Broken Social Scene - Windsurfing Nation

Jeff Buckley - I Know It's Over (STUDIO DEMO)

Bender PC, Ciara tears pants, Scarlett moves in with Hartnett?, more

Jacked Beats

Bob Moog passes away, Decemberists, DCFC, and Stars' Fleetwood Mac cover, Baez performs in Crawford

• Bob Moog, an instrumental innovator and one of the fathers of electronic music, has passed away at the age of 71
  - Listen to the Moog synthesizer demo at the University of Iowa
  - Who used the MiniMoog?
  The Chemical Brothers, The Orb, Kraftwerk, Jan Hammer, Nine Inch Nails, Vince Clarke, Gary Numan, Add N To (X), Rick Wakeman, 808 State, Air, Future Sound of London, Bushflange, Chick Corea, Uberzone, Depeche Mode, Recoil, Tangerine Dream, Mouse on Mars, Apollo 440, Ultravox, Dave Holmes, Jean-Michel Jarre, George Duke, Blondie, Rush, Keith Emerson, Joe Zawinul and Herbie Hancock.
  - And the Minimoog Voyager?
  Stevie Wonder, Maroon 5, the Crystal Method, Electric Skychurch, Duran Duran, Air, Morcheeba, Black Eyed Peas, Nine Inch Nails, Blues Traveller, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dido, The Cure, Herbie Hancock, Rick Wakeman, Nickelback, Dream Theater, Paul Simon, Joy Electric, the Neptunes...
  - Just to name but two of the synths he's designed or helped develop over the years. (info via Vintage Synth Explorer)
  
  
• You Ain't No Picasso has the Decemberists, DCFC, and Stars covering Fleetwood Mac at Summerstage. Video and MP3. Cool!
  
  
• Baez Performs for Crawford War Protesters

Hunter S. Thompson blasted into the sky

With a deafening boom, the ashes of Hunter S. Thompson were blown into the sky amid fireworks late Saturday as relatives and a star-studded crowd bid an irreverent farewell to the founder of "gonzo journalism".

Week in Review

• Most embarrassing sex scenes, more
  
• Hey, idiot comment spammers!
  
• Legally stream new Franz Ferdinand, New Big Star album leaks
  
• Beastie Boys a capellas, more
  
• Tuvan throat singers cover Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart
  
• Make your own comic strip!
  
• Franz Ferdinand new album preview, Why DRM will kill mobile music, Japanese anti-piracy, New Hendrix bio, more
  
• Kanye West vs. The Beach Boys Mash-up album, Robocat, Fiona Apple, more

Most embarrassing sex scenes, more

Hey, idiot comment spammers!

Legally stream new Franz Ferdinand, New Big Star album leaks

For those of you who don't know, Big Star are an oft forgotten band who in the era of post-psychedelia pioneered the genre of power pop before it even existed, releasing 3 classic albums. Though often billed on ILM as one of the most overrated underrated bands, their wide-ranging influence on the good, the bad, and the ugly can't be denied: REM, the Posies, the Replacements, Teenage Fanclub, and Matthew Sweet (ugh).

Beastie Boys a capellas, more

Tuvan throat singers cover Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart

Make your own comic strip!

Franz Ferdinand new album preview, Why DRM will kill mobile music, Japanese anti-piracy, New Hendrix bio, more

• Revolution in the Head previews the new Franz Ferdinand
  
  
• Why DRM will kill mobile music
  DRM doesn't work. Even Dave Matthews Band provides instructions on how to circumvent DRM.
  
  
  
• Cautionary Japanese anti-piracy video (wmv)
  via BoingBoing
  
  TRANSCRIPT
  

  (Picture of girl looking sad.)
  Girl: "Movies are being stolen."
  Girl: "Our enjoyment (of movies) is being stolen."
  
  (Black tear appears on girl's face.)
  Girl: "Important things will be destroyed."
  
  Text: I want to protect movies, I want to protect our enjoyment (of movies).
  
  (Tear runs down girl's face, drops into water and skull appears. Fades to image of eroding film.)
  
  Text and voiceover: Pirate movie eradication campaign
  
  (Closeup of girl's eyes)
  
  Text: Don't watch or buy illegal downloads and pirated DVDs
  Girl: I won't watch, I won't buy (pirated movies)
  
  Text: "SAVE OUR MOVIES" Heart logo

  
  
  
• How did Jimi Hendrix escape Vietnam duty?
  By pretending he was gay!
  
  
• Terrorist babies
  I feel safer already.
  
  
  
  
• Virginians Pee Themselves Over Cheap Laptops
  I love me some cheap tehcnology. But not enough to lose urinary continence.
  

  People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing each other. A little girl’s stroller was crushed in the stampede. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd.
  
  Seventeen people suffered minor injuries, with four requiring hospital treatment, Henrico County Battalion Chief Steve Wood said. There were no arrests and the iBooks sold out by 1 p.m....Blandine Alexander, 33, said one woman standing in front of her was so desperate to retain her place in line that she urinated on herself.

  
  
  
  

Kanye West vs. The Beach Boys Mash-up album, Robocat, Fiona Apple, more

• Lush Life presents: Kanye West meets The Beach Boys
  Believe it or not, this mash concept actually holds together quite well. I can't really describe how or why it works. Just give it a listen.
  
  
• Partially paralyzed cat uses mechanised platform to move (quicktime)
  Elvis is a paraplegic cat. Now, thanks to his creative owner, he is Robocat!
  
  
• Fiona Apple Retools Her Leaked Album
  Also, Stereogum has a stream of a new track, 'O Sailor'.
  
  
• Radioactive decay as a model for relationships

Week in Review

• Mash-up: Gwen Stefani vs. Front 242 - Hollaback Headhunter
  
• The Chemical Brothers - The Boxer (video)
  
• Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven (live cure cover)
  
• Collideoscope, Lab-grown meat, more
  
• NIN Live from Austria 07-08-00
  
• Stream new Athlete video 'Half-Light'
  
• Stones diss Bush, Decemberists b-sides and rarities, more
  
• Random MP3s: First podcast from space, Luke Slater
  
• Movies I'm Looking Forward To Seeing
  
• Sad news x 2
  
• Audioscrobbler re-design?
  
• Video mash-up:Bob Novak vs. The Clash

Mash-up: Gwen Stefani vs. Front 242 - Hollaback Headhunter

The Chemical Brothers - The Boxer (video)

Dinosaur Jr. - Just Like Heaven (live cure cover)

Collideoscope, Lab-grown meat, more

Scientists believe the technology already exists to directly grow processed meat like a chicken nugget.

The technology could benefit both humans and the environment.

"With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply. And you could do it in a way that's better for the environment and human health."

NIN Live from Austria 07-08-00

Stream new Athlete video 'Half-Light'

Random MP3s: First podcast from space, Luke Slater

Movies I'm Looking Forward To Seeing

• Site
  
• Trailer
  
• First Look

Sad news x 2

Audioscrobbler re-design?

Video mash-up: Bob Novak vs. The Clash

Week in Review

• Coppola pushes On the Road, 17 years for camcorder piracy, more
  
• Checking out Yahoo! Audio Search --> querying Sweet Jane
  
• Bob Novak's potty mouth
  
• No go on Chappelle's Show?, Britney's baby's name, Sufjan video, Mangum+OTC video
  
• Annie remix, new Sigur Ros, new Ladytron vid, Big Star
  
• Sufjan Stevens - What Goes On, Get money back from fake Sony movie critic, more
  
• Mash-up: Avril Lavigne Vs Air
  
• The Leave it to Bush series, for a good laugh with cool indie music
  
• Fungal remixes, Sean Connery quits, Gore's Current TV Network
  
• Music industry's insanity, Lauren Bacall disses Cruise, Jim Jarmusch
  
• Mash-up: M.I.A. vs Can

Coppola pushes On the Road, 17 years for camcorder piracy, more

Checking out Yahoo! Audio Search --> querying Sweet Jane

Bob Novak's potty mouth

No go on Chappelle's Show?, Britney's baby's name, Sufjan video, Mangum+OTC video

Sufjan Stevens - What Goes On, Get money back from fake Sony movie critic, more

Mash-up: Avril Lavigne Vs Air

The Leave it to Bush series, for a good laugh with cool indie music

Fungal remixes, Sean Connery quits, Gore's Current TV Network

• Fungal remixes
  What does a CD sound like if you grow bacteria, yeast, or fungi on it? Take a listen to fungified Soft Cell and New Order. Like a bad acid trip.
  
  
• Sean Connery quitting movies because he is "fed up with the idiots" now working in Hollywood.
  
  
• "The Current" Internet TV network, from the inventor of the Internet himself

Music industry's insanity, Lauren Bacall disses Cruise, Jim Jarmusch

• Mark Cuban's illuminating article on the insanity of the music industry.
  

  There is an old saying that the definition of insanity is, “Doing the same thing over and over again expecting the outcome to change”...
  
  Insanity is thinking that kids with more time than money will stop finding ways to get music for free. Even if the industry found the end all be all DRM solution that stops 100 pct of duplication, kids will sit in front of their radios with recording capability or redirect digital music from any source to their hard drives and then spend the time to pick out the music they like and burn it.

  
  
• Classic Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall disses Tom Cruise.
  Ouch. Bet that smarts worse than that squirting microphone.
  
  
• Jim Jarmusch - The Last of the Indies
  If you haven't seen 'Dead Man' or 'Ghost Dog', you are missing out on two idiosyncratic classics from one of the last influential American indie directors who has remained true to his craft. His new film, 'Broken Flowers', features Bill Murray as a recently dumped guy who embarks on a journey to reunite with old flames and look for clues to about his son's existence.
  
  
• Homeland Security is one step away from yellow star badges: RFIDs for foreign visitors
  
  
• How Payola Went Corporate | Variety article
  Is it any wonder that radio is crap?
  

  "Song pluggers" urged certain songs on big band leaders in the 1930's and 40's, accompanied by bundles of cash to make the musical choice easier. Disc jockeys in the 1950's were handed cash bribes or fur coats for their wives. The independent promoters of the late 1970's and 1980's plied station directors with drugs and prostitutes.

  
  
• Accessory to Murder
  

  A backpack! Has a more ordinary, more benign, more ubiquitous accouterment of modern life ever taken on such a sudden connotation of darkness?