The Current's Christmas music was kind of a downer...

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Pac Man turned 34 years old on May 22nd, leading to this 1-hit wonder...   #musicmonday  

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Some perfect rainy day beats..

Further blurring the boundaries between electronic music and rock, Ratatat's self-titled debut album mixes Evan Mast's fractured but propulsive beats and woozy analog synths with Mike Stroud's loud, yet somehow subtle, guitars.

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Listening to this new Information Society release while upgrading all iOS devices to 7.0.6.   Hack, hack, hack.

Originally shared by Information Society

Baked fresh today! Get your full-quality music here: http://informationsociety.bandcamp.com/album/engage-classic-remixes-vol-2

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Listening to some UK Garage today.  Altavista reference made me smile.

You won't find us on Alta Vista

Cult classic not bestseller, you're gonna need more power

Plug in the free phase and the generator, crank it up to gigawatts

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Daft Punk may have won some Grammys last night - but when I wanted retro electronic/synth I was pleasantly surprised to discover Psykosonik via Google Play

Cyberpunk themes, Nintendo  SNES ties-ins and beats reminiscent of Crystal Method The   make this some great coding music.  They'll also be my soundtrack of choice if I ever make another ray-traced 3-D demo.

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Today's theme song...

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Bring on the #heirloomtechno  from Information Society No autotune modified organisms here.  I've been having a great time exploring the back catalog on Google Play including a superb live album that recently came out [1].

Then again I think I'm required to enjoy any group that puts out tracks like an actual data transmission in 300bps N, 8, I (Terminal Mode or ASCII Download) and the ode to TLAs in Where Would I be Without IBM [2]

[1]

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Information_Society_It_Is_Useless_to_Resist_Us_Inf?id=Bubk...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Balm26lw46phqfatilqz7examd4&tid=song-T7cfz4oirp3pfm...

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We really need to get your playlists supported as proper embeds.  We're already working on this for Youtube....

/cc Leo Deegan John Panzer 

Originally shared by Brandon Bilinski

It's new Tunesday! This week features no marquee hip-hop releases but has more indie-folk than you can shake a banjo at:

- Avett Bros, Head and the Heart,  and Cass McCombs all twang it out a bit

- Solid week for metal: New Red Fang, Pelican and Trivium

- We also have some new jams from established players: Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam and Dismemberment Plan (which on first listen is pretty blah)

Enjoy!

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Listening to the new Deltron 3030 Album.  I'm not disappointed.

Folks in the Bay Area can catch an in-store appearance at Amoeba records in San Francisco today at 5pm.

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Can't Stop listening to this track. It also makes a great radio seed song..

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Soundcloud and Google+: now better integrated.

If you already have a Soundcloud account go here:

http://soundcloud.com/settings/connections

If you create content on Soundcloud you definitely want to connect your profiles.  Add your Google+ profile here:

http://soundcloud.com/settings/advanced

And then add your Soundcloud profile here:

  https://plus.google.com/me/edit

Soundcloud supports authorship markup, and connected profiles makes your Soundcloud content eligible for enhanced search results!

Originally shared by Ade Oshineye

This: https://soundcheck.soundcloud.com/music/social-focus-google is cool.

But this: https://soundcloud.com/mayerhawthorne is cooler. /followed.

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Unexpected pleasure - Google Now and All Access let me know about new releases that I would have forgotten about.  In the past week it's highlighted a new single from M.I.A., the new CSS album and this gem from Austra.

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Happy that this track is available on Google Music because I can share a free listen and I prefer 320k mp3s.

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36 days until Google I/O?  Hurried man indeed.

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"Google should just buy stuff for me" -- Sergey at a TGIF a while back.

... or Takeout for subscription services

Think about Spotify, Rdio, Netflix, HBO and other content subscription services.  Once you stop paying you have nothing left.  Takeout is nothing more than references to a paywall.

A way to disrupt this might be to structure systems to reward you with ownership of a portion of the catalog each month.  Examples:
- Your most listened song or TV show.
- The ebook you shared the most.
- etc.

Then when your subscription period ends you get to keep the fruits of this relationship.

In many ways this is like the Columbia House[1] or BMG music club.  You get a free thing each month by default.  You can sample the entire catalog, or get more if you want.  But you're always *owning* something new and interesting each month.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_House

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A little late to the party, but this is one incredible album.

Recorded at the First Avenue and 7th St Entry you'll get plenty of Dick Valentine banter between a solid set of Electric Six classics including this quote:

"Put the two together and you have a kangaroo going down a water slide." 

And what's more you have long-time First Ave stage manager Conrad Sverkerson on the cover.  Read more about it here.

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2012/10/electric_six_release_live_album_recorded_at_first_ave_...

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Nice to see a punk community springing up in Google+!  Here's my first pick.  Posting the play store link since they don't have many youtube videos available and since Revolution and World on Fire are my faves...

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WTF?  Why is this snippet so awful?  Can we fix it?

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test

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Get your #musicmonday  moving with some Greek punk/grunge.

You can really hear the Nirvana-esque Steve Albini production along with shades of X, the Sex Pistols and Gossip.

I suppose Punk from disaffected youth is the only silver lining for the Greek financial mess.

h/t to Pixbear for review.

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I guess Die Young was a bad association for your new smartphone?

I never understood why Nokia bothers putting their phones in music videos.  It all looks so staged.  That said the Ke$ha video is pretty weird.  I can understand why they wanted to remove it.

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A new album by Mark Mallman, very catchy.  If you don't know his work read this review:

 Frankly, Double Silhouette, his latest, is the album the Killers were trying to make with Battle Born – an epic, gorgeous pop album filled with arena-ready choruses. But he does it in a way that doesn’t make him sound pompous (sorry, Killers).

http://www.letoilemagazine.com/2012/10/02/we-will-rock-you-local-reviews-part-deux-mark-mallman-and-...

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Asking this author to implement the history api would probably be easier than us doing it ourselves sad to say.

Originally shared by Erica Joy

THIS IS NOT AN EXTENSION CREATED BY NOR ENDORSED BY GOOGLE (Had to say that in big bold letters so the people who follow me hopingwishingdreaming that I give them their big "story" break don't run off breathlessly trying to out scoop one another about this and wind up making themselves looking not so bright in the process.)

That out of the way, I like this little extension for using Google Music. It pops up a little miniplayer so I don't have to keep the browser window open to control my music. Bangorang.

Since it can scrobble, I've resurrected my Last.fm account from the dust and ruins. If you wish to be Last.fm "friends" you may find me here: http://www.last.fm/user/EricaJoy

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Mark Mallman is still going strong 4 days into his cross country live video streaming #marathon4 at:

http://m4.qwikcast.tv/?gallery=m4-live

And here's a live album listen from Google Play for people going "Mark who?"

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I wonder if they'll let users export their data from Ping?  Time to send in the Data Liberation Front...

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TIL that the Jellybean "What's that Song" widget works with audio from Apps. Working great with TuneIn. Here's a track I grabbed off of Couleur3 Fun.

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In my day MTV actually had music and we liked it!

Originally shared by The Current

Jake Rudh posted his pick for Video of the Day and it's ALL MTV idents. Seriously, just one after another for six minutes. He explains,

"Leading up to the MTV event at First Avenue this coming Friday night, Transmission simulates an hour of watching classic MTV from (1981 - 1992) this Thursday at 10pm."

Take a break and revisit the astronauts, the cows, and the animation that looks even stranger now.

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Has anyone else reripped their entire music collection lately?

Last time was in 2003 so I had bitrates as low as 96k.  Everything is now 320k mp3 and I'm ready to re-import into Google Music.  Some interesting observations:

- CD ripping must contribute to global warming.

- CDs are heavy ~40 lbs of CDs fitting in .1 m³ (about 3.5 ft³)

- Gracenote/CDDB has declined in quality (album art especially)

- Price stickers bring back memories.  Tower records, FNAC and 32 CHF albums, oh my.

Nice thing is I can better judge the provenance of my collection and correct it.  Just received 3 custom CDs from Twin/Tone including two albums from the late-80s Minneapolis band The Wallets.

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Have you noticed that there are lots more Sub Pop Records albums in Google Play?  Lots of grunge era stuff and more...

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The best Electro-Rock band of the moment that's currently helping me burn the candle at both ends.  Think Daft Punk crossed with Rage Against the Machine, with a dash of Introduce Yourself era Faith No More.

Their top-10 single is below, but you'll find the rest of their repertoire rocks much harder.  Check out Palabra mi Amor for a taste:

SHAKA PONK - Palabra Mi Amor (feat. Bertrand Cantat) [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

Or this set from the Paleo Music Festival:

Shaka Ponk - Live Paléo Festival Nyon 2011 [Pro-Shot]

[reposting this again for  #musicmonday  and because I deleted my original post..]

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Remember folks you get a free play if you use Google Play and are in the USA. If that describes you and I'm not already following you let me know in the comments or DM me via my profile and I'll add you to my Google Players circle.

Oh and here's 17 tracks of awesome.

http://iggypop.org/iggy2.html

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Nice to see Ultra Records titles popping up in Google Play including this one from France.

I'd recommend starting wtih the electronic-surf themed Tchiki Tchiki Tchiki.

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From Denmark - Burning down the wheels tonight'

The laser beams on the right sure resemble the Google Play logo..

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The Current described this well:

“All My Life” is futuristic gold that I only wish could loop on for another 10 minutes. Twin Cities vocal talent Jana Nyberg lends her chords to the first two tracks of this EP and it’s safe to say that without her this song would not be as complete. You can feel her body pulsating to the beat just as easily as yours probably will, and in an instant we’re transported back to the height of Studio 54. The All My Life EP is out now on Kitsuné.

http://blog.thecurrent.org/post/2012/06/local-radar-gigamesh-murder-crows-and-minnesota

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