(8:38:58 AM) topdownjimmy: is it possible to request that you not play ‘anyone else but you’?
(8:44:56 AM) wmbrdj: haha
(8:44:57 AM) wmbrdj: yes
(8:45:18 AM) topdownjimmy: thank you
(8:46:56 AM) wmbrdj: yeah no problem

Destroyer - Foam Hands

Almost two years to the day.
Read Stereogum.
@ Destroyer Wiki.
On streethawk.livejournal.com.

[image] boards of canada is the best thing i know

Things I’m looking forward to in the next week:

Tears of the Valedictorian on Tuesday
Bishop Allen at The Middle East Upstairs tomorrow night
Acid Mothers Temple at The Middle East Upstairs Saturday night
Trans Am at Great Scott on Wednesday night
Sunset Rubdown at The Middle East Downstairs next Saturday

The other day I downloaded and installed Pine. I’m having [...]

I 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.
It’s five “unmastered” Art Brut tracks they’ve released as a preview to It’s a Bit Complicated, their second album due June 26. I don’t think there’s any album [...]

I 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 [...]

It’s short for “emotional.”
[video]

http://wmbr.org/m3u/Pink_Bullets_20070226_2200.m3u
God damn it.

Beirut - The Gulag Orkestar
The Go! Team - Everyone’s a V.I.P. to Someone
The Moldy Peaches - Lucky Number Nine
Destroyer - This Night (live)
Belle & Sebastian - A Century of Fakers
Blueboy - Too Good to Be True
Metallic Falcons - Pale Dog
The Clientele - As Night Is Falling
Rocketship - We’re Both Alone
Trans Am - The Dark [...]

http://wmbr.org/m3u/Pink_Bullets_20070212_2200.m3u

Johann Johannsson - IBM 1403 (Printer)
Beach House - Apple Orchard
Ratatat - Beat 4
White Flight - Timeshaker
The Moldy Peaches - Nothing Came Out
The Moldy Peaches - Who’s Got The Crack?
Blueboy - Fleetway
Blueboy - Also Ran
Natural Dreamers - The Big Switch
Revolving Paint Dream - Mandra Mandra
Tenniscoats - Ball Man
The Lucksmiths - The Chapter In Your Life Entitled [...]

http://wmbr.org/m3u/Pink_Bullets_20061211_2200.m3u
http://wmbr.org/m3u/Nocturnal_Lights_20061211_2300.m3u
I’ll consider doing setlists for all of these.

Totally warranted subversioning!
My foray into MP3Toys was ultimately short-lived, brought to a halt when I found what people were doing with Single Column Playlist for foobar, particularly the playlist-embedded album art. Back in the foobar saddle, I also gave in and tried out the “official” Play Count component, which I had avoided for so [...]

Wow, I can’t believe I was able to do this.

http://www.kilobitspersecond.com/topalbumart.php?user=
Just tack your last.fm username onto the end of that url to generate the cover art for your most listened-to album of last week. Pretty cool.
Bands and albums with ampersands don’t work at the moment. urlencode() doesn’t seem to do the trick. Any theories?

For 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 [...]

Again.

Once 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.

So 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.
So, just as a test, I [...]

Last 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.

I 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.
Now I’ve [...]

This morning I took over my friend Andrea’s radio show on WMBR. You can listen to it here.

This 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 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. [...]

I 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.

i saw, met, and lit a cigarette for devendra banhart last saturday. here are three pics from the show.

GEMM 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 [...]

Audioscrobbler 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 [...]

In 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.
Since then I bought Songs: Ohia’s Magnolia Electric Co. on vinyl and discovered that it comes with a bonus CD full of acoustic demos from the album, [...]

Today 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:

In 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 [...]

Did 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 [...]

Last 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.

Audioscrobbler is now updating on time and personal weekly charts are in the house.
And I can now say with some confidence that:
04 Chain Reaction -> 11 Farewell Ride
05 Nazarene -> 13 Emergency Exit
This is the kind of stuff that makes my day.

Stupid 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:
Lies Truth
01 Brazilica -> [...]

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 [...]

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.

The Perry Bible Fellowship is even funnier than Square Lake. Sorry.
Audioscrobbler is a plug-in compatible with most mp3 players (including foobar2000) and a website that, with registration, keeps track of the songs you listen to. It’s then capable of making suggestions, linking you to people with similar tastes, RSSing your played tracks, and streaming music tailored [...]

LISTEN TO THE GO! TEAM:

“The Power Is On”
“Junior Kickstart”
“Huddle Formation”

Here is every South Park episode, available as BitTorrent files.
The Pokey Principle, “the seminal work in Pokey Studies”: now only available through Internet Archive.
George Carlin interview.

New Deerhoof album, March 9

Much 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 [...]

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 [...]

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.
Two albums I’m very happy with having purchased recently: Frog [...]