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trailer: Guilt, with OST by Matthew Collings

It seems that longtime TMIM favorite has his own IMDb page now. Matthew Collings has scored the soundtrack for Hakon Palsson's short film Guilt, and -- from the look of it -- served as...

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video: “Moonsound,” by Christina Vantzou and Ernest Gibson III

Track 3 from Christina Vantzou's remix album is described only as "Various sounds from Nº1 remixed by Ernest Gibson III." She's put it to video. Pretty creepy. Start to read more about Vantzou here. Normally we...

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video: What’s that song on the new Nike Fuelband tv spot?

Track 3 from Christina Vantzou's remix album is described only as "Various sounds from Nº1 remixed by Ernest Gibson III." She's put it to video. Pretty creepy. Start to read more about Vantzou here. Normally we...

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Find of the Week Vol. 4 No. 1: Gotye

Gotye (pronounced “gore-ti-yeah”) is simply Belgian born (now Australian) Wouter "Wally" De Backer who has been making music since a young age and releasing albums with his band The Basics as well as his own...

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radio on the tv: “One Day,” by Matisyahu

Life Vest Inside has put together a real-time pay it forward spot called "Kindness Boomerang," set to Matisyahu's "One Day" (from the 2009 album Light). Read more about Life Vest Inside here, and watch...

Great bloggers make great music bloggers

by Fred (follow us on Facebook) Tyler Cowen draws attention to this paragraph, from Milan Kundera's Encounter:Scarcely 1 percent of the world's...

Great bloggers make great music bloggers

by Fred (follow us on Facebook) From Tyler Cowen:In 1984, my marriage to Cindy was in serious trouble. I had started once...

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

by Fred From Tyler Cowen:The dirty secret of the Billboard classical charts is that album sales figures are so low, the...

"Ou Marye" by Wyclef Jean

by Fred That track tops Tyler Cowen's "Introduction to Haitian Music." Read the rest, and follow the links, here.

Imperial March

In a recent Marginal Revolution post, Tyler Cowen posed an intriguing hypothetical: what if David Lynch had directed the film...

Great bloggers make great music bloggers

Over at Marginal Revolution, a reader (who identifies himself as Adam Smith, no less) poses an interesting music question:Why are...

Great bloggers make great music bloggers

From Marginal Revolution:Monkeys don’t care much for human music, but apparently they will groove to their own beat. Previous experiments have...

Cultural momentum

I'm a firm believer in cultural momentum, which, conveniently enough, is my two-word answer to Tyler Cowen's question: "Why don't...

From the vault: "Cowen: What’s the opening chord in Hard Day’s Night?"

I’ll be taking some time off over the next few days. I’ll rehash an old post a day, just to...

Cowen: What's the opening chord in "Hard Day's Night?"

Find the answer here.The Beatles producer [George Martin] added a piano chord that included an F note, impossible to play...