Tags → “music”
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10-Jan-2022 Finding earworms in last.fm data with PHPOver the weekend I was prompted to think about the idea of an “earworm” — a song or piece of music that gets stuck in your mind. Some people find such “earworms” to be highly irritating. The idiom implies an actual worm in your actual ear which sounds positively *horrifying* to me. For me, an…
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30-Dec-2021 Longmont Potion CastlePart of blogging in WordPress that’s great is that I can save drafts. This is one with just a link to wikipedia and the title Longmont Potion Castle. What did I mean? Why did I save it? To research? Longmont Potion Castle: Longmont Potion Castle (born 1972) is the pseudonym of an anonymous surrealist prank…
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20-Dec-2021 About Radio Garden. Thanks WNRN 91.9FM!This is a sort of strange followup to my music roundup from November. I worked at Slacker Radio (now LiveXLive) for many years and enjoyed that service a lot. Now I use Spotify mostly. Before that I managed my iTunes music collection onto iPods over the years very carefully and deliberately, making playlists as needed….
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19-Nov-2021 Music Friday RoundupYesterday I was talking to gRegor. gRegor is a chap I met at the end of 2019 when he was trying to get an in-person #indieweb “Homebrew Website Club” meetup going for San Diego. We had just a few before a global Pandemic. But meeting a kindred spirit is always wonderful. Two years have passed…
- 14-Jun-2018New Stew Record! New Negro Problem Record!
ONE NIGHT, TWO ALBUMS Next Monday, June 18, is the must see music event of the Summer for fans and friends of Stew & The Negro Problem. This is a one-night-only, special concert performance and celebration, it will be hosted by (le) poisson rouge in the West Village, and they’ll be talking about it for…
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18-Mar-2018 On Prog RockInspired by the little article “The Whitest Music Ever (Prog rock was audacious, innovative—and awful)” I wrote this: Datapoints: King Crimson can be furiously awesome. I saw them on the Thrak tour (I can’t remember if that was at the Wiltern) and I totally get it. Robert Fripp is terrific when tempered by other artists…
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28-Apr-2017 No lies, I’ve seen these bands.Beastie Boys The Blasters David Byrne Elvis Costello Cracker Dave Matthews Band De La Soul Dead Can Dance Debbie Harry Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Elton John General Public Keb’ Mo Los Lobos Love and Rockets Barry Manilow Maroon 5 Men at Work Morrissey New Order Oingo Boingo PJ Harvey Public Image Ltd The Ramones Santana…
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28-Jul-2015 The Grateful Dead: Influences and InfluencersPerhaps you’re interested in learning more about Half Century Phenomenon The Grateful Dead? I remember several Los Angeles nurses I worked with who dropped everything and went to San Francisco just to BE THERE in the immediate aftermath of Jerry Garcia’s death. The Dead means a lot to a lot of people. On the net.cultural…
