This is just so cool in so many ways. Let’s start at the beginning and work our way to the end… 1. Somebody identified what he considers to be the 100 most essential riffs of all time — spanning seven decades of rock history 2. This person can play every single one in a convincing [...]

To celebrate 55 years of Lego, the company created fifty-five posters depicting popular culture vis a vis the reliable, interlocking toy brick.  The complete list includes movies, stories and other elements, but I wanted to single out the nineteen music related ones here.  They cover the gamut from bands to albums to songs, mostly playing [...]

Pop Chart Lab makes some of the coolest looking charts / prints / posters that I've seen.  Their design philosophy employs a simple, clean aesthetic.  I'm particularly happy to see their music-related efforts pop up every now and then.  Though this print doesn't feature an Irwin or Languedoc, there are pleny of iconic guitars (and [...]

Ten years, 49 figures, 12 iconic looks, 6 people.  This poster, found at Audry Wiener Dog Tumblr, oozes worlds of musical output while focusing only on their visual style.  Love the clever touches like Pete Best in the first pose and Yoko squeezed into the penultimate one.

While the infographics I often feature on this site intend to make data easier to consume by employing clever visuals, this set of graphics proves that it’s equally fun to use visuals to obscure meaning. Designer Victor Hertz has created some rock music pictograms that do just that for the songs of David Bowie, Bob [...]

Whosampled.com is an interesting new site that claims to “explore the DNA of modern music”.  The makers have assembled a massive database of sampled music — allowing users to explore where songs have been used, by whom and where — as a means to create a rich web of music exploration. What to know where [...]

Updated 9/22/11 with Soundboard Abbey Road. With Furthur putting the exclamation point on their Abbey Road adventure earlier this week, Deadheads were all abuzz about the collision of worlds between The Beatles and The Dead.  And as a result, a couple of new mixes surfaced which give us reason to celebrate and contemplate the affinity [...]

I typically post these link roundups on Fridays, but didn’t get around to it last Friday and had too many could links to not share this week.  So here’s your first ever Monday Linkafication: Chicagoans!  North Coast Music Festival is this weekend.  Here are five reasons why you should go. Don’t you love it when [...]

We’re resurrecting Symphony Sunday for a couple more weeks before we finish the series. The Beatles made liberal use of horns and strings on their late period recordings. One might argue that the ability to replicate these sounds contributed to the end of their run as a live band. But, that doesn’t stop Cheap Trick, [...]

The curator of our the I Love Charts tumblog offers his top ten song charts – Beatles, Clash, Ramones all make the list My Morning Jacket jams out a little on their newest tune Whoever writes the FAQ pages for Phish festivals certainly knows how to tickle my funny bone.  the latest for Super Ball [...]