Category: Sites

  • Silicon Road

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    Not clear exactly who this is for, but it’s music + maps, so…here’s Google’s virtual tour of Abbey Road Studios. Some game-type things are built in–you be the engineer! Otherwise, rooms, virtual harp, that sort of thing. Nothing much Beatles (guess Apple has that all locked). The future will get here eventually. One snark: wow!…

  • In Through “Physical Graffiti”

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    This interactive “Physical Graffiti” video is neat.  Buzzfeed walks through it with gifs here. The band’s site sort of explains: [T]ake a look beyond the façade of one of rock’s most iconic album covers, PHYSICAL GRAFFITI, and step inside the iconic building through each of the 16 featured windows. By selecting one of the featured…

  • The Nostalgia Machine

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    Have been doing a lot of surfing around to see how different sites handle time + place + music. The Nostalgia Machine came up, naturally enough. Pick a year, the site spits out a page of top-of-the-pops videos. 2013 gets you Macklemore, 1993 gets you Whitney Houston, 1973 gets you Tony Orlando and Dawn. And since…

  • Music Discovery Machine: Ghostly

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    Here’s another route to music discovery: color. On Ghostly, find songs by hue and/or by toggling between moods, between digital v. organic, between fast and slow. Out the other end comes the song to suit your color-mood-organic/digital speed.

  • Weird Science: Echo Nest Labs

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    Used to be that you spun a record and stared at the packaging and had an experience, over and over again. No longer. Over and over isn’t necessary–everyone’s got a near-infinite record collection. Listening and staring are losing their footing as well. Take, for example, this long list of music apps, maps, and other music-related…

  • Top 5 Most Influential Music Blogs

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    Here are the top five most influential music blogs according to Style of Sound. You can find this list els威而鋼 ewhere–just really wanted to try out embed.ly, which makes these nice cards out of the metadata for any site: 1. Pitchfork 2. Consequence of Sound 3.Tiny Mix Tapes 4. RA: Resident Advisor – electronic music online 5. Stereogum

  • Serendipity

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    Check out this nifty, dizzying, pointless, pretty Spotify app: Serendipity. Two people hit play on Spotify at the same time and their locations light up on the Serendipity map as a clip of the song plays.  Does that mean if Songblimpers all hit play on a Shaggs song at once it will blow up the…

  • The Fever is High

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    Here’s the old, abandoned Tumblr site that first collected a bunch of “One of These Nights” solos and miscellaneous other home-spun You-Tubed entertainments: the fever is high. Also a bunch of songs with whistling in them. Last post there, this lovingly edited compendium of “Black Dog” covers: Someone else’s whistling song playlist:

  • Songs About Places

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    Part of the Songblimp future mission involves cataloging songs about places and presenting them in our special,  execution-pending, Songblimpy way. Here’re some sites tackling the songs about places question in a variety of ways: >Songs About Cities (Wikipedia). It’s a great, big, long list. That’s what Wikipedia does. >Destination Soundtrack. Songs listed, prettied up with pictures,…