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Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton

When he comes ’round they sing, I’m in love. What’s that song? I’m in love with that song.

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Thank you Alex Chilton (1950-2010).

Know Your Meme: Auto-Tune

I have mentioned several times my unnatural love of Auto-Tune. Here’s Know Your Meme explaining the history of Auto-Tune with Professor Al Yankovic.

Buzz Aldrin Raps

Buzz Aldrin hooks up with Snoop.

Cheese is a kind of meat

JB’s favorite Mighty Boosh song. (I have too many to count.)

Cheese is a kind of meat
A tasty yellow beef
I milk it from my teat
I try to be discreet
O, cheese

My Kookie Little Paradise

My new favorite song.

A Kookie Little Paradise by Jo Ann Campbell

More Jo Ann Campbell music on iLike

“Jo-Ann Campbell was born in Jacksonville, Florida, July 20, 1938. In 1942 when she was only four years old she entered a music school and when she entered Fletcher High School in Jacksonville, she was an accomplished drum majorette, [...]

Jonathan Coulton tomorrow night

Don’t forget, 21st century troubadour Jonathan Coulton will be playing at Nova 535 in St. Pete on Friday, January 15. It’s an all ages show and Paul & Storm kick it off at 8pm. I hope I see you there!

For those of you unfamiliar with JoCo’s work, here are a few samplings to whet your [...]

Vic Chesnutt 1964-2009

Didn’t want to mention this yesterday because of all the happy happy joy joy. Vic Chesnutt decided he’d had enough. Here’s his rendition of “Flirted With You All My Life” recorded this summer.

Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace

December 8, 2007 [letter from Yoko]
I miss you, John. 27 years later, I still wish I could turn back the clock to the Summer of 1980. I remember everything – sharing our morning coffee, walking in the park together on a beautiful day, and seeing your hand stretched to mine – holding it, reassuring me [...]

Christmas Is Interesting

Christmas Is Interesting by Jonathan Coulton

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime

Happy Christmas, y’all!

Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton.

JoCo is playing St. Pete January 15!

Please pardon my dust while I do a little site re-design.

Seahorse by Devendra Banhart

One of my favorite tunes by Devendra Banhart live.

Hang Together or Hang Separately

The Flobots video Rise. (Thanks, NF!)

A little positive protest music from today’s youth.

Ethel Smith – Hammond Organist Extraordinaire

Ethel Smith: tico tico (Hammond Organ)Uploaded by mrjyn. – College experience videos.

From Bathing Beauty (1944), a romantic comedy with Esther Williams and Red Skelton.

Thanks to this grindstone I am now almost noseless

A few days ago my to-do list hit TWENTY items, but by the end of the weekend I should be down to ten. In the meantime, here’s a brief interview with Jimmy Wales.

What is your greatest hope for the next 10 years?
That we will, on the internet, continue to forge a new cultural dialogue of [...]

Animated Score

Nifty animation for Beethoven’s Fifth.

Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean?
A: The colors show which instruments are playing.

People Who Died

Jim died of a heart attack. He was only 60 years old and he died.

Support Your Local Music Press

St. Petersblog posts this request from REAX.

“Rest assured, REAX isn’t going anywhere. We’re still committed to providing local, regional and national music and lifestyle news. But we’re having a really tough time paying the bills right now. So we’re asking every fan, band, artist and writer to help us out a little bit. If you’ve [...]

Go to Hell

Clever video of Go to Hell by David Ford. He builds the song one looped track on top of another as he’s fixing his coffee.

Guess that this must be the place

there was a time before we were born
if someone asks
this is where i’ll be

MGMT performing This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

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Shawn Colvin performing This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (one of my favorite covers).

Never for money, always for love.

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We’ll make it up as we go along.

Mama Tried

“She tried to raise me right, but I refused.”

The Sweater by Meryn Cadell

The Sweater by Meryn Cadell

“Girls, I know you will understand this, and feel the intrinsic, incredible emotion. You have just pulled over your head the worn, warm sweater belonging to A Boy. Now you haven’t had a passionate kissing session or anything, but you got to go on a camping trip with him and eight [...]

This Party Took a Turn for the Douche by Garfunkel and Oates

The awesome Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci perform a rap about douchebags.

My American Idol

(JBisMe is an occasional guest contributor to Re/Creating Tampa. Here she recounts her recent visit to see the American Idol stars in concert.)

On account of my fascination with Adam Lambert, I did something very uncharacteristic for me: I attended the American Idol concert last night at the St. Pete Times Forum.

My good friends JG and [...]

Summertime Blues

I’m not sure why, but I’ve been touched with a spell of the blues. I have a million things to do, but the thought of turning my hand to any new task fills me with weariness.

To help me through the day I’ve turned to the inestimable Eddie Cochran.

Eddie Cochran died in a car wreck [...]

Destination Venus

The Rezillos performing Destination Venus.

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Nina Hagen sings White Punks on Dope

Video Cabinet in Limbo has background about The Tubes anthem White Punks on Dope and the story behind Nina Hagen’s cover. Video Cabinet also includes a clip of The Tubes performing WPoD.

“Her version of ‘White Punks On Dope’ appeared on her first LP, but was not a true cover in the strictest sense;
She changed [...]

Stephen Merritt composing and performing Man of Million Faces

NPR’s Two Days program chronicles composers creating, and then performing, an original tune.

Man of a Million Faces.

Homemade Music Symposium

I started to write this up, but see that Clark Brooks has already done an excellent and thorough job. And so, in the spirit of marrow-deep laziness I will simply direct you to his post and recommend that you GO NOW, and GO TO THE HOMEMADE MUSIC SYMPOSIUM THIS WEEKEND.

Here’s a link to the official [...]

Hugh Hopper 1945-2009

Hugh Hopper, bassist for Soft Machine (one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever) has died of leukemia.

“Mr. Hopper was part of the band during its most influential period, from 1967 or 1968 (sources differ) through 1973, playing on and composing for its first several albums.”

(Thanks JLT)

There are some clips of Hugh being interviewed, [...]

Idiot Whistle

Checking out the widget features at Grooveshark.

“Politicians love the death penalty because it makes a bunch of candy-asses look like tough guys.”

“Idiot Whistle” is a spoken word track from The Executioner’s Last Song Volume One.