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A very brief post at dead air space, the official Radiohead blog, informs the world that the band's first album in four years will be available for mass experiencing in ten days: Hello everyone. Well, the new album is finished, and it's coming out in 10 days; We've called it In Rainbows. Love from us all. In Rainbows Discbox The post links to the In Rainbows store site, which features a ...

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The Pretender: I think I'm in love with Foo Fighters again. I've watched as the band kinda coasted down hill, or at least plateauing after achieving breakout success and emerging from the long shadow of Nirvana after There's Nothing Left to Lose. After that the band just seemed to be going through motions. I still liked Foo Fighters during that time and some of their songs from ...

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6627904867875032821 Ethan Winer plays all 37 separate parts on A Cello Rondo, including the percussion, on his cello. He also composed the song. The music is about 6 minutes long and the end of the video shows his digital music editing and some of his film setup. Not only is the production quite smooth, showcasing the power of modern technology to allow a single person to (relatively) ...

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Apple unleashed iTunes 7.4.2 today, mostly to cripple efforts by the iPhone community to customize their ringtones without having to pay an additional $.99 to do so. On that topic, one could argue that users are well within their Fair Use rights to repurpose (format shift) into a ringtone the music they've already paid for. I'm not an iPhone user nor do I intend to be, ...

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The Moneymaker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtyhWo8qngk Rilo Kiley is back, and in a big way. After a three year hiatus, the indie rock wunderkind of the twenty-first century is back with a new album, Under the Blacklight, and it rocks. Though technically, with this release Rilo Kiley can no longer be called "indie rock" as the new album is being released by a major label, Warner Bros. Records. Indeed, both in ...

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(or, Initial Thoughts on the iPod Touch) Weeeee... new toys from Apple! iPods iPods iPods, including shuffles in drab new colors (gimme orange), a new iPod NanoVideo (aka iPod Squat), an all-metal iPod Classic (the form we all know and love––now up to 160GB!) and a phoneless iPhone (aka iPod Touch). Upon the availing of the line up this afternoon, I was immediately torn. In my mind, the ...

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