Labnotes (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Mandatory Git tip. If you’re still learning Git, check out Gitcasts. I didn’t read the book (yet), but after Scott’s presentation I’m going to bet it’s worth that $9 and more. Remote branches demystified. If you haven’t figured out Git remote branches yet (raises hand in shame), check out GRB. A little command line utility for dealing specifically with [...]
Err the Blog - Home (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Surely, by now, you've heard of GitHub . (Don't call me surely.) It's totally the Indiana Jones of repository hosts. Feel free to stalk Pj and I to see what we’re up to. Blogging be damned! If you haven't heard of GitHub, there are tons of posts explaining the hows and whys of its awesomeness. This is not one of the posts. Instead, I want to quickly share some oft overlooked but tasty GitHub tidbits....
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
in post NME 002 - Jive Wire from Dalston Oxfam Shop .
Matablog (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Here are some extracts from Jonathan Franzen’s book ‘The Corrections” I dug out from my own copy; ‘Her musical tastes ran to John Prine and Etta James, and so Brian played Prine and James at home and saved his Bartok and Defunkt and Flaming Lips and Mission of Burma for blasting on his boom box at [...]
Bold As Love (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
Probably only the tip of the iceberg in terms of options, but I will probably check out at least two of these. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 @ BAM Cafe This is night #2 of the BRC's Black History Month residency. Power...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/03/2007
Continued explorations of music aoeoutside jazza from within the jazz perspectivea| James Chance and the Contortions Soul Exorcism (Redux) ROIR 2007 Soul Exorcism (Redux) is just as much a document of a space and time as it is the triumphant reissue of the legendary live album by James Chance and the Contortions...
AKMA’s Random Thoughts (Free subscription) | 09/28/2007
OK, Michael wants to know “the last five songs I bought on iTunes,” which I will willfully redirect to “the last five songs I bought online.” Since I buy from lotsx of different online music vendors, restricting my answers to iTunes would I’ll also count only one song from the Music From the Court of Henry VIII album that I bought yesterday from Amazon, because Hey, that's not what you want to find...
St. Louis Jazz Notes (Free subscription) | 09/01/2007
This week, our video spotlight shines on two more native St. Louisans with ties to the original Black Artists Group. Saxophonist and clarinetist Marty Ehrlich was still a teenager when he took part in BAG's workshops for young musicians; since then, he's gone on to have a busy career as a performer, recording artist and composer, based now in New York but playing all over the world. The two clips on...
