David Emery OnlineLCD Soundsystem new album reviewed track by track
So what next, when you’ve nothing left to prove? Prove it again, differently. Usually when a band tells you their latest, yet-to-be-aired effort is “the best album we’ve ever made” it’s code for “we’ve lost it completely, but at that mega-volume playback in the expensive studio it felt like we’d got away with it”. This isn’t one of those records. The third, still-untitled LCD Soundsystem album contains a run of heavyweight hits that compress the best elements of their previous work, topped and tailed by some intriguing slow-burners.
Of course as soon as I post something that says we can’t hear any new LCD Soundsystem music yet, what appears on the internet? New LCD Soundsystem music:
DRUNK GIRLS!
Visit ➔The Re-Designer
My name is Bryan Veloso, and I am a re-designer. I do not create, I improve. I do not envision what is new, I envision how something that already exists can be better.
I can relate to this a great deal; I think I’m best as a designer when working with pre-existing elements, illustrations and the like.
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Designing for the Web. On the Web.
Last week, after a lot of thought and a heap of work, we released my book, Designing for the Web, online. For free.
Well worth a read.
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I like this because it encapsulates the journalistic narrative on the music industry perfectly: yet another nail in the coffin of the music industry. Pretty much any story on music is shaped around that narrative, regardless of what the story is and regardless of the truth of the narrative.
In many ways (instruments, publishing, licensing) the music industry is doing better than ever. It is only the record industry that’s dying, just like the wax cylinder industry before it and the mass market for sheet music.
Can we stop the “it’s the record industry that’s dying” narrative as well? From my point of view it’s doing pretty well; it’s different and changing but in no way dying. Although certain chucks are (cough-EMI-cough) that’s nothing to do with the viability of selling recorded music.
Visit ➔NPR, WSJ plan Flash-free Web sites for Apple iPad
In addition to new App Store software, National Public Radio and The Wall Street Journal also plan to create specific versions of their Web sites completely devoid of Adobe Flash for iPad users.
This week Peter Kafka with MediaMemo revealed that both NPR and the Journal will convert at least some portions of their Web site to load properly on the iPad. The custom-built sites will feature the same content and run concurrently with the traditional and iPhone/mobile-friendly versions of each Web site.
I wonder if this is going to be easily available to non-iPad users, and also whether they’ll be the normal website with the flash elements replaced, or some form of iPad specific version with a different UI.
Considering the apparent rise of flash blockers, it would be pretty smart to have a version without flash that gets fed to those users (iPad browsers included). Of course, that begs the question: why have the flash version in the first place?
Visit ➔Interview: David Emery, Head of Digital Marketing, Beggars Group
In his role as head of digital at Beggars, David Emery has worked on digital campaigns for albums such as Radiohead’s In rainbows, Vampire Weekend’s Contra, and most recently the debut album from The xx. Sandbox picked his brains on the full gamut of digital marketing, starting with artist websites.
A brief glimpse into where my head’s at currently with regards to things like artist websites, Facebook, apps et al.
Visit ➔6music and why I don't care
I have never really seen the appeal of radio. I get my news from the internet, the papers, the television. I get my music from any one of the 'cater to your exact needs' online music services like last.fm or spotify or any of the unfairly overlooked podcast and online radio stations. FM/AM radio belongs in cars with tape decks. It does not belong in the age of bluetooth and iPod connectivity as standard.
As previously mentioned I’m a fan of 6music, but I will admit I don’t listen to it very often; occasionally on the weekend at most. I thought it was worth bring attention the other side of the fence – not so much against 6music, but more about the relevancy of radio when we have this whole internet thing.
I don’t agree with this article, but I wonder if many people under the age of 18 actually do.
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