Charles Manson Drops New Album and Lindsay Lohan Plays a Slut
Posted on 05. Apr, 2008 by Bill in Apocalypse, Blog, Internet, Music
King of crazy Charles Manson released a new record this week via the opensource copyright organization Creative Commons just like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails. What’s Creative Commons? Well…
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”
You can download it here I’m sure it’s less than awesome.
In other news somewhat related to both crazy and Manson [...]
Remix Radiohead’s “Nude” on Garageband
Posted on 01. Apr, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Music, Technology
Like Nine Inch Nails before them, Radiohead are making the individual tracks to their new single “Nude” available on iTunes for use in crafting homemade remixes. However, the one caveat to this seemingly fan-appreciative jesture is that the “stems”, or individual components, for each song have to purchased separately. That sound you just heard was Thom Yorke’s bank account getting stacked with loot:
Radiohead, iTunes and Garageband are giving fans the opportunity to remix the band’s new single “Nude” at http://www.radioheadremix.com
To make remixing easy, the separate ’stems’* from the song will [...]
Liars to Open for Radiohead
Posted on 25. Mar, 2008 by James in Music
In a move that will probably be somewhat polarizing for the Radiohead crowd, experimental trash rock group Liars has been slotted as main support on select US tour dates.
Liars most recent eponymous album was released in 2007 and received accolades from The New York Times, Rolling Stone and a bunch of other publications that a lot of people read, and it even impressed the austere tastemakers over at Pitchfork. Their single “Plaster Casts of Everything” made Pitchfork’s Top 100 singles of 2007 (no. 48) and the video for which [...]
Lollapalooza Early Bird Tickets on Sale, QUICK! But what exactly are you buying?
Posted on 25. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Idiocy, Music
$175 3-day “Early Bird” passes are on sale now, so you better get on that shit before you’re paying a scalper with an eight ball and your 3-week old baby. After the “Early Bird” tickets are sold out, $190 “Advance” 3-Day passes go on sale…followed by Regular Old “Jacking Up The Prices For the Fuck of It” $205 tickets.
So quick, go here and SPEND early birds, SPEND. But on what, exactly?
Details haven’t really been announced, but the main speculation in the blogosphere (blech) is that Radiohead will be headlining. The [...]
Thom Yorke, Optimist?
Posted on 24. Mar, 2008 by Daniel Taylor in Music, Politics, Science
In a guest blog for the Guardian, perennially tortured Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke lays out his somewhat surprising feelings of optimism regarding global climate change:
These changes might be small, but they are in the right direction. Unlike pessimists such as James Lovelock, I don’t believe we are all doomed. It was good to hear Sir David King recently saying he was an optimist and human behaviour is changing. As I heard George Monbiot saying not long ago, isn’t it funny how in the space of a year we went from [...]
Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album to Torrent Sites
Posted on 05. Mar, 2008 by James in Internet, Music
Over the weekend, users claiming to be “the official profile for NIN” began popping up on popular torrent sites. As it turns out, they weren’t lying.
After breaking with Interscope, NIN decided to take the distribution of its music into its own hands and released its latest album, Ghosts I-IV, via its official Web site.
Of course, Radiohead took a similar route with their latest album In Rainbows, which was available digitally on a suggested donation basis before it was given a proper, physical release earlier this year.
It seems more and more [...]
SF Outside Lands Announces Headliners: Radiohead, Tom Petty & Jack Johnson
Posted on 04. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Music
Festival Radness Alert! SF Outside Lands, which will be held at Golden gate park in San Francisco from August 22nd – 24th, has announced their headliners: Radiohead. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Jack Johnson.
You know they’re going to announce some more rad additions; this is a three-day festival so those three will probably just be the tip of the iceberg, but one hell of a tip that is: Tom Petty and Thom Yorke? Do you really need any more?
Well, more couldn’t hurt. Be sure to check back at www.sfoutsidelands.com [...]
Nine Inch Nails from $0 to $300
Posted on 03. Mar, 2008 by Bill in Internet, Music, Technology
Nine Inch Nails ended their relationship with Interscope when their record contract expired in October 2007 so Trent Reznor decided to pull a Radiohead and just released Ghosts I-IV via his Nine Inch Nails website.
You can check out the whole thing here.
Ghosts I – IV is a brand new 36 track instrumental collection. Clocking in at right around two hours of new music that was – according to Trent Reznor “composed and recorded over an intense ten week period last fall, Ghosts I – IV sprawls Nine Inch Nails [...]
