What to do with 4133 frames of video, a D-SLR and a printer with plenty of ink and paper…
Max Tyrie’s Hand Made Modest Mouse Video: http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/05/shit_were_diggin_max_tyries_hand_made_mo.html
(Via: Photojojo)
New to me that is. Slightly less late to the party than I was with OK, Computer (10 years after release !), I’ve found a lot to listen to in the SXSW torrent files. Over 5GB, in fact. The 2006 torrents are still available and contain names that I’ve certainly become aware [...]
The ‘local noise’ entry in the sidebar is now active with last.fm’s Flash based widget and shows the most recent tracks I’ve been listening too. Not that exciting, really (especially with my current addition to OK Computer – just shy of 10 years late to this party…) apart from the fact that the little [...]
From Tim, who obviously thinks I need a distraction:
whomix – doctor who theme remixes: http://whomix.trilete.net/
What a lot of work – a few select examples also came with the link, with my favourite being the Nyman one:
Nyman: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=45
007: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=167
Flamenco: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=106
Morse: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=97
Piano: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=169
Cyberdisco: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=120
Ambient: http://whomix.trilete.net/download.php?remixid=128
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Unsigned band make chart history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6260995.stm
Number 31. Now I might just have to find out what they sound like, but to be honest that secondary to what they’ve done:
“Murphy added that they had been contacted by a number of big record labels, including one who recently turned them down.”
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Unsigned band set to crash charts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6248535.stm
Unsigned, and tipped to make the UK Top 40: not without plenty of hard work (500 live shows), but with a cracking quote:
“If someone comes along and gives us an offer, we’ll talk to them.
But it depends whether we need it. If we can [...]
Canadian Music Creators Coalition: A New Voice: http://www.musiccreators.ca/
This is very satisfying to see: artists signed to (major) labels publicly gathering to point out that the aims and desires of the Artists are not the same as those of Labels themselves.
“…not in our names…” is a very apposite statement indeed, and it behoves the labels to [...]