24 Thursday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
Röyksopp have finally announced the details of the successor to Junior, senior. to be released on September 13th. More details
Röyksopp announce new album release date and tracklisting | News | NME.COM. The album isn’t yet listedon Amazon.
18 Friday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
On September 28th, Vagrant Records will release the latest studio album from Pete Yorn. Produced by Frank Black (The Pixies), this visceral 11-song collection follows Yorn’s two 2009 releases. Back & Fourth, hailed as “haunting” by Entertainment Weekly. While Rolling Stone said, “Yorn has found his voice on Back and Fourth, a mostly acoustic beauty.” It was followed in September by Break Up, a collaboration with Scarlett Johansson that Paste said “succeeds in its ambitious goal of capturing the spirit – if not the sound – of the late 60’s musical partnership between Serge Giansbourg and Brigette Bardot.” Yorn’s forthcoming album, a self-titled volume with a plain black cover, was recorded on the spur-of-the-moment, in the summer of 2008. Yorn was in the middle of making Back & Fourth in Nebraska when he got an email from Black suggesting that they record some tunes. Intrigued by the notion of experimenting with Frank, Yorn hopped a plane to Salem, OR, where the two set up an impromptu studio. They recorded the album in a mere five days – even though the singer-songwriter-guitarist came down with the flu two days into the process.
more info at Columbia
07 Monday Jun 2010
Posted in General
How To Destroy Angels, the new band featuring Mariqueen Maandig, Trent Reznor, and Atticus Ross are releasing their debut EP as a free download on June 1st. If you pre-order you’ll get one new track, “The Believers,” immediately. A selection of merchandise is also available.
05 Saturday Jun 2010
Posted in General
This is one of a bunch of photos taken from arecent Faithless gig – checkout Flickr account for more.
05 Saturday Jun 2010
Posted in Technology
Continuous Integration is a development best practice that you need to be using in your process; it is an essential part of an efficient Software Development Lifecycle (SLDC). If you aren’t using it already, then you should start, now. The main benefit of Continuous Integration is the ability to flag errors as they are introduced into a system instead of waiting multiple days for test failures and critical errors to be identified during the QA cycle. This post isn’t about the virtues of using CI, it’s about how to setup an optimal environment in a Maven shop. Here are seven tips for running Maven builds in a CI system such as Hudson.
via Sonatype Blog » Maven Continuous Integration Best Practices.
05 Saturday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
over the last year we’ve compiled a whole bunch of good remixes for ‘wait for me’, so today we’re releasing them in one place (or 2 cd’s). there’s even a special little web site for the remixes:
04 Friday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
Ray LaMontagne is set to his new album, Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs – God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise on August 17, 2010!
Entirely self produced (for the first time) God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise was recorded in two weeks at LaMontagne’s home in the woods of western Massachusetts.
04 Friday Jun 2010
Posted in Music
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Apparatjik, Coldplay, EP, free, MP3
Apparatjik, the side-project of Coldplay’s Guy Berryman have announced details of a free EP.
Called ‘4 Can Keep A Secret If 3 Of Them Are Dead’, the 3-track digital release is the combined work of Berryman, A-Ha’s Magne Furuholmen, Mew’s Jonas Bjerre and Martin Terefe.
Including the songs ‘Antlers’, ‘Look Kids (Premix AA) Diskjokke A’ and ‘4 Can Keep A Secret If 3 Of Them Are Dead’, the EP is available to download from the group’s website EyeOnCommittee.com.
Meanwhile, the band’s debut album ‘We Are Here’ will re-released in both standard and deluxe formats on June 15.
via Coldplay side-project Apparatjik announce free EP details | News | NME.COM.
29 Saturday May 2010
Posted in Music
Amazon maybe consistently one of the cheapest places to buy music, but you can often pickup some jems from other places such as recordstore.co.uk. For example you can pickup a number of signed copies of albums and/or limited editions. In terms of price – the only real difference is postage unless you order over £50. So always worth checking out. I’ve ordered my copy of the next Delays album (Star Tiger Star Ariel) from RecordStore.co.uk
29 Saturday May 2010
Posted in Music
The latest Peter Gabriel podcast has some fine news. Aside from extending his Red Blood (no guitars, no drums, orchestra) tour which features his Scratch My Back album on which I’ve already blogged, Peter has said he will take the Orchestra back into the studio to record the reworking of his own songs. The recording could be out later this summer. Then he is going to pick up his original album project again.
Only dissappointment is the new dates don’t include a return to the UK.
It is still early, but Scratch My Back may make the album of the year in my books.
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