Tiny Mix Tapes: Nine Inch Nails - "With Teeth" (album review)
Pitchfork: Track Reviews: 05.06.05
Free new tracks from Sufjan Stevens, Spoon, _and_ Need New Body. They're all excellent, and bode well for the unreleased albums from which they come!
Prefix Magazine: Conor Oberst performs "When the President Talks to God" on Jay Leno
Pitchfork: Colin Meloy's Early Work to Be Released
"There was a self-titled debut, followed by an LP." Sweet! More Decemberists-ish material to devour.
Ars Technica: The RIAA finally stoops to open extortion, and Comcast helps them do it
"Comcast turned over the names and addresses of some of its customers to the RIAA, without being required to do so by a court order and without notifying the customers."
stereogum: No Sympathy For The Devil
"In November of '96, Vatican hardliner Cardinal Ratzinger warned that heavy metal was an 'instrument of the Devil' and endangered young people's souls."
Hoytel
Tyler Hoyt's electronic music.
CNN.com: Bush bares soul with 'iPod One'
"'No one should psychoanalyze the song selection. It's music to get over the next hill.'"
Who Owns Culture?
The New York Public Library and WIRED present a talk with Jeff Tweedy, Lawrence Lessig, and Steven Johson. Very interesting.
Macworld: Editors' Notes: Getting Downgraded
On the struggle between Apple and the music industry. "Is the government coming to take away your iPod? Of course not. But your iPod is already less functional than it should be."
Videlectrix
"We use computers... to make video games!" Games, music, and more.
ZeBOX: Polar Ice Caves
James Anderson's electronic music.
CD Baby: Hard 'N Phirm: Horses and Grasses
Remember "Rodeohead?" Here's the full-length by the same guys.
DJ Food: Raiding The 20th Century
An hour-long mix, showcasing "the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups."
The Blindfolded Pianist: Mario Fantasy
A free collection of Super Mario Brothers and Final Fantasy songs on piano.
Tiny Mix Tapes: Even Bono Looks Dapper These Days
"The erosion of social conscience." Should musicians be uniting politically?
Amy's Robot: Every "Top Ten Albums of 2004" List on the Planet
LegalTorrents: Your source for legal BitTorrent files
"A collection of legally downloadable, freely distributable creator-approved files, from electronic/indie music to movies and books, which we have made available via BitTorrent."
ffwd: My top ten net.label releases for 2004
"Top 10 net.label MP3 releases for the year, in no particular order, all freely downloadable and Creative Commons licensed." Yes. YES. YES!!
Monotonik
"Monotonik is a net.music.label that _exclusively_ releases music online in the mp3 format. All of our releases are freely downloadable and distributable under a Creative Commons license that allows free non-commercial distribution."
Mark Vidler: Go Home Productions
Mashups.
bastwood.com: Aphex Twin (art in sound)
"This face was supposed to be viewable with a spectrograph program, so I decided to try it myself." Art from Plaid, Aphex Twin, and Venetian Snares.
Kiddie Records
"In 2005, Basic Hip Digital Oddio will feature an entire year of albums from the golden age of kiddie records, lovingly transferred from the original 78s and encoded to 192kbps MP3 format. That's one a week for 52 weeks!"
Boot Camp: Mashing for Beginners
People Like Us: Download Tracks
Dozens and dozens of excellent (free) tracks by People Like Us and friends.
The Grey Video
Beatles and Jay-Z music video mashup.
DJ Riko: Tunes
Mashups, sets, tracklists, downloads.
Pitchfork: The Postal Service Gives Up!
"Electro-pop duo's feud with the United States Postal Service ends in bizarre cross-promotion." "Surreal events like this one don't happen every day, and they must be documented for posterity."
Travis Morrison: What's Your Fantasy?
The lead singer of the late Dismemberment Plan covers Ludacris.
Ironyage.com: Cake's "Sheep Go to Heaven"
Interpretation and investigation.