Such a good song – it sounds ‘classic’ from the very first time you hear it.
We’ve just launched this little one-page site for Discovery, the new project by members of Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot. It’s great – I think (unless something else comes along) it’s the sound of the summer for me.
Also, look out for some mildly interesting js-based scaling and layout on the site, keeping everything in check.
Widget removed as it was set to auto-play – not cool, guys…
As regular readers will know I’m a fan of Fanfarlo, and their debut album Reservoir is a brilliant piece of work (for the lazy/NME journalist in you: think Arcade Fire meets Beirut. Ish). If you haven’t picked it up already, you now have no excuse – they’re selling it for $1 (with some extra tracks to boot!).
Go now, it will be the best $1 (62p!) you’ve spent all year.
At work we’ve just launched the new site for Jack Peñate, which features all kinds of jParallax-based crazy scrolling flowers.
Really happy with the way this one turned out…
Such a lovely little song - think LCD Soundsystem with a dash of early CSS.
Have you read SoundCloud’s Terms and Conditions ? Did you know that by signing up, you grant them (and their successors) the right to do almost anything they like with your music? For free? Forever?
The article goes on to say how they’re sure that SoundCloud aren’t going to do anything nasty with their your content, and I agree but that really misses the point; what happens – and this isn’t too far fetched – if SoundCloud gets bought up by someone who has lesser morals? The T&Cs are quite clear – they could do almost anything they like with your content.
This isn’t a problem unique to SoundCloud either – web darlings Vimeo and ustream.tv both have similar conditions in their T&Cs. This is the really boring side of working on the edge of developing technologies, but in the long run do you really want some little web startup owning your content?
As I write this I’m watching ‘Night at the Museum’ for the second time in a week – for some mystifying reason Channel 4 showed it last Sunday and this Sunday. The only thing more mystifying is that I’ve accidentally ended up watching it each time. I suppose that it’s the natural conclusion of the concept of the TV replacing the fireplace in modern homes; it certainly has in my household – always on, providing background noise and I guess – somewhere deep down the national grid – burning fossil fuel.
CSI certainly buoys up this argument, by having the intellectual ingenuity of a damp log. (CSI:Miami is kindling in this particular strained metaphor.)
What the burning fire that is Ben Stiller playing fetch with a dinosaur skeleton has enabled me to do is to finally get caught up processing photos from the last week, specifically the ones from the Future of the Left gig at ULU on Tuesday. Now as regular readers will know I saw ‘the Left at the Great Escape only a couple of weeks ago but they’re a band that’s worth going to see every time you get a chance. Also, their set in Brighton was plagued with technical difficulties and hence cut short so I wanted to check them out again in better circumstances.
They were – as ever – brilliant, playing plenty from both their two albums – ‘Travels With Myself and Another’, the new album which is in shops in a couple of weeks, is one of my albums of the year incidentally. Also, how can you not love a band with this level of inter-song banter (paraphrased from memory):
Kelson: So, I was in the toilets before the gig and heard two blokes talking about buying one of our t-shirts. One says to the other “I’m not sure about the purple one that says ‘Satan’ on it, that’s a bit immature” to which the other replies “But it’s got a giant octopus on it!”. “Oh yeah, that’s awesome!” says the other.
So, let me get this straight – a t-shirt that says ‘Satan’ on is immature, but a motherfucking octopus isn’t?Falco: I like the way you’ve wrapped up selling merch into a seemingly off-the-cuff witty anecdote.
Pulled Apart By Horses were very good as well (very LOUD which ain’t a bad thing in these twee folk times), and Fight Like Apes were ok – a bit odd (and a bit rubbish on record) but quite enjoyable. So, as mini Owen Wilson and Steve Coogan drive a radio controlled Hummer round the streets of New York I’ll leave you with a selection of the aforementioned photos – more on Flickr as ever:
“Plug a Pre into a Mac and it syncs, seamlessly, with Apple’s iTunes,” the financial publication reports. “In fact, the iTunes Store treats the Pre just as it would an iPod or an iPhone with one exception: it can’t handle old copy-protected songs.”
This is smart. Very smart. The Pre is the first credible contender to the iPhone, but the first thing that went through my head was ‘what about my music?’. Don’t forget that half of the success of the iPod is down to iTunes and the ease of use when it comes to device management it brings with it. I would assume though that if the Pre turns out to be a serious threat – personally I think there’s room for the both of them – Apple will make it start not working.
If I were Steve Jobs, the video to the right would scare me senseless. It shows a Google Android phone running a Spotify app that appears to succeed in porting the full Spotify experience — still not available to most Americans – to a mobile phone.
On the contrary – I think the reason that we’ve seen this running on an Android based phone is that the iPhone app is embargoed until the WWDC keynote in a week and a half’s time, where it’ll get some stage time. Don’t forget that Apple has been featuring the Last.fm app – which has similar streaming music capabilities – on its TV adverts. A Spotify app is a great addition to the app store.
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