This Vimeo video combines the Arcade Fire song “My Body is a Cage” with Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West.”
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Paste Magazine suspends print publication
This breaks my heart (again).
From Paste Media:
Today Paste Media Group announces, with deepest sadness, the suspension of the Paste magazine print product.
Struggles with mounting debt were made public last year when our readers responded with generosity to save the magazine. But the prolonged downturn of the ad market has forced a hiatus. All subscribers have access to the digital version of their magazines through the June/July issue on PasteMagazine.com. Paste, while considering strategic alternatives, is focusing on its digital assets, including PasteMagazine.com.
We thank all of those who have shown such tremendous support to a vision of independent media focused on Signs of Life in Music, Film & Culture, including subscribers, advertisers, writers, photographers, illustrators, publicists, record labels, movie studios, book & game publishers and others in the press.
Video: ‘Stil Leven’ or ‘Still Life’ by Goslink
I dig this promo movie for the album ‘Stil Leven’ (or ‘Still Life’) by Dutchman Goslink Harm Kuiper. In the video, he shows a wide variety of instruments that he has built. You get to hear some of the album and see part of a live performance.
Goslink’s website in Dutch
Goslink’s website translated into English via Google Translate
Video: ‘Bassoforte’ by Diego Stocco
In this video, Diego Stocco re-purposes the keyboard of the dismantled piano that he keeps in the garden and builds a new instrument by combining it with some other parts he had laying around.
Diego writes:
I ended up with this mechanical hybrid thing I thought to call “Bassoforte” (bass + pianoforte). The neck is from a broken electric bass, as a bridge I used a cabinet handle, the pickups are from a guitar, and the part at the top where the strings are attached is a chimney cap, which works as resonator as well as percussive sound. The track I created is a tribute to my Dad who is a big fan of Western comic books and “spaghetti western” films, and because of him I am too.
Diego Stocco’s website
You can buy the song on Diego’s Bandcamp page
He also has a gallery with a longer video, pictures, and more detailed descriptions here
‘I Won’t Be Alone’ is featured on CD Baby Music Discovery Podcast 6/15/10
I want to send out a big “thank you” to Kevin Breuner and Peter Swenson (hosts of CD Baby’s Music Discovery Podcast) for including “I Won’t Be Alone” on their podcast.
Download the MP3 of the CD Baby Music Discovery Podcast for free by clicking here
In this episode, Kevin and Peter bring you some world class drummers, King Crimson’s guitarist, Enuff Z’Nuff’s guitarist, a great rocking songwriter, and some cool electronic pop.
Featured artists are: Dafnis Prieto Sextet, Eric Beverly and the Sunday Best, Lovespirals, Trey Gunn, and Monaco Johnny.
Video: Moments I Like: Inspired Bicycles
What’s not to like about Band of Horses and a skilled cyclist pulling all sorts of crazy stunts?
According to the YouTube page, this video was filmed over the period of a few months in and around Edinburgh by Dave Sowerby. This rider in this video is Danny MacAskill and he performs street/street trial/trials bike riding. The song for the video is “The Funeral” by the Band of Horses.
Looking for the right chord? Randomchord.com may help
I came across this site and thought it might be helpful to musicians who are looking to find the right chord in a progression or simply looking for inspiration. Here’s how it works according to the site http://www.randomchord.com/:
“A useful resource for all musicians — improvisers can make sure they can play over any harmony; songwriters can find that elusive lost chord to complete their chord progression. Each chord comes with its own looped backing track and an explanation of the scale choices that fit with it. Choose a chord from the drop down menus and click ‘Go’, or click ‘Random’ to have a random chord generated for you.”