Posts tagged music

“Rig Rundown - Wilco’s Nels Cline” - PremierGuitar.com

If you have 38 minutes (and you do, or else you wouldn’t be here), have a watch and get your axe and stompbox envy on. (via)

Chicago Airport Music Tracker

You’re traveling through O’Hare, maybe Midway. Your flight’s been delayed… again. You eat another overpriced meal at the neon-gasm food court thunderdome. Amid the grating gate call overlap, you hear a tune piped through the loudspeakers you can’t get out of your head all the way to your final destination.

Now you can find out what it was, thanks to the Chicago Music Commission.

I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.

The Exotica Project (dot com)

One Hundred Dreamland 45s

Site peers beyond the Quiet Village’s bamboo curtain, past genre stalwarts Martin Denny and Les Baxter, into deeper, more obscure, yet no less profound aural territories.

Fretlight Guitar

The Fretlight Guitar will change the way you learn to play. Our intelligent learning system eliminates the back and forth with charts and books and puts the information where you need it most - right at your fingertips.

Fretlight 421 Standard Guitar, FG-421 Seafoam Green (Strat Style). Image © Fretlight Guitar.

No more games, rock ‘n roll dreamers: Guitar Hero for reals. (Model shown: FG-421 Seafoam Green)

Once you go dub, you never go back. Know what I’m saying?
Mayor of Portland (played by Kyle MacLachlan), from Portlandia (Season 1, Ep. 5 - “Blunderbuss”)

“Happy Music For Happy People”

Caught myself flipping channels on a lazy weekend afternoon, and found The Big Joe Polka Show on RFD-TV.

Before I knew it, it was an hour later, and my toes still hadn’t stopped tapping. I mean, c’mon… it’s Polka music. It’s gingham and boots, community halls with plywood floors, accordions, brass and kielbasa.

Promotional graphic for 'The Big Joe Polka Show' Polka music program on RFD-TV.
Show host Joseph “Big Joe” Siedlik

Cigar Box Nation (dot com)

“#1 resource for Cigar Box Guitars”
Cigar Box Nation logo (Red star logo with arm/fist grasping a cigar box guitar)
Cigar Smoke on the Water
might never sound so good. Tiparillo to Joe Dubstyle. (Image: Cigar Box Nation)

And Vinyly (dot com)

When the album that is life finally reaches the end wouldn’t it be nice to keep that record spinning for eternity? We offer you the chance to press your ashes in a vinyl recording your loved ones will cherish for generations. Record a personal message, your last will & testament, your own soundtrack or simply press your ashes to hear your pops and crackles for a minimal approach.

Live on from beyond the groove!

“My condolences, but I don’t hear a single.”