David Emery OnlineChew Lips - Solo (Demo)
Very promising. From http://www.pinglewood.com/2008/December/321_Chew_Lips.html
Visit ➔Abandoned London
Lovely set of photos of a deserted London on Christmas day.
It looks so peaceful…
YouTube overlay HD ads
I think this is new – I certainly haven’t seen it before; YouTube is now running overlay ads over the top of HD videos. Click the link above to see it in-situ (you’ll probably need to click ‘Watch in HD’), or click the image below for a bigger view:
TUAW goes hands-on with Rolando
This looks absolutely lovely, although I’m not going to get it yet as I’ve just bought Sim City for the iPhone instead (which seems to be pretty good from the 10 minutes I’ve spent with it). It’s very encouraging that there are already got too many games to get for the iPhone – I think it’s very rapidly establishing itself as a very viable platform fo games developers.
Visit ➔2008 Greek riots
Brilliant photos from The Big Picture, as always. From a photographers point a view it’s interesting to note that some of the best photos in the series are technically quite poor – out of focus or very noisy. It’s always worth a reminder that it’s the moment you’re capturing that’s most important, not how you do it.
Visit ➔Albums of 2008
Welcome one and all to my annual Top 20 albums of the year list. Last years can be read here, and featured two of my favourite albums in the last 5 years or so in the form of LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Sound of Silver’ and Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’. There’s no doubt that this year we haven’t had anything that quite matches these two, but that it’s not to say it’s been bad – if anything we’ve had more ‘great’ albums this year then last (just not so many perfect ones).
A case in point is how many good albums fall outside of the top 20 – it could have been a top 50 quite easily, but that seems a bit excessive to be honest. Within that group falls great albums from Neon Neon (better then the last SFA album), Nine Inch Nails, Crystal Castles (very good, but needs more songs), These New Puritans (very good, but needs better lyrics), Metallica, No Age, Adele, Monkey: Journey To The West (amazing, but a difficult listen), MGMT (not quite as good as the hype), The Teenagers (riské fun), Fujiya & Miyagi and last but not least the new Kanye West album...
Read more ➔Jack Peñate - Tonight's Today
We’ve just put up a one page site for Jack Peñate to showcase the first track from his forthcoming second album – what I’ve heard of it so far sounds like it’s going to be really, really big:
(And I managed to scratch my ‘Trade Gothic’ itch at the same time.)
Visit ➔The Team Love Library
When Team Love started we had the simple and possibly self-defeating notion that posting all our albums on the website as free downloads would be a good detour around the wreckage of the music industry and a way to avoid getting bogged down in the number one topic of discussion and distraction: piracy, illegal downloads, P2P networks and so on.
Five years later and the debate still drones in the background, and while some bands have adopted a mutated version of the “free download” (pay what you wish, etc), we’ve decided to reshape out policy in a different direction and introduce the Team Love Library. Each month (or so) we’ll be rotating the Library’s selections, featuring different Team Love albums as well as exclusive content such as unreleased songs, live or remixed versions of TL favorites.
Very smart – they’re currently giving away 6 albums (all of which are slightly old, I think) of MP3s for nothing (other then your email address). A nice way of utilising old catalogue to help promote new records.
Only slight issue is that I couldn’t download anything due to pesky country restrictions (they don’t put out most of these releases in the UK), but that comes with the territory* …
* Please excuse this awful pun.
Visit ➔SimCity iPhone Impressions
I am far too excited by the idea of this – it could totally be the iPhone killer app games-wise. Better not cost too much…
Visit ➔Giant Drag - Stuff To Live For
Oh Giant Drag, how we’ve missed you! More please…
Found here: http://stereogum.com/archives/progress-report/progress-report-giant-drag_039981.html
Giant Drag – Stuff To Live For
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