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Wish Listing

monster — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:41:00 +0000

All the music waiting to be purchased gets fropped into a wishlist, just incase someone was to feel a little generous ….

If only there was an easy universal wishlist app out there.

Moby Live Recording

monster — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:28:14 +0000

As much as I really hate tie ins with online music stores such as iTunes, releases such as a live Moby recording cant be simply ignored. So I may have to swallow my pride to check out ….

“extensive critically acclaimed US tour in Fall 2009, Moby recorded an intimate live performance at the Montreal iTunes store to a captivated audience. ‘Moby iTunes Live from Montreal’ becomes available around the world at iTunes …

For this special recording Moby performed tracks from his most recent album ‘Wait For Me,’ as well as some other classics from previous albums, with a rare ‘stripped back‘ set consisting of just guitar, piano, violin and vocals. Joining him for this incredible and unique performance were the very talented lead vocalists from his tour - Kelli Scarr and Inyang Bassey. “

iTunes album here - £4.49

Tom McRae album

monster — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:04:31 +0000

Yippeee my copy of the latest Tom McRae album - The Alphabet of Hurricanes has arrived with a bonus EP, which comes if you buy through Tom’s official website.

monster — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:38:59 +0000

new album from Jesse Malin

monster — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:28:37 +0000

Jesse Malin is very happy to announce that my new album “Love It To Life” is finished and will be released in stores on April 27, 2010 on Side One Dummy Records. It is produced by Ted Hutt (Lucero, The Gaslight Anthem, Flogging Molly), and YES it will available in VINYL, as well as CD and all the other digital stuff!!! The record was recorded with my new band, The St. Marks Social.

I’ve not yet seen the album listed on the usual online stores yet to preorder yet.

Article worth checking out

monster — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:42:46 +0000

Glorious Noise hve an article about trying to support real record stores here. Although I do want to agree with the direction of the article, I am lossing faith in the bricks & mortar stores because they only seem to want to flog mass market and not cater or encourage more diverse tastes.

Having said that when I was in San Franscisco recently, I had a little bit of time spare and came across Rasputin Records. This is how record shops should be, rough around the edges - with that feeling you’d get that Nick Hornby captured in High Fidelity. Four stories of this within a block of Union Square!

The National - new album as well

monster — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:16:15 +0000

The National have started to release news on the follow up to their brilliant The Boxer album. The new album hasn’t had its name published yet, but should be released in May through 4AD. Prior to the relaese will be a European and North American tour with dates through April and May (Royal Albert Hall in London May 6th).

Turin Brakes - Outburst

monster — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:05:03 +0000

News of album releases are coming in rapidly now. The latest is for Turin Brakes with their new album Outburst due out on 1st March 2010. If you can wait that long then head onto their website (http://www.turinbrakes.com/) as has details of a free track download from the forthcoming album.

Plus a video of the creation of the album at http://www.vimeo.com/8715360RegardsTBx

Disappear Here - Hybrid, sound promising

monster — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:03:26 +0000

…..

Scratching My Back ….

monster — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:36:25 +0000

Finally the special edition of Peter Gabriel’s new album has a release date. Having heard extracts of the album it sounds very interesting …

Delays - live album in the pipeline

monster — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:13 +0000

The Delays will be releasing a live album -
Latest on the live album is that mixing is underway. This will be a limited edition featuring both audio and exclusive photographs and will be available for you prior to the release of our new album ‘Star Tiger Star Ariel’

New Josh Rouse album ….

monster — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:39:35 +0000

Pre-Order Josh Rouse’s El Tourista and Get an Exclusive Digital Bonus Track Instantly at the Yep Roc Webshop.

Unexpected and utterly sublime, El Turista’s sultry song cycle shuffle seamlessly in tandem with Getz/Gilberto and Paul Simon’s Graceland, albums as boldly surprising in their eras as El Turista is in this one. The record marks a new direction for the critically acclaimed artist, while offering the musical sophistication and emotional depth Rouse’s devoted constituents have come to expect.

His new songs continue the consistently enthralling body of work highlighted by the modern-day landmark albums 1972 and Nashville. Throughout El Turista, simple, Spanish-influenced street rhythms unfurl into epic versions of Guaraldi-like jazz numbers, resulting in yet another career defining touchstone and a genre-blending album that is as sophisticated as it is infectious.

For one week only, Yep Roc/Bedroom Classics are offering fans a chance to stream the entire El Turista album for free. Click HERE to stream the latest release from Josh Rouse and to get a FREE download of “I Will Live On Islands,” starting today and ending 1/26.

Click HERE to pre-order Josh Rouse’s El Turista on CD or LP now.
Street Date: March 9, 2010

Every customer that pre-orders El Turista on CD or LP from the Yep Roc Webshop will receive the exclusive bonus digital track “To The Clock, To The City” in their Stash immediately upon completion of their order.

Alternatively …
El Turista
Josh Rouse @ Amazon

Wikihood - iphone app

monster — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:48:31 +0000

I came across a great use of the iPhone and it’s location capabilities. Essentially it uses your location to query a wiki. The information it retrieved and the way it presented it was great.

I would recommend giving it a go.

Iphone

monster — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:48:17 +0000

I have just changed mobiles from a Samsung Soul to an iPhone. As much as it is a brilliant app platform it does have a few annoying absences on the phone front. For example the Soul had multiple modes such as car, outside, meeting and so on. Groups on the Soul can be given ringtones as well as individuals (an app opportunity to create the effect?)

My last critism is the predictive text isn’t as quick as the Soul. Although that maybe partly because of the full keyboard.

Final observation is that the Bluetooth could easily offer a lot more without needing to resort to jailbreak.

and the weather is …

monster — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:26:20 +0000

You must have a browser that supports iframes to view the BBC weather forecast

and our flickr activity is …

monster — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:25:36 +0000

Snow & More Snow

monster — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:32:52 +0000

The snow may cause disruption & no end of problems, but there are also opportunities, like this …

and some local pics ….

O Reilly article with an interesting look at the future of music

monster — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:17:26 +0000

O Reilly published an article with a view on the history and the future of music. The article suggests in some respects that we’re approaching the point of closing a cycle in the way we can appreciate music.

I have to say although the article raises some interesting points, I am not entirely sold on all the arguments. But make your own mind up - article here.

the morning after …?

monster — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:25:36 +0000

Either someone had a good New Year’s celebration or the council are as good at collecting glass for recycling as they are gritting the roads.

Greate Quote

monster — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:23:22 +0000

In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-
Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”