Starting today, Rhapsody launches a new DRM-free, MP3 downloading service and they’ve also partnered with iLike, MTV Networks and Yahoo. The new service obviously challenges Apple’s iTunes service as Apple sticks to its allegiance to DRM on behalf of the record companies. And given that you can preview an entire MP3 file before you buy [...]
Scanner, the UK-based experimental music artist aka Robin Rimbaud, has partnered with electronics company, Philips, in a short film.
Tattoos and physical mutilation are amongst the oldest forms of personal expression and identity. Subcultures have used tattoos as a form of self representation; a visual language communicating personality and status. Philips Design examined the growing [...]
One of my favorite bands, The Notwist, have lined up a whole slew of dates that have them starting out in the summer in Europe then heading to the USA this fall. Touring in support of their rather wonderful new album, The Devil, You + Me they arrive in Portland to play Berbatis Pan, October [...]
Shugo Tokumaru, the Japanese noise-pop purveyor, will release a new album ‘Exit’ stateside on September 2nd, 2008. That might seem a ways off so to help you with the wait here’s a cut from the album, ‘Parachute,’ that shows off the organic/electronic elements of Tokumaru’s work - almost-latin rhythms, dueling acoustic guitars, xylophone and hand [...]
Rearrangerologyistics is the anomalous musical pop of Jordan Blum, an ecstatic revelation, an exalting singular upbeat and revealing half hour of music, where instruments weave in and out of falsetto vocals acting as golden anchors. All told, the album is the most complete work to date for Dykeritz, the latest in a line of 14 [...]
Another one in, hopefully, a long line of future electronic submissions, i.e. no brown package in the mail. The Moose, single-handedly saving trees one post at a time. Computer Vs Banjo’s debut CD is out now. Official site and their MySpace.
Computer Vs Banjo - Magazine Queen (Ninja Simone Remix)
Radiohead continue their release onslaught, seemingly determined to bring us everything-head that we might possibly need. I look forward to Radiohead tea coseys. The news today is that we can now purchase, via iTunes, a slew of videos from the In Rainbows sessions brought to us by Nigel Godrich, the producer who works with the [...]
So, Johnny Penn and Aaron Aujla aka, Bikini, took note of my submission policy, that means they win the top spot. For multiple reasons actually - 1. I like their laid back electro beats and pulses. 2. They sent in a jpeg along with the MP3s. 3. They’re good. And 4. They made my day [...]