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tUnE-YaRdS - Sunlight
Whimsical, like light. Magic, like trees.
Get it on vinyl from Marriage Records.
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Bachelorette - Her Rotating Head
from the album My Electric Family. Drag City, Particle Tracks 2009. Directed by Louise Clifton.
As they say on their MySpace, “Bachelorette took too many mushrooms and fell in love with a computer.” *swoon
(via particletracks)
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One of the ways that Music 2.0 has changed how we think about music is that there is so much interesting data available about how people are listening to music…
Computing listening data is the future of the music industry. Sadly. How will this guide future music creation?
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We’re playing in Philly with War on Drugs at Penn Treaty Park on August 5th for Waterfront Wednesdays.
There are going to be a bunch of great free shows at the park starting July 15th. Hope you can make it out!
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When Wilco released a studio recorded cover of Woody Guthrie’s prescient “The Jolly Banker” a little while back, they offered three payment options to the recipient of the optionally free MP3: a suggested donation of $2 or more to the Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives, a free download (provided you “make it up to [them] later”), or you could check the box next to this snarky bit: “I am/was a banker/hedge fund manager/credit default swap trader. I know times are tough, but I’m just fine thank you. (Suggested minimum donation $100.00)”
As it turns out, not everyone pretended to be “otherwise broke” and the band has raised $10,000 to date for the Guthrie archives. “Wilco’s decision to make it available online to raise some bucks for the Archives - and raise the bucks they have!” Guthrie’s daughter Nora posted on the official Wilco site, adding that it “came as a total heart-warming surprise. In one fell download swoop, Wilco wiped the smirk off that Jolly Banker’s face and put the biggest smile on mine.”
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Making Time is happening at a kick-ass place next weekend in SoJerse. First in a series of crazy cool events at a pool shaped like aeroplane… more soon.
(via R5Productions)
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What The Heck Fest #8: July 17th, 18th & 19th, 2009
Wow, this music festival looks like a ton of fun. Wish I could attend (if only I weren’t on the other side of the continent).
Among the many awesome bands performing, here are a few that caught my eye:
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I’m listening to this awesome station right now. Highly recommend.
They say: “We are an online (streaming only) diy radio operating literally out of a basement. We feature found sound, field recordings, story-telling (sometimes paranormal), dream-collecting, radio plays, live house shows and local in-home performances. We also support local and northwest music and other underground/indie music from around the world. We broadcast 24 HOURS A DAY everyday”
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My friend @jtramsay, the music editor at Comcast.net, started this new series of stripped down performances and interviews with indie bands in the lobby of the Comcast building downtown Philly. This is episode one. I’m really glad to see big companies supporting indie artists like this.
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