It's hard to believe that there was a period of time not too long ago when there was a flurry of Neutral Milk Hotel activity after a decade of silence.

After wrapping up touring for In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in 1998, Jeff Mangum disappeared. Of course, he didn't really disappear but he didn't do what we expect our beloved rock stars to do: write an album, ...

Read more: https://gloriousnoise.com/2023/merge-to-release-the-collected-works-of-neutral-milk-hotel

#Merge #NeutralMilkHotel #reissues #music

Have you noticed how this chicken 🐤 is bigger than this car 🚗?

This is your reminder to have fun with social media.

Another absolutely bananas collection of audio at Archive.org, the library of libraries: The vinyl from the Boston Public Library. You know that weird part of the library that's all old records? Remember how it smelled? Well here it is, digitized. Around 22,000 full albums (out of 69,000 albums; many have 30-second samples of each track).

We've got Wendy Carlos's Well-Tempered Synthesizer https://archive.org/details/lp_the-well-tempered-synthesizer_walter-carlos_0,

(Or 30 seconds of Anthony Burgess reading from A Clockwork Orange https://archive.org/details/lp_anthony-burgess-reads-from-a-clockwork-ora_anthony-burgess/disc1/02.01.+Enderby.mp3)

And found sounds of NYC https://archive.org/details/lp_sounds-of-my-city_tony-schwartz/disc1/01.01.+Introduction%3B+City+Street+Sounds%3B+People+Sing%2C+Dance+%26+Pray.mp3

Shirley Booth reading Dorothy Parker: https://archive.org/details/lp_dorothy-parker-stories-read-by-shirley-boo_shirley-booth/disc1/01.01.+Lady+With+A+Lamp.mp3

Tons of cowboy songs https://archive.org/details/lp_songs-of-the-west_norman-luboff-choir/disc1/01.01.+Bury+Me+Not+On+The+Lone+Prairie.mp3

Faulkner reading Faulkner: https://archive.org/details/lp_faulkner-reads-from-his-works_william-faulkner/disc1/01.01.+The+Nobel+Prize+Acceptance+Speech.mp3

And the Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music: https://archive.org/details/lp_the-nonesuch-guide-to-electronic-music_beaver-krause_1/disc1/01.01.+I.+Peace+Three.mp3

https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary

bassists are the unsung heroes of the music world, entirely underappreciated in everything they do

wanna see what i mean? check this out

🎸 there's a guitar emoji

🥁 there's a drum emoji

👩‍🎤 🎤 there's MULTIPLE vocalist emojis

but NOT EVEN ONE SINGLE EMOJI FOR THE LOWLY BASSIST???

see what i mean? totally underappreciated