Music

You just got a new piece of gear (or entire system) and need to select one of your reference songs to see how you new gear fares; get your first impression. What do you play, and furthermore, why? Alternately, you attend a meet and sit at someone elses table. Same question.

Thought I would start this up here as there are a nice series of threads on the SH forum called "listening to on vinyl" where people post pics of the album art/label/vinyl. And people are taking pics in the "drinking now" thread, so what the hell.... I don't expect this thread to get much action, but maybe it will Horace Silver Quintet - 6 Pieces of Silver (Music Matters 2LP, 45 rpm)

Thought some may be interested... Stanford's Music & the Brain Symposium downloads http://j.mp/vd2JPa [iTunes]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/arts/music/van-cliburn-pianist-dies-at-78.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Its fucking September and I am listen to Candy Dulfer "Septermber" right now, man, all I want is CANDY!!!

Great show as expexted!

I thought this was a nice piece by NPR. http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2014/02/21/280715487/the-good-listener-for-bands-and-fans-the-no-fault-divorce?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook The Neil Young example is actually a good one, but he still produces some good work every now and then, it's just not anything that even resembles his top form work. Johnny Cash and Dylan are exceptions in the sense that they both did (and Dylan still does) some of their best work in the later stages of their careers. But as far as adding purchased music to my collection, I'm just happy that there are so many ways…

I know Beethoven is deaf, Mozart is childish and partied till he died or something. I failed History 3 anyways.. the RCM exam for music history. All joking aside, what is the difference between those two in every aspect including their lifestyle and music style? Both of these composers are very famous and I know I can go google, but I'm just wondering what you guys have to say.

We lost a great one yesterday.

Cool site... Rare vinyl records from the golden era of avantgarde and experimental music: http://wolffifth.blogspot.com/

http://www.amazon.com/Volta-Bj%C3%B6rk/dp/B000NVIXFA/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5565349-7815211?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1176492913&sr=8-1 Who else is really looking forward to this? The single Earth Intruders is on the net and radio. Produced by Timbaland, very different from her other songs but IMO very good and continues to show how diverse a producer Timbaland can be.

I havent been following very closely on the SH forums, so this may be old news, but... I suppose the SACD will follow the vinyl at least half a year later, but maybe we'll get lucky this time.

I'm startin down the rippin road. I need to unload a batch of older CDs and am ripping them with EAC. My assumptions for using flac.exe to do this are: * There is no upsampling feature I can use with EAC (from 16/44 to 24/96) * The flac file format should be fairly future-safe. * I can play flac files on many DACs that I may be able to buy today. I am also assuming that when I read about others here with a 24/96 flac file that the file was first a 24/96 WAV which was then compressed to 24/96 flac. Is that correct? (Or is there a way to do this in a batch process maybe with Adobe Audition? Probably. ) My real question is: are my assumptions correct…

Looks like there's some more meta-info in addition to replay gain tags, when dealing with the loudness wars DR Database More links Justice For Audio JusticeForAudio.org • Index page DYNAMIC RANGE | pleasurize music! Our Aim | DYNAMIC RANGE | pleasurize music!

Steven Wilson will be doing 5.1 remixes of the King Crimson catalog with some help by Robert Fripp and others. Robert Fripp's Diary for Tuesday, 3rd June 2008

The MP3 download that comes with the new Ryan Adams LP (Cardinology) has leadin/out groove and surface noise effects. Maybe I don't get out enough or something, but this strikes me as pretty strange. There must be a story behind it. Does anybody know? -Carl

Howard Smith was a long time writer for the Village Voice. Over the years, he interviewed and wrote articles about some of the icons of the 60's and 70's. Folks like Eric Clapton, John Lennon, and Frank Zappa were among those he interviewed. Like most journalists of the time, he would tape those interviews then go back and write his piece from those tapes. Fortunately, Smith had saved those tapes in hopes of using them for writing his memoirs and they've now been digitized and are going to be distributed on iTunes and a limited ed box set. Here's the article from the NY Times which includes some samples of those interviews. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/arts/mus…

Seeing BlessingX's post over on the ",..listening to" of "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts" reminded me that I meant to post a link to the Byrne/Eno site where you can download the multitrack session for a couple of the cuts from that album (which I just plain wore out when it was first released). So, if you have a DAW/Editing software with multitrack capabilities, check it out. It's too much fun to play around with the tracks and create your own mix of "Help Me Someone" or "My Secret Life". Once you've downloaded all 24 tracks of "Help Me,.." , try de-constructing it by soloing (to hear the single track alone) then muting that track. Another fun thing, I kinda like to s…

This is a free and legal soundboard download. 16: http://www.archive.org/details/radams2007-06-29.sbd.flac 24: http://www.archive.org/details/radams2007-06-29.sbd.flac24 --------------------------------- Ryan Adams and The Cardinals Somerville Theatre Somerville, Ma. Friday June 29, 2007 Disc One 1.Cold Roses 2.Please Do Not Let Me Go 3.Let It Ride 4.Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play That Part 5.Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. 6.Mockingbird 7.Dear Chicago 8.Peaceful Valley 9.Dear John 10.I Taught Myself How To Grow Old 11.Two 12.Easy Plateau 13.Goodnight Rose 14.What Sin Replaces Love> 15.A Kiss Before I Go 16.Slider (John's birthday song, ca…

Ella Fitzgerald, Keith Jarrett, and the best jazz albums of 2009. Plus: The best jazz albums of the decade. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine Go Blake.

I am not sure any of you have heard of the small Russian band of two called Kauan before. The main force behind it is Anton Belov, who plays guitar, keyboards, and does vocals. The other member, Lubov Mushnikova, plays violin. Though the band comes from Russia, most of the lyrics are Finnish. To date, four albums have been released: Lumikuuro (2007), Tietäjän Laulu (2008), Aava tuulen maa (2009), and Kuu... (2011). The first two albums are considered a mix of folk, doom, and black metal. Having said this, the main sound consists of beautiful melodies driven by piano and guitar with a mix of both clean and back metal vocals. I am not really a fan of black metal,…

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A pair of prodigious platters of plastic. Sorry. Couldn't help myself. An alliterative illiterate. It's two 180 gram 33.33 rpm disks - beautiful, dead flat, silent, excellent sounding pressings, in proper audiophile plastic-lined inner sleeves (Somehow, when an album costs the best part of fifty bucks, I think a Nitty Gritty sleeve is in order. Thank you very much.) The sound is head and shoulders above the 44.1 digital version - guitar timber, vocal, just about everything. This is the first Junkies album since way back, Caution Horses or Black Eyed Man maybe, where the vinyl has sounded that much better than the CD for me. There's a bit of tape pre-echo (print-t…

For those of you who don't frequent Head-Fi, someone posted that Oldies.com is having a fantasy warehouse clearance sale similar to that other one. Some of them are SACD's, but don't just search on the text "SACD", as not all of them are correctly identified. Ends Wednesday.

I guess I shoulda said "For,..". The 2012 Monterey Jazz Festival was a treat for Potter lovers. He played with several groups over the weekend and I was able to records a couple of the bands. I've put up 7 new 24/48 files on my SoundCloud account from the festival and 6 have Potter doing his thing. The first group is the Metheny Unit Band and the second cut has Pat using the Orchestron (killer automated multi instrument partially controlled by air pressure which you can hear swooshing in the background). The second group is the Monterey Festival on Tour which features Christian McBride-bass, Benny Green-piano, Potter, Ambrose Akinmusire-trumpet, and Lewis Nash o…