New T Bird album coming in January!

10 Sep

It is no secret that T Bird and The Breaks is one of my favorite bands. So excuse me why I am little excited for a new track from them. Justine by T Bird & the Breaks

I still don’t know the home of that reference

08 Sep

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Tonight’s guest was Jason Sigal of freemusicarchive.org, wfmu, and the Lame Drivers. Was a great interview, check it out. Wish we could of hung out longer. Him http://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason His Favorites http://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason/favorites/?sort=track_date_published&d=1&page=1&per_page=200 http://www.jasonsigal.cc/ http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://beamcenter.org/ Playlist Lame Drivers – demondz blood  Chatroom Noise http://daniellevitin.com/publicpage/books/this-is-your-brain-on-music/ This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin Link:http://amzn.com/B000PC0SDW …

Dark Situations and Vague Pizza

06 Sep

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I recap my horrible experience at Pizza Hut and the Captain loses his way in the dark. All in all fun was had by all. We had 2 producers first Edward with his $33.33 donation warning me to stay away from cheap pizza and beer. Then SaltyHash comes in with $33.32 of ltc and seconds the cheap pizza warning. MartinJJ …

Mere Exposure Effect

05 Sep

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An excellent #Unformatted featuring Aaron Wolf of Snowdrift.coop. We discuss copyright, creative commons and low down dirty bastards. I could say more but that might ruin an excellent interview. Enjoy Show Links   wolftune.com snowdrift.coop http://blog.ninapaley.com/2013/12/07/make-art-not-law-2/ http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/ http://taskcoach.org/ http://blog.wolftune.com/2012/08/copyingisfun1.html http://blog.wolftune.com/2012/08/copyingisfun2.html https://archive.org/details/CopyingIsNotTheftForBarbershopQuartet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/inaugural-stupid-patent-month http://sitasingstheblues.com/ https://rynothebearded.com/2013/06/the-jazzcast-after-party/ http://spencermichaud.bandcamp.com/ http://www.spencermichaud.com/ http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/12/28/the-cult-of-originality/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiP!:_A_Remix_Manifesto http://vimeo.com/8040182 https://torrentfreak.com/lawrence-lessig-wins-damages-for-bogus-youtube-takedown-140228/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYwOtTMUz0c Nita Paley Aaron’s summary of the whole copyright thing, …

How to drive friends crazy and have fun while you do it.

05 Sep

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Last Saturday I got to sit and talk with an old friend Leigh Brown of Dirty Boxers fame. We talked about great pranks to pull on your friends and his new project Pixelated Projects  I am not sure what else to say enjoy 2 & 1/2 hours of me and Leigh rambling as we both do so well.  

Spiedkiks

03 Sep

Spiedkiks Little Smartphone People Aside from another staggering attempt to mold measly words into representations of oceanic waves of sound, I must also share a bit more wonky terminology regarding the variety of liberal licenses. Considering that this column is known as Free Cultural Work, allow me to devolve and digress into the near-legalese of that phrase for a moment. …

Headaches With The Toothaches

31 Aug

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Another great #OO show. We are joined by The Toothaches for an interview and a short live set. Which unfortunately has some audio issues  to it. We did a brief sound check earlier and and it seemed to sound good but as the songs picked up we started getting issues in the sound. I apologize for the bad quality and …

Superstar Destroyer Records

27 Aug

A new find on my list of cool labels. The album I want to present today is one I found via a tweet from the label that gave this post the name. The label is based in Manchester and say they are “devoted to all kinds of leftfield goodness; progressive rock, trip-hop, post-rock, electronica, shoegaze, alternative rock and everything in between.” …

Talented Women Mix Their Way In

23 Aug

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Another excellent #OO show. We celebrated the last day of the ccmixter big summer music fest! Fun was had by all Susan aka SackJo22 stopped by for a random moment. Later on Snowflake joined us during the afterparty for an interview that got lost into the ether. Got introduced into a bunch of great new music and had a fantastic …