Category: Music

Hey everyone, let’s start a meme! Take a collection of songs from iTunes (a playlist, your last 9 or 16 or 25 songs) and turn the album cover art into a sort of quilt. Here’s my compilation from this year’s South By Southwest Interactive (sorry to anyone using anything less than 1024×768 resolution):

The quality of some of the art is pretty crappy, but this has some potential. Hey, by the way does anyone know where iTunes actually stores the album art you import?

Great show, but they didn’t play my favourite song. Whaddya want for 7 bucks, eh?

This is just bloody brilliant. (8.5MB Quicktime) (via boingboing)

John Vanderslice has posted some photos from a recording session he did with Spoon in December. Most interesting new Spoon song title: “The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentin”

I’ve been reading a lot about music lately. Dave Bidini (from the Rheostatics) did a story for the Toronto Star a few months back in which he listed 50 Songs About Toronto. It brought back such a flood of memories that I wanted to begin writing about my own musical odyssey.
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