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Experience the Flobots

First off, I am celebrating Hardy’s release tonight in Broomfield with all you Colorado LOCOs!  But since all the blogs I read recently are pasting Hardy release notes and showing off release party posters,  I thought I’d mix it up a bit and share a bit about an amazing group of musicians that I was [...]

Atmosphere releases tunes in a .zip

Atmosphere, originally from Minnesota, land of the cold air, released a 59 meg .zip file of mp3s for everyone to consume freely direct from their website.  While it’s not revolutionary business model change that Radiohead pioneered, I do appreciate the free tunes in a DRM-free format and the album art. The real question is, why [...]

NIN: The Warning

I’m not a huge NIN fan, but Trent Reznor does cool things by giving his music up as source files and encouraging mashups.  And his latest cool thing is the song, The Warning. Even cooler is this mashup of pop culture clips and text for the video, The Warning.

Followup on the Radiohead album

I purchased it today and paid them a few pounds. I’ve been relaxing this morning in a kate session cleaning up some old web code, listening to Radiohead’s DRM-Free MP3 album. There are no plastic wastes involved! No transportation costs! No third parties taking their “tariff”! The internet breaks down borders again. I get my [...]