Entries from May 2008

Yazoo deja vu

May 16th, 2008

From Get Weird Turn Pro, comes word of a Yazoo reunion. At this point in the Reunion Continuum, nothing surprises me. There’s a new EP, a Tour, and even a (Quelle Surprise!) remix of Situation to mark the occasion. Head on over to Get Weird to grab the remix. See you upstairs, at Eric’s. Only […]

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Happy Birthday, Jonathan Richman

May 16th, 2008

(via: wikipedia)

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Let’s write a song with Rivers Cuomo

May 16th, 2008

Posted. Without. Comment. (via)

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Crystal Thieves

May 16th, 2008

Word comes from a Drawer B commenter that Crystal Castles “borrowed” a lot of their sounds from the Chiptune community (Lo-bat in particular) and apparently also appropriated the image of Madonna with a black eye from an uncredited artist. “Crystal Castles has been getting a lot press using the image of getting sounds nobody did […]

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The Whitburn Project – an analysis

May 15th, 2008

For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they’ve created a spreadsheet of 37,000 songs and 112 columns of raw data, including each song’s duration, […]

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New Ladytron – Ghosts – Velocifero

May 13th, 2008

(for p.)

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A Taste of the new Tricky

May 12th, 2008

From the album ‘Knowle West Boy’ due in September on these fair shores. There’s a remix contest, too. Everybody’s got a remix contest these days, don’t they. Crowdsourcing the remix is so 2008. (via Wired)

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