Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s “Two Against One” (featuring Jack White)

Groove in a vinyl record magnified 1,000 times, via Reddit.

Via nprfreshair:

Monday: Tom Waits. [More from NPR Music]

The Kills, “Pots and Pans”

Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye at work at a Washington, DC Häagen-Dazs, c. 1980-1981.

Via Welcome to Flavor Country (good interview with MacKaye at the link)

Edith Piaf, “Non, je ne regrette rien”

Via worldsfair:

How Thurston Moore Met Kim Gordon:

Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore recalls meeting his wife/bandmate (via Sonic Truth):

Kim wore glasses with flip-up shades and had an Australian sheepdog named Egan. She had an off-center ponytail and wore a blue-and-white-striped shirt and pants outfit. She had beautiful eyes and the most beautiful smile and was very intelligent and seemed to have a sensitive/spiritual intellect.

She seemed to really like me. I definitely liked her, but was scared, as always, to make a move. I was afraid to kiss her. We walked around a couple of times. One night, it got late and we were eating at Leshko’s, and I think she wanted me to ask her over. I only lived up the street. So we parted. She would take the subway, staying at gallery owner Anina Nosei’s place. Before she split, she actually touched my arm (!) and said, “See you later.”

She moved into a raw railway apartment on Eldridge Street, below Grand Street. The artist Dan
 Graham lived upstairs and had acquired the place for her. She invited me over one evening and I played this beat-up guitar she had. I knew the guitar because it belonged to an associate of the Coachmen gang, who left it at Jenny Holzer’s loft, where Kim had stayed, and somehow it was passed on to her. All she had was the guitar and a foam-rubber cushion for sleeping. That night was the first time we kissed.

(Photo by Rachel Chandler)

(Source: worldsfair)

Bill Callahan, “Eid Ma Clack Shaw”

Instructional graffiti for tourists at Abbey Road. Watch real-time footage of said tourists’ goofy poses here.

Via passive-aggressive notes

Via twentyfourbit:

Watch: Grinderman - “Worm Tamer” (RAK Session)

We saw Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, and their fellow Grindermen unleash this scorching new Grinderman 2 cut live on Jools Holland’s show, and now for a more intimate take on “Worm Tamer,” filmed at London’s famous RAK studios — where Radiohead, David Bowie, The Smiths, Pink Floyd, and countless others have put classics to tape.

The Skull Defekts feat. Daniel Higgs, “Fragrant Nimbus”

Via thedailywhat:

Single Serving Site of the Day: “You are listening to Los Angeles” — a brilliant, Scanner-esque mashup of live LAPD radio chatter and Creative Commons-licensed ambient music ripped from SoundCloud — is the brainchild of MeFite Eric “idontlikewords” Eberhardt.

He explains how the idea for the site came about:

The night the Giants won the World Series there were a lot of people on Twitter referencing the live police scanner webcast from soma.fm and I gave it a listen. Interesting stuff to be sure, but I got bored listening to just the voices and started playing some instrumental music in the background. I liked the results but it was complicated to explain to people how to replicate the mix (i.e. opening multiple copies of iTunes or VLC) so I made this site to simplify the process.

[mefi.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

Rasputina, “Hunter’s Kiss”

Jon Brion plays Radiohead’s “Creep” as Tom Waits

Via crumbler, about-today, hitrecordjoe, jaredgeller