Over on goodhodgkins, the writer has collected songs from the blogosphere (stupid word) that have a live version that sounds better than the studio version. One fun bit of data, one of the songs he notes is Radiohead’s Like Spinning Plates, where he finds the live performance much better. The performance he speaks [...]
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The Advantage – Elf Titled
The Advantage are back with their new sophomore album, “Elf Titled”. Being my favorite in the seemly ever growing category of NES cover bands, they have always stood out for their exacting precision to the actual music itself. No “interpretation” for them, but each of the band members each cover one of the [...]
Pandora
I wish I could remember where I found the link to Pandora.
What is Pandora? It’s an incredible webapplication that answers the question, “If I like xxx band, then what are other bands I might like?”, and in the end Pandora does a great job of answering this question. It’s simple to [...]
Music Files – V1.0
Been listening to a bit of new music recently:
Demon Days – Gorillaz I was a big fan of the Gorillaz first release, enjoying both the concept of the fake band of performers, as well as the great mix of styles of music that made up the entire album. Demon Days does not [...]
Gates vs. Jobs
The NY Times has an excellent article on the Apple/Microsoft showdown in the digital music realm. The IPod versus whatever Microsoft cooks up as a solution. Go Apple.
Bluegrass Radiohead – Rodeohead
In a bit of very randomness, here’s Rodeohead, a bluegrass rendition of a few of Radiohead’s songs. Kinda fun.
Summer Darling
An old friend of mine is in a band. I’ve watched him from his days as a drummer who couldn’t keep time to being a stunning lyricist and songwriter. His band, Summer Darling has just released their new album.
On the website they have a couple of songs available for listen as [...]
Fourth Gen iPods
With the annoucement of the fourth generation iPods, I’m thinking the day I get one is approaching more quickly. Now it’s sleeker, cheaper, and still retains that sexy look. The 20GB model is coming down to $299, and that will just be right in my price point range. Should be a nice [...]
Linky linky
- Cnet has a great article on how the iPod is undermining Microsoft’s efforts at being the DRM king (DRM = Digital Rights Management). With iPods being the hip new accessory these days, people are complaining that the Microsoft encoded files included on some newer releases, won’t play on their iPod. When consumers [...]