The Beatles have lost their court challenge against Apple Computer over its iPod and iTunes download service.
Tag Archives: music
Pandora
Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:
Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like?
Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.
We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you.
Monkeyfilter Musicblog Listing 2.0
A musicblogger is a person who offers interesting, out of print, rare or otherwise engaging music to people at no charge, simply out of love for the sound and to promote artists that they would like to see get more popular. I’m not prejudiced; I also include record label sites, artist’s personal sites, people who aggregate the daily adventures of other musicbloggers into digests… I like em all.
There are more musicbloggers out there than most people would believe; I’ve been keeping a close eye on the phenomena these past eleven months and have compiled what I think is the most comprehensive list of musicbloggers yet available.
Doctor Who theme remixes
The Delia Derbyshire production of the Doctor Who theme marked a significant milestone in the nascent field of electronic music. With 2003 marking the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who, this site attempts to pay tribute to that milestone by providing a forum for the sharing of freely distributable amateur (ie, non-commissioned; pros are welcome!) remixes, electronic or acoustic, faithful or pisstakes, of that influential and timeless theme.
What’s in a name
Ever wondered how a particular band came by their name? Here’s a lengthy list of explanations.
One I particularly like reads: “Michael Jackson—From the subtle combination of his family name, Jackson, plus the christian name given to him by his parents at the time of his birth, Michael”. Silly sods.
Collaborate
I’ve joined a band. Not a difficult process really: turn up to a rehearsal room and make daft noises. It’ll be nice to be making noise with other people—music (as with many things in life) is so much better when you do it with other people.
Blow the fucking place up
John B is a sodding genius. His mother really doesn’t like me. These two facts are not related.