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 […]
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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RIP Lucky Dube…
“Every number, represents a human being who was a father, who was a mother a son or a daughter of this land…oh it ain’t worth my life…oh you are here today, tomorrow you are gone you don’t wanna be another number in the book” Luck Dube, “The Other Side” It is with heavy heart that […]
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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Oh god, that’s plain old awesome…
In possibly some of the best news I’ve heard all year, Peter Hook has signed up Liam Gallagher, Ian Brown and Echo + The Bunnymen frontman Ian Mcculloch to form a new supergroup. The New Order bassist, Hook, formed Free Bass with former The Smiths bass man Mikey Rourke and Primal Scream star Mani after […]
Sigh. I can’t believe I’m mentioning her name in this blog at all, but given past posts, it deserves a mention. Found via Techcrunch, it appears that Madonna is (in a way) following suit. While she is not offering free to public music just yet (ala NIN and Radiohead), it appears that Madonna has dumped […]
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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In Rainbows arrived…
After much wait, “In Rainbows” is now playing on my computer as I type. There’s a feeling of ambivalence for me here. The problem, for me, is that in some parts, Radiohead sounds even… well… slightly generic. Recalling hints of Muse and other contemporaries in parts. Now, this is itself is not a […]