free music download: Januari 2016

Minggu, 31 Januari 2016

Robert Williams: Buy His Records

Anyone who played in Captain Beefheart's Magic Band is of course an automatic A-lister in the avant/strange music world. So it's no wonder that late-period Magic Band member Robert Williams' debut solo release, a four-song EP from 1981, is chock-a-block with strange music superstars: a couple of DEVOs, a slew of Zappa/Beefheart sidemen, even Robbie Krieger of the Doors. And the music is quite nice, too, moving into (slightly) more commercial New Wave territory with its' integrity intact.

But unfortunately for Williams, his 1997 public humiliation on the hugely popular (and still running) "Judge Judy" show is what he will always be best known for, at least until reissues of "Doc At The Radar Station" knock Bruno Mars off the charts. Williams toured with PiL, and attempted to sue no less than Johnny "Lydon" Rotten himself. To put it in strictly legal terms, he did not win.The complete episode is no longer available on-line, and the short clips that are up don't do it justice, so you'll just have to trust me when I say that it was one of the most howlingly funny moments in TV history.

Poor li'l fella. He does deserve to remembered for his music, not just with the Cap'n, but on his solo records, and with Eazy Teeth, who made one great experimental synth-punk single in 1980 that featuredTito Larriva from the Plugz on vocals, included here. Also: 2 tracks from his fine 1998 album that is in print, "Date With The Devils Daughter": "Hello Robert," which features some hysterical (in all senses of the word) answering machine messages from Wild Man Fischer, and "Frank and Don and Me", feat. guitarist Jeff Morris Tepper from his Magic Band days. Not bad for a "nudnik."

Robert Williams - Buy My Record + bonus tracks

Selasa, 26 Januari 2016

Senin, 25 Januari 2016

SESAME STREET DISCO - TWO ALBUMS

Back in 2007, I posted a rip-roaring "Rubber Duckie" as part of my "Disco Sickness" collection I put together for Otis Fodder's 365 Project and WFMU. I never got around to digitizing the entire album, but a swell Maniac did, throwing in another album to boot. Brian, a contributor from the Growing Bored For A Living blog, sez:

Hello, all. A few years back when I started browsing blogs, I came across this glorious pile of music known as Music For Maniacs. I've gotten many great things from this blog, and was always looking for something strange I could contribute here. Well, I found it...

In 1978 and '79, to capitalize on the disco craze, Sesame Street released two albums: Sesame Street Fever and Sesame Street Disco. Fever even had the participation of Robin Gibb (on the title track and on "Trash"), due to the input of his children, who were Sesame fans. Some songs even made the show, most notably the gonzo booty-shaker "Me Lost Me Cookie At the Disco", off of Sesame Disco. And this isn't a hack job either: there's some real pros playing in the studio - the music is flawless.

File includes both albums, put together under the title Sesame Street Ultimate Disco Party. Also includes artwork. Audio files were ripped from quality YouTube vids; that's why one track has an outro by the YouTube poster. They all sound great, though. Add this one to your pile of disco madness, right next to Ethel Merman...though this one is far better. Enjoy!

"Sesame St. Disco"

01 Sesame Street Fever

02 Doin' The Pigeon

03 Rubber Duckie

04 Trash (w/Robin Gibb)

05 C Is For Cookie

06 Has Anybody Seen My Dog

07 What Makes Music

08 Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco

09 The Happiest Street In the World

10 Sing

11 Disco Frog

12 Doin' The Trash

13 Bein' Green

14 The Happiest Street In the World

Muppets + ridiculous hi-NRG '70s disco = party. Now kids, what do we say when someone gives us a present? Thaaaank yooooou, Brian!

Minggu, 24 Januari 2016

YouTube Loop

Back in 2014, I found a way to loop YouTube videos using a feature of the HTML5 player. It looks like YouTube added "loop" as a standard feature. Just right click inside the HTML5 player and click "loop". This way, you can watch a video on repeat until you pause it or uncheck "loop" from the contextual menu.

It also works for embedded videos. Here's a short video you can use to test the loop feature:

Import Contacts in the New Google Contacts

When the latest version of Google Contacts launched last year, many features were missing. It looks like one of these features is back: you can now import contacts without switching to the old UI.

You can import contacts from Yahoo Mail, Outlook.com, AOL or from other email providers. If you want to import contacts from a CSV/vCard file, you'll still have to switch to the old interface.

Google uses a third-party service called ShuttleCloud for importing contacts. "To continue, you'll need to give ShuttleCloud temporary access to your contacts data, including names and email addresses," informs Google.

Another missing feature was restoring contacts. You can now "restore your contacts to any state within the past 30 days, recover deleted contacts, undo an import, or undo a merge."

Exporting contacts and printing contacts still require to go back to the old UI.

New UI for Google's Weather Card

Google redesigned the weather card to include more information and images. The new weather card is only available in the Google Search app for Android, at least for now. "When you search for 'weather' or ask Google, 'will it rain today?' in the Google app on your Android phone, you'll get a wealth of new information, including: hourly sky conditions and chance of rain, severe weather alerts, a detailed 10-day forecast, air quality, UV index, sunrise and sunset times, and more," informs Google.

Google's new UI has 3 tabs for "today", "tomorrow" and "10 days". There's also a "humidity, wind, sunrise, and more details" link at the bottom of the card which allows you to expand it. You can also tap anywhere inside the card.

Google added an option to add a location to the weather list. This way, you can search for "weather" and see a list of all the locations you've added and the corresponding weather information. The search bar is now optimized for finding locations, so it's easier and faster to switch to a different city.

The "today" tab now includes information about sunrise, sunset, solar noon, length of the day, remaining daylight, dawn, dusk, dew point, pressure, UV index and visibility.

For some cities in the US, Japan, South Korea, India and other countries, you can find air quality information and health messages like "it's a great today to be active outside" or "avoid prolonged or heavy exertion". The source is EPA AirNow.

The "10 day" shows weather forecast for today and the following 9 days. Tap a day to find more details, including hourly weather forecast, wind, humidity, UV index, sunrise and sunset.

Sabtu, 23 Januari 2016

10 Most Productive Firefox Addons

The people who work on web are more conscious about their productivity in usage of browsers. For those who use Firefox, we suggest some great add-ons that can assist you in successfully achieving your productivity with your favorite browser.

These addons efficiently accomplish all your task and make you more productive Firefox user.

Tab Tools:

Following are some tab tools if you want to frequently use tabs for different works.

1- Tile Tabs:

Tile Tabs is a great add-on which display your tabs in different tiled layouts. It enables you to work with different tab groups so that you see all of them at same place. You can see all of your tabs in horizontal, vertical or in a grid way as you like.

2- Tab Preview:

Now you can see the page content through this add-on by just moving your mouse cursor over each tab. This is more helpful when you have opened several tabs in your browser.

3- Tab Grenade:

Tab Grenade solved the problem of navigating to required tab from several opened tabs. The add-on puts Puts all your tabs into a list and keep the required off all your previous tabs.

4- ColorfulTabs:

It is the most beautiful and the simplest add-on that makes each tab a different color that you opened and make it easier to distinguish from other tabs. You can even choose a distinguish color for each tab.

Bookmark Tools:

1- Bookmarks Checker:

Bookmarks Checker prevents your bookmarks from bad links, empty folders, duplicates and other possible errors by scanning your Firefox bookmarks.

2- Bookmarks Preview:

Bookmarks preview is a helpful add-on which shows you the page content of a link before opening that bookmark in your tab. The add-on show you all the list of all links.

3- Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar:

The add-on gives you the option of hide, auto hide and display the icons in your bookmarks toolbar.

Note-Capturing Tools:

1- Evernote Web Clipper:

This add-on enables you to clip all your bookmark pages and articles and save them in Evernote on the Web or on your mobile device.

2- Pocket:

Pocket is a beautiful and easier add-on which save all your content you find on the Web. You can simply save all your content and watch them later on any device.

3- Pushbullet:

Pushbullet provides you the facility of syncing and accessing all your data and information from anywhere.

Rabu, 20 Januari 2016

THE WEIRD WORLD OF BLOWFLY

Back up by request: Zoogz Rift "Ipecac" and "War Zone."

David Bowie's death has rocked the world (as well it should), but let's not neglect to note the recent passing of another legend, albeit a very underground one: the genuinely unique, bizarre, and offensive performer known as Blowfly. As interviews attest, the man was a real character. I discovered the foul-mouthed funkster c. 1987, after stumbling across the album "Blowfly's Party" in a used record blowout sale (probably paid 50 cents at most) and wondered: what is the deal with this guy?! Some years before hip-hop got nasty and was still in it's bubblegum phase, this album featured such tunes as "Prick Rider" and "Can I Come In Your Mouth." As George Takei would say, "Oh my..." A few years later, I saw him, with Rudy Ray Moore opening, at Brendan Mullins' great post-Masque venue, the Club Lingerie, and it was the most star studded show I've ever been to. Seriously. Everywhere I looked, there was Stan Ridgway, one of the Bangles, Flea, Henry Rollins...had no idea Blowfly was such a cult figure. Little while later, he was opening for the Pixies at the height of their popularity. Crazy. Back in 2007, I reviewed on this here web-log his then-recent "Punk Rock Party" album he released on Alternative Tentacles records, which you can (and should) listen to HERE.

It's amazing how he made a career out of the most vulgar, immature potty humor, performed in pseudo-superhero costumes. Even if you don't think he's that funny, you gotta respect that. A truly singular talent.

His first album, "The Weird World of Blowfly" is a great funk record - for those of you who don't find singing "My Baby Keeps Farting In My Face" to the tune of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" funny, it really is enjoyable for it's musical merits alone. Recorded live before a properly unruly audience, the band doesn't quit, with each song seamlessly flowing into the next, a la James Brown's live medleys. Blowflys' singing is surprisingly decent. His crack band included Timmy Thomas on keys, who would have his own hit with the classic organ/primtive-drum-machine classic "Why Can't We Live Together," guitarist Little Beaver (love his "Party Down" album), and bassist George "Chocolate" Perry, who, oddly enough, played with Joe Walsh, Neil Young, and Stephen Stills.

The follow-up interjects a little more comedic variety into the smutty-new-lyrics-to-hit-songs formula by framing the songs in tv show parodies. Good idea, but chopping up the tracks instead of letting it flow like the first album was not. Still, a worthy follow-up, with an almost as hot band. Both albums have a great live sleazy ambiance, like you're in the coolest basement nightclub or sweaty little bar and everybody's drunk and wild. And how 'bout them album covers?

Blowfly - "The Weird World of Blowfly" (1973)

Blowfly - "Blowfly On TV" (1974)

Minggu, 17 Januari 2016

New File Picker in Google Inbox

Google Inbox has a new attachment picker. When you compose a new message and click the paperclip icon, Google now shows a list of recently received attachments, a list of recently sent attachments and the latest photos uploaded to Google Photos. Click "show more" to see the rest of the attachments and photos. You can also select files from your computer. Unfortunately, there's no Google Drive integration yet.

"Inbox by Gmail on the web now makes it easier to share memories with instant access to recent photos and attachments," informs Google.

{ Thanks, Jonah Langlieb. }

Kamis, 14 Januari 2016

HAPPY (BAND)CAMPERS: WEIRD EDITION

"American Folk Music" is the most boring possible name for an album, but fear not! The latest release from veteran North Carolina wackos the Moolah Temple $tringband is anything but dull. They take songs from Harry Smith's venerable "Anthology of American Folk Music" and radically warp them by introducing such elements as exotic Middle Eastern-isms, clanging and banging percussion, incongruous '80s hip-hop style drum machine beatz, even a bit of rapping on one song, and mix them with the trad sounds of guitars, banjos, and a skillful fiddle that suggests that someone has been taking music lessons. The hideously/hilariously inappropriate combination of traditional folk music and Autotune (!) on "Farmland Blues" had me laffin' out loud. Also dig: the fuzz guitar crunch of "Little Moses" (even tho it goes on too long), and a version of "John Hardy" that might even be better than the Gun Club's? Scuzzy vocals are often distorted beyond recognition. "The Titanic," however, actually approaches mainstream respectability, complete with perfectly competent backing vox.

Moolah Temple $tringband: "American Folk Music"

More Bandcamp weirdness ahoy! L.A. nutters Freshly Wrapped Candies have unwrapped an old album of theirs from 1989 chock full of hermetic, inscrutable DIY obsessions that, perhaps inevitably, are sometimes reminiscent of The Residents, esp. on songs like "Grandfathers' Rug". Other standout songs like the downright catchy "Think" and the Beavis and Butthead-ish "Pitter Pat" don't immediately suggest any particular influences. Organically strange, but not off-puttingly so. It emerges from the haze with its' humanity intact.

Freshly Wrapped Candies: "I Like You"

Rabu, 13 Januari 2016

"A songs" free piano sheet music

Senin, 11 Januari 2016

HAPPY (BAND)CAMPERS: CHILL EDITION

I don't even know how to deal with the death of David Bowie, at least so far as this blog is concerned. He was such a monumental figure in my musical upbringing that I wouldn't know where to begin. Ah well...in lieu of anything relevant, here's the post I had planned for today. If, like me, you've just been listening to lots of Bowie and want to take a break for something a little new and different, I must say that the mood of these songs is strangely appropriate:

What will you do with all that xmas scratch your relatives laid on ya? What, they didn't give you anything? Bastards! No matter - these zesty-flavored new(ish) releases can be listened to, and in some cases downloaded, for free.

We're long-time fans of Twink, The Toy Piano Band, and not only can you now check out his entire discography on the Bandcamps, but you cats must also dig his latest:

"Dust Bunny"

This album is inspired by winter, and so has a somewhat more somber tone to it. Somber, yet cartoon-ish, if you can imagine that. The master of toy-tronica is in fine form on such pick hits as "Pipper Snitch," and "Sparklemuffin."

Not sure how I discovered Corpus Callosum, probably by searching for unusual instruments, but this bunch of eccentric California folkies have come up with what is possibly the most gorgeous tune on Bandcamp. Musical saws and accordions beautifully creak along with sing-along vocals:

Corpus Callosum: "Hymnal"

Now that you're all properly relaxed, I shall send you off to dream-land with this stunning bit of Eno-Frippy drum-less drone courtesy of the Connecticut combo Landing.

Landing: "Yon"

As with the Corpus Callosum track, I haven't really listened to much else by this group. I just keep returning to this one. Music to hibernate by...

Maroon 5 - Sugar free piano sheet music

Sheet Music:For Piano with melody, vocal and guitar chords. (2010)

Download Maroon 5 "Sugar" Free Piano Sheet Music.pdf
Maroon 5 - 20th century sheet music

Sabtu, 09 Januari 2016

Top 10 Music Extensions for Chrome

Music is life and everybody love to listen music while on the go, in office and even in college and university. Today we are enlisting some best music extensions for Google Chrome users. Here is the list of the top 10 music extensions for chrome that you would love to install.

1. Drumbit:

Drum Bit is incredibly simple and unique drum loop that allows you to create your own rhythm patterns and save them as a Waveform Audio files WAV.

2. Instant Music:

Instant Music is the best music player which enables you to pick a genre of your own choice. It is for those people who are too lazy to just sit back and listen.

3. My Music Cloud:

My Music Cloud keep record of all your music and syncs up to almost 250 songs to any connected device.

4. AudioBox:

The combination of Audiobox app and extension compared all your online music in one place. Now you can create your own simple organised playlists using YouTube, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, SoundCloud and many other online services.

5. Last.fm Scrobbler:

This Scrobbling extension automatically fills your library and updates it with the Last.fm playlists that you've been playing from your computer. It helps you to rediscover the music you own.

6. Deezer Control:

Deezer is an ultimate extension which gives you fully control on your your streaming music with popup, hotkeys and notifications for info and playback tools.

7. Music Plus For Google Play:

Music plus is the Google Play user�s ultimate extension which adds lots of cool stuff to Google Music like artist Bio, lyrics and connection to Last.fm scrobbling, song downloading etc.

8. Songist:

Songist is music player app that ensures you to play music from your own hard drive or USB storage. Songist is the best for those chrome users who want to listen specific or favorite tracks on a USB or hard drive.

9. Soundtrap:

Soundtrap is currently the hottest music app ever produced in the music industry. It lets you to create your own original music through online by recording vocals, guitars and other music instruments from all over the world.

10. Spotify: