Saw a girl on the tube with a Get Hip Records bag. I told her I approved. I’m contemplating my own half a ton
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Oh dear what a pity never mind.
The RIAA is on the skids. The record companies are pulling support at a fantastic rate; what will be left will be a smaller
Read MoreAnd yet different.
*cough* And then there’s the other sort.
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Danny Ben Israel: Bullshit 3¼ (1970).
Today’s music is Bullshit 3¼, a 1970 psychedelic prog album in Hebrew (with titles in English) by Danny ben Israel. The music is deeply
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Rock stars were not formed whole from the brow of Zeus.
From The Guardian: 1970s rock stars with their parents. “Life photographer John Olson’s extraordinary pictures of the biggest rock stars of the 1970s at
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Microsoft employees give up all hope.
It’s not just Microsoft’s DRMed music at twice the price, which will be as popular as a Zune running Vista. It’s the PR guy’s
Read MoreNow I’m gonna be twenty-two.
Ron Asheton has died aged 60, apparently of “natural causes” with no suspicious circumstances. LOOK, PUNK ROCKERS, THIS JUST ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH. JUST BECAUSE
Read MoreMost tasteful. Souvenir. Ever.
Almost fifty years ago, J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson died in a plane crash with some guys called Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. His
Read MoreKids think Guitar Hero controllers make music.
From Jed: Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips has a double-necked guitar where one neck is a Guitar Hero controller. “He went with the
Read MoreWhatever happened to Festival Records.
Festival had a truly spectacular decline and fall. When it finally died, it seems it was bought by Warner, who, being helmed by the
Read MoreAnnoying people without excessive weight.
What we used to call “ghetto blasters” in the 1980s are too heavy and annoying and expensive in D-cells. In the modern age, you
Read MoreTen thousand statistically grammar-average band names.
When building MusicSeer (now inactive) in 2002, Brian Whitman needed a way to ferret out bad user information. So he wrote something to generate
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And now for some words on music. The Gold Afternoon Fix demos.
Any Church album recorded after 1990 is complete shite — tedious stoner hippy noodling with no songs at all and far too much pot.
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Wow, games really are the new rock’n’roll.
It must be INTARWEB PIRATES, not games being set to outsell CDs and DVDs put together by next year. Not that I plan to
Read MoreSupport slot of the year.
The epic tale of how Deathboy supported Tricky. Includes handy hints on getting a free hotel stay.
Read MoreLooked beyond the day in hand, there’s nothing there at all.
Why not cheer up your readers with a string of album giveaways? The Times gives you music for global financial crises: Closer by Joy
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“DRM-free” as blatant lie.
Customers loathe and despise DRM. What’s a marketer to do? Advertise products as “DRM-free” when they’re nothing of the sort! After Sony and Nokia
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One more such victory will utterly undo us.
*ahem* I told you so.
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DRMed, limited “DRM-free unlimited” music services on mobile phones.
DAS BUNKER, British Phonographic Industry, Wednesday (NNGadget) — Sony-Ericsson has announced PlayNow Plus, a new plan for unlimited “DRM-free” music downloads on phones. “Pay,
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Step right up!
The content industry is addicted to control. We tell them over and over again that DRM is mathematically impossible. There is no such thing
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Never gonna run around or desert you.
Rick Astley takes us through his finest Rickrolls. I had someone Rickroll me by phone a couple of months ago.
Read MoreDIY advance copies.
Oasis are giving away three songs from their forthcoming album, Meet The Beatles. Not as downloads — as sheet music. With Arts Council funding,
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Spore: unintelligent design.
Music is too fragmented for anti-DRM campaigns to do much. Games are much more hit-oriented. So Spore is having the crap beaten out of
Read MoreLadeez gemmun. The $2500 THX-certified door.
It’s not a $500 ethernet cable, but you’d better be in serious need of serious silence to drop $2500 on a door. Mind you,
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Metallica “welcome” album leak.
“That’s how things are done these days,” says drummer Lars Ulrich. “Also, there’s the novelty of anyone wanting to listen to a Metallica album.”
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And what you gonna say in private?
The ridiculously widely publicised default judgement against a filesharer has attracted the sort of attention they’d probably rather it hadn’t. Michael Coyle of Lawdit
Read MoreI love MySQL with a love only Hans Reiser could understand.
I got sick enough of this with Squishdot. MySQL just ate itself all by itself and had to be restored from backups. Fortunately, I
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Woman fined £16,000 in apparently nonexistent court case.
Davenport Lyons, “a leading London law firm,” has put out a press release, which has been run as-is by large chunks of the press,
Read MoreMy memory has just been sold.
The zombie technology of the magazine suffers the final insult: Mygazines.com, a magazine-sharing site. The hard part in nailing them for this blatant copyright
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Never mind the money, you’re not getting paid anyway.
Radiohead’s In Rainbows did zillions of copies through bittorrents and filesharing, suggesting they’re replacing the radio, not the CD. Not that the death of
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