In a week when endless words are being spent deconstructing the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life and legacy, This video provides a stunningly powerful example of the role of music at the opposite end of the spectrum. Bant Singh is a singer and farmer from Punjab, India. His story is told in detail on the […]
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Michael Jackson Dead Aged 50
Wow, bit of a surprise this one. I didn’t know he was ill, or any more ill than he always appears to be. The LATimes are just now reporting that his death has been confirmed A proper nutcase, and quite a scary one at times. But also a musical genius. When teamed up with Quincey […]
The Death Of Myspace And How To Save It.
Hypebot just ran a story about Myspace Losing 66% Of Their International Staff, Including the possibility of scrapping most of their world offices (including the one in India, but not China as that’s a separate company). Here’s the comment I posted: Myspace lost it when they refused to update their design, to open up the […]
Recycle Week – Suggest a Pledge.
Next week has been declared ‘Recycle Week’ – have a look at the website here. So, suggestions for cool pledges? Have you already pledged? what did you post? (feel free to link to your pledge, so we can keep an eye on whether you maintain it or not 😉 ). If the pledges-to-make-the-world-a-better-place idea appeals […]
Mos Def’s New Album Released As A T-Shirt.
Found via @mattstevensloop on twitter – “New Mos Def album to be embedded in a T-Shirt“ (link to NME news pages). “Each shirt has a hang-tag printed with a URL and a unique code allowing the purchaser to download the music from the album.“ So c’mon, other possible ways of releasing an album? Let’s brainstorm!
Indie MP3 Sale!
Amazon.co.uk today have had a massive MP3 sale, with lots of albums going for 29p. Some great stuff, much of which I’ve bought. But, there’s no indie stuff there, largely because none of us manage our own catalogues on there, so can’t change prices at will – CDBaby or ReverbNation or whoever did the deal, […]
If You Were Curating Meltdown…
Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown is well underway in London – the one downside of Lo and I heading of to Geneva this weekend was that we missed seeing The Roots at the Festival Hall, as part of the fest. Shame.
How Do You Keep Track, And How Do You Share?
I’ve been wondering about how you lovelies a) keep track of blogs and news that you read, and b) how – if at all – you share it with other people.
Twitter Hype?
This BBC Article picks up on a thing that was going around yesterday about ‘bursting the bubble of the hype around twitter’ – apparently most twitter users only post once and don’t have any followers, ergo, it’s all balls.
“Oh No! I’m Beached As!”
Favourite current silly thing on youtube: (worth watching, or you won’t understand when I reference it copiously at all future gigs – thanks to @dubber for the link)