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Breakfast of Champions’ band of the week is The Moldy Peaches(8:38:58 AM) topdownjimmy: is it possible to request that you not play ‘anyone else but you’? |
Jan 2008
Dec 2007
HOLY FUCKING SHITDestroyer - Foam Hands Almost two years to the day. |
Nov 2007
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Apr 2007
Better TogetherThings I’m looking forward to in the next week: Tears of the Valedictorian on Tuesday The other day I downloaded and installed Pine. I’m having [...] |
Art Brut mp3sI don’t know where I first heard about this, and it took me a hell of a time finding it again, but I finally did at Sixeyes. |
Mar 2007
Embed YouTube Videos without YouTubeI hate just posting a YouTube video here, in part because it’s lazy and boring, but also because YouTube videos are liable to disappear at any moment, and even if they don’t, YouTube has to die someday, right?, whereas kbps will last forever, and then hundreds of years from now its YouTube posts will be [...] |
Feb 2007
Pink Bullets Farewell Episodehttp://wmbr.org/m3u/Pink_Bullets_20070226_2200.m3u Beirut - The Gulag Orkestar |
Pink Bullets IXhttp://wmbr.org/m3u/Pink_Bullets_20070212_2200.m3u Johann Johannsson - IBM 1403 (Printer) |
Dec 2006
Pink Bullets IIIIIIhttp://wmbr.org/m3u/Pink_Bullets_20061211_2200.m3u |
Hotness 1.6.c.1Totally warranted subversioning! |
Oct 2006
Weekly Top Album ArtWow, I can’t believe I was able to do this. http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/topalbumart.php?user= |
last.fm Weekly Album Chart FeedsFor a long time, last.fm has linked to a purported weekly album chart feed on their web services page. Because I find this much more interesting than the weekly artist and track charts, I was happy to find today that these feeds have finally become active. Just replace “topdownjimmy” with your username in [...] |
Jul 2006
Jun 2006
Pink Bullets IIOnce again I put a set together for Andrea’s radio show on WMBR, and this time she joined me so that I could have some banter to fall back on when I faltered. Listen here. |
Setting up a BitTorrent TrackerSo I’ve spent the last couple days trying frantically to get a BitTorrent tracker installed, mostly for the use of my internet acquaintances, their friends, and my friends. Really just a dedicated alternative to YouSendIt and all those other bullshit file sending sites that always have one catch or another. |
Verbal Timestamps for fb2kLast week I spent some time developing this algorithm in fb2k’s titleformatting script to translate numerical timestamps (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) into natural English text (”Friday Evening”). It’s pretty cool. So, uh, here it is. |
May 2006
Slightly Streamlined mp3 Tagging FlowchartI used to require four programs for getting all my tags exactly how I want them: The GodFather (with AllMusicGuide patch), the MusicBrainz Tagger, Mp3tag, and foobar2000. The GodFather was always the first and worst part of my tagging procedures, being slow, refusing to write APE tags, and relying on the Internet Explorer engine. |
Pink BulletsThis morning I took over my friend Andrea’s radio show on WMBR. You can listen to it here. |
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Jan 2006
Destroyer wikiThis link was posted as a comment in my Destroyer’s Rubies cover art post, but in case you missed it, here’s a great Destroyer wiki with album art, release dates, lyrics, and even cross-linked themes (e.g., “Royalty”) between songs. Really excellently done. Makes me wish I had thought of it first. |
last.fm friends tickerlast.fm is great, and it gets better every single day. Part of its appeal is voyeurism. I love being able to see what my friends are listening to, but that usually requires going to the “What are my friends listening to?” page, which is still too much effort; I’m not that curious. [...] |
Nov 2005
Times New VikingI have Aquarius Records to thank for this tip. Times New Viking is this amazing band whose album, Dig Yourself, I might have to actually buy because mp3s are proving really hard to come by. Garage pop, basically, but so catchy and potentially brilliant. Listen to 30-second samples here. |
Oct 2005
devendra picsi saw, met, and lit a cigarette for devendra banhart last saturday. here are three pics from the show. |
Aug 2005
GEMMGEMM is an online music store I came across somehow. They specialize in rare music, or at the very least they boast that they can get it for you. I’m assuming they just have a list of sources they can scan with a search, which looks pretty thorough. Destroyer’s Thief was going [...] |
The New last.fmAudioscrobbler has now been subsumed by its cousin last.fm. Aside from the bold new colors, there are a lot of additional features that are really easy to get sucked into. Each user is provided a blog, whose posts appear on that user’s profile page and can contain links to artists, albums, or tracks [...] |
Jul 2005
LP/CDIn an earlier post I proposed that all LPs include CDs, being that CDs are so cheap to produce and that I’ve already spent thirteen bucks on the musical content. |
Charles and HenryToday I bought Her Majesty The Decemberists on vinyl, and although it wasn’t one of the 500 or so red copies that were pressed, it did come with a story absent from the CD’s liner notes: |
Mar 2005
VinylIn reading about iTunes and why it’s a disease, I was reminded that mp3 compression is an abomination of sound quality. Inspired, and looking for a place to get tickets for The Grog Shop’s Minus Story show, I bought Destroyer’s This Night on CD at Music Saves, a tiny and tidy little record store [...] |
Hunting UnicornsDid you think the Unicorns saga could possibly continue? Neither did I. But thanks to the always-amazing Internet Archive, I discovered that Alden Ginger’s New Music Canada site (which is also defunct) was once the All Makes Parts & Collision site. I know, I thought they were on ZeBOX too. Anyway, in [...] |
Feb 2005
Jan 2005
foobar2000Last week it was Audioscrobbler. This week it’s foobar2000. I eat, sleep, and fuck fb2k. I doodle “%TSOA%” and “000000|C0C0C0″ on scraps of paper. I fantasize about the next release of foo_uie_albumlist.dll. I have opinions about forum members. I post a screenshot on my blog. I plan on updating the screenshot frequently. |
This is the kind of stuff that makes my day.Audioscrobbler is now updating on time and personal weekly charts are in the house. |
Unwarranted bitternessStupid Beck. Stupid SoulSeek. “Oh hey Jay, here’s the new Beck album. Misinformation? LOL, don’t be silly. I’m SoulSeek!” BULLSHIT. Look at this mess: |
“Wonderin’”Sunday night I saw the most bizarre video on VH1 Classic: “Wonderin’” by Neil and the Shocking Pinks. Everybody’s Rockin’ was the only album by this “band,” a ’50s rockabilly send-up orchestrated by Neil F. Young, a convertible, a checked shirt, and a pink tie. I tried really hard to find even a still [...] |
“Like a Lion”In 2003, The Decemberists contributed “Like a Lion,” a previously unreleased song, to a compilation called Preserve, Volume One. Until yesterday I was never able to find it on SoulSeek, which was puzzling considering how huge The Decemberists are there. Well, here it is. It’s really strange. |
Dec 2004
PBF, AS, RSS, LR, SS, NMH, CSThe Perry Bible Fellowship is even funnier than Square Lake. Sorry. |
Nov 2004
The Go! Team, South Park torrents, The Pokey Principle, George CarlinLISTEN TO THE GO! TEAM: “The Power Is On” Here is every South Park episode, available as BitTorrent files. |
Jan 2004
The UnicornsMuch continued Unicorns hysteria. After crashing the concert they tried to keep hidden from me last night, I’ve discovered today that I am at least eight songs shy of truly knowing everything about the band. First I discover two unreleased songs (Do the Knife Fight and Ebb Tide, Azure Sky) that are streamed [...] |
Dec 2003
The Pod, etc.My faith in humanity has been revived, a little. Last night a guy thanks me for letting him download a Godspeed album on WinMX: an admirable gesture by itself. We get to talking about music, and I happen to mention Ween. He shares my fondness for the band, and goes on to say that The [...] |
Menomena, Experimental Dental School, etc.There’s this band, Menomena. They’re alright, but their website is especially brilliant. There’s this other band, Experimental Dental School, and they’re really good, not least of all because they offer their entire album for download at their website, as well as interactively bleeding robot insects. |


