Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Portland’s 94.7 FM starts New Music Hour, weeknights at 8PM

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

New Music Hour from 94.7 and a locals-only HD channel
I was chatting with 94.7FM Program Director, Mark Hamilton, the other day about FM radio and how it used to be the place for everyone to discover new music. It’s no exaggeration to say that today music fans have many ways to hear the latest and [...]

Of Montreal, new album available by Lantern, Wall Stickers, T-shirt and more

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Brilliant! This was exactly the way I wanted to release new Gang of Four material. Of Montreal’s new album ‘Skeletal Lamping’ will be released on CD of course and as a 180 gramme double vinyl set but, even better, it can be had in MP3 format when you purchase a variety of goodies from Polyvinyl. [...]

Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head and That Go

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

natalie portman’s shaved head - sophisticated side ponytail from thatgo on Vimeo.
Today’s Digital Youth are already well-versed in Trust and Fame, they understand very clearly that their song, their video, is only as good as the one that went before it on YouTube unless it is awesome, catchy and fun. Seattle’s Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head [...]

TalkingHeads.com url can be yours for $30,000

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Go here to make your bid for www.talkingheads.com

Viral Vinyl, Tallulah Rendall trying something new

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

British singer-songwriter Tallulah Rendall is doing the right thing - accepting that her fans are music downloaders and accommodating them. Rendall’s newest single, “Only You,” is to be released on “viral vinyl.” This means that anyone who attends her show at Bush Hall on August 6th receives the vinyl single wrapped in artwork, a short [...]

Wall-E, a parable for our eventual extinction

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I love coincidence. Coincidence I mention because as I reach the end of John Gray’s book, Straw Dogs, for the third time in as many years, I read chapter 20, ‘The Soul In The Machine,’ an hour before leaving the cabin this weekend. On arriving home last night I caught up with Friday’s edition of [...]

Scanner, electronic tattoos and Philips Design

Friday, June 27th, 2008

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 [...]

mr ballistic goes ballistic

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Who is the mystery that is Mr. Ballistic? Lets not get bogged down in details this dj knows his stuff.
via itunes:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=282247514
other feed based apps:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/mrBallisticMix
direct mp3 download:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mrBallisticMix/~5/319485883/mrBallistic_24June08.mp3
tracklist:
Cut Copy / Going Nowhere
Midnight Juggernauts / Shadows (std and david rubato remix mashed together live)
Boy 8 Bit / Fogbank
Count of Monte Cristal / B-More Forward
Boy 8 Bit / [...]