New podcast called jampods. This is really cool. You can subscribe to feeds from different bands, and will get 1/2 hour of a concert delivered to your itunes, or other client weekly. I subscribe to Disco Bisquits, Drive by truckers, moe. and Yonder Mountain String Band.

Just got Secret Machines from emusic.com. Absolutely love it. They are my new favorite band. A lot of people compare them to Pink Floyd. I’m not really familiar with Floyd, but really like Secret Machines. I first learned of them from a podcast on Live Music Blog

That’s all for now. check out these bands and websites. You might find something you like.

The meta-art that is the most meaningful to me though is impressionism. Because I’ve spent 33 years of my life as a piano player who can play both notation and by ear, classical, pop and jazz, much pop music doesn’t excite me because I can hear and understand everything that they are doing. This is why I found Frank Zappa’s classical works so enjoyable. Everything was a surprise. But in between pop/jazz and abstract is impressionism. Bartleby’s encyclopedia says that “Reflecting the impressionist schools of French painting and letters, Debussy developed a style in which atmosphere and mood take the place of strong emotion or of the story in program music.” Debussy [iTunes] [Amazon] is said to be the originator of impressionism in music. But the influence went on in different directions. Bill Evans [iTunes] [Amazon], jazz musician was heavily influenced by Debussy, and in turn, Lyle Mays [iTunes] [Amazon]was heavily influenced by Bill Evans. Music such as these artists is evocative of mood and color and takes me to other worlds in my listening. Take the time to listen to the samples at the sites I’ve given. I think you will enjoy it.

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I’ll go in order of music that can be downloaded free.

First is The Secret Machines. I found their music from the Jamcast podcast of their performance at this year’s Bonnaroo music festival. They are a slow burn band. Not blues. Just steady medium-slow tempo rock. You can download the jamcasts at the following links. Jamcast #28 Jamcast #29 and Jamcast #30

Second up is Elvis Costello. Caught his electric performance on Austin City Limits last weekend. Wow! What an honest, energetic performer. The most exposure I’d had up until now was that he replaces Paul Schaeffer as band leader on the Late Show with David Letterman. He is really the only suitable replacement for Schaeffer. Honest rock. Funny personality. There’s a wealth of audio for download at www.elviscostello.info

Finally, The Mars Volta. I discovered this band through an article that was critical of Trey Anastasio’s live show because bands like The Mars Volta were tearing up stages. I went search for live music from my usual sources, bt.etree.org and archive.org only to come up empty. I listened to some samples on the itunes music store and was very impressed. They are a progressive band with a lead vocalist that reminds me of Freddie Mercury. They are fairly intense and not for the faint of heart. For the life of me, I can’t understand any of the lyrics from Scab Dates (their recent live album). A quick search on the lyrics sites revealed that they are very introspective and interesting. You can listen to the Scab Dates album at their website here.

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So imagine my surprise when I discovered slashdot running an article about propellerhead software giving away their softsynth version of the TR-909, TR-808 (Phil Collins uses this a lot) and the TB-303 bass synth. Woohoo! Downloading is in progress. Check it out for yourself at http://www.rebirthmuseum.com

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Ten ways to organize and simplify your life

Google Moon On the anniversary of the first manned moon landing on July 20th, 1969, Google releases Google Moon, a map of NASA photos and Google style points showing all the moon landings.

Wapipedia A mobile phone site that access the online encyclopedia Wikipedia

The Word Gospel blues band that performed at this year’s Bonnaroo music festival. Download the mp3′s of the concert here.

Without God

Call Him By His Name

I Shall Not Be Moved

Jam

Untitled

Band Intros

At The Cross

Waiting On My Wings

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Reaching out via voice has changed the world, through landlines, cell phones, and now Skype and cousins. What effects will broadband video have? An article on Canada’s MusicGrid project, explores a real-life case study involving hundreds of geographically-distributed students, teachers, and musicians – all collaborating over broadband video networks:



Convergence of Science and Religion On a Sunday morning two years ago, a staff member of THINK flicked on the radio and, by chance, tuned in on a provocative discussion. Dr. Charles H. Townes, the distinguished scientist, was talking with a Bible class. The subject was the relationship of science to religion, and Dr. Townes was urging that scientific and religious thought, far from conflicting, are today finding more and more in common and are destined ultimately to merge.

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Bands

Jam Band bittorrents

Relix magazine

Jam band news source

Jam band fan blog

BrandYou! (Tom Peters phraseology) (personal business)

Seth Godin Author of Unleash the Ideavirus

The Occupational Adventure

Tom Peters Uber-guru of the new business environment

Josh Kaufman

The Personal MBA

Tom Peters Wire Service

Christian

Dunker’s Journal conservative Church of the Brethern member blog



Comics

Doonesbury

Calvin and Hobbes

Foxtrot

Garfied

del.icio.us

My del.icio.us inbox

Lifehacks

Open Loops

Creating Passionate Users. Excellent!

Frugal for Life

Lifehacker. Very fun.

Cooking for engineers. ‘nuf said

43folders

43folders del.icio.us

Lifehack.org

Metablogs. Blogs about bloggin

Blogaholics

Many2Many. Excellent!

Blogging Help

Tech

Slashdot.org rss feed

Macslash Mac spinoff of slashdot

Devon-technologies Maker of devon-think

Makezine O’reilley publishing hacker magazine blog

Smartmobs Convergence of mobile computing and society. Excellent!

Weather

RSS Weather

Whole Earth

Alternet Alternative news source

World Changing: Another World is here

Viridian Design

Beyond the beyond Former Whole Earth editor

Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools better as an email subscription then RSS

Writing

Coffee Blog

Neil Gaiman Sci-fi/Fantasy author. Excellent. Blog is better then his books

Just Thinking Nancy Nordenson’s Blog. Friend of mine

Journalisimo – Back to Analog. Blog on journaling

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One thing I was struck by in the concert was the miracle of classical music. The time that classical pieces were written were of great poverty and sickness. That these composers were able to work to refine their gift, find funding and perform their works with what must have been a majority of amateur musicians is a miracle.

A highlight of the evening was the performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.2 in C minor, “The Little Russian.” I have posted copyright free mp3′s of the symphony so that you can enjoy it as well.
Download 01_classicalarchives_tchaikovsky_symphonyno2cop17littlerussianandantesostenutoallegrovivo_titov.mp3

Download 02_classicalarchives_tchaikovsky_symphonyno2cop17littlerussianandantemarcialequasimoderato_titov.mp3

Download 03_classicalarchives_tchaikovsky_symphonyno2cop17littlerussianscherzoallegromoltovivace_titov.mp3

Download 04_classicalarchives_tchaikovsky_symphonyno2cop17littlerussianfinalemoderatoassaiallegrovivo_titov.mp3

I believe this is in the public domain. If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know and I’ll take it down.