Joy Division - New Order bootlegs

This site came up in my Google Reader. Most of the bootlegs appear to be in .flac format... almost too much to take in all at once.

Fincher's Dragon Tattoo Lady trailer

Leaked version of the trailer for the upcoming US remake of the popular book The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo:



Looks pretty intense. It may also give more fuel to those people who say both David Fincher and Trent Reznor have sold out.

The track is a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", sung by Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and quite obviously a production of the aforementioned Reznor. The excellent track choice works on a couple of levels... The story itself is an immigrant, and the lyrics refer to Valhalla, which is kind of a big deal in Norse mythology.

Auto-tune for Guitars

There might actually be some very creative uses for this... see the article:
Auto-Tune for Guitars Doesn’t Have to be Like Auto-Tune for Vocals; The Digital Guitar Future?

Check out the demo video in the link... insane stuff.

Pop-up Video Returns!

In case you missed it... here's the link.

This may actually get people watching music videos again. Though I wonder if there's a place for this kind of content in the current media landscape. We shall see.

New music from The Weeknd

Link

BTW, you really should check them out...

Vintage Moog Ads Gallery

Check out this cool image gallery:

Gallery: Vintage Moog Ads, Vintage Bob Moog, from the Bob Moog Foundation Archives

50 greatest album covers

Link over at MusicRadar

Trust Google with your music collection

Google Music Beta to stream 20,000 songs for free, official!

Seems almost like they're laying a trap for pirates... but that's just me being paranoid I suppose...

Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate

R.I.P. Nate Dogg

Kanye West - Flashing Lights

The future of Canadian digital policies

Surprisingly optimistic column from Prof. Michael Geist here.

While there will undoubtedly be wins and losses, the majority offers the opportunity to move away from years of policies driven by politics where little actually becomes law to one driven by policy that results in true legal reform. Given the last seven years of minority Liberal and Conservative governments that achieved so little on digital policies, the chance to get something done probably represents the biggest change of all.

Graph showing music industry sales in the last ten years

Ten Years of Music Industry Change, In 10 Seconds Or Less... [via Daily Swarm]