n-judah love song

"beat"ing a dead horse

We started this game up at a party the other night...how, exactly, do you know when rave is dead?

For instance, "rave is dead when you only go to places with a bar." Go over to Adam's blog where the game continues: rave is dead when...

music monday

Maybe it's because I got new headphones from Shure (BTW, Sony, you can suck it, with your shite headphones) or because I've been going back out to more live music, but I thought I'd do a quick round-up post on tunes.

Here's Beck covering Nick Drake's Pink Moon. Emo-tastic.

Have you tried emusic yet? Non-DRM, 40 tunes for $10 a month, with new labels being added all the time - most recently Grand Central and Ninja Tune. Plus, they have loads of jazz and blues.

Todd posted a drum-n-bass mix from Little Jen, it's ill.

I've posted about this before, but it's still so fun to play with Pandora and last.fm. Based on the RIYL principle, and both sites "learn" what you want to hear.

In a quick break from political blogging, Alex points out the UnderworldLive.com site, which lets you purchase new tunes that will only see release online, download live sets, and pushes forward the idea of getting music straight from the band to the fans.

I am so in love with the Mylo album, it's a little ridiculous.

I'm really trying to get into podcasts, but finding decent ones takes more time than I have. KUSF's Future Breaks FM is some ill drum-n-bass from right here in the Bay Area (thanks to Jason for pointing it out). I've been digging on both the Hierocast from Heiro Emperium Records, it's snowboarder hip-hop: good beats with interesting production; as well as DNAE Beats, which seems to favor hip-hop with a jazzy bent and good vocal samples.

Did you know Betalounge is still around? That's one of the first places I listened to music online, apart from Radio 1.

Anything new rockin' your block right now?