Let’s write a song with Rivers Cuomo

May 16th, 2008

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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

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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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The Faint: New Album + Summer Tour

May 12th, 2008

As most every other blog is reporting, The Faint are touring in support of their forthcoming album, Fasciinatiion. Tour Dates: 7/27 – Des Moines, IA @ Peoples Court 7/28 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Ramkota Annex 7/29 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre 7/30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ In the Venue 7/31 – […]

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Blip: A Twitter for Music

May 12th, 2008

Hot on the heels of Muxtape comes a single serving solution to the perennial question “what are you listening to…” It’s as easy as posting a twitter update, or so they say and the music is sourced from songza, et al. so there’s no uploading. If you want to know more, read this.

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