Cold Specks
Canadian born folk via Alan Lomax field recordings from the young Al Spx, whose voice has a rich blues, soul and folk heritage.
soundcloud.com/coldspecks
The Beatles 8-Bit
After tackling the music of Kraftwerk in chiptune form, the Gameboy-obsessed 8-Bit Operators are back with a collection of Beatles covers called Wanna Hld Yr Handheld, Vol. 1 which focuses on the avant-garde and electronic side of the Fab Four.
Nujabes
Jun Seba, a Japanese producer who sadly died in a car crash last year has posthumously released his final album Spiritual State of uplifting instrumental music to much acclaim.
hypem.com/artist/Nujabes
WZRD
Rapper Kid Cudi has been immersing himself in punk rock of late and his WZRD project and collaboration with Dot Da Genius and Brake is the first taster of that absorption with its stoner rock histrionics.
Listen at Earmilk
Dublin in the summer of ’61
Stunning photos of Dublin unearthed on Boards.ie show Dubliners on their bikes alongside the old green buses and cars of a clean city.
Boards.ie thread
Charting The Beatles
Graphic designer Michael Deal has produced unique infographics which give insights into The Beatles under the categories song authorship, self-reference, key and their career-long schedule.
Charting the Beatles
Music Scribing Awards
Popmatters editor picks the best and the worst music articles written last year.
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It was only September when the long-planned Beatles 09/09/09 release date brought us the remastered Beatles back catalogue and the Beatles Rock Band game.
Now comes the news that EMI and Apple Corp. Will release 30,000 limited edition Beatles Stereo USB apples in time for Christmas. Crafted in the shape of an apple with the 16 GB usb stick sticking out the top, the drive comes with 14 digitally remastered albums, album art, photos, liner notes and 13 mini-documentary films.
For audiophiles, the songs will be provided in lossless FLAC format as well as 320 Kbps MP3s. You can buy them from the official Beatles store from 7th of December. The full price of the apple-shaped drives are about €225.
That’s not the only Fab Four-related digital news though. In the US, a company called Bluebeat has been selling the entire Beatles discography on their site for download. Rightly enough, EMI sought an injunction to shut them down and here’s where it gets interesting.
Bluebeat, in their defence, claimed that they actually owned the copyright to the Beatles recordings they were selling thank you very much, saying that they used a technique called “psycho-acoustic simulation” to re-record new versions of the songs. Continue Reading..»
…is a hugely impressive and remarkably respectful to the band’s look and career. The X-Box game comes out on September 8th 2009, the same day as the digital Beatles discography. it was revealed today that 45 songs will be playable in the game and the first ten are: “I Saw Her Standing There”, “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, “I Feel Fine”, “Taxman”, “Day Tripper”, “Back In The USSR”, “I Am The Walrus”, “Octopus’s Garden”, “Here Comes The Sun” and “Get Back”.
Trailer one shows the actual gameplay while trailer two, after the jump, is a romp in The Beatles universe.
