Rilo Kiley released a new album, Under the Blacklight, a couple of weeks ago. On opening it, I was excited. The jewel case is tinted purple, and I suspect that it actually glows under a blacklight. The booklet contains no text and is full of pictures of the band seemingly exploring the [...]
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On Rilo Kiley
Posted in Music, neat new things on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
this blog post is for promotional use only
Posted in Copyright, IP, Music on August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred Von Lohmann (whom I adore, p.s.) explains why EFF is involved in a new suit against Universal Music Group involving first sale rights:
The “first sale” doctrine expresses one of the most important limitations on the reach of copyright law. The idea, set out in Section 109 of the Copyright [...]
we must have been very, very good kids this year
Posted in Music, Pop Culture on August 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh my, what have we done to deserve this? A new Rilo Kiley album AND a new Wes Anderson movie being released this Aug./Sept.!?! If only Elliott Smith would come back to life, my little hipster heart would be complete.
punkass mash-ups
Posted in Mash-Ups, Music on July 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Punkass Marc has been mashing up some Radiohead with hip-hop, and it’s pretty awesome. That’s all.
I am tragically unhip
Posted in Copyright, Fair Use, Mash-Ups, Music on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have never heard anything by Girl Talk.
I’ve heard of Girl Talk, I’ve just never heard any of his music (perhaps making me not “tragically” unhip, but just minimally unhip). For those who, like me, are whatever variety of unhip in these matters, Girl Talk is a mash-up artist (real name Gregg Gillis). He [...]
the Perfect Feel Good Hits of Summer 2007 Mix Tape® post
Posted in Music, Pop Culture on June 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Feminist issues, libertarian issues, Web geekery, musings on the mediated world …When we started this blog a few months ago, we had some ideas of things we were going to post about. Nothing concrete, but general issues. Guidelines, perhaps. “Soft politics,” you might call it — things that are culturally and politically relevant, but not [...]
“Isn’t this the home of Dischord Records? … Shouldn’t you guys have some balls?”
Posted in DC, Music on June 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A Complicated Man
Originally uploaded by xxo23o
The above is a taunt from the lead singer of The Bitter Tears, after no one in the audience would join in an improv game during one of the band’s songs that involved shouting out a preposterous situation to be [...]
Violins v. iPods
Posted in City Life, Music on April 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I just read this article.The opening graphs:
“HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. [...]
I’ll keep stealing, thank you very much
Posted in Business, Music on March 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve often wondered (hypothetically and from afar, because I don’t pay for music from the internet), what happens when a person buys a song from iTunes, and then later they decide they want the whole album. I guess people have been buying the album in its entirety, creating a duplicate of the single and spending [...]
indie CD sales up despite music industry digital-doom-mongering?
Posted in Music, Pop Culture, Tech Policy on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
iTunes may have killed the radio star, but not the indie rocker: sales of physical cds for independent musicians has increased 30 percent over the past year, according to Derek Sivers, the founder of CD Baby (an online store selling indie cds) in a press conference for the Rock the Net coalition yesterday.
Via Harold [...]
Amie Street
Posted in Music, Technology on February 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Via Springwise, a new music site that charges for song downloads based on how popular the songs are. Amie Street starts of making every song available for free, then increases the price of the download, up to a whole 98 cents (still cheaper than iTunes!), based on how many people have downloaded the song.
Another [...]
To spread the music or not?
Posted in Music, Pop Culture on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a site I’ve been going to for a while. Again, I’ve just been sitting on it. So here it is to share, I just got some free Bright Eyes. I’d recommend The Hong Kong and Human Television but there is a lot of other good free music to play with.
links for 2007-01-20
Posted in Copyright, Music, Random on January 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Universal and Sony prohibit Zune sharing for certain songs
When Microsoft rolled out the term “squirting” for wifi sharing between Zunes, I started calling it the Dirty Sanchez. Now, it looks like it’s not even that. It’s a constipated Dirty Sanchez. The metaphor could continue, but I think you’ve got the idea.
Violent Acres
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