With the tidal.com app sinking without trace for no better reason than that it’s terrible and there’s no conceivable reason to bother with it,
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Month: April 2015
Based on the trailer, it is blindingly obvious that everyone must watch the hell out of Kung Fury.
A kung fu cop film from the television ’80s. Here is the trailer. And here is the Wikipedia article. And here is the theme
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The Cramps’ long-lost video for “Human Fly” found.
An item alluded to in epic-nerd-level Cramps coverage, but so rare nobody was even known to have a full copy. Here in the astounding
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Donald Fagen: Sunken Condos (2012).
This is light jazz funk rock with brilliant musicianship, and Fagen’s voice is still lovely after all these years. I could not remember a
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Metroland: Triadic Ballet (2015).
Metroland is a Belgian electronic duo. Their publicity says “Kraftwerk” a whole lot, though my first thought was “the Kraftwerky end of Severed Heads”.
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Musician links.
Chord progressions of 25,000 songs analysed, using the database of Hooktheory’s Theorytab. Which itself is ridiculously fun to play with. Audacity is the computer-based
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Industry links.
So how much is music actually worth? Spoiler: nobody knows. Universal Music Hijacks YouTube Videos of Indie Artist. Because of course they did. How
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