Monday, April 14, 2003

A Festival Pops Up From Brooklyn's Underground. The first boroughwide jazz festival runs through this month, featuring impressive young jazz performers from the underground jazz scene. By Ben Ratliff. [New York Times: Arts]

gigposters -- a collection of posters created by artists and musicians to advertise their shows and events.

Songfight is a site where users compose songs based weekly titles. Then the public votes and a winner is decided. While necessarily indie, there is a wide variety of styles present and many great songs (mp3 links) have come out of this site. (Check the archives). [mefi-music]

Photo Shops Find the Bright Side of Digital Technology. Apparently, the Cassandras were wrong: digital photography has not made photo retailing obsolete. By Claudia H. Deutsch. [New York Times: Business]

Staggeringly weird MP3 collection over at April Winchell's blog. Everything from Hindi ABBA covers to hideous celebrity sing alongs from the likes of Hulk Hogan and Catherine "Daisy Duke" Bach. My favorite so far is the german cover of the theme music from Bonanza.fromCKB's blog. [mefi]

Matt Rawks (again). Matt introduces MetaFilter Music to give "musically-inclined" members "a place to hold their songs." [jenett.radio] Is this home? Very fun place, indeed

SonicBlue to Fade Away [MP3 Newswire]