A few links from the past - a 'greatest hits' for links

As I have decided to not use facebook for my library of interesting and intriguing posts, I went back through my posting history and found a few gems that are needing new light:

1. Pope Benedict XVI has the band (one of my favourites) on his iPod playlist

http://www.musewiki.org/Pope_Benedict_XVI

2. One of my favourite remixes of late:

Coeur De Pirate - Comme Des Enfants (Le Matos Andy Carmichael Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWrU4We1Nq8

3. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh3bleXWaCk

4. The list of the top albums of 2009, by suggestion and not in any particular order.

a. Tiesto - Kaleidoscope

b. 30 Seconds To Mar - This Is War

c. Moby - Wait For Me

d. Dashboard Confessional - Alter The Ending

e. Muse - The Resistance

f. Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3

g. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night (2008, but only got popular this year)

h. Thrice - Beggars

i. Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals

j. The Fray - The Fray

k. Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps

l. Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

m. Sleeping At Last - Storyboards

n. The Swell Season -Strict Joy

o. As Cities Burn - Hell or High Water

p. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

q. Grammatics - Grammatics

r. Tegan and Sara - Sainthood

s. Metric - Fantasies

t. Norah Jones - The Fall

5. Packing Tape Art (stellar!)

http://twistedsifter.com/2009/10/art-with-packaging-tape-mark-jenkins/

6. Eigenharp Alpha - the future of instrumental and MIDI music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_k3wwTIXgk

7. A travesty to the automotive world: Bugatti Veyron hits the drink.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=516271617407&ref=mf]

8. Another sweet remix. Justice vs. Kanye West vs. Beethoven (and yes this is possible today).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BV4ZoBb1Ic

9. Another sweet remix. Sigur Ros vs. Twista & Kanye West

http://hypem.com/track/685206/Flosstradamus%20-%20Overnight%20Star%20Twista%20vs%20Sigur%20Ros%20

10. Another reason why I regret the 'great music inquisition' of my teenage Christian life...

Thom Yorke - The Eraser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8f1VbDztwQ

11. One of the biggest "didn't go the artist's concert" fail... Anna Ternheim, I'll see you next time.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=139721786842&ref=mf

12. (I'm not going further than Sept. 2009) - Saved By The Bell reunion. One of Jimmy Fallon's best ideas.

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/clips/saved-by-the-bell-reunion-update-3-6809/1121321/

- feel free to comment and watch / listen to all of it. I'll post 'new' things shortly.

New Deftones

Thanks to Douglas I have now heard the newest Deftones release. The link is below. It's about time!

http://download.wbr.com/deftones/music/rocket_skates.mp3

Writing the composition is killing me...

This song is making my day move: Muse - The Resistance (Tiesto Remix).

That is all...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLSRiILurio

The First Blog - Is Indie Dead?

So, I've broken down and decided to start a blog. Why? Because fb wall posts don't do me justice, nor my friends. I can never find cool vids or links I have posted. Therefore, this is essentially an area of cool things that I want to post and find later on to watch or show others again. Likely most of the posts will deal with music and things related to music, but that is not a rather bad thing at all.

Here's my first post:

It's a link to an article entitled "Is Indie Dead?" The article argues that the point of indie and all of its genres (folk to synth-pop) was to undermind the mainstream music scene, beginning around the early 1980s, in order to provide the public with something more meaningful and creative. It would essentially allow the public to listen to something other than Madonna and the cheesey-ness of the early 80s synth pop (ironically with artists today like La Roux, Lights, and all of the auto-tune kids).

Today, indie has risen up to the mainstream stage and has done what it had set out to do. Artists from Tegan & Sara to Lights (yes a second reference already) have prenetrated the mainstream to give us something more than the Backstreet Boys. Therefore, the article concludes, the purpose of indie doesn't live on. Though the artists, genres, venues, and the scenes still exist (and are living on strong) the live blood and drive to create 'indie' is gone. It has victoriously risen to mainstream status, along with the help of the internet and downloading, in order that we may all hear something we like.

A thank you to 'indie' is needed. Thank you!

the article i'm referencing can be found here:

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/is-indie-dead.html?awesm=fbshare.me_AIvBO