In Austin for the Weekend | That Can Only Mean One Thing: Clear Eyes…
Dig this interview series of the cast & crew put together back in July by Robert Mays at Grantland. Check it here. #austin #fridaynightlights
Posts from the ‘Culture’ Category
Dec 10
Penn Yan, Keuka Lake, Family…
One of the my favorite places on earth. Ah, and apparently the wine ain’t bad. #fingerlakes #wine
Black Light Dinner Party – Second Single – LP Wanted. Badly.
#blacklightdinnerparty
Black Light Dinner Party
Courtesy of Clixie and one Nicole Cadman. Check it. Small Boxes
Sunday Summer Tune
“Heart in the Pipes” from Tony Castles. Sit back. #tonycastles #indierock
s/o to Stereogum for this find.
Tony Castles
Totally Different. Totally Slick | Gang Gang Dance’s Eye Contact
#ganggangdance #stereogum #leescratchperry
Remix of “Mindkilla” from Lee “Scratch” Perry at Stereogum, but pick up the album.
Gang Gang Dance
Can’t wait for exfm on iphone, andriod, firefox, etc… #exfm
I posted about MixApp(a social playlist tool) awhile back. I thought it was pretty slick to be able to add music to a “musical chat room” of sorts, so you could listen and comment in real time with your friends.
Totally neat idea, but also probably limited because of the real-time interaction requirements inherent within the application itself. That is to say that for the tool to be useful, you’ve got to have you and at least one other friend actively adding music to the playlist, all the time. Songs are not saved after they are played and so you quickly see how this can require more attention than a second activity probably should.
exfm does things a bit differently. The plugin, which is available only in Chrome at the moment (see techcrunch for more details here), is clearly built a set of founders who pay attention to how the 13-30 cohert learn about and listen to music. We surf around, clicking on music we discover through the social web, our favorite music blogs, or youtube. We might find a song that we really dig, listen to it for a few days while our browser remains continously open over that time, we then at some point shutdown our browser, and “poof” the song is gone. Shit.
Also, we probably have a number of friends with whom we jive musically and we might LOVE to know what the stuff is that they’ve been finding out there on the interwebs. They share some of the stuff, but not all of it and so you have a good amount of lost search and discovery effort going on here.
exfm brings mp3′s embedded in the sites you visit into a playlist. You can keep all songs in your playlist or select particular songs. The plugin then retains those songs even after you’ve left a given page and/or shutdown your browser. It also intelligently allows you to see the stuff your friends have found, have listened to, and “noted” (which is exfm’s version of an FB “like). This play on social takes the real-time limitations of mixapp and chucks it out the window.
I hope the dev team at exfm is burning the midnight oil, because I can’t wait to get this on my Android. -RC
Freelance Whales Are Excited About Coachella (Video) Goes Viral #freelancewhales #coachella
My bro (Jonathan Chanin) is touring with the Whales right now, doing a documentary of what is also one of my favorite bands. A few days ago he shot this for the band and their label (Mom + Pop records) as a lead into Coachella.
I can tell you that it ABSOLUTELY wasn’t meant to be a seriously shot piece. In fact, he and the Whales were going for something that was purposely “other / we don’t really care for doing this” (and I think you’ll see that this comes across pretty clearly in the vid…).
Well, the 40-some second piece goes and gets picked up by Youtube’s Spotlight and 170K views later, the thing is now moderately viral. Don’t know if Jonathan necessarily loves that this is the first piece of his to be seen by, err, a rather larger number of people, but what the heck. Sometimes things, well, they just go viral. Nice bro.
Ah , and here’s a cover the Whales just released of Devo’s “Girl U Want.” I dig.
