I love the video interviews of composer and music educator, Samuel Andreyev. He shares an obsession with Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica and he has so far conducted one-to-two-hour interviews… Read the rest of the article: Avant-garde drummer Art Tripp talks about working with Zappa, Beefheart, John Cage, and others

My friend Matt Dibble works for Voice of America and put together this little report about some streets in Oakland neighborhoods being designated as "soft streets." Through-traffic is not allowed… Read the rest of the article: California city turns 74 miles of streets car-free to allow residents more space to social distance

As the line goes "you don't know what you've got til it's gone." The land and sea critters at the Texas State Aquarium were wondering where all of the loud… Read the rest of the article: Land and sea creatures at Texas State Aquarium keep each other entertained

Celebrated artist, Roger Dean, known for his iconic album cover art for Yes, Uriah Heep, and Asia (but mostly Yes), has been Facebook streaming the development and rendering of the… Read the rest of the article: Roger Dean designs and paints the new Yes album cover live on Facebook

Wait… what? First Lucille Ball and Star Trek and now this? Dolly Parton secretly produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the unexpected crossover of cultural icons has left fans reeling.… Read the rest of the article: Dolly Parton was actually a producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

I think my feelings about this somewhat unlikely pairing of Tom Jones and Crosby, Still, Nash & Young can best be expressed by some of the comments on YouTube: "When… Read the rest of the article: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young & Tom Jones on the Tom Jones TV show in 1969

I recently bumped into this piece in The New York Times Style Magazine from a few years ago which chronicles a day in the life of New York City in… Read the rest of the article: A day in NY in the early 1980s through the eyes of musicians, artists, activists, filmmakers, and more

As the editor-in-chief of the Make: website, I got to help develop column ideas and work with some amazing contributors. One of these was the brilliant George Hart (father of… Read the rest of the article: Revisiting Make:'s weekly Math Monday column

As a miniature modeler and painter, I am obsessed with any type of tiny world-building: model train boards, dioramas, dollhouses, and the like. So, naturally, I adore the work of… Read the rest of the article: The tiny worlds of "micro-mechanician" Bill Robertson

After 22 days of being hospitalized with symptoms of COVID-19, and developing pneumonia, singer and counter-cultural icon, Marianne Faithfull, has been released from the hospital. Her official Facebook page writes:… Read the rest of the article: Marianne Faithfull survives COVID-19 hospitalization, returns home

Speaking of Gary Numan, I just discovered these basement session videos from 2014 on the YouTubes. I especially like this version of "Are Friends Electric?" https://youtu.be/xwbB8aqW9Rg https://youtu.be/m0-Vg87-kRQ There only seems… Read the rest of the article: Shut in sounds: Gary Numan's basement sessions from 2014

The Yorkshire Museum is issuing "curator battles" to to other museums. Their first salvo is #CreepiestObject. Yup, these and others in the thread, are pretty damn creepy. Our #CreepiestObject has… Read the rest of the article: Museum issues curatorial challenge: Show us your creepiest objects — museums bring the creepy

In this helpful video, Brent of Goobertown Hobbies recreates one of his painting ah-ha moments when he first realized how to paint highlights on objects that don't have edges. Everyone… Read the rest of the article: Brent from Goobertown Hobbies shares his biggest mini painting breathrough

In this episode of the 8-Bit Guy, David does a video survey of 108 types of storage media that we modern humans have used to store information. He divides the… Read the rest of the article: 108 rare and bizarre information storage media types

Ronan O'Rahilly, founder of Radio Caroline, the first pirate radio station off the coast of the UK has died. O'Rahilly, who lived in Ireland, died from the vascular dementia he… Read the rest of the article: Pirate radio pioneer Ronan O'Rahilly of Radio Caroline has died

Science fiction author and futurist, David Brin, has put together an excellent list of sci-fi books to read. He posted this list years ago, but has re-surfaced it to remind… Read the rest of the article: Sci-fi author David Brin's recommended reading list

My favorite comedic maker, Simone Giertz, brings another silly robot into the world as she builds a robotic parent that will pat her on the back and say: "Good job,… Read the rest of the article: Simone Giertz makes a parent robot that pats her on the back (after she deposits money into it)

In this video, the crazed maker Matt Denton (who someone in the comments refers to as the Colin Furze of giant 3D printed LEGO) 3D-prints a human-sized LEGO go-kart. My… Read the rest of the article: Building a giant, human-sized LEGO go-kart

So many artists are now playing music online from home. For many, it shows a different, more vulnerable side to them. This is definitely the case in this set with… Read the rest of the article: Shut in sounds: Gary Numan singing and playing guitar from his den

There's an interesting piece in MIT Technology Review about how the COVID-19 virus and social isolation have re-enlivened the web in ways that hearken back to its earlier, more human… Read the rest of the article: Gathering online like it's 1999