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Recent music posts have had a couple of greats hits (get it?!). First, box shared an interview with Neko Case and her recent memoir. Meanwhile, in Ask MetaFilter, Serene Empress Dork put out a request for quiet and pretty songs, and the recommendations are great. Wordshore created a couple of posts about the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. Finally, Lemkin touches on The Peter Brötzmann Octet's classic album "Machine Gun", which is regarded as Europe's first jazz album.

Do you like dinosaurs? Then come ska punk/dad rock/indie folk out to an album 186 million years in the making!

That’s right, Professor Goldstein & The Adjuncts, among the mightiest musicians to ever trod this earth, have put out a new album, Songs about Dinosaurs!

French metalcore act Novelists

For it is a human number / Its number is 5, 5, and 5. Did you know signal has been posting a regular series showcasing great female-fronted metal bands since October? Now you know! It's basically a Mefi metal shredfest, is what it is.

in Metatalk, es_de_bah pitches a new Mefi Music podcast. What a great idea!

Between 1996 and 2002, VH1 had a show called Pop Up Video which paired music videos with trivia and jokes that "popped up" on screen, mostly without controversy ... A fabulous Kattullus collection, trivia treasure trove, megapost, and deep dive in a "Pop! Pop pop! Pop! Pop into Pop Up Video!" post. (oh, and it turns out rednikki once worked as a researcher for Eyeboogie, the Pop-Up Video producers!)

Title hat-tip to rachelfaith :D

Dimension (1972) - Bertina Lopes (1924-2012) Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Modern Collection, Lisbon, Portugal. Photo by Pedro Ribeiro Simões via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosimoes7/)

For various reasons, you might be feeling a bit revolutionary these days and needing a soundtrack to go with those emotions. Over in AskMe, mahadevan knows that feeling and is asking for help in putting together a "positive playlist for these dark times". Stop on by to add your suggestions!

Sun Ra, Space Is the Place (1974) via IMDB

Lempkin posted Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise, one-hour documentary shot over two years, recording the late musician's celebrated and unique fusion of music, mysticism, cosmic mystery, poetry, and mythology. (Plus smashing headgear!)

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Community member Kitteh wants to share the awesome sound of the Toronto band The Beaches, so pull up a speaker and get ready to dance!

Oh hey, the Metafilter Card Club swap is still vibing ... continuously for nearly seven whole years now! Wow! Check the thread for how to participate in this ancient tradition. Thank you, Sparky Buttons!!! Also, CMcG is sharing their 2024 Fanfare EXTRAVAGANZA, a place where folks can share their recommended books, movies, tv, music, games, and podcasts from the past year. Nice!🥳

🎶 La, la, do be doo la ba dada da mm hm ... this is a nice song! Oh wait. 😳 In Ask: "Dark lyrics, upbeat tune: Hell in a Handbasket Edition"

The recent news events with UnitedHealthcare CEO has inspired a lot commentary. But what about a song? Well, limeonaire wrote one, a folk song titled “The New Folk Hero”. Come stop by for a listen, the lyrics and the chords!

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I've always enjoyed traditional Irish music, so these recent uploads to the Music section by wurl1tzer_c0 have brought a smile to my face and a bit of head bobbing. Here's 30 seconds of a traditional tune and later post of another traditional tune, "Maid behind the bar" !

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To keep up with the most spookiest time of the year, MeFites have been getting into the mood over on MeFi Music! Valrus composed “a short, somewhat creepy guitar-arpeggio-centric near-instrumental” titled Dyscalyptus, while es_de_bahk did a “Quick and dirty lofi folk song” titled Saint Voorhees! Get into the ghouly groove!

Photo by Chris Amelung, via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/amelungc/) What happens when you put a microphone on a pole in the Mission of San Francisco, what does it pick up? Jessamyn made a post about just such a thing, the bop spotter, which isn’t about surveillance per se, but what’s poppin’ off in real-time on the street, check it out!

Dragon, Dragon, the Clangers are your special friend (video screenshot)

Directly from the Department of Strange Bedfellows, Iron Maiden's (re-scoring of) The Clangers (1969 episode of "The Egg"). Confused? Just grab yourself a bowl of soup, and have a look-see at Major Clanger's eponysterical post. (PS, yes, we have reports of Clangers fan fiction, too!).