Random Neural Misfirings

My review: mixed

Twisted old-timey music

Kronos Quartet: kind of a letdown.

I’ve written before about the problems with CD storage. My approach has been to put all my CDs in binders (which are fairly cheap on a per-CD basis), and rip them all as 192-Kbps MP3s to an external hard drive. So I have all my music accessible on my computer, which is nice. So, for [...]

How is it possible that I have lived all these years without ever having heard of Raymond Scott before? The man was a mad-scientist musician, equal parts Juan Garcia Esquivel and Leon Theremin, who composed whacky cartoon-style music and built giant scary machines with lots of knobs.
He even talked like a mad scientist:
It is not [...]

Classical Radiohead.

Turkish Star Wars, About Schmidt, and Hedwig

The interesting thing about ITMS is that it is integrated so tightly with iTunes, and that iTunes itself is a pretty slick program.
Perhaps Apple is still working out the bugs, but the initial rollout of ITMS is missing a huge opportunity: recommendations and aggregation.
Amazon already does recommendations based on what you’ve bought and what you [...]

As rumored, Apple has created a store for downloadable music, which ties in with a new version of iTunes.
They apparently have a library of 200,000 tracks from the five big labels. So far so good. They’re charging $0.99 per track. Not good. In terms of an hour’s-worth of music, this works out to be about [...]

Thievery Corporation: great band puts on so-so show