The Factory Records logo by Peter Saville.

A sample of what I was listening to tonight:

Almost two years ago now, my friend Becca (@beccatronic) turned me on to this Radiolab podcast about the relationship between music and language (coincidentally titled “Musical Language”) and it has remained one of the most compelling things I have ever had the pleasure of crossing paths with.

The Dead Kennedys Logo by Winston Smith.

October 9, 2010 marks what would have been the 70th birthday of legend, lover, artist and activist, John Lennon. In celebration of the musician’s illustrious life and career, East Village Radio is hosting an all day special tribute starting at 12pm ET this Saturday. Over the course of 8 hours, you can listen live to exclusive interviews with Lennon, tribute programs highlighting The Beatles’ era songs, covers, classics and more.

Fugazi at the Wilson Center, Washington D.C. on December 29th, 1988.

Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books. Brilliant!

Bad Brains at CBGB’s, 1982.

“When Dan [Stowell] started tweeting snippets of SuperCollider code he expected a lot of “throwaway waffle” but collated also a bunch of really interesting things…Many of these pieces are actually generative, so if you re-run the source code (the track titles) you get a new piece of music.”
—Susanna Glaser at The Mire writing about the live coding music project Supercollider140, 22 pieces by artists from around the world, each piece created with just 140 characters of code.