MUSIC

Mother Nature's Music

You are familiar with some of Mother Nature's music already. Birds are the best at it, with human music and singing monkeys and other animals trailing behind. But there's natural music produced by non-living phenomena, if we take the time to properly harn

Is That A Bird in Your Mouth, or Are You Just That Good?

Now that Peter, Bjorn and John are bringing whistling back, I've started to notice other young folks brushing up on their whistling. I was in Pinkberry yesterday wondering if I could disprove my friend's assault that the stuff tastes like foot cream (I ca

EMI to Sell DRM-Free Music

Following The Open Letter-Off of '07 in February, it looks like Steve Jobs has reached one of the four major record labels (or they reached him, perhaps spurring his original open letter). Apple and EMI jointly announced yesterday that EMI will allow sal

The Open Letter-Off of '07

Over the past few weeks, the web has been buzzing with competing open letters about Digital Rights Management, all starting from a post on February 6 by Steve Jobs. We break down the dialog after the jump, in excruciating

Getting the Led out: First rap ever?

Most folk agree that hip hop or rap music grew up in New York, during the early 1970s, when MCs improvised on the mic, entertaining the crowd as they waited for the next DJ to take over the booth. Though certainly there are earlier examples, many point to

A miracle?

If you like classical music, you know it's hard to find a good radio station that plays a wide range of music, not just the usual Beethoven and Mozart hits. That's where the Internet comes in handy, with so many live streams out there, ripe for the taking

Salieri "the gizzard" at 256

While the whole world has been busy this year celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday, poor Antonio Salieri, who turns 256 today, remains forever in Amadeus's shadow. Mozart, of course, has been described as the fillet of the Classical era, while Salieri, on