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Music for a holiday week Monday morning: The Boss, E Street, and the two founders of Arcade Fire

"Keep the Car Running". Live, Ottawa, 10/14/07.

Dave Grohl said that "he listens to the song every morning when he wakes up". So there.

ToneMatrix

   I imagine you could entertain a little kid with this for at least a few minutes.

"Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture reconstructed from 1000 cellphones, 2000 text alerts"

Pretty cool.

Another fine P. J. O'Rourke piece

P. J. reviews a new book about Pete Seeger. He notes that Mr. Seeger is ". . .  a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man." And then P. J. asks:

Thus is raised a momentous question, maybe the most momentous question of the modern era: How is it that legions of modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured people pledge their troth to political systems that burn continents and bury innocents by the hundred million? 

Excellent question. 

Music magazines are dying

Why? These three reasons sound sensible.

The epic battle of Woodstock and P.J. O'Rourke has been fought . . .

. . . and P. J. wins by TKO. Two samples:

It was not, by the way, a decade: The sixties were a strange episode of about 80 months' duration that started when the Baby Boom had fully infested academia (roughly the 1966-67 school year) and came to a screeching halt in 1973 when conscription ended and herpes began. . . .

"The people at Woodstock," the book quotes [Pete] Townshend as saying, "really were a bunch of hypocrites claiming a cosmic revolution simply because they took over a field, broke down some fences, imbibed bad acid, and then tried to run out without paying the bands."

More on the "iTunes killer"

Spotify--I posted about it recently here--is now supposedly going to launch in the U.S. in "early 2010".

Until then, here's Cnet's list of "The top 5 music-streaming services on the Web".

"Your Guide To Music On The Web - Part #1"

It's a good time to be a music fan.

"The Most Ridiculous Band Names"

I think almost anybody would have to concede that "Rainbow Butt Monkeys" and "The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza" were bad ideas.

"Lean on Me"

Bill Withers surprises the USC football team in this sweet video. (I suggest watching until the end. Mr. Withers offers some excellent advice to the team.)

Link via SI.com's Hot Clicks.