Can’t get these two out of my head: Kid CuDi “Simple as…” And maybe it’s all of the Glee that some one’s been watching, or perhaps it’s just that this version does something for me that the original did not, but I pretty much want to put a ring on this video:

Via kottke, ThruYou is a series of songs and videos with YouTube videos as “tracks.” The songs themselves are less gimmicky than you’re thinking, and the videos are a joy to watch. (Kottke appropriately compares this to the work of Christian Marclay.)

I lost count, but I think I just listened to “My Girls,” from the new Animal Collective album, four times in a row. The NYTimes recently featured an article about the album, produced by Ben Allen (who Animal Collective found while poring through the liner notes for the Gnarls Barkley album): [Allen] possessed only a [...]

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For Amber, answers and conjecture as to what is on the iPod of Michael Phelps. via kottke

I just can’t stop listening to Thao Nguyen’s “We Brave Bee Stings and All.” In particular, this set of lyrics from the first track keep racing through my head: Oh no! How can you stand it When I run, when I run like a bandit? I wear him like a habit In the lining of [...]

Steve Jobs on Digital Rights Management (as in the iTunes Music Store): So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise [...]

Really, it’s just a case for your iPod Nano disguised as a fleece cap; I don’t think there are any headphones included in the Hatphones. And I’m not quite sure how you’re supposed to pick music when it’s on your head. Maybe it works like Indian poker, and you have a friend tell you what [...]

A few of the new DJ interfaces introduced at NAMM 2007 are reviewed by DJ Scott Paradis. He particularly likes the Vestax VCI-100 (above), which focuses on being a MIDI interface for Traktor, and doesn’t include space/money-wasting features like analog mixing. I sold my turntables figuring something like this would eventually be introduced (didn’t think [...]

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore loves mix tapes. Wired has an adapted excerpt from his forthcoming book, Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture. I made what I thought was the most killer hardcore tape ever. I wrote H on one side, and C on the other. That night, after my love Kim had fallen asleep, [...]