Musics on the Internets

I like to think I'm in fairly good touch with certain regions of the blogosphere—most notably, I'd say, the web design community. By "in touch" I mean reading far too much and not contributing anything significant. Anyway, I try to share some of the more interesting websites I encounter or frequent and I will do so today within the theme of music-focused sites. And, no, I'm not going to tell you about this AMAZING! NEW! SITE I FOUND! called Rake or Shovel or something.

First up is ISO50, the online home of DJ and artist Scott Hansen and his friends. His visual work is quite nice, I think, and he seems relatively knowledgeable in music. He and the other contributing authors offer regular selections of quality tunes under the Music category—good examples are a short list of the best indie hip hop producers or four favorite sensitive electronica tracks. Oh, and I enjoy their attention to the design of album covers.

My next offering is a much-lauded blog, Just Watch the Sky. The author—I'm not sure who he or she is—presents a song accompanied by beautifully rendered typography of a notable sequence of the song's lyrics. The color palettes are spot on and the presentation always balances subtlety and power. I don't like all of the songs but I cannot stop myself from clicking through all the posts and having a listen. I particularly like the presentation for Now I want to give away, I want to hurry home to you, and The empty movements that once were so inspired. Maybe this was not so much about music as it was typography. Shocking.

And lastly, I'd like to share OMG Posters, a website which is only tenuously having to do with music. The author posts daily updates on art prints, posters, toys and the like, including interviews with noted poster artists / designers. The aforementioned tenuous connection is that many of the posters featured are for musicians, bands and concerts. Regardless, I enjoy the site as a source of inspiration and artistic stimuli.

So there you go. Anything good to share with me?

Oh, bonus: you can check out my listening habits via carlosdavis on last.fm. Here's a teaser: all I listen to are Girl Talk and Rilo Kiley.