May 15th, 2009
Rollo & Grady // Saturday Into Sunday – Volume #6
MP3: Sid Vicious – I Wanna Be Your Dog
MP3: Dimitri from Paris – Sacre Francais Bob Sinclair – Paradise Remix)
May 15th, 2009
Wired // Imeem – Store Music in the Cloud
“The iPhone can’t compare to the iPod when it comes to storing all your music, but imeem’s new streaming music app could change that by turning the smartphone into a quasi-iPod. How? By letting paid users store 80 GB of music on its servers.
The iPhone represents an evolutionary leap forward in the mobile platform, having liberated the cellphone (mostly) from wireless carriers that used to have total control over which mobile apps you could run.
But from the point of view of music storage, the iPhone is a big step back. The most capacious iPod holds up to 120GB of music on a hard drive. Meanwhile, the iPhone’s flash drive offers a maximum of 16GB, typically split between music, videos, games, apps and other data — a sacrifice made by Apple in order to maximize device longevity and battery life.
Imeem hopes to overcome this shortcoming with its iPhone app, which lets users store music on the company’s servers and stream it to the iPhone wherever there’s a Wi-Fi or AT&T wireless connection (although songs take a while to load over Edge). You can store up to 100 songs for free. Or, for $100 a year, imeem will store 80GB of your music and stream it to your iPhone.
Cloud-based storage is now cheaper than flash memory — not that the iPhone has an expansion slot for adding more memory anyway. For the serious music fan, who tends to carry an MP3 player in addition to a phone, the idea of paying for online music storage could start to look pretty attractive even at nearly $10 per month.” Continue Reading
Related Posts:
ROLLO & GRADY INTERVIEW WITH TERRY MCBRIDE (CLICK HERE)
ROLLO & GRADY INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE HOWARD (CLICK HERE)
May 15th, 2009
Coldplay // Free Live Album
Coldplay is offering a free download of their live EP LeftRightLeftRightLeft @ coldplay.com – (click here).
May 15th, 2009
Rollo & Grady Interview // Seth Kauffman of Floating Action
Floating Action is the moniker of North Carolina native singer, songwriter and producer Seth Kauffman. His self-titled album is one of the few refreshingly unique albums of the year. And, for that matter, the past couple of years.
Kauffman infuses rock, country, dub, Bossa Nova, soul and folk cohesively without having his songs sound like a jumbled mess. There’s a method to his madness. When listening to the album you wouldn’t believe one guy is responsible for writing, performing, recording and producing the entire album, on which he plays drums, bass, sitar, guitar, violin and keyboards.
R&G: Where are you right now?
Seth: Black Mountain, North Carolina.
R&G: So you’re done with your tour, or your mini-tour?
Seth: Yeah.
R&G: How was it?
Seth: It was great. We played D.C., Philly, New York City, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and then we did a Daytrotter session in Rock Island, Illinois. We played a gig there and then Indianapolis.
R&G: What’s the origin behind the Floating Action moniker?
Seth: Well, the newest record was going to be called that. I was just calling myself Seth Kauffman and then I realized Floating Action was a good name for a band. I’ve always wanted to have a band name instead of just my name. I decided to make the switch, so now the album’s self-titled.
R&G: Is that a fishing reference?
Seth: No. My bass drum pedal is an old ‘50s Gretsch. In the model description it’s called “floating action.” That’s where I got the name.
R&G: Is it true that you began violin lessons at the age of four?
Seth: Yeah.
R&G: Can you talk a little bit about your training on the violin?
Seth: It was called the Suzuki method. Have you ever heard of that?
R&G: I have not.
Seth: It’s a Japanese program based a lot on memorization and ear-training. My sisters and I both took that, and I took it all the way up until I was 15 or so.
R&G: When did you start experimenting with other instruments?
Seth: I picked up a guitar when I was 15. My mom had an old nylon string Kingston guitar that she had in the ‘60s when everybody wanted to be a folk musician.
May 14th, 2009
Amoeba and Other Music Records – Top 10 Sellers
1.) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
2.) Conor Oberst – Outer South
3.) St. Vincent – Actor
4.) Katie Melua – Pictures
5.) Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
6.) Peaches – I Feel Cream (Buy)
7.) Silversun Pickups – Swoon
8.) Mika Miko – We Be Xuxa
9.) Soundtrack – Star Trek
10.) Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
**Week Ending – 5/10/2009
Other Music – New York
1.) St. Vincent – Actor
2.) Death – For the Whole World to See
3.) The Vaselines – Enter the Vaselines
4.) Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free
5.) Joyce – Together Through Life
6.) The Fly Girlz – Da Brats from Da Ville
7.) Thee Oh Sees – Help (Buy)
8.) Kenge Kenge – Introducing Kenge Kenge
9.) Jim Ford – Big Mouth USA
10.) Jim Ford – Unissued Capitol Album
**Week Ending – 5/10/2009
MP3: Thee Oh Sees – Enemy Destruct
MP3: Peaches – Trick Or Treat
May 14th, 2009
Rollo & Grady // Friday Covers
MP3: Jeff Tweedy – Fake Plastic Trees [Radiohead Cover]
MP3: We The Living – Black Swan [Thom Yorke Cover]
May 14th, 2009
P2P Study: Music Crackdown is Bad for Business
By Andrew Orlowski of the Register:
A study of P2P music exchanges to be revealed this week suggests that the ailing music business is shunning a lucrative lifeline by refusing to license the activity for money.
Entitled “The Long Tail of P2P”, the study by Will Page of performing rights society PRS For Music and Eric Garland of P2P research outfit Big Champagne will be aired at The Great Escape music convention tomorrow. It’s a follow-up to Page’s study last year which helped debunk the myth of the “Long Tail”. Page examined song purchases at a large online digital retail store, which showed that out of an inventory of 13 million songs, 10 million had never been downloaded, even once. It suggested that the idea proposed by WiReD magazine editor Chris Anderson, who in 2004 urged that the future of business was digital retailers carrying larger inventories of slow-selling items was a Utopian fantasy.
The P2P networks are harder to quantify, but apparently show a similar pattern, where most of the action – and profit – is in the ‘head’. Each Top 100 CD on on PirateBay averaged 58,000 downloads a week, for example. Lady GaGa’s The Fame was downloaded 388,000 times in a week from PirateBay alone. Like its predecessor, the new study also finds that downloads follow a log-normal, rather a Pareto (or “power curve”) distribution as Anderson envisaged. The WiReD man had guessed the shape of the internet – and picked the wrong shape. Continue Reading
May 14th, 2009
School of Seven Bells // Live on KCRW – 12/3/2008
KCRW – Morning Becomes Eclectic
Santa Monica, California
December 3, 2008
Wired For Light
Chain
Conjurr
Caldo
Half Asleep
White Elephant Coat
My Cabal
Download:
School of Seven Bells – Alpinisms (iTunes)
School of Seven Bells @ The Troubadour May 29th (More Info)
