Entries from March 2008

A Life in the Death of Joe Meek

March 17th, 2008

(via coudal.com)

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Best SXSW anecdote I’ve read all week

March 17th, 2008

I almost ran over a guy here the other day he stepped off the curb in front of my car. I instinctively honked my horn and he yelled “Don’t hit me, I am in a band.” I wanted to yell back, “Yeah you and every other person in this town. Use the cross walk.” (via)

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Tags: humor

Madchester returns with a Whip?

March 16th, 2008

Lily Allen recently introduced me to The Whip. Gotta love that girl. The track has already received the remix treatment from a variety of folks, including labelmates, Crookers. The Whip – Trash (Crookers remix)

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Tags: mp3 · remix · video

Remixes are for kids #5 – Gang of Four vs. Death Row Archie

March 16th, 2008

Yes, it is pretty close to blasphemy to touch a Gang of Four track, especially one as beloved as Outside The Trains Don’t Run On Time, but Death Row Archie does an honorable remixing of this classic track. Outside The Trains Don’t Run On Time (Death Row Archie)

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Tags: mp3 · remix

SongKick: A sort of Google Analytics for Bands

March 16th, 2008

Via Techcrunch comes news of this bizarre sort of buzz tracking site called SongKick. They collect stats on any band on MySpace with more than 50 friends and compare the data to Amazon sales and other stuff, displaying recent blog posts about the band and fancy charts and graphs. If they integrated HypeMachine data and […]

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Sweatin to the Oldies: Pulp’s Common People

March 14th, 2008

From a commenter: “this is my favvvies song atm my dad used to play it in the car when i was ikkle now im 15, and i jus cant get enuff of this song man!!! lovin the oldies XD” Amusingly, I saw Pulp 15 years ago. I suppose the commenter was just a zygote at […]

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Tags: humor · video

Because It’s Friday: Saul Williams’ List of Demands

March 14th, 2008

(via jroo)

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