Your Music looks like Sh*t!
Met a guy today whose brother invented Tuneup for Itunes. It’s a program that takes your music that is mislabeled and “cleans” it, meaning that they change the song titles, album names, etc. to the correct ones. I tried the free demo for 100 songs and was psyched to finally know that the bluegrass modest mouse band name is The Iron Horse. You can buy a subscription to clean your entire library for $20 or so.
Stereomood
Simple website for finding new music.
After you click an emotion it it creates a playlist for you. Like an electronic John Cusack, but not as annoying.
“Where Funk is the universal language…”
If you cannot get enough funk in your life, check out my boy Marc Amigone’s podcast.
He knows his stuff, and used to work for S.O.B’s in NYC, a great venue for music and dancing.
Band of Horses
Check out the way BOH is previewing their newest album. Check it out for free here. An o.k album, but I really like the model.
5 Songs I’m Listening to on Repeat
- Florence & The Machine – Dog Days Are Over
- The Morning Benders- Excuses
- Washed Out- Belong
- The Books – Beautiful People
- Delorean – Stay Close
Top Songs of April
These are some songs I’ve really enjoyed this April. Some old, some new and in no particular order. Hope you guys like some of them.
- Wolf Gang- Back to Back
- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
- The Tallest Man on Earth- It will follow the rain
- JJ – C.E.O- Birthday
- Nina Simone- Funkier than a Mosquito’s Tweeter
- Imogen Heap- Wait it Out (Royal Sapien Remix)
- Blue Scholars- Back Home (FYI one of the guys here looks like Marc Amigone and just kinda hangs out in the back of the shot the whole time, love it)
- Arthur & Yu- Afterglow
- She and Him- In the Sun
- Bon Iver- Come Talk to Me
- Head Like a Kite – No Ordinary Caveman
- Grand Archives- Miniature Birds
- Plan B – Double Crossing Rat
- Yeasayer- Madder Red
- Sean Hayes- Stella Seed
- The Books- Tokyo
5 Videos of Spring
These are five bands I’ve been listening to a lot lately, which happen to have videos that I think feel like spring. A sort of hipster spring.
1. Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook
2. The Tallest Man On Earth – Where do my bluebird fly
4. The Books – That Right ‘aint Shi*
5. Sean Hayes – When We Fall In
Four more songs to check out
Top 20 songs of March
These are my most played songs this past month. Hope some of them are new to you! I linked each song title to a you-tube video of it, so you can “dirpy” it if you want. They are also in random order. As for the music videos, check out the Voyager One’s (#1) video, Iron and Wine’s (#10) video and The Duchesses and the Duke’s (#14) video.
Snowboard/ Ski Music
So while checking out the ski & snowboard companies that my friends ride/work for, I found this…
This website lets you check out the soundtracks to all the snowboarding/ski movies that you watched in the past 20 years. While you can buy each track off their site, you can just as easily find a youtube file of it and “dirpy it” (see earlier post). As for my friend’s companies, they are
Keep it up guys!
New Music from SXSW
Check out Next Big Sound, a website that trolls the internet to see what bands are gaining the most fans every day, week, month, year, etc. Currently they are following the up and coming bands at the SXSW (South by Southwest) music festival in Austin, TX. Here are the top ten most popular bands from SXSW according to NBS! The idea here is that you don’t have to rely on the opinion of your friend who went to SXSW to find new music. I really like this site because, having been to SXSW, I think people go wanting to find new music so badly that they fall in love w/ any band that doesn’t totally suck. So if you want to take your hungover (and now partially deaf) friend’s opinion out of the equation and go w/ the numbers, check out Next Big Sound.
After I checked out the SXSW site, I tried NBS’s regular artist search and found this cool function. You can compare the popularity of whatever bands you want. In order to see their popularity over longer periods of time you have to join the site. Of course not every cool band gets talked about on the sites that NBS trolls, but prob still a good gauge of what hipsters w/ macs are listening to.
Easy Music
Dirpy. While the name may be a bit odd, it is rememberable.
Dirpy is a website where you can covert your favorite youtube videos to mp3 files. Whether its a really funny joke, a great live song, or a lecture you need to listen to on your ipod, Dirpy hooks it up. You get to title the track, and choose where on your computer the file downloads to. Enjoy!
The Hype Machine and Grooveshark
The Hype Machine and Grooveshark are two websites that are allowing people to both explore new music and listen to music that they like…for free. After months of dealing with Pandora’s commercials and randomness, it was a welcome reprieve to find these two sites which are both VERY addicting.
The Hype machine is a site that trolls “very hip” music blogs and makes the popular music available for you to listen to. You can “heart” a song that you like to make your own playlist, and then direct your friends to that site so that you can get the street cred for being a music guru (a.k.a, what I’m doing right now.) It is VERY easy to navigate and while it tends to post a lot of re-mixes, you can find most anything there.
Grooveshark is a site that allows you to search for ANY song or artist, and then just listen to them. Lost your CD collection and still want to hear a Belle and Sebastian album all the way through? No problem, just search for the band, find the album, and then add all the desired songs to your playlist.
One of the best perks is that if you leave the site or shut down you computer, your playlists don’t disappear! Now neither site has EVERY band in the know musical universe, however there isn’t a whole lot you can’t listen to between the two sites. Check out my playlist at The Hype Machine, press shuffle and let me know what you think!
