Do you play any musical instruments? I play guitar better than most people. A ludicrous claim that I justify by pointing out that most people don’t play the guitar at all.
Category: music
Guilty Musical Pleasures
The BBC reports on Q Magazine’s list of “guilty pleasures” – those songs that you secretly love but would never admit to owning. So, go on, admit it. Which of their top ten is on your MP3 player? ELO – Livin’ Thing Boston – More Than A Feeling S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Movin’… Continue reading Guilty Musical Pleasures
QotD: Summer Music
What’s the one CD that will totally remind you of the Summer of 2006? Alright Still I’ve only just got hold of this album and I can already tell that it’s going to be on heavy rotation on the iRiver for the next few weeks. It’s gorgeous.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Syd Barrett has died. (I bet I’m not the only person to use that title for this story)
Real DJs Code Live
This is very cool. An article in Wired features a member of london.pm Some DJs spin vinyl or twiddle fader knobs. Others write subroutines in C++. A new brand of music maestro is turning programming into performance, eschewing turntables for a compiler and a mind for syntax structure. “Livecoding” practitioners improvise using Perl or homemade… Continue reading Real DJs Code Live
Old Git
My stepdaughter’s boyfriend is in a band called Toybox (they’re on My Space too). They’re playing a gig in London on Saturday and somehow we’ve been roped in to going along and giving support. On one hand, I’m quite looking forward to it. It’s been far too long since I saw any live music. But… Continue reading Old Git
UK Music Fans Can Copy Own Tracks
Whilst I’m on a digital music roll, it’s worth also mentioning that the BPI chairman, Peter Jamieson, has said that the BPI won’t press for prosecution of users who make digital copies for use on portable players of music that they own. The BBC report is here and the BPI’s version is here. Jamieson was… Continue reading UK Music Fans Can Copy Own Tracks
Karma Download RIP
Whilst most of the attention is on the BPI’s attack on All Of MP3, another MP3 download site quietly died yesterday. Karma Download is currently showing a page which says that it’s “temporarily suspended”, but I hear that it’s very unlikely to return. That’s a real shame. Like All Of MP3, Karma Download sold its… Continue reading Karma Download RIP
Frantic Downloading
Oops. Looks like the BPI has started taking an interest in AllOfMP3. Better spend all the credit in my account as soon as possible.
DRM is Killing Music
Well, at least, it is according to the keyboard player of Counting Crows: The public should support all “digital rights management software” because, in the end, it means that more movies will be produced, and they will be of better quality. Copy protection is fair and it’s right and it’s good for art, for artists… Continue reading DRM is Killing Music