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Some of you may remember part I of this highly successful series on great ways to waste your time online. Today’s topic:
Music
Obviously thanks to the web you can listen to thousands of different radio stations. Nevertheless I’ll only list a few things of interest.
fm4, which has always been my favourite radio station, has created a platform for bands to present their material. To be specific that platform is for Austrian bands as fm4 is an Austrian radio station. Nonetheless there’s a lot of great music by unsigned bands to check out in the Soundpark. Also they host the protest song contest every year and you can listen to the finalists here. At any rate, it’s always a good idea to tune in to fm4 as they play great music all day long.
Another great place for music is npr. I especially like their live in concert series. I’ve listened to quite a few great concerts so far, for example Regina Spektor, Okkervil River, Nellie McKay and the New Pornographers. Another great thing on npr is Project Song, which seems to be a very recent show on which they give an artist 48 hours, a range of topics to choose from and a studio and document the resulting song. So far they’ve only had Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields, but it’s a fun video to watch.
Now I don’t remember if I ever pointed out that I’m a great admirer of Henry Rollins‘ work, especially of his talking shows, and for some time now he’s also hosted his own radio show called Harmony in my Head. You can download past shows from the Rollins archive. I’ve listened to quite a few of his shows and I’m sure his ecclectic taste in music will beat up anyone elses ecclectic taste in music.
Another radio show I’ve enjoyed listening to is Zoe’s show. Her taste in music is apparently so awesome that the Beastie Boys let her open for them @ the Greek in LA. Unfortunately she doesn’t seem to be doing shows regularly, but whenever she does a show I’ll usually gladly listen to it.
I think this should be enough to keep you from getting anything productive done for quite some time. If you ever get really desperate just tune in to ICradio, we’ve started putting more recent music on the out of hours sustain system so you might even enjoy some of the music.
I’ll end this post by linking to Public Enemy’s video for their latest single ‘Harder Than You Think’ because it’s clearly a brilliant song
I’ve never been much of a Killers fan but I’ve got to say that their latest song is pretty damn awesome. Of course it helps that it features Lou Reed.
Simply brilliant. I keep listening to it over and over again.
Unfortunately my hard drive crashed so I’m late posting this brilliant video clip.
A good old school sketch from A Bit Fry and Laurie:
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