Monday, September 04, 2006

MySpace: MP3's for sale?

MySpace is planning to make money through selling MP3's from the hordes of unsigned bands that hang out there. MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe told Reuters:

The goal is to be one of the biggest digital music stores out there. Everyone we've spoken to definitely wants an alternative to iTunes and the iPod. MySpace could be that alternative.

Well, let them sort out their crap coding first before setting up secure connections for the cash to roll in.

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Béla Fleck: the african roots of the banjo

Béla Fleck

Béla Fleck is busy completing a DVD about the - wait for it - African roots of the banjo. So he is playing with African musicians on this one. He explains in Guitar Player:

It’s rewarding to look outside of what you normally do, because you’ll grow very quickly by comparison, and it’s exciting to play something for the first time. On the other hand, the Flecktones is a unique collaboration that has lasted 18 years, and I value getting to our next phase of evolution as much as playing with someone new.

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Gov't Mule 2006 live torrents: 2006/08/23

Warren Haynes

One more Mule show for you. Opening set for The Allman Brothers Band.

Gov't Mule
2006/08/23
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, Va, USA

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CSNY 2006 torrents: 2006/08/13

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
2006/08/13
Bethel Woods Center For The Arts, Bethel, NY, USA

CD1:
  1. Flags Of Freedom
  2. Carry On
  3. Wooden Ships
  4. Long Time Gone
  5. Military Madness
  6. After The Garden
  7. Living With War
  8. The Restless Consumer
  9. Shock And Awe
  10. Wounded World
  11. Almost Cut My Hair
  12. Immigration Man
  13. Families
  14. Deja Vu
CD2:
  1. Helplessly Hoping
  2. Our House
  3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  4. Guinnevere
  5. Milky Way Tonight
  6. Treetop Flyer
  7. Roger And Out
  8. Southbound Train
  9. Old Man Trouble
  10. Carry Me
  11. Teach Your Children
  12. Southern Cross
  13. Find The Cost Of Freedom
CD3:
  1. Let's Impeach The President
  2. For What It's Worth
  3. Chicago
  4. Ohio
  5. What Are Their Names
  6. Rockin' In The Free World
  7. Woodstock

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John Cale: Paris 1919 review in Pitchfork

John Cale

Pitchfork reviews the remastered & expanded Paris 1919 album by John Cale:

A hypnotic, viola-led "drone mix" of "Hanky Panky Nohow" draws a stronger link to Cale's earlier musical experiments than anything on the released version of the album, while a stripped-down rendition "The Endless Planes of Fortune" better accentuates Cale's nuanced vocal and Lowell George's understated country-rock accents. The album's title track appears in two additional versions-- a "string mix" that features only Cale and small chamber ensemble, and a "piano mix" that includes a beautiful, overtly Brian Wilson-inspired vocal bridge. Each of these alternate tracks is revelatory in its own right, and when taken together with the completed album this collection offers a brilliant working portrait of an artist testing the full possibilities of his songcraft. For better or worse, Cale has never again made another record quite like Paris 1919, at least in part, one suspects, because so many in his audience have since longed for him to do so.

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CSNY 2006 torrents: 2006/08/23

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
2006/08/23
Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, NY USA

Set I (1:15:57)
  1. //Flags Of Freedom*
  2. Carry On
  3. Wooden Ships
  4. Long Time Gone
  5. Military Madness
  6. After The Garden
  7. Living With War
  8. The Restless Consumer
  9. Shock And Awe
  10. Wounded World
  11. Almost Cut My Hair
  12. Immigration Man
  13. Families
  14. Deja Vu
Set II (1:36:20)
  1. //Helplessly Hoping
  2. Our House
  3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
  4. Guinnevere
  5. Milky Way Tonight
  6. Treetop Flyer
  7. Roger And Out
  8. Southbound Train
  9. Old Man Trouble
  10. Carry Me
  11. Teach Your Children
  12. Southern Cross
  13. Find The Cost Of Freedom
  14. (Star Spangled Banner) > Let's Impeach The President
  15. For What It's Worth
  16. Chicago
  17. Ohio
  18. What Are Their Names
  19. Rockin' In The Free World

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