L’angelot made a video for the Eurovision Song Contest. It was banned. Here it is, along with a short biography of the man himself.

I have played Arcade Fire’s new single several times now, because I have become ensnared in the online multimedia object that accompanies it. (I am not sure what the correct term is, but I am sure that “video” is the wrong term.) If you have access to Google Chrome you can do the same thing.

Once upon a time last October, Robert Sharl wrote a blog entry in which, quoting Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns, the way you do, he talked about the breaking down of the differences between the roles of producers and consumers.

A film has been made of the lives and times of the Holy Modal Rounders, and it is shortly being made available on DVD. The trailer is here.

Some sources of sounds licensed through Creative Commons, and thus available for varying degrees of reuse.

There are a number of different sites offering music and sounds that are made available under a Creative Commons licence. Here is a list of useful links.

Duran Duran have decided to rent an island in Second Life. You might want to know this.

The annual Eurovision Song Contest was held in Helsinki this year, and took place yesterday after a week of special events, street parties, and Arcada’s hugely ambitious DINA Host City broadcasting extravaganza.

Although many people think that Finns are unavoidably wacky as a result of cultural artifacts like The Leningrad Cowboys and the record-breaking Eurovision entry that was Lordi’s Hard Rock Hallelujah, the cultural climate is quite often conservative. We saw this quite clearly tonight in the televised finals to choose this year’s entry for the contest that will be held in Oslo sometime in summer.

In 1967, after his near-fatal car crash, Jan Berry attempted to record a new Jan & Dean album using a variety of guest singers. Although he was suffering from both aphasia and dispraxia he was still able to write music. The album was finished but then rejected, and now finally it is being released. With a cover by Dean.

Jimmy Campbell died on February 12th.

John Stewart died last Saturday.

Kevin Rowland has a MySpace account where you can find a demo version of a song, Oh Johanna, from the album a reinvigorated Dexy’s Midnight Runners are working on at the moment.

Recently I have found four pieces of free software which seem to me to merit some attention: Portable Apps, AbiWord, The Filter and The Lifehouse Method.

A (more or less) complete discography for Negrava.

According to The Register the Pirate Bay is making moves to raise sixty five million pounds to buy Sealand, the independent fortress off the British coast.

Radio pirates exploit the FM band to illegally broadcast shows, often from make-shift studios. Ofcom doesn’t like them.

The other week I was looking for a reliable source of creative commons licensed music, and today I found one. Jamendo is a social site based around the uploading, downloading, sharing and reviewing of free albums. It recently celebrated having 10,000 albums available.

Sparks are releasing their twenty-first album this summer, and were asked what they intended to do to promote it. This is their reply.

A catty, but accurate, question to Leonard Bernstein.

I found a website yesterday which claims that in another dimensions the Beatles never broke up. It has been started by a man who wishes to be known as “James Richards” for the moment.

Mojo arrives a month late in Finland, which means that the edition labelled August actually arrives at the beginning of August. That is why I have only just found our about a certain Cold War music paranoia web site.

woke up and found out about the G-Wiz: http://hellotxt.com/l/BI21
has been downloading from Jamendo.com – home of 10,000 creative commons licensed albums, at least five of which are excellent!
@alextee What are you using to post to Facebook & Twitter? I’ve found www.hellotxt.com which is really neat, simple, and efficient!
@alextee hellotxt also does posts by sms or email from your mobile, but lets your post to all your networks with one sms

is topping up his iPod with goodies from eMusic and Jamendo
softly curses the way that Elisa wireless keeps dropping the connection – making uploading anything almost impossible

It all started with Prince, who gave away one million copies of his album Planet Earth cover-mounted to the Mail on Sunday in Britain on July 24th, but now that this strategy has apparently spread like wildfire, it is worth stopping to consider what the strategy actually is.

Last Saturday, after forty years, Tunnelin Levy closed forever.

2008. Week 16: April 14 – April 20.

2008. Week 25: June 16 – June 22.