Mainly Rock

This blog is meant to be about music and not gadgets, but I just got myself a new music-gadget, so I have decided to write a gadget-review.

The Roku Soundbridge does two things: It can play music files (in my case mp3) that are located on your PC, when the PC is running, and it allows [...]

I have sucessfully changed the battery on my iPOD, as the original one didn’t last very long anymore… Let me tell you it’s not for the faint hearted and probably the closest I’ll ever get to heart surgery (as a practitioner).
The iPOD is charging now, I hope to see an improvement.

I guess everybody knows that the Rolling Stones are coming to France this summer. They have already sold out the Stade de France once and have added a new date for July 2nd (which is in the middle of the World Cup, but a day without a match…).
I’ve always very much liked the Stones for [...]

First of all I must correct a post I did a couple of weeks ago. So alive is not Ryans Adams’ latest single, but in fact a track taken off his (poor) Rock n Roll album from 2003. If you follow this link I think you will agree that the communication by Lost Highway is [...]

This is the perfect solution for a problem that I have been facing…
So far the only practical solution (other than hooking up your turntable to the PC) seems to be, to go p2p for the digital version of an album that you own on vinyl. I have always wondered how illegal that really is….
(found [...]

The Arctic Monkeys are releasing a new single next week. You can already check out the video here. The song is called When the Sun Goes Down and I would say it’s a bit like Franz Ferdinand meets the Libertines. It’s definitely not such an instant hit as their first single I Bet you Look [...]

Beck’s Guero actually came out in March last year, but I totaly snobbed it, mainly due to the fact that I found his last two albums (Sea Change and Mutations) totally boring. But after the album appeared in some Best Of 2005 lists and reading the respective comments, I changed my mind and decided to [...]

For Christmas it’s always a good idea to put a box-set on your wish list. This time it was Johnny Cash – The Legend for me.

There are many Johnny Cash compilations and box-sets, this particular one was released in 2005 and got a very favorable review on Pitchfork.
As the title of the box set says, [...]

So we’ve had Babyshambles and the Dirty Pretty Things formed by former members of the Libertines. Now the bass player also has his own band: Yeti.
It does sound a it like Libertines…
They play live in Paris on January 19th (together with the Brakes). Here are some mp3’s:
from lesinrocks.com
Never Lose Your Sense of Wonder
The Last Time [...]