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Scratching My Back ….
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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
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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 ….
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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
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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
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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 …
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and our flickr activity is …
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Snow & More Snow
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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
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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 …?
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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
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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!”
SF Metropole Hotel - Stay
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SF Metropole Hotel - Stay
Originally uploaded by Phil & Catherine Wilkins
business trips can sound very glamourous and fun. But the reality is are from it. San Fransisco in the winter is still wet and cold, as you can see from this set of pictures taken whilst there on business.
Some Simple things to protect MySQL
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MySQL is one of the most common DBs for web hosting. This article has a bunch of good basic steps to help protect your MySQL instance from attacks. None of them are rocket science for anyone with some fmiliarity with PHP.
Depeche Mode mini album
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Depeche Mode are to release a new 8 track mini album on December 8th in time for their forthcoming UK tour. The album features track pulled from their recent ‘Sounds of the Universe‘ album as well as some special remixes. The full track list runs:
‘Fragile Tension’ - radio mix, ‘Hole To Feed’ - radio mix, ‘Perfect’ - Roger Sanchez Club Mix, ‘Come Back’ - SixToes Remix, ‘Fragile Tension’ - Laidback Luke Remix, ‘Hole To Feed’ - Popof Vocal Mix, ‘Fragile Tension’ - Peter Bjorn And John Remix, ‘Hole To Feed’ - Joebot Remix
Watch for Depeche Mode new releases at Amazon here.
The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
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My favourite bit is about 1 minute in with Animal.
Gomez @ Southampton Uni
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Originally uploaded by Phil & Catherine Wilkins
Photos from Gomez’ gig at Southampton university on my flickr site. Admittedly taken with the Samsung Soul mobile, which to be frank isn’t that great for this sort of thing.
A reasonable gig, but I’ve seen Gomez perform a lot better. he big surprise of the night was Frightened Rabbit, the support band who put in a very impressive support set. This is a band with lots of potential.
Amazing piece of video
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The warped media industry
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation have a rather good article about the frustrating and crazy behaviour of the media industry (film, TV & music) towards innovation and technology. Although a lot of this is not new thinking it is well expressed, and also highlighted in the light of the fact that recent findings have shown Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) actually have helped advertising not hindered it.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/11/dvr-tvs-new-bff
Cookie Monster ……
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