NPR’s Music Coverage

NPR’s music site always amuses me. They just posted an audio review to Ghostface Killah’s Fishscale. I can imagine the older listeners being confused and annoyed, the old listeners trying to intellectualize Ghost, and the young listeners thinking they are cool because they can now talk about the album when their not (indie) label droppin’.

In any event, the review is not worth listening to (and the album is not all that great, especially compared to Supreme Clientele and Pretty Toney Album; although, the interview with Rza by Terry Gross that is linked to on the site is worth listening to, just to hear Gross beg to be cool). However, the site is still worth keeping tabs on, assuming you can handle the indie-biasness and forced hipness of the whole thing. Some of the people NPR have working on the site are people/heads NPR brought in because of their knowledge and quality.

Blogs As Data Sources

Super short post, so foul on my part.

A friend (NR) recently told me about MoodViews, which uses pulls various bits from blogs and aggregates them. I have not played with the site too much, but it seems interesting (but probably not much beyond that since it is so limited). From what I have linked through, it focuses on pulling the current state (e.g., happy) from bloggers and tracks changes in those states.

If this up your alley, it is worth a five-minute poke through.

Album Reviews

1——–>3——->5
Terrible——–>Fantastic

5
Collins, Bootsy Back In The Day

4
Imperial Teen What Is Not To Love
MF Doom MMM Food
Various Artists Trainspotting OST
2 Many DJs Soulwax Essential Mix 2005
Akufen Psychometry Remixes by Thomas Brinkmann
Alex Under Dispositivos De Mi Granja
Toure, Ali Farka – a bunch of stuff

3
Cardigans, The Acoustic
Concretes, The in Colour
Vilalobos, Ricardo Live @ Sunrise (20060325)
Konte, Alhaji Bai Kora Melodies from Gambia

2
Asobi Seksu Asobi Seksu
Boogie, Mick Broiled Salmon Mixtape, The
Doctor Before Surgery

1
Fugees Score, The
Various Artists Trainspotting OST