Canadians will no doubt remember the nation-wide contest that was held to find a new theme for the CBC's much-beloved Hockey Night In Canada when the royalties for the original became too expensive. Here is an entry that I made as a joke and never submitted, although, to be honest, I think it captures the essence of the sport pretty well.

posted by CarrotAdventure at 5:06 PM PST - 4 comments

A song for a little project I've been working on, which is a batch of songs all in the tuning BbGCFABb mostly recorded in my parents sauna. [more inside]

posted by Corduroy at 1:01 PM PST - 8 comments

*Yet* another short, syrupy-melancholic instrumental. This time with extra dobro. [more inside]

posted by ORthey at 10:19 AM PST - 4 comments

For snsranch: Three. More. Notes. [more inside]

posted by man vs sun at 9:35 PM PST - 5 comments

I've been listening to a lot of boogie, funk and electro from the early 80s recently. This is my dubstep homage to those lovely genres. [more inside]

posted by cloeburner at 6:15 PM PST - 3 comments

Probably a bit of a long shot, but does anybody know of a good studio in the greater Los Angeles area that has experience with rock bands, isn't too expensive, and produces quality results? We're a 4 piece (drums, bass, guitar, vocals), and we'd like to record the instruments live and overdub lead and backing vocals. Maybe do a second guitar track if the song needs it, but that would be kept to a minimum. The goal is to have a good demo to book shows with, so we want to match our live sound as close as possible. Budget is less than $500, and we'd hope to get 5-6 songs for that. posted by InfidelZombie at 11:30 AM PST - 5 comments

Live, random Star Wars blues jam. "Luke, you've turned off your targeting computer, is everything ok?" NSFW. [more inside]

posted by erikgrande at 1:16 AM PST - 2 comments

A Post-Christmas song for you, featuring autoharp, marimba, and some other things. Thanks to orthogonality for helping with the name! [more inside]

posted by Karlos the Jackal at 10:55 PM PST - 6 comments

I gathered up my son's toys and made a song with them. [more inside]

posted by umbú at 9:11 PM PST - 13 comments

This is a song I wrote last Christmas actually for a friend's Christmas video they were doing. This is the instrumental dancing version, the original version had lyrics, but I didn't like them very much. Enjoy!

posted by keithburgun at 11:24 AM PST - 0 comments

A Christmas themed song I wrote, about pressuring Santa Claus to buy me a gun. [more inside]

posted by keithburgun at 9:06 AM PST - 1 comments

Yeeeeeah

posted by CarrotAdventure at 12:31 PM PST - 7 comments

Santa Clown is coming to town. [more inside]

posted by uncleozzy at 6:03 AM PST - 11 comments

This is a quick cover of a friend's Christmas song that I always admired. JB (the writer) also contributed background vocals. This is NSFW but in a cheerful way I think.

posted by frenetic at 4:53 PM PST - 3 comments

Instrumental version of an earlier upload - on reflection the singing sounded less like herald angels and more like cats fucking, except not quite feline enough. Dammit. Anyway - if your Crimbo party starts to sag invite that irritating relative or co-worker to sing along and make an utter twat of him/herself! Remember to point out they have to do it a la John Lydon....

posted by MajorDundee at 1:59 PM PST - 2 comments

In which "say your prayers" is somewhat threatening. [more inside]

posted by uncleozzy at 1:04 PM PST - 1 comments

More laptop electronica. Ambient/IDM production approach, but with a bit of melody and punchy beat. [more inside]

posted by p3t3 at 10:21 PM PST - 1 comments

A Christmas song written by me and sung by Tay Zonday. [more inside]

posted by minifigs at 3:07 AM PST - 5 comments

Experimental Industrial Electro-House with a humble IDM Rock background. [more inside]

posted by The Audio Invasion at 11:07 AM PST - 1 comments

Which books would be considered essential reading for a potential music producer? posted by Zenabi at 4:23 PM PST - 4 comments

Song sampling Allan Watts' laughing with me playing sesame street in the background. I forgot I made it untill someone asked on the green for songs with Allan samples

posted by jcwilliams at 3:47 PM PST - 1 comments

My second entry to Hark! The Herald Banjo Rings 2009. Clawhammer banjo and guitar. [more inside]

posted by usonian at 11:18 AM PST - 7 comments

Poppy-ska song I wrote a couple years ago about being afraid to ask a girl out. (I did, eventually, but not in the song). [more inside]

posted by Jon_Evil at 7:49 AM PST - 1 comments

Draft from a sound design I did for a college theater production. Kind of hilarious listening back to it now. I wish the director had ended up using this one.

posted by CarrotAdventure at 2:52 PM PST - 2 comments

Kind of an eerie repetitive theme that I think sounds like it could be heard at the end of some kinda spooky, horror, thriller'ish type of movie i started with one little riff i made and copied and tweaked it over 5 or 6 tracks

posted by Greynaab at 12:57 PM PST - 2 comments

About three and a half years ago, I uploaded the eleventh song on Mefi Music. This autumn, I finally got my arse in a real studio, and did it properly. [more inside]

posted by armoured-ant at 9:24 AM PST - 4 comments

Just a little carol we recorded for our holiday card. roll truck roll on dulcimer, firemonkey on trumpet and horn. [more inside]

posted by roll truck roll at 10:05 PM PST - 0 comments

Kraftwerk-esque dubstep. Attempting to balance heaviness, vintageness and spaciness. [more inside]

posted by cloeburner at 8:22 PM PST - 0 comments

rough cut of a song i am in the process of writing [more inside]

posted by mememix at 7:33 PM PST - 2 comments

All-vocal Talking Heads cover. [more inside]

posted by waraw at 4:55 PM PST - 4 comments

Short, with improvised and awkwards chunks, various mistakes, and a outro that flirts with crashlanding. Peace.

posted by nicolin at 2:37 PM PST - 2 comments

Picking up on media hype about a strange new star that's getting beardy-wierdies very excited, local New Wave outfit The HeBeGeeBees (Maurice, Barry and Ruben) decide the time is ripe to release their debut single. Recorded live at a packed-to-the-rafters Holiday Inn Bethlehem, the track is coupled with the riske “Herod Blew My Camel, No Really". [more inside]

posted by MajorDundee at 1:34 PM PST - 6 comments

A jaunty little ditty created on the Korg DS-10. [more inside]

posted by buriednexttoyou at 11:39 AM PST - 3 comments

Inspired by Aled Lewis' "The Horde" [more inside]

posted by allaboutgeorge at 5:20 AM PST - 0 comments

From the "Island of Misfit Toys" scene in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. What was wrong with the doll? [more inside]

posted by chococat at 2:45 PM PST - 9 comments

Written after living on Seattle's Capitol Hill. I have to drive for my job, and there's no shortage of these folks who... well, maybe you already get my vibe. [more inside]

posted by l2p at 2:26 PM PST - 3 comments

Studying for exams suck. Classical guitar FPPs rock. I decided to focus this energy into something productive. [more inside]

posted by azarbayejani at 11:58 AM PST - 0 comments

A mildly country version of silent night. Tune+Bucket=Success [more inside]

posted by French Fry at 8:42 AM PST - 0 comments

Cover of The Waitresses classic recorded for Christmas 2006 and featuring my daughters Jennifer and Stephanie on vocals. Their English accents make it sound like a Bananarama outtake. I will shortly be uploading something that will almost certainly qualify for the "Naughty" podcast even if it doesn't make the cut.....

posted by MajorDundee at 8:01 AM PST - 7 comments

Hangovers, with Dr. Seuss. [more inside]

posted by 256 at 7:34 AM PST - 0 comments

(Quickly) recorded for the December MeFiMusic Challenge. [more inside]

posted by mintcake! at 7:34 AM PST - 1 comments

Cover version of perhaps my absolute most favorite 80ies TV-series, Les Mondes Engloutis. (It was called Spartakus And The Sun Beneath The Sea in the US.) [more inside]

posted by gmm at 6:26 AM PST - 2 comments

Cover of the Verlaines. [more inside]

posted by escabeche at 5:50 PM PST - 0 comments

Movement 2 of a 3 movement work for brass, percussion, and radio. [more inside]

posted by The3rdMan at 4:42 PM PST - 1 comments

Demo a friend of mine (Ben Mullin!) and I put together.

posted by frenetic at 2:53 PM PST - 4 comments

It's a snow day here in Wisconsin and that means that the kid and I are recording. This one is 5 tracks of kid vocals -- sort of a nonverbal impressionistic vibe this time -- with some canned drums and synth. And some crying at the end.

posted by escabeche at 2:33 PM PST - 1 comments

My first contribution to the Hark! The Herald Banjo Rings 2009 project. [more inside]

posted by usonian at 6:24 AM PST - 2 comments

dreaming of a, blah blah blah [more inside]

posted by raisindebt at 5:58 AM PST - 3 comments

I like to do Christmas music every year to add to my Christmas cards. [more inside]

posted by american caesar at 12:03 AM PST - 5 comments

This is one of my favorite bits of not just holiday music but music in general, but it's not something I usually hear people rock out to. This is my attempt to help change that. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 11:58 AM PST - 14 comments

Electronic music.

posted by whiskeyspider at 10:29 AM PST - 1 comments

This is the song that the set of subsets of the natural numbers would write if it had a difficult adolescence and listened to a lot of early R.E.M. [more inside]

posted by escabeche at 5:34 PM PST - 2 comments

Some pretty heavy space dubstep that I made for a variety show that happened this past weekend. [more inside]

posted by cloeburner at 6:51 AM PST - 1 comments

A cover of the song originally by the Mekons. [more inside]

posted by l2p at 1:19 AM PST - 2 comments

A beat I made for someone to rap over, but I don't know any rappers. [more inside]

posted by orville sash at 10:49 PM PST - 2 comments

Sleigh bells ring and et cetera [more inside]

posted by raisindebt at 6:12 AM PST - 10 comments

a slow and blatant abuse of out of phase & out of time--- a guitar song.

posted by at the crossroads at 5:24 AM PST - 5 comments

Loading sound files into the M-Audio Axiom 49 controller using Acid Pro 7. [more inside] posted by The Audio Invasion at 7:34 AM PST - 0 comments

Solo harmonica uptempo version of a classic Christmas tune. [more inside]

posted by leapfrog at 10:37 AM PST - 2 comments

what if in my exploring eyesland a whale eats me?

posted by kimyo at 10:51 PM PST - 2 comments

Forgot about this one. Lyric's a bit rubbish (sentimental and rather cliched) but the rest isn't bad. Decent guitar solo from about 2.33. Don't know what I was trying to achieve with the extended outro. Whole thing is perhaps a little too slow and underproduced? Comments welcome, as ever. [more inside]

posted by MajorDundee at 1:21 PM PST - 12 comments

Greasy rock song about falling asleep in passenger seats. I could use some help with this. Ok, this is my first attempt at recording with real drums. While I'm happy to finally post something featuring my insanely talented little brother, Mike, I'm sorry to say that the drum recording I started out with was awful and I'm not sure I've made it any better. If anyone has some insight as to what can be fixed and how, or some tips on cheap/lo-fi/hopelessly inept home drum recording, I'd love to hear them. [more inside]

posted by es_de_bah at 1:06 PM PST - 7 comments

There is sacred holiday music and there is profane holiday music. This is profane holiday music. [more inside]

posted by raisindebt at 10:15 AM PST - 14 comments

It's a pop-type song (with streaks of metal) that tells the tale of a fish and his problems. Lyrics here. [more inside]

posted by ignignokt at 3:26 AM PST - 2 comments