It’s been a while since I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing the wit of a British music critic. Sunday’s issue of the Independent newspaper ran a review by Simon Price which I’ve posted below as a fine example of what I would have always expected to read when I lived in London. It’s an example [...]
DRM is over, let’s party….
A new year, a new top 10. Here’s my top ten faves from December in no particular order. Most of these artists have music for sale in the Amazon download store, iTunes or EMusic. I recommend Amazon…256kb files, DRM-free, cheap.
PRGz We Ain’t Slept In Weeks (Rollin’ Rustie Remix)
Pinch Lazarus
Andrew Bird Imitosis [...]
The newly-refurbished London St Pancras International station that opened in November 2007 to provide Eurostar high speed service to Paris and Brussels is a block from my hotel so I decided to wander over there to check it out. There’s history in this building so history and architecture buffs should read this wonderfully rich overview [...]
Matthew Mercer is the other half of Microfilm. Here is his solo track from his ep “Meantime”:
Microfilm / Matthew Mercer “No No No” [MP3]
Lets continue this thread with a short interview:
1. what are you listening to right now?
Matthew Mercer (MM): I’ve been really interested in some of the output from Xela’s Type label, notably Sylvain [...]
Pic: The Grumpies via Mad Decent
So that’s where Gang of Four royalties went…..as I sit in my hotel room in London at dawn after a great day and night of recording I think to myself, what should we do with these new songs…? More later.
The Economist reports on the recording industry’s problems.
“The smallest major labels, [...]
Photos by Ingrid Renan
Panther began as a one-man project but on the new album, 14KT God, Panther is now a two-headed beast comprised of Charlie Salas-Humara (The Planet The) on vocals, cello, guitar, and keys and Joe Kelly (31 Knots) on drums. Twice the fun basically.
For those of you non-Portland based readers here’s a snip [...]
Hi, nothing happened today….but you should write about it
Billboard reports that Radiohead is #1 on the Billboard chart with “only” 122,000 albums sold, of course they then remember that Radiohead has been giving away the album and also selling it direct to fans since last October. Billboard also reports that Radiohead is touring the USA, [...]
Comcast’s Fancast site
Back to business. The CES conference, brought to us by the Consumer Electronics Association, has been taking place all week in Las Vegas. It’s a gadget geek fest, no doubt. New products are rolled out to great fanfare…or not. I heard that one hit attraction was the Nemo-branded Blackbird gaming machine from HP. [...]