(b)logophile

Don McGlashan has a new album coming out (or already out? or something?). I presume it’s getting some airplay in NZ, anyone can tell me if I should be excited? In any case I’m not paying any attention until The Diss is Dissertated. But it might make a nice present-to-self in a couple of weeks… [...]

Amarok used to be the best music player you could find anywhere. When I bought a second-hand macbook I was all excited because I could finally see what all the fuss about this magical iTunes thingy was. A few days of playing and I wanted Amarok again.1 A few days ago I upgraded my work [...]

Via Waxy.org, Radiohead’s 15 Step plus Dave Brubeck’s Take Five: Five Step on youtube. This isn’t just “hur hur they’re both 5/4″, the melody of Take Five gets a subtle reinterpretation over the chord changes of 15 Step. My only complaint is that Take Five was trimmed to fit 15 Step, meaning we lost some [...]

Robin has pointed me at the marvellous blog Free Albums Galore. The blogger, Marvin, links to complete albums that can be legally downloaded, gratis and DRM-free. That’s pretty awesome: only legally available free music, only complete albums (with a few exceptions for “really awesome complete works like Mozart’s 40th Symphony”), no registrations or DRM. Robin [...]

At last! The Mardi Gras.bb have appeared on eMusic. That is, they’ve shown up on the European site (they’re German, although you wouldn’t guess it from listening), with slightly different punctuation and case (I’m taking the regrettable .bb from their site — apparently it stands for “big band”) but the same glorious sound. The new [...]