The Signal Music Weblog

Sweet Baby Jesus, do you like music? Of course you do.

SXSW is rolling deep online and you can go sample all sorts of artists who are performing this year. Find the needles in the performing haystack. Who is any good?

I'll be trawling through, as SXSW introduced me to What Made Milwaukee Famous and Dear & The Headlights.

If you want to download everything at once, someone put together a bit.torrent file of all the SXSW artists. So you could try that if you have 3.5 GB free on your hard drive.

The Signal EP038: Making leprechauns shout like their gold turned to nose candy.

So what do we have on this outing, eh? Well, there's a bit of the music I picked up in France, and there's a bit of music I found outside of France. Descriptive enough? Tracklist will be in the id3 tags. Notes will be after the MORE button. Music is available for a limited time.

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AmpLive, an Oakland-area hip-hop producer, remixed Radiohead's "In Rainbows" album. The remixed tracks are great, and so is the fact that after an initial cease-and-desist order, AmpLive actually worked it out with Radiohead's people so that he could distribute the album free online.

Thom Yorke sits down and talks with the host of All Songs Considered about music, including Autechre and Madvillain. 40 mins.