Category: Music

Escapism: Mood enhancer

It is raining in Seattle. Why not head to a beach circa summer of 1997? Poolside.fm’s webpage takes you to a 90’s Macintosh Desktop with curated music and…

Road Trip: Spotify designs your Soundtrack

Spotify, in collaboration with Google Maps, launched Soundtrack Your Ride to make full ride-length mix tapes to complement your roadtrip. Enter your destination, answer questions like “what’s your…

This Guy: Listens to Free Bird for the first time

This fellow, who goes by NOLIFESHAQ, claims he’s never heard Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” and records his first listen. He gets the song’s ethos immediately and feels the…

Discover: Acid Rap

I enjoy psychedelia. I mostly enjoy hip hop. It occured to me that the two are likely married outside my awareness. The internet helped me out. Flatbush Zombie:…

Mixed: Pearl Jam meets Footloose

DJ Cummerbund seamlessly cut together “Jeremy” and Footloose, with a dash of Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary”. An absurdist bouncy take on school shootings.

Vibe: Psychedelic Chillout playlist

If you have Spotify, here is an almost endless playlist of: “Unsane psychedelic, psychonautic sails forming tunes that fuel your imagination and give your mind wings to help…

Jive: SomaFM streaming radio

SomaFM is a cost-free, ad-free San Francisco-based streaming radio website. They have 30ish stations and even mobile phone apps. It’s a healthy chance to expose yourself to musical…

See: Music

Visualize classical music, or whatever MIDI file you throw at it. Change the keyboard angle with a click. If you scroll left you can choose from hundreds of…

Collage: Music video of found footage

One of my favorite past-times is scavenging the Internet Archive for open-use footage of old films, home movies, advertisements, corporate training videos, etc., and editing them along to…

Together: Collaborative music playroom

Plink is a collaborative online music space where you can get your groove on. Initially you might play alone — its simple point and click for different sounds…