A brilliant single-take music video, for “Grip” by Dutch band zZz. High-quality MPEG4 also available.
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Month: June 2008
86 year old great-grandmother hoists the Jolly Roger.
“In short, I turned a 86 year old Marlboro-smoking, Chrysler Sebring Convertable-driving, Pinochle-playing, Maroon-Five listening Great Grandmother into a music pirate. An enthusiastic one
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Recording industry decries humming tunes to yourself as ‘a form of piracy.’
With income from physical discs dropping through the floor and the iTunes takings not being enough to sustain the fruit and flowers budget, the
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If it’s too tinny, you’re too old.
I must have grown up in an era of instruments. When did music from ’80s home computers become a genre? With its own wikis
Read MoreEMI innovates in legal actions.
Specifically, not just going after companies, but trying to personally bankrupt their CEOs — specifically Michael Robertson of MP3Tunes, an MP3 locker service that
Read MoreMarked down 1 star because it still won’t let you do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the “directional markings” on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check
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Brucie Teardrop.
Back in my day, Bruce Springsteen was a ridiculously mainstream live rocker made pop star with “Born In The USA” and its ilk. I’d
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There’s no fool like an audiophool.
And to think Denon used to be respectable. Dig this US$500 1.5 metre ethernet cable for audio use. ‘Cos the professional quality ethernet cables
Read MoreThe thing on the doorstep.
Old-school industrial MP3s — obscure tapes and tiny pressings you’ve only ever heard of. Before drum machines ruined everything. I particularly recommend Rising From
Read MoreThe dream world of Dion McGregor.
Dion McGregor was the most prolific somniloquist in recorded history. A somniloquist, or voluble dreamer, is a person that talks during their sleep. Dion
Read MorePatti Smith, St Giles In The Fields, London, Fri 18 May 2007.
Patti Smith entered St Giles In The Fields, a small but beautiful working church built in the 18th Century in the heart of London
Read MorePromos are freebies in the US.
Troy Agusto goes to second-hand shops, buys rare promos and sells them on eBay. Universal decided this was a copyright violation. Judge says: Wrong!
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