Category: Music

  • More Eels: live CD/DVD only available at gigs

    Eels are putting out a new live CD/DVD, which for now will only be available at gigs: Gone were the violins, cello and viola. In their place was a motley crew of unrecognizable men in flight suits rocking with a fervor and abandon never before seen. If you attended one of the 2006 EELS live…

  • Oh no! Mr. E has lost his blanket!

    Squander Two recommended that I check out the BBC programme In The Night Garden, which is aimed at young babies. And he’s right, it’s brilliant – but something about it has been nagging me for a while, and I’ve only just realised what it is. The main theme tune sounds like Eels. Not “a bit…

  • Fake Steve Jobs on U2

    FSJ responds to U2 manager Paul McGuinness’s rant about tech firms stealing Bono’s money in typically amusing style: Well, I’ve got an idea. Maybe U2 could just make their own Internet, with their own routers and operating system, and they could code up their own store, and build their own iPods, and keep all the…

  • Eels book in “brilliant” shocker

    Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett (E from Eels) is one of the best things I’ve read in ages.  Some of it’s very, very sad. And some of it is like this: During the ‘with strings’ tour one night in Germany, a concertgoer calls out “YOU ARE BORING!” between songs. He’s German…

  • Bono to “put some funk” into a Dell

    For funk’s sake. Dell and Microsoft are teaming up to release a Product Red computer, donating up to $80 for every PC sold to fund AIDS-fighting drugs in Africa… The PCs, designed in part by Bono, will have a distinctive red casing and the Windows interface will feature a red background and sidebar. “My job…

  • Singalong with baby CDs are evil

    One of the things you have to accept about parenthood is that for several years, you’ll be listening to a lot of bloody awful music. Or perhaps not, because it seems that Baby Bigmouth has decent taste. We’ve got a CD, which is called something along the lines of “Songs to sing with your baby”.…

  • ISPs versus the BPI. This could prove interesting

    ISPA, the UK trade association for ISPs, has nominated the British Phonographic Industry for its Villain of the Year award. The nomination is “For its heavy handed approach against consumers rather than engaging in constructive dialogue with the Internet industry when dealing with filesharing.” David Cameron gets a nomination too, “For buddying up with the…

  • E from Eels has a book out

    It’s called Things The Grandchildren Should Know, it’s an autobiography, it’s under E’s real name (Mark Oliver Everett), it’s out on the 17th and it’s getting excellent reviews from the critics. In best Amazon.com reviewer style, I haven’t read it but it’s the best book ever. I want the book even more than I want…

  • Music biz to Apple: thanks for saving our necks. Screw you! And come to think of it, screw music fans too!

    I’m hoping that part of Steve Jobs’ keynote on Tuesday will be the news that all iTunes music is going to become DRM-free, but I’m not holding my breath. The big four major labels have all made Damascene conversions to the cause of unprotected music downloads, but they want to sell them through Amazon, not…

  • Sony BMG drops the DRM and makes everything easy

    This is brilliant. We’re pleased to announce we are the final major music corporation to release electronic tracks without that pesky DRM! All you have to do is leave your house, go to a selected retail outlet, buy a special card there, go back to your house, scratch off the back of the card to…