Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) The big news in digital music this week was a piece of aggressive copy-protection software called XPC included on select Sony CDs. It drew such widespread and quick negative publicity that the label …
This may or may not be what Erik Satie had in mind when he talked of a music that went well with the sound of silverware at a dinner party, but among the more recent field-recording remixes at the Freesound …
When abstract music is performed live in an art gallery, the art can’t help but lend form to what is heard. When the trio French Radio played at the Luggage Store Gallery on November 10, the art didn’t just lend …
The latest free download from the Kranky label is a live version of Nudge’s “No Come Back,” the closing track off the group’s Cahced album, released earlier this year (MP3). Consisting of Brian Foote, Paul Dickow and Honey Owens, …
Underworld have come out from under. Today the duo, which brought conceptual restraint and a refined design sensibility to techno (or perhaps it’s vice-versa?) on such fine recordings as Beaucoup Fish and Dubnobasswithmyheadman, surfaced with a new retail download, “Lovely …
Recent favorites from the One-Minute Vacation series of volunteer-contributed field recordings at quietamerican.org/vacation.html, curated by Aaron Ximm: bells rung gently in Moscow for the Russian Orthodox Christmas (MP3); a mild cacophony of bugs, birds and a live band …
On Halloween, the Stasisfield netlabel (stasisfield.com) released a single, hour-long piece by musician Peter Koniuto titled Past Andromeda (MP3). As the name suggests, it’s an exercise in space music: slow blooms of galactic sound that stretch from ear …
Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) Yes, that is the early drum’n'bass figure Photek who’s got a remix on the new single, “Cool,” off Gwen Stefani’s Love. Angel. Music. Baby., currently atop one of Billboard’s many charts. … (2) …
Tell someone in Toronto, while visiting from San Francisco, how lovely, walkable, vibrant and diverse their city is and they’ll say, “Come back in mid-January.” Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that a netlabel with the uneasy name Dark Winter (darkwinter.com) …
Science-fiction novelist William Gibson once noted that the Walkman changed the way we experience cities. Among the many things packed into that koan is the sense that music shapes human interaction. Few musicians have embraced the idea as thoroughly as …