26 Wednesday Aug 2009
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Massive Attack have announced a new EP – Splitting the Atom to be released on the 5th October which precedes the long awaited new album early next year. The new album this time around sees collaborations with Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe.
More information at http://special.the-raft.com/massive/ and http://www.massiveattack.co.uk
Splitting The Atom
17 Monday Aug 2009
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Great news The Delays are touring again this autumn – dates here. Hopefully we’ll see another album out soon as well.
In addition to that I checked out a recent Daytrotter session by a group called Copeland. It isn’t heard to imagine this as The Delays in a chilled out mood. worth checking out the session at http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/copeland-involving-us-in-their-autumn-concert/20030783-3738097.html
17 Monday Aug 2009
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According to ateaseweb.com a Radiohead fansite Radiohead have made a new track freely available for downloading and there are strong suggestions of an EP to follow. Downloads can be found here (http://www.waste.uk.com/Store/waste-radiohead-twisted+words.html).
06 Thursday Aug 2009
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04 Tuesday Aug 2009
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New Album Out September 8
Epic Records is proud to announce the September 8th release of Howie Day’s highly anticipated third studio album, SOUND THE ALARM. It’s been close to six years since the singer-songwriter released his last album Stop All The World Now which spawned the massive # 1 hit single, “Collide” and went on to sell over 1 million copies worldwide. The album is a stunning collection of the kind of emotionally resonant, melody-minded pop-rock gems that have earned Day a legion of devoted fans over the past 10 years.
31 Tuesday Mar 2009
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When I travel, I like to hear local sounds, and have to visit a record shops to pickup some decent local tunes. In Oz they really do a good job of promoting music, and local artists in an unadulterated way. On the radio there is Triple J (funded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) who dont waste hours of time blathering on like Chris Moyles or Terry Wogan, there is chat but a lot more music without falling back to the over hyped boy and girl bands or the safest of safe choices; I mean Wolfmother got an interview during peaktime breakfast show. The musc is pretty varied within a show as well – no fear of going from Lily Allen to Nine Inch Nails to Nouvelle Vague doing an acoustic cover of the Sex Pistols God Save The Queen.
Then rather than having songs editted, cut or bleebed for language, the DJ will quickly warn of language, and let the song go.
The really surprising thing is despite the promotion of local bands, the amount of British music played is amazing, Lily Allen, The Prodigy, Coldplay and the list goes on.
31 Tuesday Mar 2009
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Well I’m out in Australia for several weeks on assignment for my employer, which is why my blogging has been fairly quiet as I’ve had to try and prepare for the trip, plus address my usual work load.
The attitude towards ipods seems to be very different here in Australia compared to the UK is very different. In the UK it is generally held that you don’t flash your ipod and best to swap those white ear buds for generic looking headphones (I changed mine although not to generics, but nice Sennheisers). Over here though everyone seems to have an ipod or a clone, and the white buds are de-rigeur and you walk around with the pod in your hand unless your on the mobile.
13 Friday Feb 2009
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According to the NME (here) Fergal Sharkey the former lead singer of The Undertones who now heads an industry representative body has setup a website which will give people the opportunity to feedback to the ‘powers that be’ about their music buying habits. The only problem in my mind is that they’re not interested if you’re over 24 years old. Which I have to say I find a little insulting – I am well outside that age bracket, but still very much clued up about ways to acquire and listen to music; and spend as much or more now than I did when I was 24.
I think that the age banding also assumes you have an understanding of your demographic, but the point of site I thought was to try and understand your consumers. So why not let all contribute and then look at the patterns in the responses.
12 Friday Sep 2008
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artists, concert, FabChannel, Music, performance, streaming, Universal, V2, video
I’ve come across a rather interesting resource called FabChannel.com. FabChannel are providing quality video streams of whole concerts from legitimate sources, either licensed concert recordings from music companies such as Universal and V2 or professional recorded performances from Dutch based venues. The video quality is good enough that it could be expanded to watch full screen with only a small amount of graininess on a 1600x1200monitor with streaming through a Flash player. FabChannel’s performances cover a wide range of well known artists such as The View and Martha Wainwright, and they claim to have got over 900 performances available already.
The site also has integration with last.fm and can also provide useful artist bios etc. To generate income to pay for the service there are some adverts on the site, but they’re not annoying popup’s etc.
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