Sonosterra.com offers up sounds of nature (rain, the ocean, the jungle, a stream, a storm) and pairs them with songs recommended by their Facebook fans.

Today's recommended couple is rain and "The Winner Is" from the Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack.

I must say, it really is soothing.

Zach Pino, a writer and guitarist in Los Angeles, is forcing himself to partake in what he calls the "Nickleback Challenge":

One music writer. One terrible band. 7 studio albums by Nickelback. 77 Nickelback songs. Can I handle listening to one Nickelback song per week, eventually listening to their entire catalogue?

Booooorrrrring. One song a week? Do it one song a day. Or one album a day for a week. Or one song every hour for the next 77 waking hours (IT CAN BE DONE). A song a week is not a challenge! Nickelback's average song is around, what 3:45ish long? And you're listening to it just once a week? You will be spending .03% of each week listening to something you don't like. (Someone check my math, I'm a college dropout.)

I get a higher shitty music percentage every week just by walking by the downtown Forever 21 everyday on my way to the bus stop.

But whatever. You can follow his progress here.

Bon Iver Erotic Stories is my new favorite Tumblr. It takes a photo of the boring, bearded performer and perfectly captions it with things like "Today Bon Iver wrapped me in his flannel, which smelled like charred pine and licorice, and took me outside to show me a perfect spiderweb."

I'm blushing!

99% of the time I visit BandCamp I want to hear one band and one band only. I generally don't go there to cruise. But lately BandCamp's "recommendations" feature has completely ruined my productivity levels. My days have gone something like this: "Oh, look, this band likes that band! A band you haven't heard! Let's listen. They're good! And they like this other band! Why was I here again? Oh, that band has a funny album title, I'll listen to that. What else is there from Olympia? I like this! Oh, wait, I need to write that thing about that one band. Oooooh, another something shiny!" And repeat.

A lengthly example: Yesterday I went to BandCamp to check out a Portland band playing later this week called Duck. Little Brother, Duck! "That's a dumb band name," I thought to myself. But I wanted to know their story. They're playing the Black Lodge on the 27th and Ground Zero on and April 28th. Turns out, they're good! It's math rock, but there's a Four Minute Mile vibe to it. Albeit delivered with more aggression and less self-wallowing. Phew! I have grown out of most self-wallowing music.

Their song names are lengthy and they make me giggle. They all cite some famous person with some kind of parenthetical note attached: "Billy Mays (Don't Move Here, 'It's a Trap!')," "Steve Jobs (All Is Fun Until Someone Gets Stabbed)," and "Phillip Seymour Hoffman (It's the Wonder of Nature Baby!)." Their full length, Survival Is Not A Workout, is available for however much you feel like paying so I bought it. Then, on the download page, there were some recommendations from the band: Land Before Time, A Short History of Decay, and Girlfriends. Girlfriends is described as "Poppy, rhythmic as hell, one dude, sick melodies, emotional as fuck. Get your dance on."

Okay! Let's dance!

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Oh God, prepare to lose some work productivity on this one. Who Said it, James Joyce or Kool Keith gives you 10 quotes said by either Joyce or Keith (which are at times hilariously difficult to tell apart), you guess who said them, and you get a score out of ten. When I just klicked them blindly I got six out of 10, but when I actually tried, I got 5. What did you get?

One is the most innovative writer of the 20th century, the other is James Joyce. Can you distinguish between sentences written by the Irish novelist and the lyrics of surrealist rapper Kool Keith?

h/t: Alithea, who says "this is literally the best thing on the internet today"

A letter to Sonic Youth, posted on SY's Facebook page, with 2,536 comments and counting:

• www.facebook.com/sonicyouth

via Dangerous Minds

Say goodbye to the next 10 minutes of your day: girlsthatlooklikeskrillex.tumblr.com.

Apparently "This Charming Man" hasn't been through enough. Last week it was mashed up with Lana Del Rey and this week, the Morrissey classic got the 8-bit treatment, complete with power-up and coin sound effects.

Mario's lookin' good in that pompadour.

That is all.