Category: Music

  • iTunes DRM cracked then fixed then cracked again

    Tuesday: iTunes 7 breaks the Hymn DRM crack. Wednesday, the Hymn Project cracks the DRM again. They don’t muck about, do they?

  • Pop song correspondence

    I’ve been meaning to link to McSweeney’s for a while, because its pop song correspondence section is full of gems like this letter to regional law enforcement agencies: But that’s not what we’re up against. Bon Jovi is no regular cowboy. He rides a horse made of steel. A steel horse. I am not shitting…

  • Franz-tastic

    I’ve written about supremely talented mashup merchant Thriftshop XL before, but I didn’t realise his stuff was on YouTube. This remix combines Franz Ferdinand, Run DMC and The Knack to superb effect. [Via PopJustice]

  • Let’s start a b(r)and

    The relentless march of advertising into music isn’t exactly new (although it’s still annoying: witness the increasing use of video screens to blast adverts at rock gigs, something that was previously confined to pop gigs such as Girls Aloud) but this represents a new low: Honeyshot have been put together by Saatchi and Saatchi as…

  • Radiodread

    This is great: OK Computer given a reggae makeover.

  • Gig-a-gig, ahhh

    Off to Edinburgh to see Radiohead, with two utterly predictable results: Radiohead were great, and the experience of going to a gig sucked. I’ve written before about the sheer arsery of live music, but it’s particularly pronounced at bigger gigs: there’s the hassle of getting the tickets in the first place, the joy of ridiculous…

  • The Final Countdown

    Sometimes, cover versions are better than the original. [Youtube. Via Fark]

  • MySpace phenomenon, my arse

    Many, many years ago – in the mid 90s – I was in a band with a chap called Mark. Mark knew a girl called Tippi – they were from the same bit of Scotland – and she annoyed him immensely: she was one of those “I want to be famous at all costs” types,…

  • Zune: Microsoft’s doing an Xbox

    More details on Zune are starting to appear, and while there’s still no hard information on what the device will actually do (although the message from Microsoft is that it ain’t a portable Xbox; it’s a caring, sharing media playback device) the big picture is starting to emerge. I’m particularly interested in this snippet from…

  • Microsoft admits: the Zune “iPod killer” exists. Hype time!

    [photopress:zune_logo.jpg,full,pp_image] Microsoft has finally confirmed that its iPod-killer project, Zune, exists. Engadget has a good write-up of what we know, what we think we know and what we don’t know for sure, and the insider blogs have already appeared: ZuneInsider and Madison & Pine. It’s all very interesting. More hype here and here.