow this blog via the RSS feed may have noticed a paucity of posts recently. There are two reasons. First, I had hardware problems which are fortunately behind me. Second, I’ve figured out a way to separate my content into several weblogs. If you are at my main webpage, you will see widgets…

  • Oh, Fazidah!

    If you want to hear one of my favorite songs, download the mp3 here. Here’s some information about this song. It’s a song sung during Ramadan. Speaking of which, I’ve been encountering some great music from jamendo and have been meaning to resurrect my Share the Music weblog. will do so soon.

  • Creativity Porn…and how to avoid it

    Scott Andrew on music business porn: I was talking with a co-worker yesterday about this. He’s an aspiring writer and has interest in doing voiceover work, and he suffers from the same sort of “how-to” overload. It’s easy (and strangely comforting) to spend way too much time reading articles on how to be a successful…

  • Portable ogg players…where?

    Just the other day I was at the electronics store looking over the flash mp3 players. If the price was right (under $50), I might have bought something. I’m looking for something just for podcasts (My 40 gig player is already stuffed with mp3s). I was very happy with my iriver hard drive players from…

  • 11% listen to podcasts

    Statistics on podcasting: According to new research from The Diffusion Group, 11% of adult broadband users (some 12 million US consumers) listen to podcasts at least once per month. TDG’s latest report on new media usage, Podcast Usage Profiles and Demand Forecasts thru 2012, predicts that by 2012 this number will grow to 24% of…

  • Zenkman’s The Hard Way

    I listen to jamendo pretty much nonstop. I just wanted to say that this psytrance electronica track, The Hard Way is just intense and incredible. It’s a 22 minute track, and it doesn’t really get started until about 6 minutes into it. Here’s information about Zenker. I have a profound vibes music playlist if anyone…

  • Cool Podcast & Levelator

    Here’s some cool podcasts I’ve discovered recently: Podcast Voice Training tips for public speaking and delivering a good podcast Pakcast, personal reporting about Pakistan by writer Ethan Casey Mortal Ghost Podcast, L Lee Lowe recites his own fantasy novel. Tech Writer Voices, random talks by successful tech writers. SonicErotica, erotic explicit stories. CMS Colloquia Podcast,…

  • Germany’s 2006 Eurovision Entry (surprise!)

    Last post contained my thoughts about this year’s Eurovision. But I randomly came across this amazing/great/bizzare video from 2006 Eurovision. Here was the song that Germany entered for the contest to represent the best of German musical culture. Well, Eurovision isn’t exactly high culture, but you know what I mean. I am not revealing here…