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Trash Metal Mania…

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax on one day… Totally crazy!
“a few more of the festival dates still in the works, you can be sure these shows won’t be the only ones”
So it could be Reading Festival, although June and August are far apart…
Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax ‘Big Four’ Tour
PS: No, I have not changed [...]

The end is near…

Monday, November 30th, 2009

At this stage, I would say that the announcement by Hifi-company Linn to stop CD player production is probably as much a publicity stunt as it is truly reflecting the market. It works though, because I wasn’t aware of their Digital Stream players before.
Anyway, I wanted to comment on somebody else’s comment on the the [...]

Peanuts

Monday, November 30th, 2009

I have nothing to add to this…

Found at the Analog Appartment

Me and the NME

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

I don’t really “get” the NME and I don’t think that really matters to either of us. But I find The NME Top 50 albums of the decade suprisingly relevant and in line with my taste/record collection. I could argue about the actual ranking and some of the individual records, but overall I would [...]

Vinyl kills the mp3 industry

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Found on Spreeblick

Vinyl record sales peaked 30 years ago…

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

This chart from the The New York Times puts the current comeback of vinyl into perspective, I guess. It’s interesting how cassettes peaked ten years later and CD almost exactly another ten years afterwards. I guess we’re now already passed the peak of DRM protected downloads as a music download. Although that wasn’t much [...]

It’s about time…

Monday, July 20th, 2009

I have always avoided spending any money on DRM-infected music files. Now DRM for music seems to on it’s way out…. at last.
RIAA Says DRM Is Dead

HADOPI – Black Out

Monday, March 9th, 2009

How to be right, but miss the point…

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I very much agree with Nick Hodgson from the Kaiser Chiefs, but I still believe they could provide a (legal) free download with the 2LP vinyl edition of their latest album…
I saw the vinyl edition of our new album in the dressing room yesterday. Many people have written in the past about the beauty of [...]

Vinyl wave

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Photo credit: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
Seen on nyt.com, via Gizmodo


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