Podcast beta, Cinemorgue, 600673, Bjork, Digital movie theaters, Yahoo

• My Podcast is in beta, perhaps permanently. I'll try to make it work properly, but it may be flaky at first.
  
• Cinemorgue
  Where all the stars go to die. A catalogue of on-screen 'deaths'.
  
• 600673.com
  L33t version of google.
  
• Bjork to release charity record
  
• Wired: Mark Cuban wants to put digital projectors in Landmark theaters
  Moving from film to digital would reduce studio distribution costs, improve the picture quality of copies, facilitate movie theater operations, and help indie filmmakers.
  
• Yahoo catching up to Google
  
• John Malkovich introduces pricey designer line
  $70 for a t-shirt? Did he iron-on the design with his own hands and dye it with his blood?
  
• Schiavo dies | South Park the night before: prescient and irreverent parody

Evan Dando and Sabrina Brooke - Summer Wine

Sin City, Jessica Alba, Mick Jagger's Ghost...

• NYT: Sin City provides blood in three colors
  Not to be confused with the Kieslowki trilogy, Rodriguez' Sin City features blood in three colors: white, yellow, and when he wants to show real pain, red.
  
• Wired: How Robert Rodriguez made Sin City possible
  
• People.com: Inside the life of the lovely Jessica Alba
  
• Mick Jagger's house is haunted
  His family reports seeing the ghost of a beheaded French Revolution nobleman, not Jagger's emaciated apparition.
  
• NME: Oasis says new album is best since 'Definitely Maybe'
  I hope "Lyla" was not their proof. Yawn.
  
• Suge Knight sued for a chunk of Death Row
  

Mash-up: New Weezer vs. Queen vs. Joan Jett vs. ...

Grokster, LCD Soundsystem and M.I.A., Lollapalooza, and more

• Gelf magazine interviews Mark Cuban on Grokster (Thanks David)
  
• Copyfight has the latest on Grokster
  
• Grokster on Flickr
  
• Andrew Leonard on Grokster
  
• NPR Stream: Music's Future, Online and Digital
  With Chris Anderson (editor-in-chief, Wired magazine), Matthew Perpetua (mp3 blogger; editor and curator, fluxblog.org), Tim Quirk (general manager, Real Network's Rhapsody).
  
• LCD Soundsystem to tour with M.I.A.
  Odd bedfellows, if you ask me.
  
  04-02 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
  05-10 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom*
  05-11 Seattle, WA - Showbox*
  05-14 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore*
  05-15 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey*
  05-19 Chicago, IL - Metro*
  05-20 Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall*
  05-21 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House*
  05-22 Montreal, Quebec - Le Tulipe*
  06-09 Boston, MA - Avalon*
  06-10 New York, NY - Webster Hall
  06-11 Philadelphia, PA - Transit
  06-12 Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club*
  
  * with M.I.A.
  
  Pitchfork also reports that the Strokes Near Completion of Third Album
  
  
• Lollapalooza back on in Chicago
  Let's hope they bring back Morrissey, Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, the Flaming Lips, the Pixies, Wilco, and Modest Mouse, who were supposed to be at last year's before they cancelled it. The Lollapalooza site.
  
• Felix Da Housecat to collaborate with Radiohead?
  House fans and Radiohead fans scratch their heads.
  
• New Scientist interviews pioneers of electronic music instruments
  Bob Moog (first synthesizer), Peter Vogel (first sampler), and Dave Smith (father of MIDI)
  
• How long should media storage last?
  
• David Lynch to release extended edition Dune DVD

Hot Hot Heat - Goodnight Goodnight (video)

Hot mash-ups

Mosaic

Configure Winamp to use FreeDB, other random news items

• How-to: Configure your Winamp to use FreeDB
  Don't use CDDB. It's run by GraceNote, who is affiliated with the RIAA. Winamp sets CDDB as the database default and there is no easy way in versions of Winamp after 2.77 to change the setting unless you follow the steps outlined in the FAQ. The in_cdda.dll file that you need to do the tweaking is found here (link is down on the freedb site). Note: the mod works for me. Use it at your own risk, I won't troubleshoot for you or take responsibility for you screwing up your Winamp.
  
• How-to: Get RSS feeds on your PSP
  
• Americans too sleepy for sex
  
• NYT: Wearing religion on your *ahem* chest
  
• PT Anderson to direct Upton Sinclair's 'Oil!'
  
• Todd Haynes to direct Bob Dylan biopic
  
• Esteemed French film mag Cahiers du Cinema issues #600
  Featuring a Takeshi Kitano manga
  
• Wong Kar-Wai's '2046' wins big in Hong Kong
  
• Master P Hit With Gun Charge
  
• New White Stripes LP on June 14
  
• Village Voice on Beck
  
• Village Voice on reggaeton taking over New York
  
• McHip-Hop
  Say it ain't so, hiphopmusic laments.
  
• David Byrne launches internet radio station

MGM vs. Grokster

• EFF: MGM vs. Grokster information
  
• MP3: Oral arguments before the 9th Circuit Court
  
• A look back at Betamax
  And the similarities of the entertainment industry's arguments then and now.
  
• CNN/Money : The war over downloading
  They also have this interesting graphic of who's taking sides:
  
  
• Wired News: Supreme Showdown for P2P's Future
  
• CNET: Top court to hear landmark P2P case Tuesday
  
• CNET FAQ: Betamax--tech's favorite ruling
  
• Boing Boing: MGM vs. Grokster posts
  
• The Economist: "...attacking the technology behind file-sharing could stifle innovation without tackling the industry’s long-term problems"
  
• Liveblogging MGM vs. Grokster
  
• C-SPAN RM
  Ted Olson (Entertainment industry) vs. Fred Von Lohmann (EFF)
  
• Copyfight
  Has the latest about the case, including Justice Scalia asking how an inventor can know how an invention will be marketed.
  
• CopyNight
  From their site: "CopyNight is a monthly gathering of people interested in ensuring freedom for artists and tinkerers, fostering innovation, and restoring the balance between the public interests and intellectual property rights holders for the benefit of all."
  The first meetings are tomorrow in Washington D.C., New York, Providence, Raleigh, Austin, L.A., San Francisco, and Seattle.

HFStival 2005

Videos: Gorillaz, Decemberists, live Bright Eyes, live Death Cab for Cutie, live Explosions in the Sky

Inglorious Bastards, Bloods and Crips, Aging hip-hoppers, Bhangra stabbings, Misc. electronic promos

• Tarantino wants Willis, Stallone, Schwarzenegger...
  John Travolta, Harvey Keitel, and Adam Sandler for 'Inglorious Bastards'. I hope he finds some hotties to balance out that testosterone.
  
• Bloods and Crips get feisty at auto show
  
• Toronto Star: Aging hip-hoppers
  
• DCist: Stabbings at Bhangra Blowout
  
  
• Music:
  Thanks to totally fuzzy for the breakz.ru link. I'll hope you sort through the fodder.
  Meat Katie - All I Need (dylan rhymes remix)
  Meat Katie plies his trade (breakbeat/house) creating a droning anthem that's already rocking dancefloors.
  Lee Coombs and Andy Gardner - Obsessional Rhythm
  This bangin' electro-house tune rocked crowds last year.

Fantastic Four trailer

New unreleased M.I.A., M.I.A. and Diplo - Piracy Funds Terrorism, Dizzee Rascal, and more grime/dancehall!

• The excellent M.I.A.: Pitchfork Interview
  
  Fun fact: M.I.A. was gifted a Roland MC-505 groovebox from Justine Frischmann of Elastica after working with them on their tour documentary.
  
  Telling quote: "My problem is that politics is the first thing that defines who I am. It's like, "You're just The Other, you're this thing. You have evil thoughts about the world." When I watch President Bush on the telly going, we need to fight the axis of evil and kill these terrorists by all means necessary, I just go, "Sh*t, poor Dad." In the 70s all he wanted to do was be a revolutionary like Bob Dylan. He had idealistic views about changing the world for the better and fighting for people who don't have a voice-- the same thing that Bob Dylan wanted to do. Now, he's like this straight-up, evil terrorist; a gunned masked man with a semi-automatic ready to take down and behead people."
  
  
• Seattle Weekly: Music: Playing With Fire by Geeta Dayal
  
• I Love Music M.I.A. thread

• Austin Chronicle
  
• The Onion
  
• Pitchfork
  
• PopMatters
  
• Rolling Stone
  
• Stylus
  
• Willage Voice

Another slow news day

• First look at Yahoo! 360
  Looks like Yahoo is doing something innovative with their new social networking service and are not just a johnny-come-lately. They will feature a way to integrate blogs, friends lists, photos, and other personally relevant content like movie reivews, restaurant reviews, and book lists which are dynamically updated along with the content of one's friends.
  
• Mark Cuban to support P2P in MGM vs. Grokster
  
• Schiavo's communion and last rites
  
• Ex-Crowded House drummer commits suicide

Week in Review

• Happy Easter!
  
• Flashback: Larry Levan Real Audio
  
• Slow news day
  
• 80s vs. 00s mash-up
  
• New Kylie Leaked
  
• Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (video)
  
• Random news, including Britney's upgrade
  
• Ambulance Ltd. Videos: Heavy Lifting, Stay Where You Are
  
• The Chemical Brothers - Believe (video)
  
• Pingomatic bookmarklet or Firefox extension?
  
• Dsico's vocoderized versions of Strokes and White Stripes
  
• Flashback: DJ Pete Rock: Marley Marl In Control Rap Show, WBLS, NY 8/12/1989
  
• Three LOL stories of the day
  
• Unreleased Ryan Adams (Destroyer Sessions)
  
• Flashback: De La Soul, Live for Power 106FM, LA, 1996
  
• Gorillaz update, stream the new track 'Feel Good Inc.'
  
• The Killers - Sombody Told Me (mylo mix)
  
• HFStival?, The La's, Sin City, Affleck directing, Al Sharpton, Kanye, White Stripes...
  
• Salon with Spoon, Tom Waits, Asian-American hip-hop, Grokster, Gap drops SJP, 2046, Radiohead, Weezer, Eros, Schiavo
  
• The Outlaws
  
• Flashback: Frankie Knuckles, Summer 1984, Chicago
  
• Mash-ups that make you wanna dance
  
• Flashback: Jam Master Jay, WGCI Mastermix, Chicago, 1986
  
• New Beck track, Roxy Music, N.E.R.D, Bobby Fischer, David Spade, The Subways, Ourmedia, Social networking
  
• Flashback: Junior Vasquez Live @ The Sound Factory, NY 03/15/92
  
• Live and Rare Audio/Video: The Cure
  
• Potpourri

Flashback: Larry Levan Real Audio

Slow news day

• JukeBlog
  A new way to get MP3 blog recommendations! Haven't tested it out yet, but it sounds like it would be a useful service (if people participate).
  
• Foxblocker
  Block Fox News on your TV!
  
• Death Cab to appear on the O.C.
  
• Ashlee Simpson want to go 80s
  
• Obscene stuffed animals: Tigger and Tickle Me Elmo (video)
  Sorry. Blame Boing Boing.

80s vs. 00s mash-up

New Kylie Leaked

Random news, including Britney's upgrade

• Britney's upgrade
  No, it's not all that food she's been eating.
  
• Le Tigre collaborating with *gasp* Paris Hilton
  
• Tofu Hut's legendary Feist post
  
• Grafedia = graffiti pointing to web entities
  Not sure what the point of this is
  
• Seinfeld's TV dad is dead
  
• Canada's less restrictive copyright policy
  
• Real-life GPS/WiFi game
  For uber nerds only
  
• Yahoo adds Creative Commons search
  
• My butt's burning
  
• Coming soon: the Pez MP3 Player
  
• Eavesdropping on your car stereo?
  
• Dirty old man: Pat O'Brien
  
• Terri Schiavo status Firefox extension
  Someone is going straight to hell.

Ambulance Ltd. Videos: Heavy Lifting, Stay Where You Are

The Chemical Brothers - Believe (video)

Pingomatic bookmarklet or Firefox extension?

Dsico's vocoderized versions of Strokes and White Stripes

Flashback: DJ Pete Rock: Marley Marl In Control Rap Show, WBLS, NY 8/12/1989

Three LOL stories of the day

Unreleased Ryan Adams (Destroyer Sessions)

Flashback: De La Soul, Live for Power 106FM, LA, 1996

Gorillaz update, stream the new track 'Feel Good Inc.'

The Killers - Sombody Told Me (mylo mix)

HFStival?, The La's, Sin City, Affleck directing, Al Sharpton, Kanye, White Stripes...

• DCist: HFStival Lives (We Think)!
  
  I wasn't too depressed when radio station WHFS was forced by the forces of evil at Clear Channel to adopt a Spanish music format, since I don't listen to the radio much anymore. However, if I run out of CDs or I'm riding shotgun in someone's car, the lack of WHFS as an option does leave me with an empty feeling, especially when I think of the many great years that WHFS did have and the two HFStivals I attended. Nothing against Spanish music, but please find another frequency.
  
  Tentative list for May 14 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore:
  (* = bands I might actually care to see)
  Billy Idol (wtf?)
  Unwritten Law
  Social Distortion
  NY Dolls (they still exist?)
  Sum 41
  The Bravery*
  Interpol*
  Muse*
  Garbage*
  
  Also, WHFS still lives online, albeit at the lair of evil known as AOL. Speaking of which, Latin AOL is on the rocks.
  
  As an anomymous commenter informed me, WHFS is still on the air in Baltimore part-time at 105.7 FM.
  
  
• The La's return
  
• Newsweek interview with Robert Rodriguez on 'Sin City'
  
• Affleck wants to outdo Gigli
  
• Rev. Al Sharpton To Buy His Way Into Hip-Hop
  
• Kanye recruiting multi-intstrumentalist Jon Brion?
  
• White Stripes finish new album
  
• Roger Clemens' Hummer stolen
  
• Yahoo will up mail storage to 1 GB

Salon with Spoon, Tom Waits, Asian-American hip-hop, Grokster, Gap drops SJP, 2046, Radiohead, Weezer, Eros, Schiavo

• Salon: Spoon interview excerpt
  Is the Beatles' influence as huge in your music as it seems to be?
  It's huge. I'm a huge fan. There was a period when we were working on this record where [the Beatles'] "Revolver" was the thing I was listening to over and over again, and I would go to sleep with headphones on listening to "Revolver," But then there was a period where [Prince's] "1999" was the record I was listening to over and over again, and then the soundtrack to [Steven Soderbergh's 2002 film] "Solaris." People in the band didn't really get that one.
  
  Do you always get so obsessed with records?
  I do go through periods of obsession with certain records.
  
  Recently?
  I just got out of a period of obsession with [Prince's] "Around the World in a Day." And the Arcade Fire record, ["Funeral"]. It's a classic.
  
  
• The Observer: Tom Waits' Top 20 albums
  
• Boing Boing: Crosscultural Asian/American hip-hop
  
• Boing Boing: Technologies that will be criminal if we lose Grokster: email, blogs, Xerox machines
  Crossing our fingers that the Supreme Court won't curtail our digital rights.
  
• Gap drops Sarah Jessica Parker
  
• Sony picks up U.S. distribution rights to 2046
  My review of the film posted at the end of last year:
  2046 - This was the film I was most eagerly anticipating this year. It's Wong Kar-Wai's follow-up to 'In the Mood For Love', which was one of my favorite movies this decade. According to Wong, the idea for 2046 comes from the promise the Chinese government gave to the Hong Kong people: 50 years of no change in its political and economic systems after the 1997 handover by Great Britain. Chow (Tony Leung) is a writer whose novel describes a mysterious train that leaves for the year 2046, a year/place where people are said to revisit the past and recapture lost memories. This is mere speculation since no one has returned from 2046. Chow stays at the Oriental Hotel. He is a womanizer who relives his past affairs with his old neighbor's wife, Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung, playing the character from In the Mood for Love), a card shark by the same name (Gong Li), and a high class madam, Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi). His current neighbor, Jingwen (Faye Wong), is the daughter of the hotel's owner and she encourages him to write the novel. If you're confused, so was I. This film was rushed to Cannes, did not receive any awards, and was panned by many critics. I think there are some good ideas here but not enough for a coherent full-length feature film.
  
• Radiohead start work on new album
  
• Pitchfork: Weezer Set Release Date and U.S. Tour For Make Believe
  
• Eros trailer
  Featuring contributions from Steven Soderbergh, Michael Antonioni, and Wong Kar-Wai. I didn't even know Antonioni was still directing. Do short film collaborations like this ever work?
  
• Denied
  
• Salon: "This has nothing to do with the sanctity of life"
  
  Don't forget the Salon bypass to get by their forced ad.

The Outlaws

Flashback: Frankie Knuckles, Summer 1984, Chicago

Mash-ups that make you wanna dance

• JoolsMF - J to the Low
  You know who vs. DJ Shadow vs. Chris Isaak. This mash-up blows my mind.
  
• TBP - Shout Just Round
  Tears for Fears vs. Lulu & The Lovers plus funky guitars and big beat goodness.
  
• Dunproofin - Casbah Wonder
  Rock the Casbah is good, clean fun that defies genre classification. Thus, it's no wonder (pun intended) that it goes well with something as unrelated as Steve Wonder.
  
• DJ Tripp - She Wants Animals
  Ace of Base vs. NIN. I'm not kidding.
  

Flashback: Jam Master Jay, WGCI Mastermix, Chicago, 1986

New Beck track, Roxy Music, N.E.R.D, Bobby Fischer, David Spade, The Subways, Ourmedia, Social networking

• No decision yet
  
• Razoblade Runner has a link to a new Japan-only Beck track: "Crap Hands"
  
• Roxy Music re-form
  Alas, sans Brian Eno. A new LP release is possible, which would be their first in 20 years.
  
• N.E.R.D. disband
  
• Chess legend Bobby Fischer gets Icelandic citizenship
  He is wanted by the U.S. government for violating sanctions on Yugoslavia by playing a match there.
  
• David Spade's penis nose makes it past censors
  
• The Subways have their debut album stolen!
  
• Ourmedia introduces free file hosting for life
  This sounds waaaay too good to be true. But I will be checking it out, especially since it's from the lovely people who brought us The Internet Archive.
  Update: Man, their site is getting hammered. I really do hope the site takes off though. Sounds like a great idea.
  
• Wired: Is anyone still social networking?

Flashback: Junior Vasquez Live @ The Sound Factory, NY 03/15/92

Live and Rare Audio/Video: The Cure

Potpourri

• Mike has a nice link to Mogwai's remix of 'Plans' by Bloc Party. He also kindly provided a stream of the new Bravery LP, which I've re-hosted here (rename to .wpl)
• Largehearted Boy has some delicious torrents, including Doves live at SXSW. Grr.
  
• Behind Blue Eyes has a link to the new NIN single.
  
• Scenestars has new Stephen Malkmus (former Pavement frontman).
  
• The Senate wants to water your vegetables
  Sorry, that's a terrible slang expression along neurosurgeons for keeping someone comatose or in a persistent vegetative state alive. Please get a living will or designate a power of attorney so this never happens to you or your loved one. Contrary to what the 'right' would have you believe, discontinuing a feeding tube in a person with PVS does not typically cause pain or hunger and is a painless, peaceful, natural, and dignified way to die (at least more dignified than dying with tubes, lines, and monitors on you 24/7).
• Yahoo buys Flickr
• NYT: A night out with Keren Ann
  
• NYT: Darren Aronofsky's 'The Fountain'
  The director of "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream" has something new for us: a time-traveling film about the quest for eternal life, starring Hugh Jackman. Sounds overly ambitious, even for a skilled director like Aronofsky.
  
• NYT: Bush's prepackaged news
  
• Inventor of the DeLorean dead at 80
  Awesome: Boing Boing green-lighted my DeLorean post, my first Boing Boing green light! Thanks, Xeni, even if most of the traffic is going to the AP site, hehe.

Week in Review

• Mash-ups: Kasabian vs. Kelis - Get I.D., Elastica vs. ...
  
• Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh (video)
  
• Random: Fiona Apple torrent, new POP77 mix, Heidi Klum preggers with Seal's kid, Hedwig's new explicit film, Von Trier, Paula Abdul
  
• Stream the New Beck Album
  
• Who looks better in HDTV? And worse?
  
• George Kennan dead, Decemberists wuz robbed, DRM-free tunes on iTunes, Yahoo and Hollywood, St Etienne, Wolfowitz and Bono talk
  
• Random: Final Four, Air vs. Stakka Bo vs. Missy, Live Orbital, Family Guy live, Music on USB drives
  
• Led Zeppelin, live at MSG, 9/17/70
  
• Lil' Kim, 'Roid hearings, Determined Fiona Apple fans, Samsung MP3 players, Decemberists selling out?, G Unit & Co., M.I.A., Matt Pond PA, Woody Allen
  
• Live at KVRX: Broken Social Scene, The Futureheads, Ben Lee, Magnetic Fields, Modest Mouse, Of Montreal, The Walkmen, and others
  
• Coldplay - Live at Universal Amphitheatre 3-12-05 (KCRW-FM), Preview tracks from new album 'X&Y'
  
• Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love Is Blind (video)
  
• Rob Blake acquitted, Ramones documentary, iTunes reneg, Happy St. Patty's Day
  
• Yahoo blogs, Robotic crack babies, Snow Patrol ousts bassist, Ian Brown arrested
  
• SXSW coverage, IE 7.0 tidbits, Microsoft's RSS feed reader, Tarantino
  
• Weezer's Pixies cover, More mash-ups
  
• Beatallica is back, AOL revises AIM TOS, Bloggies, MSNBC on CC, DRM harm, Rock HOF, Billy Joel rehab, Stones tour, Canibus, Annie
  
• DJ Riko - P-Funk Is Playing At My House, The Roots vs. Radiohead mash-up
  
• St. Patty's Day - Traditional Irish Folk Bands
  
• Batman: New Times
  
• Viral promotion, Mario gone, The Shins tour, Coin Locker Babies, Brad Bird, Privacy (Amazon, AOL) and Piracy, Blog growth
  
• Z-Trip videos, including Z-Trip and Beck live at Coachella
  
• New Spike Jonze Adidas ad featuring Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  
• Ubuweb: Sound poetry, art, historical, contemporary audio
  
• Satellite Rides

Mash-ups: Kasabian vs. Kelis - Get I.D., Elastica vs. ...

• kasabian vs. kelis - get i.d. (mcsleazy bootleg)
  Kelis does downtempo/shoegazer thanks to Kasabian.
  
  
• elastica v mya ft missy - love is never here (mcsleazy bootleg)
  Goes together so well, it makes you wonder why more R&B artists don't crossover to rock. (Actually, we don't really want that).

Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh (video)

Bent - Always (Ashley Beedle's Mahavishnu Remix)

Random: Fiona Apple torrent, new POP77 mix, Heidi Klum preggers with Seal's kid, Hedwig's new explicit film, Von Trier, Paula Abdul

• What do you want on your tombstone? Not a gigantic cell phone, I hope.
  
• Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (album, zip file torrent)
  Lyrics and mirrors here
  
• POP77 has a new mix
  
• Heidi Klum preggers with Seal's kid
  I'd like to see a Fark Photoshop of this.
  
• John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) sought sextras for his new film 'Short Bus'
  That's right, extras who have random sex in his improv film.
  
• Lars Von Trier to direct... a sitcom?
  
• Paula Abdul caught in hit and run

Stream the New Beck Album

Who looks better in HDTV? And worse?

George Kennan dead, Decemberists wuz robbed, DRM-free tunes on iTunes, Yahoo and Hollywood, St Etienne, Wolfowitz and Bono talk

• George Kennan dies at age 101
  His policy of 'containment' died years ago. Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rumsfeld will have him turning in his grave for a few more years.
  
• The Decemberists have their gear trailer stolen!
  Thanks to You Ain't No Picasso for the heads-up
  
• Get DRM-free tunes on iTunes!
  
• Yahoo woos Hollywood
  
• Saint Etienne prepare new album
  
• Wolfowitz and Bono talk about poverty
  Can anybody say, "Media ploy?"

Random: Final Four, Air vs. Stakka Bo vs. Missy, Live Orbital, Family Guy live, Music on USB drives

• My Final Four picks: Arizona, Wake Forest, Kansas, Kentucky
  Try not to laugh at me
  
• d/l: Gloomy Bear - Kelly Wash the Cars
  Air - Kelly watch the stars vs Stakka Bo - Here we go vs Missy E - Pass that dutch
  
• Totally Fuzzy has a link to Orbital's last performance ever, intro by John Peel.
  
• Family Guy live!
  
• USB drives to distribute music

Led Zeppelin, live at MSG, 9/17/70

Lil' Kim, 'Roid hearings, Determined Fiona Apple fans, Samsung MP3 players, Decemberists selling out?, G Unit & Co., M.I.A., Matt Pond PA, Woody Allen

• Congratulations on matching, MSIVs!
  
• Happy St. Patrick's Day!
  
  
  
• Lil' Kim convicted of perjury
  
• Lawmakers blast baseball over steroid use
  
• Fans beg Sony to sell them Fiona Apple's shelved album
  
• Samsung asserts: "We’ll be no. 1 in MP3 players by 2007"
  
• The Decemberists ponder leaving Kill Rock Stars for a major label
  "This is our last record for Kill Rock Stars, so I think we are going to be moving on. We’re going to talk to majors, but we’re also going to talk to a lot of indies as well, just because I don’t know if our music is meant for a major-label environment. I don’t know if we can be that big crossover indie-rock sensation that everyone’s been hoping for right now."
  
• G Unit, 50 Cent, Eminem tour in works
  
• Visa problems delay M.I.A.'s entry to states for tour
  
• Matt Pond PA U.S. tour dates
  
• Woody Allen is still making movies

Live at KVRX: Broken Social Scene, The Futureheads, Ben Lee, Magnetic Fields, Modest Mouse, Of Montreal, The Walkmen, and others

• Broken Social Scene
  
• Cat Power
  
• Edith Frost
  
• Explosions in the Sky
  
• The Futureheads
  
• Idlewild
  
• Ben Lee
  
• Magnetic Fields
  
• Modest Mouse
  
• Of Montreal
  
• The Sea and the Cake
  
• Sondre Lerche
  
• The Walkmen
  
• M. Ward
  
• Xiu Xiu

Coldplay - Live at Universal Amphitheatre 3-12-05 (KCRW-FM), Preview tracks from new album 'X&Y'

Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love Is Blind (video)

Rob Blake acquitted, Ramones documentary, iTunes reneg, Happy St. Patty's Day

• Rob Blake acquitted of murder
  
• IFilm: Intro to Ramones documentary, 'End of the Century'
  
• Apple is reneging on iTunes functionality
  
• Don't forget my St. Patty's Day post
  You can't pinch me.

Yahoo blogs, Robotic crack babies, Snow Patrol ousts bassist, Ian Brown arrested

• Yahoo 360
  Yahoo introduces beta of blogging and social networking service. Service launches March 29.
  
• Robotic crack babies
  I bet your mom passed on this one in the toy aisle.
  
• Snow Patrol's bassist ousted
  
• Ian Brown arrested for on-stage fight

SXSW coverage, IE 7.0 tidbits, Microsoft's RSS feed reader, Tarantino

• SXSW video: How to be beautiful with CSS
  
• SXSW video: Interview with the creator of BitTorrent
  This guy is definitely a geek, but he makes some good points about P2P changing the face of media distribution.
  
• Tidbits about IE 7.0
  
• Preview Microsoft's new RSS feed reader
  Click on 'Show' on the top left. You can click 'Add Content' and see how your feed would look in their feed reader. It doesn't look like FeedBurner optimizes for it; but, then again, it's pre-beta Microsoft garbage we're talking about.
  
• Tarantino on Inglorious Bastards and an NC-17 re-release of Kill Bill
  

Weezer's Pixies cover, More mash-ups

• Weezer - Velouria (Pixies cover)
  
• DJ Riko - Whistler's Delight
  A mash-up of songs that feature whistling. Really bizarre.
  
• Nick Foster - I Only Want Renegade Masta's Shiny Balls
  Bay City Rollers vs. Wildchild vs. Who Da Funk

Beatallica is back, AOL revises AIM TOS, Bloggies, MSNBC on CC, DRM harm, Rock HOF, Billy Joel rehab, Stones tour, Canibus, Annie

• Beatallica is back
  Sony has demonstrated that they will come after you for any semblance of a copyright violation when it comes to the Beatles, a fact that parody band Beatallica found out not too long ago. Thankfully, levelheaded analysis of the situation and productive dialogue was promoted by Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and Metallica's attorney coming to the band's defense. Long story short, Sony has agreed to drop the case and beatallica.org should be online in the near future.
  
• AOL revises their AIM TOS
  Proof that the Slashdot community and blogs CAN influence policy.
  
• 2005 Bloggies
  
• MSNBC: Rewriting the rules of copyright (Creative Commons)
  
• How DRM will harm the developing world
  
• Rock and roll HOF inductees: U2, The Pretenders, The O'Jays, Percy Sledge, and Buddy Guy
  
• Billy Joel enters rehab, again
  
• Stones to kick off world tour at Fenway Park
  
• Canibus prepares 2 new albums
  
• Annie LP to see US release in May

DJ Riko - P-Funk Is Playing At My House, The Roots vs. Radiohead mash-up

• DJ Riko - P-Funk Is Playing At My House (featuring Gerald A and Katie Enlow)
  A cover of LCD Soundsystem's hit with reworked lyrics and P-funk samples!
  
• DJ BC - The Roots vs. Radiohead - Nothing in its Right Place
  DJ BC's mash-up features speed-rapping Roots and a mumbling, stuttering Thom Yorke. Interesting, but he's done better.

St. Patty's Day - Traditional Irish Folk Bands

Batman: New Times

Viral promotion, Mario gone, The Shins tour, Coin Locker Babies, Brad Bird, Privacy (Amazon, AOL) and Piracy, Blog growth

• NYT: Organizations are embracing the phenomenon of viral marketing
  For example, check out this cartoon from the Consumers Union entitled "Prescription for Change", a satirical jab at the pharmaceutical industry (hosted on JibJab).
  
• Mario leaves American Idol
  Maybe someone cares.
  
• The Shins: initial US tour dates
  
• DVDTalk's audio interview with Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles
  The Incredibles comes out on DVD tomorrow.
  
• Vincent Gallo, Liv Tyler and Asia Argento up to topline Coin Locker Babies
  The script was written by Sean Lennon based on the Japanese novel "Coin Locker Babies" by Ryu Murakami.
  
• CNET: "Amazon has continued to set the low bar for privacy on the Internet"
  
• Slashdot: AOL responds to privacy concerns
  
• Slashdot: European piracy crackdowns
  
• The exponential growth of blogs

Z-Trip videos, including Z-Trip and Beck live at Coachella

"It's sort of become the new karaoke, in my mind. You're at work, and someone's like, 'Hey, listen to what John did in Cubicle No. 4! It's pretty wacky: He did this thing with Christina Aguilera and the Strokes.' To me it's lost its appeal. And it's gone way, way out of the DJ realm."

New Spike Jonze Adidas ad featuring Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Ubuweb: Sound poetry, art, historical, contemporary audio

Satellite Rides

Week in Review

• News: The Hobbit, New Order technology, Spamalot, New AIM TOS, What's your #?, WWW over power lines
  
• M.I.A. - Galang (video)
  
• Tegan and Sara
  
• The Life Aquatic
  
• Misc: Archived concerts, Money and hip-hop, Yo La Tengo, P2P Spyware, Legal P2P in France?, Nintendo WiFi, Apple wins case, Paul Newman=old, Austinist
  
• Basement Jaxx - Oh my gosh (Bugz in the attic remix)
  
• New Star Wars Trailer (not the crappy camcorder version)
  
• Jadakiss - Checkmate, Kiss Tears 50 Cent a New One
  
• Unreleased Stereolab
  
• How music gets stuck in your head, 5 cents per song?, Dan Rather signs off, LexisNexis hacked, Benicio and Scarlett?
  
• Gorillaz SXSW Invitation
  
• Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) music video
  
• The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th
  
• Preventing image overflow?
  
• Morerandom stuff: Durst apologizes to Gawker, Naomi Watts vs. King Kong's hand, Ja Rule pleads guilty, MiniMozilla, BitTorrent 4.0
  
• Jimi Hendrix Live in Atlanta (video)
  
• The Clash vs. Stevie Wonder mash-up
  
• New Keren Ann
  
• R.I.P. Martin Denny, State Downloading Crime, Sued for P2P, Blogging on the Job, Free Napster, Sony Flash
  
• The Clash music videos!
  
• Get the new Wilco EP (only if you own 'A Ghost Is Born')
  
• Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King (live)
  
• Kasabian
  
• Misc: The most expensive album never made, Shannon Elizabeth splitsville, Another hot mash-up
  
• Musical potpourri: New Coldplay, Common and Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, Shins' Postal Service cover, The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers video
  
• News: Controversial UN landmine ad, Beck in NYTM, Yahoo vs. iTunes, AllofMP3.com, Nick Carter arrested, Oasis, Weezer, Sufjan Stevens LPs,indie mix
  
• Drum and Bass Archive
  
• News: Niche entertainment markets, Blogging limits, R.I.P. Tommy Vance, Schwarzenegger gets tough on roids, Finger aggression, Triumph on 50 Cent

News: The Hobbit, New Order technology, Spamalot, New AIM TOS, What's your #?, WWW over power lines

• The Hobbit movie is three years away
  
• New Order uses Bluetooth posters to wire music to users
  This is a novel idea that very well could be the wave of the future in advertising. Special digital posters beam song clips, ringtones, and photos to fans’ cellphones at HMV's in London and Manchester.
  
• Spamalot
  Define irony: Those who registered at the website for Monty Python's Spamalot, a Broadway musical, received a lot of spam when their information was pilfered by spammers.
  
• New TOS for AIM includes 'No Privacy' clause
  "...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy." Thanks to Slashdot for alerting us.
  
• Can't remember phone numbers? Don't worry, most people can't.
  
• Japanese create a system for home networking over power lines

M.I.A. - Galang (video)

Tegan and Sara

The Life Aquatic

Misc: Archived concerts, Money and hip-hop, Yo La Tengo, P2P Spyware, Legal P2P in France?, Nintendo WiFi, Apple wins case, Paul Newman=old, Austinist

• Archived concerts from the Netherlands
  
• Village Voice: Corporations killed hip-hop
  
• Yo La Tengo announce precious few tour dates
  
• New Coldplay album entitled 'X&Y'
  
• How P2P spyware is tracking you
  
• P2P More Legal in France?
  
• Nintendo Revolution will come with wi-fi connectivity built-in
  
• Apple -1, Bloggers - 0
  
• Paul Newman ready to retire
  
• Austinist
  Just in time for SXSW, Austinist opens its doors.

Basement Jaxx - Oh my gosh (Bugz in the attic remix)

New Star Wars Trailer (not the crappy camcorder version)

Jadakiss - Checkmate, Kiss Tears 50 Cent a New One