Diego Stocco takes apart a piano and guitar and makes an interesting, imperfect instrument, but a perfect song.

Thom Yorke advises against singing with majors

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 releases their first (free) EP.

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

Dance Parade 360 cancelled

Delete your MySpace account on October 24th 2010 or do it now. MySpace is not going to get any better.

In my personal blog I already noted the demise of the FFWD Dance Parade in Rotterdam. The annual clone of the Love Parade in Berlin was Rotterdam’s annual party in the city centre, until the city government decided it was a security risk and could no longer take place in this form. The organisers now […]

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Not specifically music related, but certainly DYI: Graffiti artists Banksy’s film project. When will this be realeased in the Netherlands? Interesting story about this film is that he offered a piece of art to a band named Exit Through The Gift Shop Door to change their name so he could […]

There’s a few interesting posts on other blogs and sites I’d like to point out for further reading. The Cult’s Ian Astbury said that he thinks what Radiohead did with their release of In Rainbows was irresponsible. Nathan Harden posts that he thinks people who share music are killing rock ‘n roll. All this criticism […]