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Michael Stipe's project for Gulf Coast/Hurricane relief.
John Wesley Harding (singer songwriter) & Wesley Stace (author)
The audio downloads/streams on both of Wes' sites are quite good.
Right now, there's a 2-hour retrospective of Wes' music (with an interview interspersed) available as a stream on johnwesleyharding.com.
It originally aired on KALW in San Francisco. Navigation help: it's in the "Live MP3s/Rare Singles" sub-section of the "Music" section.
The readings and songs from Wes' novel, Misfortune, on wesleystace.com are exceptional. Highly recommended: the reading from chapter 1
and the song "Lord Lovel."
A good place to be!
Geoff Kessell's Fiendish Musical Web Thingy
Geoff is an old, good friend of mine, and in my sincere opinion, a legendary singer songwriter. There's a new album in the works that is phenomenal!
I recorded an acoustic session of Geoff's way back in 1996 (1995?!) that's still one of my favorite recordings of all time (if I might say so myself! :-).
The "alternate album cover gallery" on Geoff's site is one of the funniest things on the web.
This is one of my favorite sites for listening to and exploring lots of modern classical music.
There's so much free music, and interviews with people like Aaron Copland, etc., on this site. Very worthwhile.
It's the website of an excellent show about modern classical music -- it's fun, I swear! -- that's been airing on NPR.
Playing the Partch instruments is particularly interesting.
Petter Wahlback's Scorecorner.com
Petter is a composer, teacher, guitarist, rock musician, etc., and a friend of mine. We went to school together in Chicago, and he's now teaching
in our old music department, as well as doing a multitude of projects: film scores, sound design, lots of professional gigs.
If I was a filmmaker, I would ask Petter to do the music for every one of my films.
Vini Reilly always stands out to me as a very unique and worthwhile artist.
While we're talking about worthwhile artists, might as well be mentioning Andy Partridge.
I've recently been checking out Ape House, his new record label.
Andrew Weil. Lots of great info on 'Integrative Medicine' as well as herbalism...
Along those lines, my favorite store in Seattle:
I just saw this the other day:
Is everyone getting their Vitamin D 3?
Is my website lacking anything political? Here you go.
As a serious Morrissey person, I can't help but find this really fun:
"Morrissey Sings the Frosties Commercial!"
(This seems in the spirit of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.)