Reading Roundup

Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of Wired For Music's Reading Roundup!  Here are a few cool things you might have missed.

• My Life Scoop profiles 10 Web Apps for Music Lovers (written by a Mashable writer).
  
  
• The New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones ponders what happens when you become the D.J.
  
  
• The Washington Post discovers NPR Music.  I beat them to it a few weeks ago.
  
  
• New York Magazine profiles comedian and musical improviser Reggie Watts.  (A bit of a stretch for Wired For Music, but worth reading.)
  
  
• Waste time with Smashing Magazine's list of Bizarre Websites On Which You Can Waste Time With Style [Editor's note:  points for grammar!].  The list includes a site where you can compose music using the sounds of Hamburg, Germany, a game that lets you control a beatbox or a cappella group, and a site where you can make a whale sing, among other cool things.
  
  
• Music Machinery (one of my favorites) shows off one of the results of last month's Music Hack Day, a tool that lets you add a swing beat to any song.
  
  
• Jason Freeman lets you create your own version of a piano etude by re-combining the parts (anyone familiar with Yahoo! Pipes will dig this interface).  The New York Times wrote about this as well.
  
  
• Play Six Degrees of Black Sabbath, an awesome tool from the Echo Nest labs that finds connections between almost any musical artists.  Menomena to Miles Davis in only 17 steps!
  

So, what are you reading this week?  Tell me in the comments.