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The Echo Nest (tags: programming music audio api)

How a German wartime flying ace discovered he shot down his hero | the Mail on Sunday Poor guy killed Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who was his favorite author at the time. Sad story. (tags: author ironic war-sucks)

Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog » Blog Archive » Archie In… A Different Class! Oh my God this is awesome. (tags: comics pulp britpop mashup comedy archie)

clapclap.org is just something that grown-ups invented: Hallelujah A cultural history of the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah”. This explains all the reasons I stopped covering this beautiful, heartbreaking song live — it’s become musical shorthand for “pretty sadness”. A damn shame too. (tags: leonard-cohen hallelujah pop-culture)

Pitchfork: Tom Waits Planning Summer Tour Holy shit. I WILL MAKE ONE OF THESE SHOWS. (tags: music tour must-see-tom-waits-yes)

RIP Jeff Healey You can make Road House jokes if you like, but that guy had musical talent and big balls. (tags: death blues music guitar) YouTube – Star Wars vs. Saul Bass Star Wars’ titles, as envisioned by classic title designer Saul Bass. Really lovely. (tags: design film-titles cool)

Shrine of the Mall Ninja » LonelyMachines I can’t breathe! I’m laughing too hard! (tags: funny culture mall dude-i-totally-remember-these-guys-from-seventh-grade)

YouTube – Red Russian Army Choir & Leningrad Cowboys – Delilah via Michael; agreed, sheer awesome (tags: music majestic that’s-my-new-favorite-guitar) garfield minus garfield Everybody’s linking this, but it’s actually pretty funny (tags: funny garfield jon’s-on-the-crack-rock)

Surfer-Physicist A. Garrett Lisi’s Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash Interesting guy. Interesting theory. (tags: physics science)

Why records DO all sound the same | Word Magazine Really excellent song from David Hepworth about why music really does all sound the same right now. Good for the non-technical reader. This is the kind of thing I think about ALL THE TIME. (tags: music production acoustics)