Mainly Rock

If you bought DRM protected music from WallMart you’re screwed… WalMart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection — only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans – Boing Boing. People might not be attached to physical objects anymore and they might not care about sound quality, but this must [...]

Last week I bought Beck’s Modern Guilt, which is, by the way, the best album he has made in a while. At Ground Zero it was available in vinyl with a free mp3 download voucher, so how could I resist? Using the download voucher was a total failure, because the downloads were only available in [...]

Muxtape has been shut down, but now we can all be DJ’s at blip.fm.

For some people this is more important than the line-up, and it is true that Carling really isn’t all that great… Reading & Leeds get Tuborg Lager – Music-News.com This and lots of more stuff can be found in this pdf: THE GREATEST ROCK N ROLL SHOW ON EARTH RETURNS

The latest music-sensation on the Internet is muxtape. You should go and check out Mainlyrock.

The Rock is back at Reading… That’s a good first announcement, with some solid Headliners (except The Killers, maybe). It doesn’t look like Babyshambles and The Dirty Pretty Things will play on the same day, too bad, that would have been fun… I’m somehow most excited about QOTSA, because I have never seen them before… [...]

Reading And Leeds Festivals to have three American headliners | News | NME.COM Foo Fighters? Metallica? I don’t understand the last sentence…

The end of DRM for music files on the Internet is near. It’s all over the web, and the original source seems to be Business Week. This was of course to be expected, as I already wrote last May…

I’m totally crazy for this song at the moment. It’s not released on an album, but you can download the free mp3 here.

So I thought it would be nice to share a playlist with my personal favorite songs of the year. This doesn’t necessarily represent my favorite albums, as the focus is on singles… There’s a bit of everything, even something German and French…. I have also spent some thought on the order of the songs which [...]