I just came across some electronic music recorded in 1958 that’s really blowing my mind. I didn’t realize music like this was made in 1958. I have heard some other very early experimental electronic music (such as John Cage’s “Imaginary Landscape” from 1939) but nothing like this. This is much more beat oriented and “modern” […]

Before you get too excited, I should mention that’s $5 for each of the 100 albums not for all of them. But $5 is still a pretty good price to pay for an album.
This promotion from AmazonMP3 includes a lot of excellent albums among the 100 (the list of 100 is updated monthly with […]

I was just checking out Last.FM (if you don’t know what it is, check it out) and I noticed that The Beatles have a total of over 222 million plays. This got me to wondering: “Does anyone have more than that? What would a Last.FM all time top plays list look like?” So I did […]

Because it’s such a fun bouncy sing-along type tune people don’t often notice that “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” by The Beatles is about a serial killer. This cartoon (embedded below) brings the lyrics (written by Paul McCartney) to “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” to life.
I’ve always thought this song gets a bad rap (including from Paul’s fellow […]

The Beatles USB has been going out of stock since it first went on sale on December 8. It’s back in stock on February 5th on Amazon.
Features of The Beatles USB
+ The only way to buy The Beatles music in mp3 format.
+ Includes 24 bit (better than CD quality) FLAC files.
+ Contains everything that’s […]

I recently came across the following quote from Norman Smith (who was The Beatles recording engineer from Please Please Me through Rubber Soul)
I don’t want to take anything away from anyone, but production of the Beatles was very simple, because it was ready-made. Paul was a very great influence in terms of the production, especially […]

Joanna Newsom’s 3rd album is titled Have One On Me and it’s set to be released around the world on February 23rd. It will be a triple album (available as both a triple CD and a triple LP.)
Her first two albums were 2004’s The Milk-Eyed Mender and 2006’s Ys.

The Hope For Haiti Now charity album debuted at #1 on the US album charts and made a bit of history by becoming the first digital download only album to make it to #1.
The album sold 171,000 copies to get the top spot. This is most impressive when you consider that it only became available […]

The Magnetic Fields’ Realism is their first album since 2008’s Distortion which hit #77 on the US album charts.
Four Tet’s There Is Love In You is Kieran Hebden’s first album in over four years (Four Tet is Kieren Hebden’s stage name.) His last full length album release was 2005’s Everything Ecstatic which charted at […]

Gorillaz fans should check out Gorillaz.com as there’s a lot of new stuff (including a stream of the new single “Stylo” featuring Bobby Womack & Mos Def) to check out over there with the group’s new album, Plastic Beach, coming out on March 9th in the US (the 8th in the UK.)