How it feels to be sued for $4.5m
Trial starts today for Joel Tannenbaum in his file sharing case. He’s written a piece for The Guardian about How it feels to be sued for $4.5m
Articles by Mark Zip
Somerville Rock & Roll Yard Sale
August 1 Somerville MA. From 3 to 7 (Farmers Market in the morning) Union Square Plaza SOMERVILLE ROCK & ROLL YARD SALE
NYT – Collectors of 78 R.P.M. Discs Have Those Hard-to-Find Blues
It’s always nice to know that there are people on earth who are even more oddly obsessed than we are…. right? Collectors of 78 R.P.M. Discs Have Those Hard-to-Find Blues – NYTimes.com.
Ultimate Limited Edition Record = Too Cool
1 copy. Glued to a working turntable. TT lid inscribed with lyrics and monogram. Nuts! Bob Hund – Fantastiskt.
VLC player hits 1.0 – Best multimedia player anywhere
The single best media player for your computer, VLC, just hit version 1.0 today. If you have ever had trouble playing media on the web, this is the one for you. It plays everything. I’ve never hit anything it can’t play. Also, it takes up waaaay fewer resources on the computer. It does not load a ton of extras like Apples awful Quicktime and MS Media player. See a longer article about it at Cnet. Ans download it her: VideoLAN – Download from mirror
Remarkable collaborative video – Sour “Hibi no neiro”
I cannot imagine the planning and work that went into this…
Sounds that make you plotz (Or, Why Remixes Matter)
(Disclaimer: At the risk of pissing you off before we even start, this post works best if you have a sub attached to your system. I know, I know… Hey, headphones will do in a pinch) Sounds that make you plotz I was going to entitle this post “Best Remix of the Year So Far” and merely reference the awesome Nero remix of The Streets’ “Blinded By The Light”. But then I was talking with a kid at robot job about how I thought a great remix can be more/better than the original track. He did not believe me and…
The Guardian’s twittering Glastonbury
Glastonbury 2009: Follow our Twitter updates throughout the festival | Music | guardian.co.uk .
Steven Wells Says Goodbye
RIP Swells – He was equally annoying and entertaining, and never pulled punches. His takedowns of pompous and self important NME faves were always worth reading. Steven Wells Says Goodbye (Philadelphia Weely)
Staff Benda Bilili – “Je T’aime”
Thanks to Raissa for this. That “lute/tin can” sound has been torturing me for a coupla weeks. Now I know where it comes from. Downloading from emusic now…
Sonic Youths
SFJ with a Lee Renaldo memoir of seeing/hearing/experiencing Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio for the first time: Sonic Youths
NOW! Major Lazer streaming new CD
At their MySpace page: Major Lazer on MySpace Music (sorry for the Myspace link, but what can one do ;=) NYC headz note live show at SOBs Saturday June 13th 2009
Tune of the Summer: Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden – Bonkers
I simply cannot stop playing it. It’s the nastiest bass noise for a long time and it’s just hit #1 in the UK. Awesome!
TuneCore, Amazon Set to Unveil On-Demand CD Sales
They’ve been doing burned CDRs in the classical realm for a while. Now the virtual and “real” mucic scenes are merging. Good. The more options they give folks, the more likely that overall music sales benefit. TuneCore, Amazon Set to Unveil On-Demand CD Sales | Wired.com.
Must read: “What your favorite Dead song says about you”
What your favorite Dead song says about you (Slate Magazine) Hilarious, and too close to the mark for some (including a whole bunch of my contemporaries at “a small liberal arts college in upstate NY”). I’ll admit that I never “got” the Dead. And possibly never got over having to explain that a radio show called “Dead at the Controls” would not contain any Dead…
Gig of the year?? – Kode 9, Flying Lotus, Zomby & Martyn
Possibly the gig of the year: New York Voice Choices – Brainfeeder NYC Presents Kode 9, Flying Lotus, Zomby & Martyn If you are going, please make sure to tell us about it…
Christgau – Poptastic Bye-Bye – ARTicles
Christgau on his recent peregrinations. Including Voice, stone, Blender and more. Really, theses days, who would want to be a writer? Poptastic Bye-Bye – ARTicles. (NAJP.org)
NotAtSXSW | Staying home? Share your experience
A site collating all tweets with the hashtag #notatsxsw (awwwww, don’t you feel sorry for them…) NotAtSXSW | Staying home? Share your experience.
1000 songs everyone must hear
Including sections on “Love”, “Heartbreak” and “People and Places”. If you have Javascripting on you can check off the ones you like and then generate html to insert into your own blog etc… 1000 songs everyone must hear | Music | guardian.co.uk .
Beyond Gossip, Good and Evil
Jay Smooth over at Ill-Doctrine gives space to Elizabeth Mendez Berry to expand on the remarks she made when he interviewed her about the Rhianna / Chris Brown idiocy. The video interview from several weeks back is worth a look, but the new piece she just wrote is even better. Nuanced, clear, well researched and reported, and some truly horrifying stats about intimate partner violence in the US…. Beyond Gossip, Good and Evil and Illdoc at SXSW.