turns out you’ve always been a fan of philip glass <mind bends for a moment>

pbsthisdayinhistory:

Love it!

sesamestreet:

Happy birthday to Philip Glass, born today in 1937, and the man behind the music in this classic Sesame Street clip.

ridiculously good. Proteigon by Burayan.

via the fox is black

this is the show I enjoyed with @kelzor & am re-enjoying now

wow. he’s so smooth. so young. and that voice. I always thought his voice was something he grew into. I almost forgot how much I used to listen to this album.

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Seventeen Evergreen - Polarity Song, by Lucky Number Music

great find, via the fox is black

influent:

villagevoice: Method Man rapping about Sour Patch Kids. 

woa. flute player in red is killin it.

prostheticknowledge:

College band performs Killing in the Name (by Rage Against the Machine) (via Reddit)

fastandbulbous:

This performance was included by Carl Sagan in an interstellar time capsule illustrating the diversity of culture and life on Earth. Good call, Carl.

Blind Willie Johnson - Dark was the night…

npr:

Start the video, listen for a few moments, then keep reading.

Anderson: “as YOU can GO, beLOW zeRO” — he’s creating iambs out of words that don’t naturally fall into that pattern: i.e., he stresses ‘zero’ on the second syllable instead of the first, where the stress naturally falls…. His pronunciation of “zoo” is one of the cooler things I’ve ever heard: a “z” with the smallest possible nondescript little vowel syllable attached to it. There is no way on earth to communicate the musicality of the refrain that ends that song in print.

Kelley: One thing that gets lost when only reading rap lyrics is the singing/rapping along.

Anderson: You mean the listener rapping along?

Kelley: Rap along out loud — and it’ll be all the more impressive that someone has managed to wrap their tongue around a lyric, or keep going without taking a breath. Rapping is HARD.

- NPR Music’s Frannie Kelley discussing Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Brooklyn Zoo” with New York magazine book critic Sam Anderson. Anderson recently completed editing a 788-page anthology of rap lyrics, without listening to the songs. Kelley asked Anderson to listen to several songs he included, then discuss them with her. The results are one of those rare instances where you actually get to witness an entire art form revealed to someone, in every sense of the word. Play the songs and read their amazing conversation.

lonelysandwich:

Rafter “No Fucking Around” dir. Matt Wells

camh:

I like this and I can’t explain why.

Via nathanhunt.

I love this and can explain why.

The song is beautiful, simple and rich. The video takes an entirely different kind of marginalized, even emasculated character and puts him in a position of overtly masculine self-celebration and aggressive, unapologetic statement of place in the world.

But beyond all that, it’s just a great video. Thanks for sharing, Nathan.

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flock band.

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