The team at Guardian Unlimited Music has road-tested the following music-related links for you. Please do not operate any heavy machinery while clicking through:
· We start off with a Big (ha, ha, ha...) treat for Fresh Link readers - the new Macy Gray album (it's called Big, yeah) for your streaming enjoyment. Well, 60 seconds from each track, anyway. Give 'em a whirl:
1. Finally Made Me 2. Shoo Be Doo 3. What I Gotta Do 4. Okay 5. Glad You're Here 6. Ghetto Love 7. One For Me 8. Strange Behaviour 9. Slowly 10. Get Out 11. Treat Me Like Your 12. Everybody
· Looking for samples to start your cut-and-paste recording artist career? Check out The Freesound Project, a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Nightingales are particularly popular at this moment, as is the famous Amen Brother drum solo. [via the Rest is Noise]
· Don't know the Amen Brother drum break? Learn all about its hip-hop history by watching this YouTube documentary.
· This is the blog of one Mike Smith, a keen music fan and amateur pencil-sketch artist who just happens to be managing director of Columbia Records. Go see his impression of Tom from Kasabian! Now!
Got links? Send them to music.editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk
