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Tom Waits, David Byrne, Chuck D,.. oh, screw it, here’s the list from Pitchfork Article

David Byrne, Tom Waits, M.I.A., Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O and Nick Zinner, RZA, the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Kool Keith, CSS’ Lovefoxxx, Spank Rock, John Frusciante, Fatlip and Slim Kid Tre from the Pharcyde, E-40, Gift of Gab, Chali 2na, KRS-One, George Clinton, Seu Jorge, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, the Cardigans’ Nina Persson, Amanda Blank, Z-Trip, and DJ Qbert.

All of these artists (and more?!) on an album together! Really good, fun stuff.. It’s gonna be hard waiting for the US release of this album (called The Spirit of Apollo) on Feb 17. In the meantime check out songs on their MySpace page.

I’ve used lala.com’s CD trading service off and on ever since they bought WOXY.com. They seem to have a new business model; store your music in “the cloud”. Their new website design has a music player built-in (flash) and a little program that you can run on your pc to tell them which songs you already have. Then you can listen to your music collection from any place with an internet connection and a flash-capable web browser. You can listen to any song once for free and if you like it they want ten cents for you to listen to it online again. If you want to download it (as an mp3 thankfully) then it’s a very reasonable 89 cents.

So far it seems like a pretty cool idea.. one that might take off if Apple lets their iPhone application into iTunes App Store.

I just bought new DJ/Rapture album (downloaded as an mp3) for about $2 cheaper than amazon had it. Their little download/upload application is grabbing it right now.

A few weeks ago I wrote a little script to generate some stats about muxtape.com. It grabs 1000 random muxtapes and lists which artists and songs are the most popular. Here’s a sample:

10 Most popular Artists:

1. Radiohead
2. Vampire Weekend
3. David Bowie
4. The Beatles
5. Feist
6. MGMT
7. Daft Punk
8. M.I.A.
9. Wilco
10. Justice

I’ve been listening to some new music. Some of it has just been released and some of it is new to me.

Interpol‘s Our Love to Admire: I really, really like this album. In some ways I think it’s stronger than Antics. I haven’t made it through the entire album but track 6 (Pace Is The Trick) and track 7 (All Fired Up) are great tracks. It’s more of the same Interpol recipe but a little more mature.

Mark Ronson‘s Version: This is a fun album with covers of Britney Spear’s Toxic, The Charlatan’s The Only One I Know, Radiohead’s Just and more but with horns and a more upbeat sound added. It doesn’t have a great deal of repeat listenability.

Pharoahe Monch‘s Desire: My friend Ben Ricker introduced me to Pharoahe Monch and I love it. More than half the album is great with the remaining tracks being good but not my style.

Yeah Yeah Yeah‘s Is Is EP: Fun fun fun. Rockers To Swallow rocks, the rest of he songs are great. I love the beat in Rockers To Swallow.

Air‘s Pocket Symphony: Good stuff, standard Air album. Nothing jumps out at me yet as “amazing” but Lost Message gets close. More listening needed. Even if this album isn’t great I had to have it..

The Chemical Brothers’ We Are The Night: I was expecting that this would be like The Chemical Brothers’ last 20 albums but I think they’ve moved ever so slightly to a more fresh sound. I really like it.

Gogol Bordello‘s Super Taranta!: I love Gogol Bordello, endless energy coupled with accordian accordian and fiddle make for fun, infinitely listenable music. This album kicks it up a notch. My favorite in all the albums I bought.