I am listening to Euroranch Radio. Ten songs chosen randomly from the Euroranch real audio archive with thousands of tracks. Usually very sound choices and even when a song is not so great you can skip to the next one. And when the playlist is finished you can start anew. Right now I am testing how many songs I have to listen to before a song is repeated...

The last playlist:

• Verschärft - Schwankende See
• Guther - Boys Do Not Think
• Freakwater - Dream Girl
• Nicolai Dunger - When Harmony Is Heard
• Fantomas - Experiment in Terror
• Pia Burnette & Felix Kubin - Enemy
• The Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band with Choir - American Motor over Smoldered Field
• Yo La Tengo - Take Care
• Zigarettenrauchen und Rosa - Männer
• Xbrxrx - Go Ape

Longish article on one of the most exciting bands in electronic music: The Wire #230. Autechre: The Futurologists.

There seem to be even less weblogs on music which Google considers worthy of a PR6 than German weblogs (see posting before). I only found 14 18. Here they are ordered by the number of inbound blogs as registered by Technorati, pretty exhaustive with more than 1.5 million blogs:

• Fluxblog : FANDANGO? HOBO CAMP? HOBO CAMP? (176)
• The Minor Fall, The Major Lift (171)
• Tiny Mix Tapes (140)
• slatch.com ? the biscuit city road fan club (135)
• The Modern Age (119)
• DJ Martian's Page (76)
• stereogum (76)
• chachacha.co.uk - it's a weblog about music and stuff (74)
• listen missy (72)
• U2 : U2log.com - weblog - news - info (60, U2)
• Do You Feel Loved? > Weblog (47)
• Kill Ugly Radio: Hot Poop! (36, Zappa)
• bradley's almanac (23, NEW)
• the turntable (20)
• KINGBLIND: Music, Art & Entertainment (17, NEW)
• Maerz: I'm All Ears : (16, NEW)
• the monkey puzzle (12)
• Wayne's Words (6, NEW)

Some semi-interesting threads at I Love Music going on right now:

• new album leak alert thread
• Albums that really do take quite a lot of listens to sink in properly
• Franz Ferdinand totally sucks...
• ECM s/d. (revived)
• Gun Club: Classic or DUD (revived)

Marcello Carlin explains why 1985 was such a bad year for music. He goes through the charts and the NME best-of lists. Take half a day off to read it all.

Tutorial on how to convert tapes and records to CD in eight steps (via Mefi).

That's those I have spotted. Do you know of any others?

• Andrew W.K. (positive thinking)
• Lou Barlow (handwritten journal)
• Beck (journal)
• Bullette, NEW
• David Byrne, NEW (tour journal)
• Shannon Campbell (blog)
• Lloyd Cole, NEW (community blog)
• Billy Corgan
• John Darnielle (music criticism)
• Kimya Dawson: Livejournal
• Fred Durst (journal)
• Robin Frederick's diary
• Robert Fripp (diary)
• Edith Frost
• Howe Gelb, NEW (tour diay)
• Robin Guthrie, NEW (blog)
• Hey Mercedes (band blog)
• Moby (journal)
• Momus: Thoughts
• Momus: Livejournal
• Bob Mould
• Stuart Murdoch, NEW (diary)
• David Pajo: Livejournal
• Kurt Dahlke aka Pyrolator (Der Plan, Fehlfarben): blog
• Sleater-Kinney, NEW: blog
• Mike Watt
• Konstantin Wecker (Tagebuch)

P.S. A more comprehensive list can be found here.

Robert Fripp's online diary. You know the guitar freak and mellotron man from King Crimson who helped launch prog in the late Sixties. He also invented the frippertronics technology later used to make ambient music.

Pretty long entries on a daily base. It really kicked off after Christmas on December, 27th. Subjects are weather, music (surprise), culture in general, trips (one to Canterbury with photographs) and everyday life. An interesting read.

Jon from Worlds of Possibility with an introduction to the Dead C in ten steps. All I know about them (I have never heard a single note of their music):

• They are from New Zealand.
• They are supposed to make Sonic Youth sound like the Beach Boys.

I Love Music thread revival of the day (yesterday to be honest): malkmus: PIG LIB: 1% of one