Friday's episode of All Things Considered contained a musical interlude by Avishai Cohen—specifically, a clip of Elli off of Cohen's 2006 release Continuo. NPR has the interlude in a flash player on their site. Cohen is an Israeli double-bassist with a great sense of composition—I'm still making my way through...
This is seriously cool stuff. The Direct Note Access plugin for Melodyne lets you rip apart chords and reposition them dynamically. The video below is probably a little wind-baggy for those of you who don't produce music for a living, but fast-forward to the 2- and 5-minute marks to see...
Taking a cue from Danny's recent post, I snagged two Wolfsheim albums from Zune: Spectators and Casting Shadows. The first thing I noticed was how much these guys sounded like Depeche Mode in Lederhosen, but once I got past that I realized I could actually understand the songs these guys...
Part of the Zune 2 experience is the currently-in-beta Zune social website, a somewhat less awkward approach to music community than the wifi-powered song sharing heavily advertised in Zune 1. I've got an account at the Zune site, and it displays something called a Zune card, which is a Flash-based...
It's been about three weeks since I originally commented on Kenna's sophomore release, Make Sure They See My Face, and I've spent an awful lot of that time listening to it. I think I was a bit premature in my initial opinion, and I want to update that I feel...
I've been waiting for Kenna's Make Sure They See My Face since 2005. Well, I got a copy today (as MP3s downloaded from Amazon). About half of the tracks are really really good—and most of those were released as singles before the album debuted. But the rest are merely "good,"...
The upside of going to see an opening act is that you can bail early and get home to sleep since you have work and meetings the next day. The downside is ... pretty much everything else. The Kenna concert on Monday night was very very kickass, but was cut...
I've mentioned Kenna once here on /dev/null but have largely kept my mouth shut otherwise—in truth, I've been a big fan since shortly after his debut release New Sacred Cow in 2003. But tonight he's opening for She Wants Revenge at the Showbox in downtown Seattle. And I've got tickets...
Serendipity smiles tonight on both Layla and I, as we've been given last-minute opportunities to go the Muse show in Seattle tonight—Layla is going with Jeff and Bonnie Heather (coordinated through Bonnie and Jeff!), who happened to end up with a spare ticket, and I'm going with Manuel, who also...
