Music Makes Me Feel Alright!

Music and Internet are made for each other, like

• Nick Drake and and Pissing-Down Rain
• Trashy Mags and Cable TV
• Drunk Dialing and Free Weekend Minutes
• A Cupcake and Everything Else

Want proof? Read on, sugartits!

Mod-ified Music — A Sixties Pop Explosion!
Lordie, it doesn’t get better than this. Downloadable goodness, original cover scans, background info, with a focus on music from Southeast Asia. Modcentric, the genius behind this site, is based in Singapore, otherwise I’d bring her flowers weekly.

Bollywood for the Skeptical — It will make you twice as cool as you are now
I have yet to become anything but the most marginal Bollywood scholar, but I can’t wait to dive in.

The Endless Groove — Gallery of New Wave Single Sleeves
Self explanatory. A walk down a neon-sprayed memory lane. Other interesting music-related nuggets in the E.G. archives.

This Day in Music — the online record of 10,000 music facts
Timesucker. Important fact, the number one (US) song on the day I was born: Louis Armstrong’s Hello, Dolly. Could be worse!

UBUweb and The 365 Days Project — Daily MP3 goodness
These projects provide daily downloads of the most delightful ear candy. Had to include these especially since I have an affinity for daily posting projects (witness NaBloPoMo and my post-a-picture-daily-for-a-year project*)

*that lasted one month.

The Essential Ghoul’s Record Shelf — A song-by-song tour through pop music’s unexpected fascination with the ghastly and supernatural
Sites like these make me uncomfortable because this is the level of coolness I’d love to — but will never, ever — achieve. Carefully chosen, written well.. approaches the deliciousness of Mister Jalopy, my favorite internet man.

Bob Thompson — Overlooked genius of pop music
Mentioned previously in this post.

WFMU — independent freeform radio station broadcasting in New York City and Hudson Valley areas, and live on the web
Last and best. Proof:

• Their blog is fantastic, addictive, intimidatingly cool — just the way it should be.
• Completely listener supported.
• Killer schwag.
• Two of my closest friends are FMU DJs. They’re married to each other, and I married them! Hott.
• Mr. Finewine’s Downtown Soulsville podcast turns my crappy commute into an ass-shaking rekkid party.
• I got to be a guest on T’s program during this trip … if you want to hear that infamous show click here then access 10/23/00. God, I’m annoying. Better yet, access any other of her archived shows.

Now is the time to shake our mutual moneymakers.

Photo: karl and jake get down, by me! this was taken at the wedding of our friends, Tristy and Justin. Aren’t they the cutest?