By Marvin Marks on Jun 16, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
OK Go have a reputation for inventive music videos (click here for a post from January on some of their earlier videos) and their latest (for “End Love”) is definitely not going to do anything to hurt that reputation. In fact, I think it’s their most interesting one yet.
Check out what Jeff Lieberman (who directed […]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 15, 2010 in Features | 5 Comments
I’ve been making an effort to give a good open ear to as many of the critically acclaimed albums of the year as I can make time for. My playlist on Winamp (all of these albums can be downloaded from AmazonMP3) includes 30 of these albums and what follows are my initial reactions to them. […]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 15, 2010 in Music News | 0 Comments
Through 11PM EST (it started at 2PM) you can watch live as 20 cats listen to Devo’s first album in 20 years, Something for Everybody, on UStream. Click Here to check it out.
By Marvin Marks on Jun 12, 2010 in Features | 2 Comments
I came across this video today on the way in which fire reacts to music and thought I should share it here. It’s already got 1.4 million views on Youtube so maybe you’ve seen it before. But it’s the first time I came across it, so perhaps it will be new to some of you […]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 8, 2010 in Features | 3 Comments
As a huge Radiohead fan and big fan of the Last.FM site I came with this idea of ranking Radiohead’s songs by which ones are most “shouted” on the site.
I will also compare the rankings of most “shouted” vs. most played. There would seem to be a direct correlation, but are there some songs […]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 8, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
To date Radiohead has released seven albums. They may release their eight album sometime this year (according to guitarist Ed O’Brien) so it seems like a reasonable enough time to take a look back at those first seven albums beginning with 1993’s Pablo Honey all the way through 2007’s In Rainbows.
Pablo Honey (1993)
This is easily […]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 3, 2010 in Features | 3 Comments
It’s nice when your musical heroes dig your political heroes and luckily and as a liberal I get to experience this quite often because artistic types tend to be political liberals due to the empathy that comes naturally with being an artist.
And of course empathy usually leads to liberal political views because it allows […]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 2, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
This post takes a look at the keys of The Beatles original songs to see if there are any patterns worth noting (as to how often certain keys are used and whether certain keys are more likely to be used with certain types of songs.)
I’m going to be using the following books as sources for […]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 1, 2010 in Features | 11 Comments
I’ve recently become aware of Janelle Monae and she seems to be a remarkable talent. Remarkable to the point where I feel that I must make others aware of her as well by writing this post that you must be reading right now.
I’m not an expert on her. In fact, I know very little […]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 1, 2010 in Features | 0 Comments
Trent Reznor’s new band is making their debut EP available for free download at HowToDestroyAngels.com, the free download is in 320 mp3 format. For $2 you can upgrade to lossless audio (FLAC, Apple Lossless, or 24 bit 44.1 WAV.)
The EP is self-titled, How To Destroy Angels, and it includes 6 tracks.
As I mentioned in my […]