More weird album covers - hilarious & disturbing

The 20 Weirdest Album Covers: A Definitive List

Morning music links

The Annoying Sound Stores Use To Drive Youngins Away

The 14 most outrageous guitars on the internet

Colleges ready to try blanket music licenses from Choruss

Songsmith Rewrites the Classics

Ticketmaster CEO Amenable to Sale of TicketsNow

Morning music links

Michael Jackson’s arcade games to be auctioned off on April 24th

Inside the Isle of Man's £1/month unlimited music plan

Recording Engineer James Lock, 1939-2009 [former Chief Engineer at Decca in UK]

Music Labels Reach A New Low, Sue Developer For Using Seeqpod API

Yet another Watchmen related blogosphere post

Watchmen composer says he's no "comic geek"

Morning music links

Page, Barenaked Ladies part ways

TicketMaster and Live Nation Face the Music in Congress

Depeche Mode first band to offer new "iTunes Pass" promo

Morning music links

Ticketmaster Agrees To Stop Linking To TicketsNow

Apogee Dumps Windows, Tells Users Macs are Better

Roland V Piano: UK Premiere

Unreleased Beatles Revolution 1 surfaces online

More bands flocking to App Store: Pussycat Dolls, Soulja Boy

Imeem Lets You Sync Your Music Library With Your Android Mobile

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Music linked to teen sex habits

iPod Safety: Preventing Hearing Loss in Teens

Monday cheer

A bunch of Charlie Chaplins dancing to "Whipped Cream". Can't go wrong.

Morning links

News & Headlines


RIAA denies rumors that Last.fm turned over user data

Webcasters: still (!) no deal on streaming royalties

Music-swapping Sites To Be Blocked By Irish ISPs

U2's label leaked No Line On The Horizon

Average iPhone app usage declines rapidly after first download


Cool stuff


Kyte Offers Branded iPhone Apps for Celebrities and Musicians

Wii Remote as Ableton Live MIDI controller

Self-Tuning Piano

Concert for the Deaf

AT-AT Walker Boombox

"The voice of God is now under military control"

A New Direction For Sound

Woody Norris has invented a system which provides much more control over sound waves. In fact, his speakers are so directional that you could listen to music in bed at full volume and the person beside you would not hear a thing.

18 of the Best Music Tumblelogs

18 of the Best Music Tumblelogs

I had to look this one up on Wikipedia:

"A tumblelog is a variation of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, tumblelogs are frequently used to share the author's creations, discoveries, or experiences while providing little or no commentary."

..aaaand now I know.

A note about backing things up.

Back up your files. Do it now.

I lost my iTunes library file the other day when the power went out... luckily I had recently backed it up. No music was lost but a great deal of damage was done to my play counts. Back it up!

Must listen edition

Double Night Time

Recommended by my friend Matt, this is an excellent electronica album featuring Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys. Every cut is solid, but my favs are "Most of All", and "Ruthless City". Awesome.

Also: Junior Boys in Toronto March 28-29 at the Mod Club. Get your tickets now! Can't wait for that new album.

Alan Moore knows the score

I don't why I keep going, honestly.

I fucking hate this band with a passion, and to see them covering Dylan for the Watchmen soundtrack makes me want to gouge out my eyes and shove metal spikes into my ears. Speechless otherwise, utterly speechless. This kind of bullshit is why Alan Moore's name isn't going to be anywhere near the film.

Saturday Rodeo

Caught this on MuchMoreRetro the other day, Blue Rodeo's "Trust Yourself". Apparently this person caught it there too. It's actually a decent tune, if a bit twangy. Good song for beating the Winter Blues.

This year's Junos, in a word.

Travesty:

1. a literary or artistic burlesque of a serious work or subject, characterized by grotesque or ludicrous incongruity of style, treatment, or subject matter.

Thanks to Nickelback for having another great year! Who knew??

Junos

Popular Swedish music diversions

I finally got around to listening to this one... A lot of praise has been showered on Lykke Li. I'm not really feeling it, style over substance here mostly. Usually I hear "dexterously ties together synth pop and arty excursions, all with the underpinnings of a singer-songwriter album" and I'm already dozing off.

"I'm Good I'm Gone" is a good one, though.


Youth Novels

The audio guy wins again

My friend Nicole sent me this one -- Christian Bale blows up at a Director of Photography:
http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/020209_christianbale.mp3

I'm not sure whether this weakens or strengthens his case for being on my favourite actor list.

Finally did it,

Listened to Chad VanGaalen. Highly recommended. From Skelliconnection, "Flower Gardens":



This one kinda reminds me of Queens of the Stone Age, in the good indie way.