music

from rollingstone.com

David Byrne and Brian Eno retreated to pop's periphery years ago, but their influence is suddenly front and center. There are echoes of Byrne's old band, Talking Heads, in the avant-funk of LCD Soundsystem and other dance-rock bands, and you can hear the singer's workaday hysteria in the cadences of Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock. Coldplay sought producer Eno to help them make Viva la Vida, a record that recalls another album with Eno's mark, U2's The Joshua Tree.

from exercise.about.com

A while back, I posted a blog about workout music and readers are still responding with their favorite workout songs. I thought I would post some of the most recent song choices, just in case you need more great tunes for your workouts:

from rollingstone.com

Prospects were poor for what turns out to be an overflowing song bag of an album by Lynyrd Skynyrd's arty nephews. Their last winner was 2004's The Dirty South, preceded by two others in close succession but followed by the disoriented A Blessing and a Curse and then the loss of tenor-songwriter Jason Isbell.

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from runnersworld.com

In a life lived with passion, two passions intersecting is like harmonic convergence: a perfect marriage of wine with food, politics with ideals, peanut butter with chocolate. Each passion has its singular pleasure, but the alchemy of the two together is almost too much fun to handle. So it is for me with running and music.

hello, just discovered this site! :)

suppose i'll start with what i did this morning.. seems the most sensible thing to do.

Ran for 2 miles (15 minutes) under starlight - a great opportunity to see falling stars and satellites - and then walked for 30 minutes.

I usually do that every morning. Hope to eventually run farther as the year goes on, and if it keeps at such a warm temperature here in Iowa it's entirely possible.

from fitsugar.com

I often find that half the battle of going to the gym is motivating myself to get there. One easy tip I do to get myself motivated is to turn off the tv and turn on some music. In the mornings, when I am getting ready to go to the gym, I turn on music that I can move to as I get ready.

By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter 1 hour, 19 minutes ago

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Madonna, Mozart or Eminem? Your preference in music could predict the patterns of your life, including your sexual activity, drug use, and even your political outlook, a new British survey contends. And it's not as predictable as you'd think. The survey of 2,500 people found, for example, that opera fans were as likely as other music lovers to try hallucinogenic drugs, and that many hip-hop fans had somewhat conservative views on a wide range of issues.

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from yahoo.com

One sentence, a political comment as bombs rained down on Baghdad in 2003, changed the careers and the fan base of Texas-based Dixie Chicks, but not their spirit or their tune.

"In the past, I think we thought we had a purpose, to entertain (the audience)," said lead singer Natalie Maines, whose 2003 comments criticizing U.S. president George W. Bush made the band a pariah in the country music world.

from daytrotter.com

Not many bands can turn the drive from Madison, Wisc., to Daytrotter headquarters into a seven hour epic day, but Michigan’s The High Strung did just that when they visited us months and months ago. A van that was completely f--king up caused it to sputter along at 30 miles an hour and they arrived here two hours late for the session. When they did get here, they made up for their tardiness, treating our reel-to-reel to a special evening of delights.

NOTE: Ever notice how much the GarageBand logo resembles the venerable Gibson ES 335?

from macworld.com.uk

Square Group is working with Apple and Gibson Guitars to present a free workshop for Mac-using guitarists on 20 September.

The session will look at recording and producing tracks on a Mac. The event takes place Wednesday 20 September at 6.30pm at The Gibson Building, Rathbone Street, London – home of Gibson Guitars.

David Pogue
New York Times

ARE you over 30? Sorry to hear it. That makes you part of the Transition Generation, those who have witnessed the world’s shift from analog to digital recordings. You therefore probably have a collection of phonograph records, audiocassettes and videotapes sitting in a closet somewhere at this very moment.

Maybe you still maintain a turntable and cassette deck, which you use to listen to your tunes just as you have for decades. If that’s your situation, congratulations; you may skip to the next article.