May 2012
5 posts
Zammuto: ‘Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have... →
I wish each of these entries was ten times as long.
zammutosound:
Around that time I sampled a daytime court show from TV, where a woman selling vacation tickets was being harassed by a man unsatisfied by his accommodations. She went on this jaw-dropping motor-mouthed rant about how she had lost her job and had a heart condition, and it turned out to be a great stand-in for a free-jazz like...
Sounds Like The →
Over the weekend I put together this little project, a blog collecting songs with sounds that resemble noises found in the world of modern technology. Submit a track and I’ll add it.
(Thanks to Jamieson Cox for the tweet that inspired me to make the list I was keeping in my head into a real thing.)
April 2012
4 posts
2 tags
Beats for Beatroot Championships
In January I qualified for the yearly producer battle put on by Honolulu’s Lightsleepers. On Friday, April 20th, I competed in the championships. I lost! But it was really fun. Here are the four beats I created, each according to a specific challenge. Outkast and Fugees remixes included.
Download the whole set.
March 2012
5 posts
WatchIn January I qualified for the Beatroot Grand Championships 2012. Here is my producer profile video, shot by Hypoetical and Kavet from Lightsleepers. All the beats in the video (except for the title card) are mine and can be downloaded here.
Me Every Day for a Month
Me every day for a month. (I got bored and couldn’t make it a year.) Put together with Everyday.
WatchAn hour of our band working on our new album, condensed to 2.5 minutes.
February 2012
7 posts
Caribou Song Title Categories
I made a spreadsheet listing all of the song titles in the Caribou catalog and categorized them according to trends that I’ve noticed as a long-time fan. I was looking out primarily for girls’ names (old-fashioned ones, typically) and bird species, but a number of other categories make just as strong showings. (See the bottom of the spreadsheet for explanations of the parentheticals.)
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January 2012
15 posts
Is the Consumption of Free Things Still...
Is there a tendency to not think of the constant and sizable downloading and following and reading about music as ‘consumption’ and therefore not as ‘consumerism’? Does the fact that most music is now essentially free make consuming it seem less of a bad habit than the purchasing of physical objects? I’d be broke in two weeks if I bought the same amount of sneakers...
What’s Your Most Played Song? →
marathonpacks:
“Jesus Fever,” Kurt Vile. 132 plays. One weekend during July counts for about 30 of these, I think. If I were to quantify my love for this song, it “peaked” then.
Pay it forward!
It’s gotta be ‘Bros.’ And… Last.fm confirms, with 149 plays.
iTunes has a different story to tell, likely because of scrobbling inconsistencies: The Books’ ‘None but Shining Hours’, with 193 plays,...
December 2011
23 posts
2011 in Music: Miscellany
This is the last post in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011.
Favorite Albums
Favorite Songs
Last.fm Stats
Favorite Sounds
Favorite Music Writing
My Friends and Myself
Miscellany
Some things that didn’t fit elsewhere in my lists.
This video of the live rendition of James Blake’s ‘CMYK’ is one of my absolute favorite things of the year. The song itself is amazing, a sort of...
2011 in Music: My Friends and Myself
This is the penultimate in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011.
Favorite Albums
Favorite Songs
Last.fm Stats
Favorite Sounds
Favorite Music Writing
My Friends and Myself
Miscellany
I am lucky beyond belief not only to be able to create and play music with my friends and on my own, but to have so many friends doing the same. Here are the highlights of this year of music from...
2011 in Music: Music Writing
This is the fifth in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011.
Favorite Albums
Favorite Songs
Last.fm Stats
Favorite Sounds
Favorite Music Writing
My Friends and Myself
Miscellany
My favorite writing about music from this year.
There’s a lot of Nitsuh Abebe, Eric Harvey, Mark Richardson, and Tom Ewing here. They are my favorite music writers and I make it a point to read...
2011 in Music: Sounds
This is the fourth in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011.
Favorite Albums
Favorite Songs
Last.fm Stats
Favorite Sounds
Favorite Music Writing
My Friends and Myself
Miscellany
I tend to fixate on sounds and tones in songs and records. These are my favorite sounds from this year.
There are two ways to listen! Press play on the blue-and-grey SoundCloud player to hear all...
Three Questions for Jamieson
Tired and bored while cleaning my old apartment, I saw Jamieson was taking Tumblr Asks, so I quickly shot him three questions, and he answered them today. Thanks, Jamieson.
As a Canadian, do you ever feel confused or unable to relate to certain aspects of music writing (or other cultural criticism) that you read? If so, what in particular or in general? Or is there a ‘North American culture’ that...
2011 in Music: Last.fm Stats
This is the third in a seven-part series on my favorite music from 2011.
Favorite Albums
Favorite Songs
Last.fm Stats
Favorite Sounds
Favorite Music Writing
My Friends and Myself
Miscellany
I was inspired by Best New Music Writer Jamieson Cox for this portion of my year-end wrap-up – he dissected his top-scrobbled albums on Last.fm to see if his picks for albums of the year corresponded to...
2011 in Music: Songs
Here, with some delay, is part two of seven!
Favorite Albums
Favorite Songs
Last.fm Stats
Favorite Sounds
Favorite Music Writing
My Friends and Myself
Miscellany
In alphabetical order, here are the 155 songs that meant the most to me this year.
There is a Spotify playlist if you’d like to listen along. (If the song can’t be found on Spotify, I’ve linked the song title to SoundCloud or...
