Not just good.

"95/99%" of the samples used on the new Oh Astro album.

"'I don't have an agent, I organise my own tours, and apart from the odd deadline when I have to do a remix, I work on tracks as and when it fits in.'"

Matmos do a long interview with BUTT magazine. Rather explicit; a fun read.

"Los Angeles-based sound artist Steve Roden" finds "a small plastic record album that he found inside another album" at a flea market. Sounds great. "the ghosts are with us, and they’re singing."

"Make it a story, a poem, an experiment; just make make make it. It doesn't have to be slick, it doesn't have to have money in it, it just has to be beautiful, honest, great. The first and golden rule: make a video you love for a song that you love."

"An outdoor ambient music piece for an infinite number of boomboxes. It’s like a Christmas caroling party except that we don’t sing, but rather carry the music, each of us playing a separate track that is a 'voice' in the piece."

Tags music in iTunes on a grid of Calm - Intense, Sad - Happy.

"I simply can’t describe the feeling of listening to forty-five minutes of nature-inspired ambient music when you know what is coming in the final thirty seconds."

An excellent post on Vampire Weekend from Sean at StG. He gets "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" just right. I _love_ this kind of music writing.

"Toneshared is the world's most interesting collection of mobile phone tones made by well known musicians and artists working in the electronic and alternative music scenes." Free, short, sweet. Inclues Caribou, Faux Pas, Califone...

A greeter at the airport who welcomes and well-wishes operatically, he says to fantastic results. Pretty cool, but your suspicions will be confirmed at the end of the video. Very nice.

Awesome advertising campaign that arranges album artwork to create a bigger image.

M.I.A. as modern protest music. "It’s safe to assume, for instance, that when M.I.A. says in 'Bamboo Banga' that she’s 'knocking on the door of your Hummer-Hummer,' that she’s not looking for a lift."

The professional work of Jason Nocito; absolutely fantastic and blissed-out. Check out the landscape-portraits.

"Bunnygrunt are an American indie pop band from St. Louis, Missouri." From the depths of sophomore year's word-association compendium comes this band.

Trent was an Oink user and regrets its disappearance. The Reznor-Williams collaboration, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!, a mind-boggling fusion of genres," will be released for free on the internet. "Ghetto gothic?"

Stylus is shutting down, unfortunately. Here's their own excellent guide to the best of the site. Great weekend reading.

Friend Tom Wironen walks across in front of the stage around 0:35. Awesome! Not a bad song, either.

Is glad to see OiNK gone. Laments the conservatism and insularity of the community, made up, he says, of "supposed music fans who tricked themselves into believing [OiNK] could substitute for a sustainable approach to supporting music as art."

"An artist is Advanced when they do something that is neither expected of them nor the opposite of what is expected of them." Tongue-in-cheek, but the article lives on. Note the notes on Val Kilmer and C-Murder.

On Advancement Theory: it's not bad; you just don't get it. "The most Advanced figure of all time is Lou Reed [who in] 1986 released the song 'The Original Wrapper,' in which he raps about AIDS, Louis Farrakhan, and waffles."

"Your guide to understanding Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and other highly Advanced musicians." If a genius does something you don't understand, it's probably even more genius.

The story of the Top 20 Hit that never was. Oh well, it's still one of the best.

So far, my favorite of the "Takeaway Shows" series. This is why I love music, plain and simple. Absolutely amazing.

Super-secret source.

Impressive quadralingual freestyling.

Start your musical taste over from zero. Impose limitations. Discover and rediscover!

A very interesting and multi-talented guy.

With a rundown of each slider.