Tab sweep: eFanzines, data privacy, playlists between two artists
Been a lazy Sunday of doing some light pre-Spring cleaning/organizing and quality time with the cats. Here’s a few interesting sites, articles, and such that have been idling in tabs for a little while. Two on data privacy The Markup has an article about how grocers, specifically Kroger, are...
The right way to name music files and my Picard file-naming script
Last year I got deep into using MusicBrainz Picard to help tag music before I add it to my collection. The MusicBrainz database is fantastic, and it saves me a lot of time tweaking metadata. Most of the time I can just look up an album and it finds...
“Major Tom (Coming Home)” – Peter Schilling
I get songs stuck in my head all the time, but usually it’s because I heard a snippet of the song or something that reminded me of the song recently. Other times, a song pops into my head for no reason I can fathom and demands that I give...
Tab sweep on music tagging
Have been adding music to my Plex server this weekend. Part of that is cleaning up metadata before adding to Plex. Curating my music collection is one of those things that’s relaxing but also frustrating....
Quick links: Middle Ages cat names, Turkish Funk, Java price increases…
A couple of quick links today for your enjoyment: I’ve written about my cats and their many nicknames. But have you ever wondered what people named their cats in the middle ages? Apparently Open Culture has given this some thought. My question is… what have my cats named me?...
“Con Todo El Mundo” – Khruangbin
Took a little detour on revisiting my top 100 albums but we’re back with Con Todo El Mundo by Khruangbin. It’s easy to see why this album didn’t make the cut in 2016: It wasn’t released until 2018. I think I stumbled on Khruangbin via an NPR Tiny Desk...
Macroblank: plundered vaporwave instrumentals to work or relax to
Music tip for your Saturday, if you’re looking for something that will slide into the background and give you a bit of a groove, check out Macroblank on Bandcamp....
Coming soon: Instrumental album from Robyn Hitchcock
The past few years I’ve been seeking out more and more instrumental music. Khruangbin, The Comet is Coming, Material, Pharoah Sanders… but I wasn’t expecting to add Robyn Hitchcock to that list! Robyn has released a few instrumental tracks in the past. I Often Dream of Trains is bookended...
“The Olympians” – The Olympians
The Olympians by The Olympians was released on October 28, 2016. If it’d been released a year or two earlier, there’s a better than even chance it’d have made my Top 100 list the first time around. The Olympians is something of a throwback record, with a strong nod...
“With Birds” – The Coconut Monkeyrocket
When describing an album, one might start with a familiar genre or reference point to help the uninitiated prepare for the experience. This approach isn’t possible with The Coconut Monkeyrocket’s only full album, With Birds. With Birds is a one-off album by a band (or perhaps one person project)...