Danger Mouse’s new Dark Night of the Soul to be released as a blank cd-r along with a 100+ book of conceptual photographs by David Lynch inspired by the music. The decision to release the blank cd-r stems from a legal dispute with EMI. Dark Night of the Soul features collaborations with Iggy Pop, Sparklehorse, The Flaming Lips and many more.
Track featuring Vic Chestnut
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Will be interesting to see how the album leaks and if it takes a similar path that Danger Mouse’s Grey Album did.
Play of the day:
Black Moth Super Rainbow’s “Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise” – Brings to mind the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev which makes sense since producer Dave Fridmann is behind the knobs. The new album “Eating Us” comes out 5/26
Every thought that you had an awesome name for a band? I stumbled upon @awesomebandname on twitter. There are some entertaining names BUT the real find is this link to a visual mapping of metal band names. The visualization includes categories such as deadly things, pleas for help, foreign sounding and badass spellings.
mark “poverty jetset” schoneveld is the man behind yvynyl, a cool music discovery blog. yvynyl is full of cool tracks, awesome photos, old album covers, and tips for musicians. And my personal fav is when schoneveld weighs in on interesting forward looking new biz models. If that weren’t enough – soon yvynl will expand to include original podcasts and live music videos. Definitely worth a bookmark and/or feed sub.
Play of the day…
daytrotter.com is a cool music discovery site. Lots of free mp3 downloads of indie bands and they do awesome studio sessions with artists.
opentape.fm is an open-source package that enables you to easily make and host your own mixtapes online. Easy to install – all you need do is create a directory and upload the the files. Nice ajax type backend enables you to drag and drop the order of your playlist. Even includes a embeddable player
Left as Rain is a cool music discovery blog. Alex and Chris do an awesome job of curating the site.
