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Joey deVilla over at “The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century” is writing up a series of articles on “Starbucks, gentrification, and related issues”. The first post, more of a set-up I’m guessing for future comments, is called Starbucks, Sustainability and Livability. In it, Joey points to those cities with a high presence [...]

tickets, Originally uploaded to Flickr by fetching (Lane Hartwell).
Yesterday morning I saw a stunning picture posted on Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection. The photography was the work of Lane Hartwell. The picture stayed in my head all day and I found myself going back to look at it a couple of times. I then started thinking [...]

The MF Doom and DangerMouse duo DangerDoom are offering up some free MP3 downloads from their The Mouse and the Mask sessions. The collection is called Occult Hymn EP and is available here

The first mix tape of a (hopefully lengthy) series. The concept behind the series is to create one hour (ish) playlists that blend established artists with those that are up and coming, to cross genres, decades and styles and to dabble in moods, lyrical and emotional journeys. Overall its about creating playlists I wished radio [...]

This isn’t the first remake on the Gnarls Barkley track Crazy nor is it the best. In fact the best slow tempo version is probably their own from Top of the Pops. Nonetheless Nelly Furtado does a reasonable one-take, no-overdubs, live version that can be found here. It was recorded at the BBC for Jo [...]

Tonight I opened my email after putting the kids to bed – it was “single dad” duty tonight as Mom finally decided to head out on her own after being cooped up for the last six months with our new daughter. Needless to say as I completely blown away when a message popped up with [...]

So if Tom Petty were to actually take the Red Hot Chili Peppers to court for the similarities between their Dani California song and his Mary Jane’s Last Dance, who would Rick Rubin testify for? He produced both tracks according to AllMusic. See here – Dani California and Mary Jane’s Last Dance.

Above is a great breakdown of one of the most common hip-hop and drum & bass samples out there – the “Amen Break”. Found this on Youtube via Joey deVilla’s “The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century“.
LA-based Nate Harrison put the original video essay together. It can be found online at nkhstudio.com There [...]