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Pink Mountaintops - Holiday

On the Metro-North upstate yesterday, I listened to Pink Mountaintops Outside Love (for the hundredth time in the last few weeks). Later in the day, as our crew trickled in and we began to settle into the weekend, my friend Andy said “Hey, have you been listening to this band Pink Mountaintops?”  I love when an album is so good that your music-loving friends find it on their own and it becomes in instant point of connection.

Everyone I love deserves a holiday in the sun almost every day

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Bruce Springsteen - Independence Day (Live)

I’m off to the Hudson Valley and out of range for the weekend. Happy Indepence Day, everyone.

QUANTIFYING EMBARRASSMENT:
Recently, the researchers at Last.fm published a list of the ‘most unwanted scrobbles‘.  This is a list of  tracks that were most frequently deleted by the Last.fm community from their scrobbles in the last month.

Collecting all the artists from the pages we can build a list of artists that have frequently had their scrobbles deleted:

Lady GaGa
Britney Spears
Katy Perry
Rihanna
Paramore
Coldplay
Taylor Swift
Beyoncé
Avril Lavigne
Marc Seales, composer. New Stories. Ernie Watts, saxophone
Alexander Rybak
Black Eyed Peas
Kings of Leon
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Linkin Park
Korn
Miley Cyrus
Jason Mraz
Metro Station
Leona Lewis
Green Day
Evanescence
Amy Whinehouse
Oasis
Nelly Furtado

The Coolness Index «  Music Machinery (via msg+mikehudack)

Rain in Brooklyn
Rain in Brooklyn
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The Books - Be Good To Them Always

A great track from Nick and Paul — my favorites.

Image from the band’s website.

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N.A.S.A. - Gifted ft. Kanye West, Santogold and Lykke Li

This is an early release from a collaborative album by DJ’s Zegon and Squeak E. Clean, better known as N.A.S.A. (North America/South America). The vision of the album is to bring together sounds and styles from a variety of backgrounds - try Tom Waits with Kool Keith or Seu Jorge with Chuck D as examples of from the project. The effort has spanned a long time, but February we can expect to see the album, “The Spirit of Apollo,” in stores. “Gifted” is clearly one of the more marketable songs on the album. Regardless, it is catchy and nice to hear Kanye’s real voice again. More info:

http://www.myspace.com/nasa

via earsofthebeholder

I rode my bike over the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time yesterday. The awesome bike path/pedestrian walkway is yet another reason to love NY.
Not bad for an iPhone photo shot while riding, eh?

I rode my bike over the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time yesterday. The awesome bike path/pedestrian walkway is yet another reason to love NY.

Not bad for an iPhone photo shot while riding, eh?

Bit.ly says that the data flow they are seeing is so massive that they are getting very good at predicting the number of clicks a link will get in the future. They look at acceleration of clicks as well as the source (Facebook, Twitter, IM, whatever) and whether people are clicking that are outside of the social graphs of other people clicking.

In other words, you could say that Bit.ly knows what will be on the Digg home page tomorrow.

TechCrunch: Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now
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Discovery - “Orange Shirt”

Discovery is the unlikely side project built from members of two bands I wouldn’t necessarily have put together: Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Wes Miles of Ra Ra Riot. This odd couple doesn’t just work, it kills. Their debut album, the coyly titled LP, is a blast from start to finish. Drenched in synthesizers and handclaps (with no shortage of Auto-Tune), the music doesn’t sound like Vampire Weekend or Ra Ra Riot, but rather has a more trippy, R&B-cum-indie vibe that’s near impossible to get out of my head. LP should prove to be one of the summer’s most fun albums, so track down a copy when it’s released on July 7th.

My brother just got this tattoo on the inside of his bicep. Great font.
My brother just got this tattoo on the inside of his bicep. Great font.
I used to go to summer ski camps on Mt. Hood when I was in high school.  Timberline Lodge!  Blast from the past.

Oh Hey Mt. Hood!
Taken from just below Timberline Lodge. via jaredm.

I used to go to summer ski camps on Mt. Hood when I was in high school.  Timberline Lodge!  Blast from the past.

Oh Hey Mt. Hood!

Taken from just below Timberline Lodge. via jaredm.

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Wilco - Wilco The Song

In honor of today’s official release of Wilco (The Album). I’m a sucker for ironic(?) self-reference.

Photo credit: wilcoworld.net

kylebunch:
Search Engine Land’s Greg Sterling drills down the data on GOOG’s assertions that they’re “not that big.”  Result: they’ve got a point.

kylebunch:

Search Engine Land’s Greg Sterling drills down the data on GOOG’s assertions that they’re “not that big.”  Result: they’ve got a point.

Jay-Z - D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)

Slick new video from HOVA featuring Harvey Keitel and LeBron James, directed by Anthony Mandler (the Killers, Beyonce). From his forthcoming LP The Blueprint 3. The bushy hair’s a good look for Jay. I like it.