I saw one of my favourite bands, Cultura Profética, play last night at S.O.B.’s. Cultura is a puertorrican reggae band who’ve been around for years, and are old friends who I hadn’t seen in some years as well (they don’t play out in NYC too often, unfortunately, although they keep a rather busy touring schedule [...]
Yeah, those stinkin’ pirates are really hurting the entertainment industry. Killing profit margins, destroying lives—oh, wait: the movie industry raked in a record-setting $9.78 billion in 2008? The best-selling album mp3 album on Amazon this year was composed of music that could also be had for free, legally, under a Creative Commons license? Madness! Madness, [...]
Well, it seems Metallica really is playing a different tune these days. According to the BBC:
Speaking on San Francisco radio station Live 105, Lars Ulrich said: “If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days.”
“It’s 2008 and it’s part of how it is these days,” the musician added
Interesting. Lovely. So a [...]
Here, have a video. This is Aterciopelados, one of Colombian rock’s first and best, and one of my favorite bands, ever. The song is ‘Complemento’, from their latest album, entitled Oye (‘listen’). Enjoy.
I used to be a big, big fan of Metallica when I was in high school. I still enjoy their music on occasion. But then two things happened, and they happened more or less at the same time: they started to suck —anything after the Black Album is trash, and the Black Album itself is [...]
This very short article on news.com posits that one of the reasons that Apple is so reluctant to include the Flash Player in the iPhone is because of fear that Pandora, the amazing user-customizable internet radio station based on the Music Genome Project, could cut into its iTunes sales. While a little far-fetched, it’s worth reading nonetheless.
Oh, and if you haven’t [...]