Monday, July 10, 2006

No new name for Penny Lane

Where the streets have famous names ...

Liverpool's world famous Penny Lane is escaping a proposed name change because of its links with the Beatles.
Local politicians are planning to rename streets in the city associated with the port's slave-trading past – but had overlooked the fact that Penny Lane was named in honour of James Penny, a 18th century slave ship owner.
However, now council member Barbara Mace, who has spearheaded the move, has said that Penny Lane – which attracts thousands of tourists every year – will retain the name made famous by the Paul McCartney tune of the same name.

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100 Greatest Debut Albums

UnCut has compiled a list of the 100 Greatest Debut Albums. Surprise! The winner is The Velvet Underground & Nico. John Cale offers his opinions about each track in a 3-page interview.

In the somewhat inevitable way of these things – lists of anything being inescapably contentious – our 100 Greatest Debut Albums will, over the long haul, provoke various levels of argument, disagreement and the occasional bout of theatrical eyeball-rolling.

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bt.etree.org hacked - use RSS or browse.php

Some wanker has hacked the frontpage of bt.etree.org. All of the data is safe and sound. It appears that ibiblio.org's webserver has been compromised. However, you can still access the site through the RSS feed:

» http://bt.etree.org/index.xml

And browse by artist is still working:

» http://bt.etree.org/browse.php

Update (20:58): everything is working fine again!

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Trey, Mike, and The Duo: 2006/07/08 torrent

Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, Marco Benevento and Joe Russo
2006/07/08
Darien Lake PAC, Darien Center, NY, USA

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