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A free Gorillaz album released

December 27, 2010 – 3:26 pm

Gorillaz ‘The Fall’

Over the weekend, GORILLAZ JUST POSTED their new album The Fall, which was mixed and recorded using Damon Albarn’s Apple iPad during their recent US tour, for free. You can currently stream it (for the price of your email address) on thefall.gorillaz.com – or download it from file-sharing sites, linked to by good chaps such as 2dopeboyz.com. Additionally, a physical release of the album is planned for 2011, bringing to mind the first large scale attempt at this when Radiohead released In Rainbows. If this is a trend I fully support it, and think it’s (one way that) music will be (successfully) distributed in the future.

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Google mp3blog search widget

August 2, 2008 – 10:54 am
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Found this mashup of a script that searches +5000 mp3blogs for tunes. Just type something in and see what you can find. I still contend that MP3s are the best way to discover new music – and having something so open like this allows you to hear any band you can think of. Put quotes around multi-word entries to narrow things down. (ie- “The Smoking Popes”)

This was a gadget/script someone wrote so you get directed to his page, I want to look into making my own search like this, but have it be a stand-alone, down loadable script, maybe in PHP.

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HOWTO: recursively download only specific file types

July 28, 2008 – 12:04 pm

Have you ever found a batch of mp3s online on someone’s ‘Index of’ page?  I know you have (and if not, do a search for ‘google hacks’ in google to learn about the fun)  The issue always comes up that I find an album I want to grab, but the individual files are in a directory, so you have something like band_name-album_name/01-songone.mp3, and so on.  To grab all of them I used to issue a wget command, with the -r (recursive) switch like this:

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Blitzen Trapper "Furr"

June 18, 2008 – 6:30 pm

Over the past few days I’ve become quite the fan of Blitzen Trapper from Portland, Oregon. A single on Subpop’s 20 year anniversary CD (which I got in a goodie bag on Record Store DayBTW) led me to this track, which turns out to be NOT indicative of their style. I’m giving their recent release a run now, and it reminds me at times of another Portland band, Menonema which is good. This track is more acoustic, but I love the Elliot Smith sounding vocals and the dreamy, story like lyrics – it’s a winner.

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