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Radiohead MP3s Tomorrow

By On October 9, 2007 · 1 Comment

I decided to pay £10 for the new Radiohead album IN RAINBOWS the other day. It was a pay what you want deal online. I just got an email saying that the files will be available for download tomorrow.

HERE IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DOWNLOAD:

THE ALBUM WILL COME AS A 48.4MB [...]

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YOU determine Radiohead’s Album Cost

By On October 2, 2007 · 1 Comment

The NYTimes is reporting that Radiohead’s upcoming album “In Rainbows” will be available for download Oct. 10. Only the entire album, in non DRM audio files, will be available for download. At the same time they are selling a box of vynl, cds, etc from their website.

Nothing new here ‘cept they will, [...]

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Head On by JAMC

By On September 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment

My favorite memories of college were hanging out with friends and listening to music. Some tunes automatically send adrenaline running through my body. The song “Head On” by The Jesus and Mary Chain is one of them. I’m enjoying reading about the album this song is from, Automatic. (Thanks Wikipedia community!)

Sometime in [...]

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Happy Birthday Sgt. Pepper!

By On June 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment

My first Beatles album was Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I found it along with The Beatles White Album hidden away with my moms records somewhere. I preceded to play Sgt. Pepper so much I remember my Mom telling me to turn it off. Thanks for the records Mom!

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Listening to “Spirits in the Material World”

By On May 27, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Got my record player hooked back up. The first album I randomly selected to listen to was The Police’s Ghost in the Machine. The first song Spirits in the Material World strikes a cord with me. Here are the lyrics.

There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
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Will DRM disapear?

By On February 7, 2007 · 1 Comment

This is my favorite part of Steve Jobs letter Thoughts on Music:

The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell [...]

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Matryomin

By On February 4, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A description of this wonderful music by YouTube user sasayakanaru:

This electronic musical instrument is called “Matryomin“. This was developed by Japanese musician [Masami Takeuchi] ,made by the base of “Theremin” and Russian dall “Matryoshka“.The interval and the volume are controlled by holding up the hand in [...]

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Help The Coup and Mr. Lif recover from bus Crash

By On December 21, 2006 · Leave a Comment

I just found out from Ruby who found out from Dav that the wonderful radical hiphop groups The Coup and Mr. Lif where in a bus crash. They lost everything except their lives. Many of them are seriously injured. Thankfully no one was killed. From Boots blog:

We lost everything in [...]

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Fight the Power of Blue Elvis

By On December 5, 2006 · Leave a Comment

A few mornings ago when I was pre-coffee the first song I heard was Elvis’s Blue Christmas. It was the studio version with the psychedelic background vocals. They sounded like fairies that enjoyed just a bit too much of their own dust. I liked the melody so much I immediately started writing this blog post [...]

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John Zorn Naked City Batman

By On November 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Artist: John Zorn
Band: Naked City
Song: Batman

Dear God there is a lot of John Zorn stuff on YouTube!

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