Lou Reed is playing an AOL function. “Between songs Lou looks pissed, but I think that’s normal. He tells the crowd, “You can keep on talking, I’ve only got 20 minutes. Or I can turn up the music. I can turn it up so loud it will hurt. Do you want me to turn it up? Do you want me to make it hurt?” (rough paraphrase). How awkward.” (Link) (Via Boing Boing)

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Crazy fun electronic/punk/cartoon/8 bit game music. Plus-Tech Squeeze Box is an electronc band, and according to the Wikipedia page, they are of the Japanese genre “picopop“… bleepy electropop. Of course I love that. I’ve found some excerpts from the CDs on their website. Amazon and CD Universe lists their “Cartoom!” CD as a > $30 import. Gah. Anyway, check ‘em out. (via Comfort Music)

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I love this song, “Standing in the Way of Control”… download it (and others) here. Think 60′s garage rock/punk. Think Gang of Four but with a throaty soul girl singer.

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I was kind of irked that iTunes makes it a pain to make ripped audiobooks behave properly. It irked me that audiobooks showed up in shuffle and wouldn’t keep a bookmark like ITMS audiobooks. Then I found in iTunes 6.02 the checkboxes to fix this. Nice, but I’ve got a bunch of audiobooks now and to go back and click all those boxes… anyway check out this javascript I wrote: MakeAudiobooksBookmarkable.zip. It is for Windows and iTunes 6.02 or higher, any track with genre “Audiobooks”, “Audiobook”, “Talk Radio”, or “Podcast” will be set as “Remember Bookmark” and “Exclude From Shuffle”. Use at your own risk.

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What is RAM2MP3?

RAM2MP3 is a command line script (for Windows PC) that helps convert Real Media streams to MP3, so you can listen to the converted audio anywhere you can listed to MP3s, for example on your iPod. It is really just a short script that ties together 2 programs, Mplayer (to download the Real Audio to your PC) and LAME (to convert the audio to an MP3). (Please note I am not taking credit for writing this software, I am merely tying together 2 packages and simplyfing the conversion process with a small script.)

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The South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival is offering the “SXSW 2005 Showcasing Artist mp3 library”, and good God, it’s 2.7GB! Yikes that’s a lot of music! It’s a torrent, you’ll need BitTorrent to download it. Get the SXSW 2.7GB of MP3s here.

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Another Twinkle Elf song for Marshmallow Shampoo.

Download the song: Twinkle Elf – Fweh

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It was a punk rock education, by way of the band covering The Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady, the entire album, in order, at the Happy Village bar in Chicago, as part of the 2004 Scooter Rally. Knowing the album, I was thrilled at how spot-on the covers were. They managed to have the energy of the originals as well as being note-for-note perfect. Bryan commented that he had seem The Buzzcocks, and The Buzzcocks weren’t as good as these guys. I thought the band was Mega Super Ultra but the website describes the players as “members of MegaSuperUltra, Window Nine, and Doctor Mars,” Tom Shover on Guitar and Vocals, Liam O?Mally on Guitar, Vocals, and Keyboards, Mike Stirk on Bass and Vocals, Kevin Martensen on Drums and Vocals. Why cover a whole album? Apparently the unwashed masses need to learn what good punk is, and these guys are going to teach us by presenting Singles Going Steady to us as a historical document. Last year they did The Clash’s first album. A good choice, I wish I had seen them last year. I know I’ll try to see them next time.
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I’m working on this album, Marshmallow Shampoo. This song, “Dee Dee” will be included. I’ve got a handful of songs and I’ve gotta get mixing. As the material comes together, I’ll post it here. I welcome your opinion on these mixes.

Download the song: Twinkle Elf – Dee Dee

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