Tuned In To Music is both a blog and a series of podcasts that reflect a lifetime interest in many different kinds of music.<br /> The blog contains many reviews of CDs, DVDs, and books about music along with posts about notable gigs, music tech, and anything else related to music that might be of interest.<br /> The podcasts are like radio shows that present both music and talk focused on topics of musical interest. http://tunedintomusic.wordpress.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:38:33 -0500 titm@kmurnane.com Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:12:28 -0500 60 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.7) http://www.feedforall.com While everyone else parties the guys in the band get down to it. New Year's Eve has become famous for brilliant performances by some of the world's top musicians. In this podacst we listen to live New Year's Eve recordings from three monster guitar players - Stevie Ray Vaughan, Warren Haynes from Gov't Mule, and Jimi Hendrix. Happy New Year everyone. htto://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM017-2007-12-31.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 16231F1A-A6D8-4A60-8F62-5FAD58CF634E Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:12:28 -0500 Bootsy Collins was not only one of the great funk bass players of the 1970s, he was one of the great bass players of all time. Most musicians who begin their career as side men spend years climbing the mountain of national recognition before they reach the top, if they ever do. Bootsy started at the summit when he first appeared as James Brown's 19 year old bass player in 1971. In this, the first of two podcasts devoted to the Bootzilla, we listen to Bootsy playing with James Brown, the JBs, Parliament and Funkadelic. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM016-2007-10-26.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 38A283D4-A775-4BD9-94EC-E5BBDE249E9B Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:35:03 -0400 Throughout recorded history, all over the world, you look at people and you find at least one thing that never changes. People make music and dance to it. The music changes, the dances change but humans dance. Everywhere. All the time. Lately a lot of them have been dancing to music that melds elements of rock and electronica with an immense bottom end. In this program we join them with tracks from Justice, Digitalism, !!!, Daft Punk and more, because . . . heh . . . we're human after all. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM015-2007-10-18.mp3 E24A0A3E-21C1-46C2-8A4D-0E1D713DA222 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:49:07 -0400 In our previous podcast we locked the singers out of the studio; in this one we let them back in. The Girls in the Band presents music from six bands that feature women vocalists. All of the groups identify themselves as bands, it's not about "Marketable Chick and the Nameless Backup Band". The bands are also early in their careers. Some, like Stars and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, have raised a lot of buzz. Others, like The Vincent Black Shadow and The Duke Spirit haven't. At least not yet. Check them out. Maybe hear a band you like, maybe find something interesting and new. In any case, we hope you hear something you like. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM014-2007-10-05.mp3 F64929E6-2DAA-4829-939D-52A3EBD6E99B Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:20:24 -0400 In Music Without Words we lock the vocalists out of the studio and listen to a program of purely instrumental music. Sometimes bands that feature vocalists turn out an instrumental song or two, sometimes musicians are equally comfortable writing both vocal and instrumental songs, sometimes music focuses on rhythm rather than melody and vocals become less important. And sometimes the band just lets loose and plays. Hear examples of all these things as we present music from Justice, The Allman Brothers Band, Frank Zappa and much more in Music Without Words. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM013-2007-09-20.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 95663F85-6711-4BCE-9BFD-C89F924F87E5 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:28:37 -0400 Larry Levan, the superstar DJ at the Paradise Garage, had a fine ear for music and an exceptional ability to put together music in the club that sent his dancers into orbit. After conquering the dance floor, he brought his live deejaying skills into the studio and became one of the most successful dance remixers of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This is our second podcast featuring the extended remixes that Levan created for the Paradise Garage. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM012-2007-09-07.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 9CA79F07-CA35-433D-B695-FC2F00555128 Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:02:40 -0400 This is the third in a series of podcasts devoted to the music of San Francisco in the late 1960s. In this podacst we listen to some of the second wave San Francisco bands that began forming around 1967 when many of the first wave bands were releasing their first records. The second wave San Francisco bands are notable for the wide variety of music they produced and we sample some of that variety here. In this podcast we listen to the music of Sly and the Family Stone, It's a Beyootiful Day, The Sons of Champlin, Dinosaurs and Santana. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM011-2007-08-27.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 3EA16521-A0D3-4AE4-8A88-6BDDC9810C23 Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:36:43 -0400 This is the second of two podcasts devoted to the brilliant and innovative mixer and remixer Tom Moulton. In this podcast we examine Moulton's "accidental discoveries" of the extended disco break, the remix, and the 12 inch single and listen to some rare examples of each. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM010-2007-08-20.mp3 D1AA3799-6E5C-4EAA-A933-37C96EF525D6 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:10:10 -0400 Tom Moulton was one of the greatest mixers and may very well have been the greatest innovator of all time in the world of dance music. He not only "invented" the 12" single and the extended "disco" break, he was the one who came up with the very idea of a remix in the first place. This is the first of two podcasts devoted to the mixes and the innovations of Tom Moulton. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM009-2007-08-13.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com D5E83A6D-045D-4006-8557-4395456D8A66 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:07:51 -0400 This is the second of two podcasts devoted to a survey of the first wave of bands that came out of San Francisco in the mid to late 1960's. Some became megastars and some never did much after their first album but they all burst onto the scene playing great music that defined both a musical genre and a cultural phenomenon. In this podcast we listen to the music of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Grateful Dead, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM008-2007-08-06.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 3CE9FA64-98D4-4EDF-BEA6-67675A123B2F Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:30:42 -0400 This is the first of two podcasts devoted to a survey of the first wave of bands that came out of San Francisco in the mid to late 1960's. Some became megastars and some never did much after their first album but they all burst onto the scene playing great music that defined both a musical genre and a cultural phenomenon. In this podcast we listen to the music of Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish, and Moby Grape http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM007-2007-07-31.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 495B9A4E-CA40-48D2-B29E-B0773967F786 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:43:43 -0400 In this podcast we listen to three versions of the song Jingo: the original written by a kid from a small village in Nigeria who dreamed of coming to the US, a version that became a signature song for a megastar Latin Rock group, and a disco version that became an international dance hit. The story of Jingo illustrates what can happen when people refuse to be limited by musical categories and listen to music with open ears. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM006-2007-07-22.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 12BB3626-F38F-4FFA-AF69-81BE260DD651 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:09:18 -0400 Tuned In to Music's Playlists are freeform collections of some of the good music we have been listening to recently. Tune in and hear some tunes you like or get turned on to something new. This Playlist features music by Paul McCartney, The Earlies, Arctic Monkeys, The Bravery, Kaiser Chiefs and Ojos de Brujo. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM005-2007-07-17.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 4C93C618-9118-47E2-9DE5-C57D469F2B8B Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:29:02 -0400 When the magic happens there's nothing in the world like live music. Podcasts can't put you at the venue but they can bring you an uninterrupted stream of music recorded live without the delays involved when one band tears down and the next sets up. Tuned In To Music brings you a mini-festival of live recordings. Get off. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM004-2007-07-10.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 28F2B05C-9BF1-4FD2-B798-42F410A2796D Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:00:35 -0400 Scotland isn't that big as countries go but it has produced an extraordinarily wide and deep range of music. We listen to some Scottish music and musicians from the '60s to today in this edition of Tuned In To Music. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM003-2007-07-07 titm@kmurnane.com B4006536-A63C-443D-B1C7-B2EE92D0D922 Sat, 7 Jul 2007 11:05:45 -0400 Our second visit to the Paradise Garage spotlights remixes created by the Garage's revered DJ, Larry Levan. Find out a bit about Levan and hear some of the remixes that brought the New York nightworld to its knees. All of the tracks in the show are Levan's full extended remixes. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM002-2007-07-01.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com E6BB94D2-E1A9-4E0B-B9D9-E531E8DE61E0 Sun, 1 Jul 2007 01:43:19 -0400 The Paradise Garage and its famous DJ Larry Levan have become legends in the nightworld of underground dance. Forged in the world that produced both disco and hip-hop, it is here where we find the roots of house, garage, techno and all the forms of dance music that developed in their wake. In Part 1 of this series we play some of the music that lifted the dancefloor at the Paradise Garage into orbit. Most of the tracks heard on the show are extended dancefloor mixes. http://www.kmurnane.com/podcasts/titm/TITM001-2007-06-26.mp3 titm@kmurnane.com 77747223-E742-4F6B-A31F-E591807E5051 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:24:21 -0400