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Black and white head and shoulders shot of Thornton on stageWillie Mae Thornton via discogs.com

Do yourself a favor and catch Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton performing her song "Ball and Chain" from 1970 in spamandkimchi's great post about the electrifying and iconic blues, R&B, and rock foundational figure.

02/25/24
by taz

"This is ridiculously fun"

image of music CDs and cassette tape with My Ultimate 80s Mix written on it and cassette cover with a listing of the songs handwritten on the insertPhoto by hanulsieger on Flickr

simmering octagon posted Mixtape Garden, a collaborative mixtape-making site, and mefites have been sharing their creations ... and their sweet misty mixtape memories.

02/11/24
by taz

"Are You Drinking with me Jesus?"

onstage photo of Mojo Nixon, Jello Biafra and othersAri Braginsky photo on Flickr: Alternative Tentacles 33 1/3rd Birthday Show

I did do a purple hooter shooter last night in his honor when I heard the news ... teleri025 shares a reminiscence in the Mojo Nixon obit thread.

02/10/24
by taz

Still living on the air 🎧

Johnny Fever behind his DJ desk with turntables in the foreground and audio equipment, tapes and LPs in the backgroundScreenshot of Howard Hesseman as DJ Johnny Fever

Radio station WKRP may be no more than a fond and fuzzy memory, but thanks to the efforts of WFMU we can still enjoy an actual three-hour radio set from the one and only Dr. Johnny Fever. Nice find, Alvy Ampersand!

02/06/24
by taz

Wikid Good

close-up of a wild-looking wide open human eye peering through a camera lensScreenshot from the 1929 Soviet silent documentary film

Kattullus posted WikiFlix and WikiVibes, nifty tools for searching films and music uploaded to Wikimedia, and we're WikiGlad!

01/28/24
by taz

Music for Flagging as Fantastic

photo of black earphones arranged in the shape of a heart against a red background

protorp posted the Best of 2023 lists from Headphone Commute, featuring stunning ambient, instrumental, experimental, electronic, and modern-classical music.

01/22/24
by taz

Let's Hear It for the Little Guy

Fatboy SlimFatboy Slim by alterna2 (cc by)

Hippybear provides us with this week's Throwback Thursday, which is about the 25th anniversary of Fatboy Slim's album "You've Come A Long Way, Baby" and the various sources of the musical and vocal samples.

Recent popular musical posts on Mefi

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Cover of Arlo Guthrie's album, Alice's RestaurantCover of Arlo Guthrie's album, Alice's Restaurant

It's Throwback Thursday, and we're looking back at post's about Arlo Guthrie's song, Alice's Restaurant! There was Miko's 2010 epic post that goes into details about the story, graymouser's 50th anniversary celebration of the song in 2015, and Winnie the Proust's post in 2021 about Guthrie's retirement.

Welcome to the The Land of Sneth

Faux gaming card of Rushad Eggleston

Come check out the infectiously fun Rushad Eggleston aka "The Cello Goblin"! This mini-documentary, shared by 'Fupped Duck', explores the inspirations of this joyful soul in all his gloriously madcap creativity.

"I Know Places"

Cover artwork of Taylor Swift's album 1989: faded and overexposed polaroid-style photo of a cropped image of Swift in a long-sleeved t-shirt with seagulls on it, with her face cut off at the eyes

Here's a little gem: Ranking "1989 (Taylor’s Version)" tracks based solely on their connection to sewer infrastructure by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, linked by Gorgik in the Enswiftification thread.

11/06/23
by taz

Gimme All Your Love

Night-shot photo of Brittany Howard onstage dressed in a sleeveless multicolor flowy dress and black eyeglasses, playing a bright blue-green Gibson electric guitarAlabama Shakes Brittany Howard photo via alabamashakes.com

Wowzer. Rhaomi has crafted a no-stops-left-unpulled lovefest of a megapost on Alabama Shakes and Brittany Howard.

10/15/23
by taz

Peace and quiet by the river

screenshot from a video of Yo-Yo Ma playing Back by a river in the Great Smoky mountains of America.

Are you having one of THOSE days and needing a bit of soothing peace? Then come sit by a river in the Smoky Mountains of America and listen to Yo-Yo Ma play Bach, in this post by yankeefog.

Hello, have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?

Old fashioned black rotary dial phone on white surfacePhoto by Quino Al on Unsplash

Dialing in on the phone on Mefi: JanetLand posted WaPo's guide to modern phone etiquette, while in Ask Metafiler, Rash wants to know why you hold your phone like that, and niicholas is looking for songs with land-line telephone sounds

09/26/23
by taz

Am🐝ent Drone

Oh, wow, interesting! From moonmilk, in Music: For an installation at Moogfest in 2016, I put a bunch of sensors in a beehive and used the data to generate drone music. The sensors included air temperature and air pressure and some touch and light sensors to sense when bees were entering and exiting the hive.

09/12/23
by taz

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