1.4 million people downloaded NIN’s The Slip since its release on May 5, 2008. And this Google Earth rendering is a snazzy way to present the numbers. For old schoolers, you can pre-order the limited (well, if quarter of a million is “limited”) physical version here. Gatefold vinyl version out August 5.

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What is his deal? And why do people keep provoking him? Can’t Thom Yorke talk some sense in to him?

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Taking “Everything in its Right Place” as the basis for a thesis project, a student has created an interactive “breakdown of the technology behind a song from one of music’s sonically obscure albums.” (via)

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Not sure what’s happened to The Faint since the genius of Blank Wave Arcade, but they’ve managed to consistently underwhelm on all subsequent releases.  Sure there are a few good tracks on Danse Macabre and Wet From Birth, but if the new track, “The Geeks Were Right” is any indication, Fasciination isn’t exactly charting unexplored […]

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Cookthink ponders the intersection of Fruit and Music. Does the strawberry catalog (which could also include Sonic Youth’s Sympathy for the Strawberry) trump Stealin’ Apples (Benny Goodman), Red Apples (Cat Power singing a Bill Callahan song), Appletree (Eryka Badu), Apple Honey (Woody Herman), Big Apple (Tommy Dorsey—not Kajagoogoo) and June Apple, a traditional song that […]

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(via Simsie) [lyrics] More at MySpace

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