Mainly Rock

I found this via Idolator:
"So I paid full price for a crippled CD from Warner Bros.  And I pay for my music!  Why are they trying to restrict my ability to open the CD on my Mac and rip into iTunes??  It’s conduct like this that will cause people to stop buying CDs and download [...]

My sister is visiting us in Paris with her three children. They arrived yesterday evening. During dinner I put on some music, as I always do.
Imagine my surprise when my oldest nephew (6 years old) asked his dad: What’s that, daddy?
He had never seen an LP or a record player before… 

I don’t think this article ("Ye cannae change the laws of physics!") provides any new insights, but it uses some nice images:
Trying to make Digital Rights Management (DRM) work in the real world is like asking engineers to do "Star Trek" style magic, rather than real engineering. DRM simply cannot work. (…)

Engineers know that DRM [...]

There has been a lot of talk about Wilco selling a bunch of songs from Sky Blue Sky to Volkswagen for some  TV-commercials. (I saw it first on Stereogum, there was even an official statement from the band, which I first saw on Pitchfork)
The story gets a special twist, when you read the recent interview [...]

They don’t eat bananas…
found via Spreeblick 

So the Jesus and Mary Chain have not only reunited for some shows:
"The reunion is not necessarily about any nostalgia trip," frontman Jim Reid told Uncut. "There will be a new record, otherwise there wouldn’t be any point to reforming." (SPIN.com)

I wonder what that will be like… After all those years.
But I’m already sure [...]

It’s a black thong and a white sweatshirt, but there is no doubt that it must be the same person…  
You can see the original on Google maps.
Found via BoingBoing 
 

I got Shellac’s new album, Excellent Italian Greyhound, today, in vinyl, of course.
 
I’m listening to it for the first time, as I type, but so far I can already say it meets expectations…
When unpacking the album, I discovered a CD in the packaging which contains the album, in addition to the high quality vinyl. It’s [...]

Today is Sgt. Pepper’s day, and anyone reading music-blogs knows that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released 40 years ago today.

It’s quite common to say that this is the greatest pop-record ever recorded (and I do agree), but for me it’s simply the first pop-album I’ve ever heard. In fact, my parents were [...]

So Apple has started selling DRM free tracks (iTunes Plus). It’s not actually mp3’s, but Apple’s own m4a-format. DRM-free means you can copy them as much as you like to any device/computer and listen to them. Just like you can take a CD and listen to it in any CD-player. Progress!?!
But the story does not [...]