Matthew Shorter introduces and explains the links with MusicBrainz and the extra programme data ...
For example, if a fan of the band Foals doesn't know that we have video available online of both...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/07/bbc_music_artist_pages_beta.html
Jul 30, 2008
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Resource for getting digital images of album covers - for a subscription you can get uncompresse...
Mashup that maps the locations of several 'landmark' albums and their covers.
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/album_atlas/
Jun 26, 2008
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This is one of those research findings that sounds incredible from the headline (music affects t...
The test subjects were assigned to a red-wine group (given cabernet sauvignon) or a white-wine g...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080515.wwine15/BNStory/lifeFoodWine/home
May 16, 2008
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Very amusing trawl through Rolling Stone's review of the last five or so REM albums, showing tha...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-wyman/rock-criticism-101-if-you_b_94959.html
Apr 12, 2008
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Brief story of how Ace was set up.
One way or another, it was inevitable that Ted would start his own record company, in the great ...
http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2264817,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=39
Mar 17, 2008
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Praising the diversity of the UK music press
UK magazines offer some of the free-spirited, funniest, most informed, unflinching, passionate a...
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/03/why_so_hard_on_music_press.html
Mar 10, 2008
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Having been out of the habit of watching TV for five years, the BBC iPlayer just might get me to...
Pop On Trial puts five decades of popular music in the dock to deliver the verdict on which is p...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/popontrial/
Jan 15, 2008
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http://b3ta.com/challenge/album_art/
Jan 12, 2008
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Posing with album covers where your head should be.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lp_portraits/pool/
Jan 12, 2008
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Interesting round-up on the ethics of MP3 blogging - not so much the copyright infringement as t...
But where there is money, there are ethical lapses. And one would expect the lines of communicat...
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/071218wayne/
Jan 03, 2008
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Another oeuvreblog that seems to have run out of steam after just a few months.
So thanks for sticking around in the meantime. I can’t promise further lulls won’t occur, bu...
http://morewordsaboutmusicandsongs.wordpress.com/
Dec 15, 2007
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An 'oeuvreblog' for the Magnetic Fields that promises to cover all their songs, but runs out of ...
’ll be covering all seven full-lengths and EPs and the box set. Cheers. And if you’re an oeu...
http://thebookoflove.wordpress.com/
Dec 15, 2007
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Brief accounts of method and results of identifying patterns of repetition
From melodies to text to DNA, many interesting types of information come in the form of a sequen...
http://www.bewitched.com/match/index.html
Aug 08, 2007
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More on tagging locations for their rock history.
Dusty's grave, Syd's house, that alley where Phil Daniels and Leslie Ash got it on in Quadrophen...
http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2140401,00.html
Aug 06, 2007
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I've taken Hoskyn's recommendation and ordered the book
Fantastic book recommended by my friend Tom Nolan (the first great LA rock writer and author of ...
http://mog.com/Barney_Hoskyns/blog_post/98938
Jul 27, 2007
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Another collection of unusual and amusing covers
He's right, you know.
Thousands of guitar students lost a valuable resource last week. The most popular guitar teacher...
http://blog.gonze.com/2007/07/14/guitar-lessons-as-the-transmission-of-culture/
Jul 15, 2007
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Find out who performed the original version of a particular song, or who covered that song. Un...
http://www.secondhandsongs.com/home/
Jul 10, 2007
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Someone's 'avin' a larf, ain't they? Spoof analysis of the minutiae of a series of Bright Eyes g...
BY nature rock bloggers are an obsessive bunch, but few take their fixations as far as the artis...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/arts/music/10boyk.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Jun 10, 2007
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The neuropsychology of McCartney's melodies. As for the album, yawn... [via Paul Lamere]
To a neuroscientist, the longevity of the Beatles can be explained by the fact that their music ...
Includes old interviews with Eno, Byrne, Wyatt, Harvey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/newmusic/mixingit_interviews.shtml
May 29, 2007
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How the web is complementing TV in 2007. This page will look very dated in another decade. Note ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/programmes/
May 28, 2007
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Ah, yes, we could do with more of this: compilations of great interviews with rock stars.
Journalists have been known to punch their way out of the nearest wall rather than face the pros...
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/05/mark_e_smith_that_loveable_guy.html
May 28, 2007
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Notes on sleeve design
Listening to this great album this week had me searching for the equally great sleeve design fro...
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1924
May 24, 2007
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