Posted on 30 September 2007 by mike.
In one of the greatest music hoaxes of all time, some trickster set up a website allegedly counting down to the long-awaited new Radiohead album. Radhioheadlp7.com had fans and pundits on the Internet talking about what the countdown timer was leading to.
It eventually came out that the band had nothing to do with the website, [...]
Posted on 29 September 2007 by mike.
In yet another twist in the long line of weird thing that go on in Michael Jackson’s life, reports coming out of the US are claiming that the former King of Pop is has remarried. The story is that he secretly married his children’s nanny.
Source say that Wacko Jacko married long-time staff member Grace Rwaramba [...]
Posted on 28 September 2007 by mike.
Some strange revelations from George Michael today. It appears that the former face of Wham! only became interested in music after he suffered a severe blow to the head.
In an interview with Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4, Michael said that before he received his head injury as a child, stitches and all, he was [...]
Posted on 27 September 2007 by mike.
Proving that there are still music fans with taste, a survey by a UK-based digital broadcasting service, Music Choice, revealed that the band most fans want to see get back together is Pink Floyd. More than a quarter of the 5,000 people surveyed voted for the aging rockers, who gave us such classics as “Comfortably [...]
Posted on 26 September 2007 by mike.
Even bigger than the launch of Spiral Frog is the news that Amazon is due to launch a new music-download website, imaginatively named Amazon MP3. The service, which will offer tracks for as little as 89 cents, is the latest in a line of companies attempting to oust iTunes as the world’s premier music-download service.
Online-seller [...]
Posted on 26 September 2007 by mike.
NBC has finally sat up and taken note of consumer power and recognised downloading and online viewing as a potential future for TV, says ZeroPaid. What’s more, the TV shows may be available using P2P technologies, such as that behind Ares. NBC are looking at a model similar in style to the prolific [...]
Posted on 25 September 2007 by mike.
What has happened to Ian Brown? This guy really needs to stop making solo albums. The World is Yours is his fifth studio offering since The Stone Roses split 11 years ago, but this has to be his worse musical offering to date. The sound is old and stale, and no number of orchestral accompaniments [...]
Posted on 24 September 2007 by mike.
Web search Megalith Google is an entity based upon the collection and analysis of huge amounts of data. This data is collected by monitoring of users’ search, downloading and web browsing habits; there is no way around this, and Google do not deny this. What they do attempt to do is to ‘wash’ [...]
Posted on 24 September 2007 by mike.
Bat for Lashes are an all-girl, four-piece band from England. They’re something special though. If you can imagine Bjork and Tori Amos and Kate Bush merged into one, you’re still nowhere near the power behind the music of Bat for Lashes.
The 2006 album Fur and gold was one of the underrated classics of last year. [...]
Posted on 23 September 2007 by mike.
Blonde Redhead’s seventh studio album, 23, is a wonder to behold. Japanese former-art student Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace are back after a three-year absence with what could be the album of the year. They perform in English, Japanese, Italian and French.
The music is sweet, radiant pop and indie with a [...]
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