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Amanda Palmer’s Radiohead Cover on ukulele
The weather is too hot to listen to Radiohead, but their music is still good. That’s why I just bought Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele. You can pay as low as $0.87 USD, but I suggest you give a little bit more for those 7 tracks. Also, I must note [...]
Last.fm – Two years statistics
Last Tuesday was a milestone in my geeky life. I’ve been scrobbling my music to Last.fm for two years now (since August 4h, 2007). I’ve been very picky about scrobbling everything I was listening to. Whenever I was at work, at home, walking or driving with my iPod…I think I managed to track more than [...]
Michael Jackson’s Off-Funeral
You guys don’t really need me to talk about Michael Jackson’s death, because you already have a gazillion better sources for that. BUT! you should take time to look at these related stories Let’s call this the Michael Jackson’s Off-Funeral! Michael Jackson’s Star picture by David Malkoff As you may already know, since yesterday people [...]
The Beatles RockBand
The Beatles Rockband cinematic intro is AWESOME. You HAVE to see it. Now I have to buy the game because the animation alone is worth 70$. (you have to watch it on the original website to get the HD quality)
Datamoshing
When my friend Maxyme showed my this video clip of Welcome to Heartbreak by Kanye West, I was amazed by how they generated and controlled the video compression artifacts. Original. I loved it. Today I saw Chairlift’s Evident Utensil videoclip, which uses the same technique. I think this one is even better. From the Wikipedia [...]
Jon Hopkins – Insides
J’ai beaucoup aimé l’atmosphère d’introduction et de conclusion du dernier album de Coldplay, Viva la Vida. Je viens d’avoir le bonheur de découvrir que ça été produite par le compositeur Jon Hopkins qui lance son nouvel album, Insides, le 5 mai prochain. Vous pouvez écouter un extrait sur le site de Domino USA, ceux qui [...]
The Beatles’ Remastered Albums, at last!
A friend of mine as been waiting for this all his life. He is currently listening to the Cirque du Soleil’s Love soundtrack because it is the only Beatles remastered material available to date, even if he hates those remixes. The Beatles’ Remastered Albums Due September 9, 2009 : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll [...]
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