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

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 […]

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

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

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.

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.

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

Dance Parade 360 cancelled

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

An interesting story surrounds the soundtrack of the otherwise rightfully forgotten film The Adventurers (1970). The music for the soundtrack is by Antonio Carlos Jobim and is arranged and conducted by Eumir Deodato (remember this name!).  In the same year famous producer/composer  Quincy Jones decided to re-score the whole thing and produced his own funked […]