We interrupt regular programming to bring you Fatboy Slim’s – Weapon of Choice music video.
Posted here because a) It’s brilliant work, and b) to let you know that MTV is now offering a whole stack of their music videos online, free. Throw away your television. Enjoy the revolution.
Southern Gypsey Queen and Jack Hammer played Tings ‘n Times on Sunday.
There’s very little you can say about Jack Hammer without using superlatives. I’ve had the privilege of watching them play on more than a few occasions, and this gig proved to be as brilliant, as inspiring, as any before. But this time it was Jack Hammer with a twist. Greg Georgiades was dropped into the mix, but the fit was like slipping on a trusty pair of old 501s after you’ve been sweating a dress suit at an unknown relative’s morning summer wedding.
Go read the review. Now, dammit!
As some of you know I’ve been a struggling (though brilliant) rockstar for quite some time now – yes the suffering artist indeed – so much so that even a new set of strings on the old axe and some sexy Fender plectrums couldn’t get me back into action for a sustained period.
I’d hit a wall which I couldn’t break through unless I enlisted the services of an instructor. I can read tablature, know all the right notes, have great rhythm, can strum out a pattern, but just couldn’t get it all together in a way that sounded good to anyone else but me.
Those endless days of torment are now numbered – I discovered Songsterr, which combines the tablature of many popular songs with a flash player that gives you the exact timing of that song. and you can start at half speed too if you’re a bit slow on the chord changes. Rock ‘n Roll indeed.
Here’s a direct link to an example: Slipknot – Gently
[Link: www.songsterr.com]
I can’t say much more than this is the most beautiful version of any Mariah Carey song I have ever heard. Ken Lee on Youtube.
[via: GeeksAreSexy.net]
Good news for all of us using iTunes with a manually updated iPod. We previously were forced to use the still-brilliant “iScrobbler” iTunes plugin to get tracks that were played on an unsynced iPod onto last.fm. This is no longer the exclusive domain of iScrobbler. The latest last.fm official iTunes plugin recognises manually managed iPods and gets their play data scrobbled up automatically to last.fm within a few seconds after plugging the iPod in.