What a great culmination of some of my favourite things: funky organ music, beatboxing, comedy and particle physics. I am a big Fan of Dr. Reggie Watts.
Category: music
Freestyle Rap Battle: Translated.
The translator has the same voice as the white guy in my head.
Know Your Meme: Auto Tune (featuring “Weird Al” Yankovic)
Via Vimeo’s 25 favorite videos of 2009
More Know Your Meme episodes.
[All props to sharky_p2p]
Whip it good! Pearl Jam show up in costume to a gig on Halloween.
Adam Samberg’s rap parody “I’m on a Boat” is the best thing since Lazy Sunday. From the new album Incredibad (iTunes link).
Andrew Sullivan misunderstands the “long tail”
A new British study finds that the most pirated pop songs on the internet are those that already top the charts. Instead of giving rise to a “long tail” where small indie acts broaden their appeal online, the study found that digital technology – and music pirating – simply work to reinforce the fat head of mass appeal.
Torrents and their ilk cannot be considered as an aggregator of the long tail of the music industry. Although P2P networks could theoretically have endless storage, they tend to be biased towards the latest and greatest (the “tyranny of the new”). That is why long tail dynamics are much more visible on wide-ranging individual services like iTunes and Netflix, rather than ad hoc personal networks. That said, I still think that P2P networks can be effective at marketing as Jonathan Coulton, Danger Mouse and Trent Reznor have shown.
This is the best Swedish funk jazz band I have ever heard: Organ Donor