Just reached 20000 scrobbled artists on Last.fm

Unfortunately there is no official Last.fm badge, reward or gamification “system” so I can only share a screenshot of my Last.fm counter.

(Source: http://www.last.fm/user/yiah)

Mari Kvien Brunvoll – Is This Love

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Mari Kvien Brunvoll – Is This Love (Bob Marley cover)

She’s a Norwegian singer, and she works the same sort of routine as Merrill Garbus: lots of close attention to the voice and a real home-made sound. But in another sense, she’s much closer to the coolness of the ECM aesthetic, especially with in live performance where she uses a sequencer to accompany herself, and also to the control of someone like Meredith Monk. Here she is singing Bob Marley’s Is This Love from the 12 Points festival from 2010, and despite any musical pointers I might give, there really is nothing else like this. Come on, there’s only one Mari Kvien Brunvoll and I’m guessing she’s already got her own gear. I’m sure we could get something good done for under 10 grand.

 via Doklands music blog

Photo via 

hennum.foto.com

Geography of Pitchfork’s Top 100 Tracks

(via Flavorwire » Awesome Infographic: The Geography of the Year in Music)

Man, Baltimore is totally underrepresented.

(Source: http://flavorwire.com/244974/awesome-infographic-the-geography-of-the-year-in-music)

“Χάρτης” με τα 40 Άλμπουμ του 2011 από την εκμπομπή “Από τις 4 στις 5”

ΥΓ Αργεί λίγο να φορτώσει.

(Source: http://bit.ly/top40_2011)

Jack White – Love Is Blindness

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Jack White – Love is Blindness (U2 cover)

Woow, after listening this version, I start believing that U2 covered this song from a Jack White’s band of the 70s.

Enjoy cover Friday with the Best Cover Songs of 2011. Thanks to www.covermesongs.com.

Via

How Musicians used Facebook in 2011

Henry Rollins: on the state of music today

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

“Infographic Of The Day: The History Of Dance Music In One Handy Timeline” #infographic http://bit.ly/vSQIG4

This is every sample one Kanye West has used in his songs.

Good taste, great selection! 

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Every year, digital keeps booming – but the pie keeps shrinking. And to illustrate the trend, here’s a year-by-year breakdown of physical and digital percentages, with the broader size of the pie scaled to overall recording industry revenues. These are US-based revenue figures supplied by the RIAA; figures in $millions. 

(Source: http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/101311cents)