tunequest

What can I say? This is brilliant. It's a bit long (11 minutes), so block out some time to watch the whole thing. It also helps to be familiar with Trapped in the Closet, R. Kelly's hip-hop opera in multiple parts which tells a complex story (with several interwoven plots) of increasingly bizarre cases of infidelity and sexual hang-ups. Here's a Google Video if you need to ...

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Allow me to preface this by saying I've never been that impressed by Alanis Morissette's work. She's a decent enough performer, but her songs always struck me as, well, whiny. But this performance here is bordering on brilliance. It's a rather unexpected cover of Fergie/Black Eyed Peas' My Humps. I'm not sure what Ms. Morissette has been up to the past few years, but this is the last ...

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This article is also a guest post for Webomatica, who asked me to fill in for a day while he's in Japan. Appropriately, I think, I dove through my library and pulled out some of my favorite Japanese albums. Enjoy... :: Susumu Yokota - Symbol (2005) Yokota is a musician of the sonic contortionist variety, meticulously sculpting sounds and bending them to his will. Symbol features some delicately constructed ...

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In addition to their world-sized beats, The Chemical Brothers are generally known for their world class videos. I stumbled across this video to Star Guitar from the duo's 2002 release Come With Us while perusing the ol' Google Video/YouTube library this afternoon and was quickly fascinated. It was directed by noted film dude Michel Gondry, who's done some impressive work, including intriguing videos for Bjork, Beck, Radiohead ...

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When I began the original tunequest in February of last year, I had ~6000 songs in my iTunes library that had a play count of zero. Part of that list consisted of old CDs that just hadn't been played since they were digitized. A good number of them were the result of over-zealous music collection and exploration. That was one of the reasons I decided to ...

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One cold night, during the very cold December of 2000, I found myself at the original Handle Bar myspace warning in downtown Pensacola. Dilapidated doesn't even begin to describe the place, but its rundown condition gave it the perfect character to be a favored destination for the town's surprisingly robust hipster set, until it burned down in 2001. don't worry, the handle bar was rebuilt in ...

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I had forgotten that I had this song, but I was scouring my archives and was delighted to find it on today of all days. So in light of today's news as well as the date, let's celebrate some James Brown with his Santa's Got a Brand New Bag. Enjoy. [audio:061225SantasGotaBrandNewBag.mp3] For more Brownian Christmas classics, check out James Brown's Funky Christmas at Amazon. Strangely, Santa's Got a Brand ...

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London's The Herbaliser is one of those bands that takes its inspiration from just about whatever it can find. Featuring some extremely above-the-bar production values, the band specializes in a kind of funk-laden rap that borrows from and incorporates just about every musical style under the sun. Yet, despite the amalgam, each song is distinctly Herbaliser in its nature. Lest you think that the band is all ...

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As geeky as this sounds, there was once a point in time when I could recite the accompanying dialogue and sound effects in sequence with this composition. It's music from The Wrath of Khan, the scene where the Enterprise has been crippled by Khan's surprise attack and Captain Kirk must stall for time in an attempt to deliver a retaliatory blow to the Reliant (the ship ...

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