From the monthly archives:

April 2007

South Austin Jug Band Covers Beck’s Jackass

April 30, 2007

Check out this very cool homemade video that the boys from the south of Austin put out. What a cool Beck cover. Its as if the song was written to be played on bluegrass instruments which doesn’t surprise me because Beck has very traditional influences.

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Save Internet Radio!

April 30, 2007

Unless we do something about it now, Internet radio will cease to exist on May 15. The Library of Congress judges that oversee copyright statutory licenses have decided to enact a per play royalty model to replace the profit based royalty model that exists now. This causes a 1200% raise in royalty fees for small [...]

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Ryan Adams On The Henry Rollins Show

April 29, 2007

Here is an excellent performance that Ryan Adams and his band The Cardinals did on The Henry Rollins Show. One thing that this video makes me realize is that Adams is a killer guitarist. (via)

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New Flaming Lips Spiderman Song

April 26, 2007

Stereogum has posted a new Flaming Lips song called The Supreme Being Teaches Spiderman To Love that is to be featured in the Spiderman 3 soundtrack. The song is very cool and remains true to the bizarre sound the Lips have perfected. Check it out!

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Todd Snider Videos

April 15, 2007

I’m such a YouTube junkie. I’ll go on YouTube in search of something and find myself browsing videos for hours. One cool side effect Youtube is having is that it is bringing back music videos. Cuckoobird favorite Todd Snider has some excellent music videos on YouTube including the following two which I hope you get [...]

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Tibetan Sand Mandala Webcam

April 11, 2007

A friend told me about an art exhibit called Sacred Art: The Tibetan Mandala going on at Xavier University. The university is hosting a live video feed of Buddhist monks from Drepung Gomang Monastic College in Mundgod, India creating a sand mandala. If you’ve ever wanted to see the creation (and destruction) of a sand [...]

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[mp3] Janis & Jorma – The Typewriter Tapes

April 2, 2007

I’ve always loved the vintage aesthetic to this recording. It gives me a good sense of what it might have been like to live in San Francisco during the sixties and bear witness to all sorts of spontaneous musical events. Janis‘ heart wrenching voice is accompanied by the fingerstyle sounds of Jorma Kaukonen on the [...]

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