David Emery OnlineThe Dead Weather - Hand You From The Heavens
Jack White + Alison Mosshart (from The Kills) – it sounds as good as you might think it would.
More information here: http://www.thedeadweather.com/
And you can buy the track on iTunes as well: http://tinyurl.com/deadweatheritunes
The Dead Weather – Hand You From The Heavens
Visit ➔Pitchfork Redesigns
Obviously nicer then their previous old-school design, but it’s all a little generic, isn’t it? Take away the logo and you’d have no clue that it’s Pitchfork – it looks like a slightly inferior Drowned In Sound.
Also, they’ve taken the nicely designed pitchfork.tv and genericised that too, taking their embeded video player – which was my favourite embeded video player, due to its simplicity (yes, I have favourite embeded video players…) – and ruining it in the process (it even autoplays if you embed it!). Oh well…
Visit ➔Fun with Augmented Reality
Love this Mini augmented reality ad:
Feels like there’s some really cool things you could do with this technology, now that it’s hitting the mainstream.
Visit ➔"I never felt magic crazy as this..."
I spent a large chunk of Tuesday in a car with a friend driving up to Manchester. He and I were at the University there in the 80s and we were driving up to spec out a project for later this year. He’s a record exec (of course! which of your so-called friends aren’t? I hear you crow). His job requires him to be constantly in contact with people who work with and for him and so I sat in the passenger listening to his speakerphone conversations: lawyers telling him how he was “their guy” and how and they honestly wanted to sign to him, American executives telling him how genuinely excited about their projects they were , new employees telling him how sincerely they were looking forward to their job… It was a veritable sea of love and sincerity. It reminded of my A&R days and how so much of what got people out of bed depended on passion.
Not linked to for any massive ‘point’ that it makes, but because it’s just a nice read.
Also, I feel duty bound to point out that Adele isn’t on a major, and doesn’t have wads of cash behind her (well, she does now but that’s because she’s earned it).
Visit ➔Kindle on iPhone
• No Kindle required
• Get the best reading experience available on your iPhone or iPod touch
• Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
• Automatically synchronizes your last page read between devices with Amazon Whispersync
It’s clear the Amazon means business with their online book store – they know that they’re not really cut out to be hardware manufacturer (although it’s obviously a nice side line). Their key strength is as an online retailer of content, and they obviously want to become the dominant force in this area (much like Apple with the iTunes Store). It wouldn’t surprise me if further down the road we see some kind of more formal Apple – Amazon hook up on this front (with books in the iTunes Store).
A real shame it’s not available outside the US though; I assume that – much like with the music industry – all the deals to provide content need to be done on a region-by-region basis.
Visit ➔Skittles.com
Obviously a massive reference to Modernista but I quite like simplicity of this – it’s not as though anyone is really that interested in a Skittles website, quite frankly, but they need to have one and this is a good compromise. Borne of similar thinking to the XL Recordings site, I imagine (which I should probably add some form of Twitter conversation tracking to…).
Visit ➔The Big Pink: Velvet
This is the most exciting new song I’ve heard in so very long; The Big Pink are – finally – a proper, interesting, innovative British band, which it feels like we haven’t seen in ages:
Play it again and again and again until it gets under your skin.
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