The Lyrebird mimics the sounds it hears with incredible accuracy: other birds, camera shutters, car alarms, chainsaws.
Month: December 2007
Rhapsody 2007
It’s time once again for my year-end playlist in convenient CD length. My favorite part about all of the year-end lists is that I always find a bunch of great music that I had missed or didn’t take to the first time around, so I made a big list of that stuff, too.
Free Okkervil River Covers Album
Okkervil River have released a free MP3 album of covers that they recorded on tour. If the download is slow you can get it from Pitchfork as well.
Andy Kaufman on The Midnight Special
Great, now I’m going to be singing “I Trusted You” all day long.
Deutsche Grammophon MP3s
Deutshe Grammophon has launched a web store with 320kbps MP3s. I’m not sure how much of the catalog is available but several selections from NPR’s 50 essentials are there.