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Thom Yorke: just say no to majors

Thom Yorke advises against singing with majors

The Staple Singers – This May be the Last Time

The Staple singers get covered by The Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones get covered by Andrew Oldham (and The Who). Andrew Oldham gets sampled by The Verve (who end up getting sued). The Verve gets sampled by Mark van Dalen. Irony?

Frauding your way to fame

A lot of clever websites help you as a musician increase your reach to fans. But there’s also a site that will promise to fraud your way to the top or at least make you very poor. Meet Chartfixer.com.  A website currently being trialled in Australia “before being unleashed upon the world“. It takes something […]

How To Destroy Angels

How to Destroy Angels releases their first (free) EP.

Pearl Jam – Alive

In this week’s Origin of Samples-post a classic case of who’s stealing from who. In 1991 a relatively unknown Seattle band Pearl Jam released an album entitled ‘Ten‘. One track from that album would go on to be one of the anthems of its generation at the explosion of the grunge hype: ‘Alive‘. Only a […]

The Swinger

Tristan Jehan created an interesting bit of python code during Music Hack Day. It turns any song into a swing version.

Brick-wallers in Disguise

Di-rect decides to pose in front of a brick wall for their photo shoot. Big mistake.

Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks

Led Zeppelin covers When the Levee Breaks from Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie and a drum loop from the Led Zeppelin version gets sampled in many many tracks.

David Bowie – Crystal Japan

The track A Warm Place by Nine Inch Nails borrows its tune from David Bowie’s Crystal Japan. But that’s not the only connection between the two.

“Buy me a drink” explained

B-sting explains that the “Buy me a drink”-link is like a donate button.

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