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*TURTLE’S “78 RPM” JUKEBOX*

Turtle manages and operates the recording studio. Jim places the records in the jukebox. This is the best FREE collection of great old music from 1900-1925. Example: Billy Murray, tenor - TAKE ME TO THE CABARET Billy Murray - FIDO IS A HOT DOG NOW

With an unusual lineup of two cellos, an upright bass and a drummer, Matson Jones plays quirky, dark indie rock that the band has described as “orchestral art pop.” The stylish, arty Fort Collins quartet is appropriately named after an obscure reference to 20th century painters Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.

Band Members: Anna Mascorella - cello, vocals, Martina Grbac - cello, vocals, Matt Regan - upright bass, Ross Harada - drums

Los Angeles’s Mount Sims, AKA Matt Sims,
wraps together the quite disparate aspects of his life to create his
offerings to the glamour, sex, and drum machine-obsessed electro scene.

Preaching “technosexuality,” Mount Sims claims Giorgio Moroder, Depeche Mode,
and Curtis Mayfield as influences, but the artist’s penchant for public
nudity and fondness for the teachings of Eros indicate inspirations drawn
from less musical roots. Like New York’s Fischerspooner, Mount Sims plays gigs that are as much performance art as they are music shows. Mount Sims

is equally at
home droning lyrics over layers of loops and dense synth washes as he
is providing the soundtrack to a modern dance piece or avant-now
fashion show.

[Via Epitonic]

With Becoming X, Sneaker Pimps changed the course of American pop music. Five years later, Sneaker Pimps founder Chris Corner aka I AM X embarks on a solo journey to showcase his exceptional production and songwriting talent. Kiss + Swallow is really all about songs: dark, futuristic ones expressed in an electronic environment. From “Kiss and Swallow”, an upbeat radio anthem, to the 80’s influenced “Heatwave” or the end of days “White Suburb Impressionism”, the album swings moods flawlessly and captures the listener. This is an electro-pop masterpiece, owing as much to the contemporary electronic productions of Berlin and Detroit as to the pop of Prince or Cabaret Voltaire. Chris Corner’s voice is the unifying thread, at times similar to the howlings of Cabaret Voltaire, always with the emotional clarity of Curtis Mayfield.

[IAMX Via Amazon]

Here are some great sites to find new music, most let you download some of there singles, here you go!

• amazon.com
this may be the best music recomending sites ever, you just join and put some of your fav. bands in there recomendation service. and befor you know it theres tons of bands you may like. and you can buy there CD ussally alot cheaper here, just buy it used or new(i only buy my cds here and i havent gotten a scratched one yet)
• 15megsoffame.com
This is an online music communtiy, you join as eather a listener or artist, so you can put your music up for others to hear and rate, or you listen to new bands and rate them. theres alot of up and coming talent on here, you must check it out!
• epitonic.com
you dont need to join, and it has a great way to sample songs(@ low bit rate) and if you like a band, you can download there songs. And to the right they have other bands that are similar, and other suggestions theres alot of great indie music here.
• mp3.com
i havent used this site much, but it seems to be similar to eptonic, ecept that most of the music it has are from software like itunes, were you have to buy the song. How ever its another good site to find similar bands and such.
• musicplasma.com
the only purpose of this site is to find similar bands, with a pretty flash interface..
• music.myspace.com
Myspace is an ever expanding online communitys, they have a large music section with small bands and alot of talent. its harder to find the right band here. but once you do its well worth it.
• Search for mp3’s on google
i messed around with this, and couldnt find some mp3’s for some lesser known bands, but for the ones on teh net this is a good way to find some of there music.
• TURTLE’S “78 RPM” JUKEBOX
This is a very cool site with old songs from the 1900’s to 1920’s. i found alot of great bands here. i hope to see more cool old artist soon!
• Archive.org
Another great place to find old music/movies but it mostly has more mainstream bands, and older media. If you hunt hard enough you may just find a treasure or two.
• telltaleweekly.org
Unabridged and DRM-free MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis audio books, starting at 25 cents each via PayPal or Bitpass. havent tryed there service. but it sounds like they have some intresting audio books.
• freesound.iua.upf.edu
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative
database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released
under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples.

if you have any suggestions, please leave a comment. id love to add to the list. (leave your webpage, with the site and i’ll plug it*)

Bymerging a plain overhead projector with a more modern digital videoprojector and a computer vision system, Golan Levin and ZacharyLieberman have developed (well, in 2004) what they call Manual Input Sessions. Essentially interactive and dynamic shadow puppets, the vision system analyzes the shadows you cast over the analog project with your hands and augments the output via the digital projector, adding sounds and graphics based on the movements and forms of your hands. Even though this is the sort of thing that’s more proof-of-concept than on its way to the market (for now), if Fisher Price could produce a budget version all-in-one unit, this would make a phenomenal children’s toy—one I would quite possibly have to steal from neighborhood children in exchange for candy. Check out the video and watch through to act 2 (at least) to understand how awesome this stuff is.

Project Page [via gizmodo + WMMNA]

By Ryan Block

What, listening to that those two namedropping Le Tigre and LCD Soundsystem tracks wasn’t enough of a lesson to get you started on your road to proper hipsterdom? Well, if you want to kill two birds with one stone, just hook up the Hipster iPod, a 60GB iPod that comes pre-loaded for $900 with 900 properly music-snobbish albums, including but not limited to The Shaggs, Can, T-Rex, The Modern Lovers, the No New York comp, Gang of Four, The Pop Group, Throbbing Gristle, The Homosexuals, The Fall, and many, many more. Now all you have to do live in Williamsburg and you’re totally set to kick out the mad jams. And yes, we know this is a joke. Or if not that, still highly, indubitably illegal at best.

P.S. - No comments about us living in Williamsburg, please.

[Via TUAW]

[Mickey 3D]

Carefully crafted, environmentally and politically conscious lyrics pervade the album. This is not the stuff of bubble-gum pop music. This is intelligent Rock n Roll. Mickey 3D takes risks in using an eclectic mix of infulences in the music. The combination of Arabian rhythms along with western rock is absolutely addictive. I can’t get enough of “Yalil (la fin des haricots)” (Yalil [The End of Insignificant Things]). This band definitely deserves airtime here in the US.

By Peter Rojas

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that’s coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: Music lessons at my old school consisted of a few shakers, a piano, and an old guy talking about Mozart. In France, things are very different. This awesome-looking psychedelic synth is the reason why there are so many cool French electronic musicians. It’s the latest version of Le Cybersongosse, a series of synths developed at the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges. They’ve been used to teach French kids about recording technology and synthesis since 1973. This one is a hardware control surface connected to a G5 running MAX/MSP, the musical programming language developed in Paris at the IRCAM research institute, and now used by techno musicians like Aphex Twin. For basic lessons, kids use just the controller with a microphone. More advanced lessons are taught with a touch tablet and a monitor. When I first mentioned the Cybersongosse on Music Thing, the response was immediate and unanimous: “Never mind the French kids, where can I buy one?” [Via Engadget]