What Happens When A Song Is Played On Xfm Scotland? from Xfm Scotland on Vimeo.
Some things just make me happy….

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The thinking shed
I suppose it was inevitable. The same day the Gang of Four news broke I received a letter from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) asking me to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The IFPI has every right to ask me to comply with the law as it [...]

I’m asking the question and my answer would be yes it possibly could - here’s why. I no longer listen to terrestrial radio. I can honestly say that it has failed me. I recall with great pleasure pretending to be asleep at night as a teenager listening to John Peel deep under my bed covers [...]

The geeky bits are this. Podcasts are a lot more interesting if you are actually out and about and on the go and quite silly if you are sitting at home at your computer. BBC has released an iPhone specific page to listen to BBC/Radio 1 podcasts.
Go here: bbc.co.uk/podcasts
Listening to Scott Mills now. He’s asking [...]

A new study from Paragon Media Strategies found that nearly three-quarters of 14-24-year-olds spend most of their music-listening time with music sources other than radio — and when they do listen to radio, they’re looking to hear new music.
“New songs/fresh/something different” was the leading reason for listening to over-the-air radio among the 474 14-24-year-old [...]

My favorite colour is blue
Anyone who has seen Radiohead’s documentary, Meeting People Is Easy, will relate to this - Sigur Ros were interviewed on NPR and unfortunately they don’t quite live up to the part where you are supposed to answer the interviewers questions. When Good Interviews Go Bad. There’s a good argument here for [...]

I phoned in an interview to Blog Fresh Radio last week. Blog Fresh is your weekly roundup of what’s happening on the music blogs. I get to ramble on about blogging and covering the Portland music scene and get to plug Eskimo & Sons too.
Blog Fresh Radio [MP3]

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So I listen to KCRW and KEXP’s internet radio streams at some point each day from the comfort of the Moose desktop computer but now it seems I can access those streams on the go - read on.
Excerpt: …..to listen to Internet radio, you pretty much have to sit at your computer all day. Why [...]