Links for 3.9.09: Twitter radio, must-own albums, Lemmy’s ‘stache…
by Josh Kimball
*Beamcast: No word from Sam Beam yet on the podcast I have proposed he record with me. I’ll be honest: I’ve spent the past 3 weeks crying, crying into my cupped hands.
*Twitter: ♬.ws is also known as Musebin. And it helps you search for music on Twitter. The music stuff happening around Twitter is interesting in a theoretical sort of way, but I am – as a user – part of the lazy middle, and still haven’t discovered any music-specific Twitter applications that have lit my fire. [tds]
*More Twitter: One experimenter is sorting tweets by sentiment and broadcasting them over the radio. (There’s video! Of radio! Kind of.)
*Furthermore: More people I know have been joining twitter lately and hating on it. This post from Online Fandom is as in tune with the possibilities of the medium as anything else I’ve read – especially point 5) “Twitter is temporal and cumulative”. OK, I’m done with twitter again.
*Men: Esquire goes all prescriptive, and tells the world the 75 albums every human male should own. Any asshole who’s ever heard the old saw “Build a house, plant a tree, write a book…” knows that “The Best of Elmo” needs to be on there. OK. I could be wrong.
*YouTube: Muziic pulls music off YouTube for streaming. I find the interface to be haunting. In a bad way. Like Linkin Park.
*More YouTube: RockPeaks is a collection of live music performances pulled from YouTube. [waxy]
*Pictures: Time runs the Cobbe oil painting, supposedly the only portrait of the bard made while he was alive. Weird, since everyone knows Shakespeare never existed. [mefi]
*Pop: Sasha Frere-Jones takes on Neko Case in the New Yorker. “I’m kind of the horn section of any band I’m in.”
*Hair: The 5 most important moustaches in music. LEMMY. [spinner]
*Loops: The Mimi Switch would allow one to control his or her iPod by blinking. [textually]
*Local: Brother Ali’s “The Truth is Here” EP gets a 7.4 from Peefork. Numbers are weird, and that’s why I keep looking at them, I think.
*Today: C, due to quantity. And too much effing Web 2.0 B.S.
Interesting that Esquire had my man Townes Van Zandt on that list along with Luna. Too bad Johnny Dowd (www.johnnydowd.com or http://www.myspace.com/johnnydowd) was not on that list. Everyone’s gonna be raving about him 10 years after he dies in obscurity.
Hey, I didn’t see Rush on there. Girls don’t listen to Rush – deductive reasoning, for the win. I don’t really get the nod to the Stone Roses either, it’s a great album, but it’s not a guy album, the way, say, Dr. Octagonecologyst is a guy album. Just sayin’