this week's cutie is this brilliant animation by Tony Moore music by Learning Music
Wouldn't it be nice to be supplied with tunes that you can share and remix like every month without lawyers knocking down your door? That is the concept behind Learning Music Monthy , a subscription service based in Los Angeles. Started in November 2006 by John Wood ((keyboardist for Inara George, Sebastien Tellier, Mike Andrews, Kelly Osbourne, Anni Rossi, etc.), each album has a different theme or modus operandi (or both). While John Wood is the main man in this project, he can rely an a growing bunch of collaborators who even join him [...]
Seeing as that it's a holiday week, it only makes sense that this week's Friday Mixtape is pretty damn impressive, or at least the perfect soundtrack for painting Easter eggs or chowing down on Matzah balls, So, enjoy this week's mix of the best new singles, covers, and remixes, along with a few mp3s from some up-and-comers you might want to check out, and have a very happy holiday! NEW Singles: "Birthday" by Awesome New Republic "Tiny Little Robots" by Cage The [...]

Listen HERE Here's today's playlist... Future Sounds #16 - March 16th, 2009 Learning Music – Ask Me No Questions – LMM 2.1 – Allegro – Vosotros [...]
When I compare work in my current industry to when I used to work in the investment business, I always seem to come back to a really important point. A big part about working in music has to do with being creative; inventing new models, following through on creative ideas. I never fully realized this while fixing trades and balancing accounts years ago at RBC Investments. Reinforcing my point is Learning Music Monthly , a subscription based, album-a-month series put out by LA's Vosotros Records . By signing up, subscribers will receive a full length CD [...]

Meet John Wood. He's Learning Music . He's 27, a profilic composer, a whiz-bang keyboardist, almost stupefyingly ambitious and, when it comes to making music, a communalist, if not a communist. He's performed shows with as many as 15 or 20 musicians onstage without the benefit of rehearsals. And he's ready to start his second season of Learning Music Monthly — he'll make one album per month, available individually or by subscribing to the whole series, for the next year. ||| Download: "My Original Dictionary (feat. Readers)" [...]

[Quite a weekend we have in store musically, assuming, that is, that you and I aren't on the invite list for Josh Groban's birthday party:] Friday: Everest is back; the L.A. quintet brings its vivid Americana to the Echo (with the Parson Redheads and Two Sheds ) at the beginning of a West Coast swing that presages more tour dates with Neil Young in April. ... Animal Collective does the second sold-out L.A. night in a row, this one at the Troubadour. ... The Little [...]

[A quick patriotic note on inauguration eve:] Bruce Springsteen's new album, "Working on a Dream," will be out Jan. 26 - but you can stream it starting at midnight Eastern time (9 p.m. where we live), thanks to NPR. Hey, that's almost now. Follow this link ... On the local front, Vosotros Music has posted some chestnuts for free download: American classics as performed by Obi Best [Alex Lilly, pictured], B.R.A.M. , Weyou , Learning Music , Dream Kids and [...]
photo by Matthew Craig Back to the normal...less rock, more talk... 1. Naomi Shelton - "What Have You Done" (mp3) This sixtysomething Alabama-based soul singer emanates a surly demeanor. Shelton, who is poised to release her latest 7 inch single, What Have You Done , via Dap Tone Records, punctiliously implements painstaking, guttural utterances. Like the deep bellowing of a bull, her vocal approach brings to mind the past masters of R&B, including Mr. Sam Cooke. Strangely enough, "What Have You Done" sort of reminds me of a [...]