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Anna van Keulen speelt Downton Abbey. Hip-hop and rap music in the 21st Century. Post-structuralism. Critics are expected to make comparisons.

post-structuralism

The ability to recognize similarities between people, texts, and ideas is a skill expected of those who observe and write on culture. As music criticism continues to be transformed by post-structuralism, feminism, poptimism, and retromania, a number of writers are praised for articulating a profound connection that seems strained or completely unrelated upon first utterance. What does Taylor Swift have in common with Def Leppard, KISS, Eminem, and Nicki Minaj? Plenty, according to her. What would she have to talk about with Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino? Putting forth these kinds of arguments speaks to contemporary culture’s continued indebtedness to the merging of high and low art that resulted from modernism accidentally rubbing elbows with postmodernism on the train after a sojourn to Warhol’s factory and kind of liking it.

Music critics love to forge connections between artists across genres. . . . Nuclear War Now! Productions. Hinged Blog – Reversible Swivel Assembly. Music Blogs That Want YOUR Music! Getting your music heard is hard.

Music Blogs That Want YOUR Music!

Getting your music heard by the right people is even harder. You hear so many blogs, journalists and other industry big names complaining about unsolicited PR emails from bands, so it’s difficult to know where to tread. This is why we have set up this blog post, containing info and links to all the influential sites and blogs who not only accept these emails but welcome them. But before you start emailing, here’s a quick word of warning. Never under any circumstances send a group email. Below is a list of blogs that are accepting submissions. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Quicklist. …and he’s going uphill still.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Quicklist

Welcome to my Palace/Will Oldham/Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy vinyl-only discography which I’ve compiled from various sources such as Discogs, the superb Royal Stable website, and the appendix of Will Oldham On Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (2012). The list below appears in chronological order of material bearing the name of Will Oldham or one of his various dramatis personae, but excludes appearances in others’ work and various artist compilations. Soft grunge.

Soft grunge is a fashion trend and a design style that originated on blogging web site Tumblr and is a form of 1990s appropriation.

Soft grunge

Soft grunge is a modernization of early 1990s grunge culture, that also incorporates elements of (contemporary subculture) and gothic subculture.[1][2][3][4] History[edit] Soft grunge originated on Tumblr around 2010.[5] A list of top 50 Music blogs by Blog Rank. Music Highlights. Every Noise at Once. Italian progressive metal deep symphonic black metal.

The Top 20 Affiliate Networks 2015. 1Rakuten Linksharelinkshare.comA close competition between Rakuten LinkShare and CJ as always, but the quality of LinkShare’s advertiser support is hard to ignore.2CJ by Conversantcj.comCJ is felt by some to have a technology lead over their competition and is a little more popular with publishers.

The Top 20 Affiliate Networks 2015

A very popular professional network.3Amazonaffiliate-program.amazon.comThe industry entry-point for many publishers. Ease of use and broad product offerings make it simple.4Avangateavangate.comAn impressive jump in the rankings resulting from very strong support from their vibrant publisher community.5ebay Partner Newtorkebaypartnernetwork.comThe absorption of Pepperjam and the bigger, stronger eBay Partner Network is extremely well-liked by publishers.6ClickBankclickbank.comStill huge even as they have had to evolve with the changing rules on promotions and disclosures. DBTropes – skipforward. ...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

DBTropes – skipforward

About ¶ ​TVTropes.org is a wiki-based catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction. It contains pages for numerous movies, books, and other items, and associates these with tropes (writing devices and conventions). ​ DBTropes.org is a ​Linked Data wrapper for TVTropes.org. GitHub - stuartpb/tvtropes-lua: Lua scripts for interacting with TVTropes. The Best Tools for Visualization. Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data.

The Best Tools for Visualization

When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best: Visualize Social Networks Last.Forward: Thanks to Last.fm's new widget gallery, you can now explore a wide selection of extras to extend your Last.fm experience. Data and Information Services Center (DISC) Examples. See what JFugue can do!

Examples

Each of the examples below is a complete program that you can copy, paste, and run. Have fun! "Hello, World" in JFugue Create music with only a few lines of code! Import org.jfugue.player.Player; public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { Player player = new Player(); player.play("C D E F G A B"); } } GitHub - dell-zhang/zmusic_code: Code for the EMI Music Data Science Hackathon. Index of /ftp/swisseph. Browse newsgroup alt.binaries.sounds.whitburn.pop - usenetor. Where can I find bpm databases? - music remix tempo. On the prowl for online databases that list BPMs of popular music.

Where can I find bpm databases? - music remix tempo

When remixing and sampling popular music, it's handy to know the BPM of the song you're working with. This askmefi question solves that problem by providing software that can analyze songs and determine the BPM automatically. However, I am not getting the accuracy I need to synchronize and layer material. Tap Tempo sometimes works as you tap the tempo manually, however, for some songs this can be a struggle for accuracy (especially when the tempo has decimals in it). Dj BPM Studio, The Ultimate BPM Database On The Net.

Beats Per Minute (Music Database. Song Key and BPM Music Database. BPM Database. Listen to music that is Romantic, Bittersweet, Hypnotic, Sexy. Find the BPM for any song. Web Data Platform & Free Web Scraping Tool. Kimono : Turn websites into structured APIs from your browser in seconds. DBTune - Music-Related RDF. MusicBrainz - The Open Music Encyclopedia. Analysis of artists and musical genres - Strands Labs. 1.

Analysis of artists and musical genres - Strands Labs

Background This page presents datasets, examples, and extensions to the analysis described in the following article, presented at the ISMIR 2008 conference in Philadelphia (U.S.A. Analysis of artists and musical genres - Strands Labs. Does anyone know of any good music APIs (details inside) : datasets.

MovieLens. GroupLens Research has collected and made available rating data sets from the MovieLens web site ( The data sets were collected over various periods of time, depending on the size of the set. Before using these data sets, please review their README files for the usage licenses and other details. Help our research lab: Please take a short survey about the MovieLens datasets.

Music Recommendation Datasets. Mir_datasets_0. The Largest MIDI Collection on the Internet, collected and sorted diligently by yours truly. : datasets. GitHub - nicofarr/queshuns: Twitter filter tracking music listening tweets (based on QuesHuns.com) JSM 2016 Invited Sessions Submission. Two of the main recommendations of the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education report are to "Use real data" and to "Use technology for developing concepts and analyzing data.

" This poster details a collaboration between the authors and the students in a cross-listed undergraduate/graduate first course in the R programming language. Author O'Kelly provided a data set on songs that made the national Billboard charts and/or charted at any of five different radio stations (3 in Chicago and 2 in Grand Rapids) during the 1960s. The data set includes 5746 observations and 19 variables. Million Song Dataset. WARNING: we found matching errors between songs and tracks, you can read about it in this blog post.

Last.fm data was matched using songs, so it is likely affected. We have the beginning of a fix, a list of song - track pairs that should not be trusted, get it here. Welcome to the Last.fm dataset, the official song tag and song similarity dataset of the Million Song Dataset. The MSD team is proud to partner with Last.fm in order to bring you the largest research collection of song-level tags and precomputed song-level similarity. The World's Music Charts. This is the most comprehensive collection of world music chart information anywhere (that we are aware of). These lists bring together 415,350 individual chart runs (most representing many weekly chart entries, of course) about the most popular 137,233 songs and 56,118 albums released since the year 1900. This site combines 218 different data sources, 130 song charts and 88 album charts from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Eire, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US as well as some global and internet based listings to give the songs and albums that have topped the charts around the world for the last 114 years.

The source data includes all the hits of 32,897 song artists and 15,818 album artists. Song Years Chart. Million Song Dataset. Untitled. The Billboard Experiment - visualizing the Billboard Charts. Our work is based on two distinct data sources: The Billboard Charts and the Million Song Dataset. The Billboard Charts The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. Dave's Music Database: Links. In addition to the overall best-of lists below, check out the “Best of Lists” link on the DMDB blog. Open Source Community - Open Software Projects. Open Source Community Projects We’re proud participants in the open source community, with our own open software offerings as well as contributions to a variety of other projects. Download estonian philharmonic chamber choir baltic voices torrent - BTScene Torrents. Database of pop chord changes? - music chords chordsequences.

Chord progressions of 25,000 songs. Chord progressions of 5 000 songs! – AmitKohli.com. Search songs By guitar Chords. Find songs with the same key and chords. Songs with the same chords - Theorytab. Untitled. MusicBrainz Picard / Documentation / Plugins / Lastfmplus. Rateyourmusic. Yahoo Terms Center. CDDB. Music. Working on a music recommendation engine, and want to know: What aspects do you value in music? : Music. Top 15 music APIs to power your next mashup - Pathfinder SoftwarePathfinder Software - Medical Software Development.

Mood Music: Audio Advice Based on Your Feelings. Tunify. 2010:Audio Music Mood Classification - MIREX Wiki. Terminology - Are there any classification systems that categorize music by mood? - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange. W14 C 0021. W14 C 0021. Method for detecting music to match the user’s mood in prefrontal cortex electroencephalogram... Computational Aesthetics Automatic Mood-Transferring between Color Images. The Color of Sound - Pitch-to-Color Calculator. Social Media Modeling and Computing. Developers. [1404.7152] Geotagging One Hundred Million Twitter Accounts with Total Variation Minimization. Api - Which is the best library of relevant geotagged images? My Music Habits. Well-formed data. PS6 11. Particles Experiments. 13027 F. Dtmtag. Psychogeography Tool.

Musicovery. 10 Best Apps for Sound Manipulation (iPhone/iPad) AudioStretch for iOS. Chrome Music Lab : InternetIsBeautiful. ‎Big List of Fantastic Fest Movies, a list of films by Noah Lee. ‎Girls on Film, a list of films by Tara. Open Access Film E-books List. Five New Women-Directed Horror Films to Seek Out. ‎An Exploitation Independent List of American Horror (1970-1985), a list of films by Ben Simpson. ‎All the films mentioned in Kim Newman's Nightmare Movies, a list of films by Luke Pauli.

‎The (Almost) Complete Psychotronic Encyclopedia Of Film, a list of films by Justin Hullinger. ‎Undervalued Horror Gems, a list of films by ButtNugget. Underrated: Horror, a list of films by Adam Cook. ‎Sexy, Sleazy, Campy, Colorful, Bizarre: A Watchlist of Pure Insanity, a list of films by Jake Hart. View forum - The Paramount Vault.