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A New Look for Burgo’s Blog…

This is just a short note to let everyone know (not that you haven’t noticed already), that Burgo’s Blog now has an all-new look… the snazzy theme you’re looking at right now. Last night, over the course of a very few frustrating hours, I decided that it was time to shake things up on the […]

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Those poor ripped-off artists.

Those poor ripped-off artists. Remember when every other post here was about artists allowing digital downloads of their works, for however much you wanted to pay? There have been mixed reports as to how some of those experiments have been going. Did you donate any money for Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” when it came out? No? […]

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Gibson’s “Robot Guitar”

Ok, so this is something we’ve been excited about for a while, but Gibson have released some new pics of their “Robotic Guitar”. No longer must tone-deaf guitar players drown in a sea of irony; the Robot Guitar can tune itself with a simple push of a button. Release date has been slated as the […]

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ProjectPlaylist.com

So another online playlist has hit my radar (only about a year late or so, so I’m getting better!) Anyway, this time the site is projectplaylist, which creates an online playlist for you. The advertising is a bit of a turn off, but the interface itself is very sleek and sexy… The good news… it […]

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Led Zep to sell music online… finally!

Via Reuters, we’ve seen that Led Zeppelin is finally going to release their music to be sold online. Page and Plant has previously indicated that they would only be releasing a 24-track sampler via iTunes, but that tune has now changed, with the announcement that “the complete Led Zeppelin catalogue will now be available digitally”, […]

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Nine Inch Nails, Oasis & Jamiroquai (& The Charlatans) to possibly follow free download trend?

While things are not set in stone now, it looks like the free release of music is sealing the coffin on the current incarnation of the record industry. Following on from his “Steal my shit” speech in Australia last month, Trent Reznor, via the NIN site, released the following statement: I’ve waited a LONG time […]

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Radiohead – In Rainbows

Just a short note to all you Radiohead fanatics… don’t forget, In Rainbows is released in a few hours. Forget? Who are we kidding? I mean… YOU didn’t forget, right?

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Radiohead and Farryl Purkiss

Unfortunately this will have to be a quickie today (no matter how mature you get, that line always gives a twinge of a chuckle), but time waits for no man! So, quickly: The news has spread that Radiohead have placed a price on their new album, “In Rainbows”. The price? Whatever you want to pay […]