Category: music

  Released 19th of December, these refreshingly beautiful songs caught me by surprise about a week back. It’s delightful to hear something this beautiful in the otherwise busy schedule that life is. Leedskalnin wrote that the Secret to the Universe is 7129/6105195. I disagree.

You couldn’t have possibly missed Tom Waits’ new album Bad As Me, and lo and behold if it wasn’t just the one that fell into my possession from a crooked crow’s nest this early afternoon. Tom Waits follows on the same trail he’s been pursuing since Real Gone, minus the heavy percussions, with 16 well-written […]

You can stream Tom Waits’ title song for his upcoming album Bad as me right here: Tom Waits – Bad As Me by antirecords If that doesn’t work go straight to the horse’s mouth. He’s offering up the song as an mp3 right now, but pre-order the entire album and deluxe edition from the Tom […]

Better let the man himself do the talking: «Well, we have a situation here. I’m sorry we had to cut. But apparently there’s no such thing as private anymore. It’s an Internet thing where they say that it’s going to go out everywhere, into the bloodstream, I thought this was a private party — kind […]

An e-mail passed around on the Anti label mailing list reads: There have been rumblings and rumors. New music from Tom Waits, you say? Come to TomWaits.com on Tuesday August 23rd, and Mr. Waits himself will set the record straight. These messages always shines up the brightest as the darkest of days. Last time we […]

One of my childhood (and adulthood) heroes, Weird Al Yankovic, has dropped his first album in 5-6 years called Alpocalypse already making headlines and getting people in the entertainment industry worried. Rumor has it, one of Lady Gaga‘s minions wanted trouble with Weird Al for his Perform this way (below) even though (rumor has it) […]

While writing a couple of thousand lines in XHTML 1.0 STRICT today, I was listening to random tunes from the previously introduced ccmixter service called Dig. There was a lot of great ambient/electro/hip-hop tunes that worked out nice with the tedious work and really turned this day around. From the top of my head Shame […]

My good friend Pauly, the founding father of Truckin’, author of Lost Vegas and slave of the cannibal goddess tipped me off about Taupin & Elton John’s Rocket Man, in the infamous 1978 version by William Shatner. I don’t know about you but I think it’s better than the original. Here are 3 different versions […]

It’s Friday right, so this is what you wanna feel like: The Woodbeat EP is out. Stuff be smooth, wanna be whistlin!

This week when watching a video about a music project I really enjoyed their background tune. It turned out that the tune was NOT a part of the project but made by an unrelated artist called gmz! Really cool, but that’s only half of it! The ccMixter music discovery (beta) page at dig.ccmixter.org allows you […]