(This post is a bit more geeky, in the coding sense, than the usual goatless fare – but it is about music in the end). One of my long time favorite podcasts is The Waiting Room, by One Half of Drunk Country and The Woman of the House. They were on WOXY.com, they were on error.fm, they used to be [...]

I’ve long been a subscriber to Floss Weekly, a video/audio podcast in the TWiT network focused on Free/Libre/Open Source Software. One of the occasional co-hosts of that show, Dan Lynch, also does an audio podcast (weekly) called Rathole Radio. I’ve just started listening but so far I’m loving it: he mixes genres (french instrumental hip-hop, dance, heavy metal / hardcore), [...]

This weekend during PodCamp Boston I took a trip down the red line to Central square and checked out Veggie Galaxy, the new Vegetarian Diner and Vegan Bakery from the folks who run Veggie Planet. The place looks fantastic – hip, modern but retro, clean, and inviting: I love seeing vegan restaurants get the ambiance right, since so many have [...]

Cathy N. Davidson’s new book, Now You See it: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform thw Way We Live, Work, and Learn (see my review on Open Parenthesis), takes one of its core inspirations from an experiment by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, which you may have seen:

Spent last weekend in Montreal – had a great time at DrupalCamp, and visited a number of great restaurants. The Green Panther / La Panther Verte (Yelp) The Green Panther was just down the street from my hotel, near Concordia, at 2153 Mackay Street. I got there close to closing, so they were already starting to wrap up for the [...]

So I’m sometimes convinced I should just turn this blog into an auto-re-posting feed of everything that comes into my podcast client: between KEXP‘s Music That Matters, Live Performances, and Video of the Week; KCRW‘s Morning Becomes Eclectic; and NPR Music‘s All Songs Considered, Tiny Desk Concerts, and Live in Concert, I’m never going to run out of things to [...]

Discovered this wonderful new duo via Morning Becomes Eclectic. Imagine The Swell Season if Glen Hansard was from Alabama rather than Ireland, Marketa Irglova from LA rather than the Czech Republic, and they’d met in Nashville rather than in Dublin. (They even have a song called “Falling” which reminded me a bit of the Swell Season’s big hit Falling Slowly.

Great quick video from the Decemberists’ Tiny Desk Concert at NPR: “I was sort of always under the impression that these things were done while everybody was just trying to work,” The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy says a little ways into this Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices. “I kind of like the romance of that.” The play: Down [...]

Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) is most well known for “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” but this 1977 live gig with Brian Jackson will expose you to more of what Scott-Heron was about. You’ll find the original posting with much more info (from which I took this cover) on Never Enough Rhodes but it was also recently posted at Aquarium Drunkard [...]

Loving Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, who I discovered via this Tiny Desk Concert from NPR: