The Tunnel to the Singularity

It's time to share another great HDR photo by Trey Ratcliff:

The Tunnel to the Singularity
License: Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike
Trey is about as talented, generous, and classy a person as I've found on the Internet. And funny -- I loved this post where he gives a dramatic reading of negative Amazon reviews of his [...]

From the Kitchen Table: new Martin Sexton!

Boom Sh-Boom

I'm very excited about a new Martin Sexton album (Sugarcoating) and a new tour. And as an added bonus, the Ryan Montbleau Band will be opening for Martin and performing as his backing band. Congratulations, RMB, you guys deserve this.
I have tickets for a Saturday night show in Madison, Wisconsin, and the next night [...]

Music of the URB: Chiron Beta Prime

Christmas music to bring cheer to the CPUs of Robot Revolutionaries:

Jonathan Coulton, Chiron Beta Prime
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Ryan Montbleau Band plays to 'Zombie Pub Crawl' in Minneapolis

As mentioned in previous episodes, I've become a fan of the Ryan Montbleau Band over the past year, so I was excited to learn only a couple of weeks ago that they were returning to Minneapolis, just six months after their last visit.
Mixed Expectations
I didn't hear great things about the venue, 400 Bar, but that [...]

Foux du Fafa

Rearranging Plans for the Ryan Montbleau Band

After seeing Ryan Montbleau open for Martin Sexton last year, I became a fan. I bought his band's last two albums, Patience on Friday and One Fine Color, and listened to them somewhat regularly. I followed his MySpace blog. (Although really, Ryan, make the move to WordPress that you were considering! Don't make me associate [...]

Thru-You: Kutiman, the YouTube Maestro

I'm in awe. I'm awestruck. I've visited the land of awesome.
There is so much great stuff on the Internet that you might despair of all that you will never see. But then there are the gems you find.
For example: Thru-You.
Kutiman, according to Wikipedia, is an Israeli musician, composer, producer, and animator. And he has made [...]

Ray LaMontagne: Empty

I'd never heard of Ray LaMontagne until Amazon recently confided in me that people frequently bought his latest album together with Martin Sexton's Solo. People that buy Martin Sexton albums obviously have the finest and most discerning tastes, so I sampled Gossip in the Grain and liked what I heard. Now I own all [...]

More Clerkenwell: Kix, Terminally Ambivalent Over You

More from "The Real Tuesday Weld" (Stephen Coates):

The Real Tuesday Weld: Kix
(Doh! Embedding is disabled as of 29 November 2009. And as of 15 March 2010 I'm updating with a new embeddable version. Hopefully this one keeps working for a while.)
Love the music and the video. This one has nine people listed for the [...]

Bathtime in Clerkenwell

Thanks, Dave Winer, for drawing my attention to this:

The Real Tuesday Weld: Bathtime in Clerkenwell
(Bummer. Embedding disabled as of 29 November 2009. No, wait: as of 15 March 2010, there's a new embeddable version. We'll see how long that lasts. And you might have to watch a short ad first, but it's totally worth it.)
It's [...]