Ted Gioia's Best Albums of 2012

Games with hidden developer messages - The Cutting Room Floor

pulling back the curtain - just a tiny bit - on historical game development

Sasha Frere-Jones: David Bowie Returns with “The Next Day” : The New Yorker

RARE The Beach Boys Olympia 1969 Part 1 new (by darsie1)

disturbingly peaceful stop-motion video for a song/band i know nothing about.

SENNA

this looks excellent.

You are listening to Los Angeles

love this simple combination of freely-available web things: ambient music from soundcloud, the LAPD dispatch radio, and a CC-licensed flickr photo. it’s positively cinematic.

the history of distortion in rock, from the Atlantic

How Much Do You Heart Me?

cool, it’s a vacation destination picker! you calibrate it by picking your home city and the amount you want to spend on a trip for 2.

NPR Music Premiere: New Documentary On The Late Composer Milton Babbitt : Deceptive Cadence : NPR