I already possess the Pink Floyd albums I care to own, but this advert for the Box Set makes the collection quite enticing, to say the least.

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I just caught a performance by Japan’s YMCK. It was like playing Nintendo for an hour. In fact, the performance of 8 bit music was replete with entertaining 8 bit visuals, including a short history of 8 bit technology. Domo arigato gozaimashita!

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After 14 years of shunning the media, Daft Punk have apparently become extraverts. WTF? Indeed, NME and assorted other news orgs are reporting that Daft Punk crashed the Grammys to back up Kanye’s performance of Stronger. Le Sigh. Video Here.

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My feedreader floweth over with mentions of The Bell in the last few weeks. The album “Make Some Quiet” comes out February 12th. Nothing earth shattering, sonically spectacular or even mind-blowing, just catchy power-pop that for some strange reason reminds me of The Stills debut album (in a good way). Muzzle of Bees has an […]

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I’ve completely fallen down on my self-appointed job of finding hidden gems on MySpace. I guess I need to be more diligent in bookmarking my travels across the MySpace musicsphere. Anyhow, here is Chicago’s Plane (MySpace). Their list of “influences” includes the usual suspects like “Joy Division, Guided by Voices, The Cure, XTC, Stone Roses, […]

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More from Mum @ MySpace and their site.

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