Crawdaddy have a fascinating article describing the lyrical origins of Iggy Pop’s most famous anthem – I Wanna Be Your Dog. An interesting and worthwhile read.
Origin of the song -I Wanna Be Your Dog
05 Thursday Jun 2008
Posted in Music
Category Archives: Music
Ray LaMontagne – next album details
04 Wednesday Jun 2008
Posted in Music
The Details of Ray LaMontagne’s next album have been announced. The album is to be called Gossip In The Grain and will be released on 9th September 2008. Produced by Ethan Johns at the Realworld Studios. Unlike the first two albums Ray is backed by some of his live touring band.
Websites – http://www.raylamontagne.com/ http://www.facebook.com/raylamontagne
Antipiracy company uses denial of service attack on legitimate media company.
02 Monday Jun 2008
Posted in Music, Technology
According to Digital Music News, MediaDefender an anti-piracy company has used an illegal means to try an shutdown what is a legitimate online media selling service Revision3. Revision3 legally uses bit torrent technologies and as a result of a security hole had servers tricked into acting as a tracker for some illegal content, setup up by MediaDefender by exploiting a security hole according to Revision3. When Revision3 spotted the abuse and shutout MediaDefender it appears to have triggered a denial of service attack (achieved by saturating a web server with too many requests for content). So Revision3’s actions which were correctly taken to prevent their servers from being exploited and used for illegal copying (also the the job of MediaDefender) resulted in the service attack. Reviosn3 has a good description of what the DOS attack is like.
Given MediaDefender’s failure to atleast talk with Revision3 let alone use correct legal channels, has been referred the matter to the FBI as it breaks 12 different statutes including Computer Fraud and Misuse act. Revision3’s news article on the whole event is fascinating insight into how blasé MediaDefender about its actions. Since the attack, MediaDefender have said they’ve updated their policies to first check to see if the server they’re looking at is associated to a legitimate business. Hey, shouldn’t you have been doing that anyway? As Revision3 had said, what if someone had exploited an loophole in security for an emergency service to host a bit torrent tracker which had then been attacked by MediaDefender?
Interestingly most of the information describing what has gone on has come from Revision3, and MediaDefender’s website is particularly quiet on these events.
Sigur Ros free single & new album on the way
02 Monday Jun 2008
Posted in Music
Sigur Ros are following what seems to becoming a common pattern of giving away a free download single to help promote a new album. The new single Gobbledigook can be downloaded as a high quality MP3 from their site – Sigur Ros. The new album is scheduled for release on June 23rd in the UK. Sigur Ross also have a website at http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/.
Record results for music royalties in 2007
27 Tuesday May 2008
Posted in Music
The UK organisations responsible for collecting music royalties have reported here that they have had a record year in collected royalties. Although royalties from physical media sales have dropped by 10% everything else (e.g. public performance, downloads and so on) have been increasing in or near double digit rates giving an overall growth of 3%. The report says …
For the first time, income from broadcasting and online out-performed that of recorded physical product. Online royalties, although still a small proportion of the overall whole (at £10m), grew significantly by 54% year-on-year, largely due to the growth in the legal online music market led by iTunes.
A picture that isn’t too gloomy given the current global economic down turn, although this is only really good news for the artists and composers rather than the record labels themselves.
Hotel Chelsea NYC, Rock’s Vortex Of ‘Death and Destruction’
27 Tuesday May 2008
Posted in Books, Music, Photography
Wired.com have got a neat little article here about the Hotel Chelsea in NYC. This notorious venue perhaps most famous as the location where Sid Vicious allegedly killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, but also the home for a raft of other sordid stories (and a few less sordid such as Arthur C Clarke’s writing of 2001). The hotel is now the subject to a documentary film and photo essay book.
del.icio.us tags: Chelse Hotel, NYC, Wired, documentary, film, photo, book, Sid Vicious, Arthur C Clarke
Jesse Malin – another live album
23 Friday May 2008
Posted in Music
Having only recently released his covers album – “On Your Sleeve“, Jesse Malin is now putting out another live album on June 3rd called “Mercury Retrograde“. The album is getting a limited CD release, and will be generally available through iTunes. The album has 16 tracks recorded Christmas last year at New York’s Mercury Lounge.
Peter Gabriel supports Bowers & Wilkins music club
21 Wednesday May 2008
Posted in Music, Technology
Peter Gabriel is a busy man, quietly helping music in the world of technology, with his work with OD2 (On Demand 2), We7 and now Bowers & Wilkins music club. Bowers & Wilkins are a audiophile speaker manufacturer and wither Peter have indicated that sharing music using MP3s results in a loss of quality. So they have set up a music club through which you can buy high quality music recordings (in the Apple’s loss less audio file format as used in the recording studio) recorded at Peter’s state of the art Real World recording studios. Although not explicitly stated, the indications are from the website’s information is that the music is DRM free. The club costs £33.95 per year for which you get a free album to download every month. You don’t get to choose the artist or album, but initial indications that the artists involved so far are both interesting and diverse in styles so within a year you should get to hear a couple of albums that will appeal to your musical palate, unless you’re exclusively a Spice Girls and Sugababes fan. So far albums have been recorded with blues artist Little Axe (aka Skip MacDonald), Grindhouse and Gwyneth Herbert.
del.icio.us tags: Little Axe, Gwyneth Herbert, Peter Gabriel, Grindhouse, music, club, lossless, Bowers & wilkins, speakers, audiophile
next Peter Gabriel album
20 Tuesday May 2008
Posted in Music
The next Peter Gabriel release isn’t looking like it will be a new solo album as hoped, but the compilation of a ‘recording week’ sessions over the last 15 years at his Real World recording studios in Box, Wiltshire, England. The album Big Blue Ball (so called because of who the Earth appears from space) gas got some teaser material here.
The recording weeks at the Realworld studios have been like super charged jam sessions with lots of Real World artists past and present such as Peter along with Joseph Arthur, Karl Wallinger and a host of other famous, and not so famous names.
Although we’d hope for a follow on to Up, Big Blue Ball should still prove to be very interesting listening given the names that will appear on the album. But like all Gabriel fans we’re wondering when he’ll get onto the next solo outing.
Delays – Southampton Guildhall 17-05-08
19 Monday May 2008
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Delays – Southampton Guildhall 17-05-08
We managed to catch the Delays performing their home town gig on Saturday. Some photos of taken with my camera phone are available on our flickr site – http://photos.mp3monster.org
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