“In 1967 I hired Frank Zappa to score a :30 second animated TV Comercial for Luden’s Cough Drops fot $2,000. We won a Clio for “THE BEST USE OF SOUND”. It was the beginning of a two year relationship that had me filming 14 hours of footage as I traveled with The Original Mothers Of […]

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In case you missed Conrad Keely’s Interscope bashing screed on Trail of Dead’s official website just over a week ago, fear not, as the cached version shall live on, having made the rounds across everyone’s RSS feeder, anyway. The band’s manager, Asif Ahmed, has since fielded questions regarding Keely’s diatribe and the band’s split from Interscope, saying it was […]

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David Byrne goes to IKEA for the first time and makes a video game out of the experience. “Why does everything have weird names? Every container, shelf, cabinet or appliance had some odd name, as if people from Planet Sweden anthropomorphized these objects, naming each one they encountered as best they could”

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I wonder if they’re taking requests… (via Dead Flowers) I’ve always liked Dean Wareham’s cover of Ceremony.

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(downloadable .mp4 video 240×176 sans watermark available here. And here’s an mp3 from the video of the performance.)

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Seattle’s Sub Pop Records is taking digital distribution into its own hands with a new mp3 shop. Its current online catalog is running 200 albums deep. No individual track purchases are available yet, and the encoding is only 192kbps. But, Sub Pop is open to criticism and welcomes user feedback to help improve the store. Albums are priced […]

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Radiohead released a testcast last night in anticipation of a forthcoming webcast. After some behind the scenes hijinks, which included some DJ-ing and weird graphical interludes, the band performed Bjork’s “Unravel” live in a studio. It’s Thom Yorke’s favorite song of all time. The proper webcast is scheduled for tonight between 9pm and 12am (GMT).

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