Mainly Rock

It kind of throws me back 15 years, but it still is quite amazing. Definetely two of my all time favorites on the same stage… Read all about it at Pitchfork.   

Pitchfork: White Stripes Cancel Tour Due to Megs Anxiety

I have no idea what the title means, but it’s the name of the new record of the wonderful The Go from Detroit… The album is being released on July 24th and you can place you order here. If you order the album, you get the mp3′s for free. Even if you’ve ordered the CD… [...]

  This article on the "Comeback of vinyl" from the Chicago Tribune is quite to the point. Some comments however: 180 gram pressing are not "a new technology for vinyl". They actually existed before CD’s were invented Vinyl is not cheap, but, at least here in France, the price difference is not really that significant, [...]

In October 2002, I was on a business trip in Washington, DC. I took the opportunity to see some old friends who were living there at the time. By a very fortunate coincidence, it happened to be the week-end on which Bob Mould played the last show of his tour, promoting his latest album, Body [...]

The Lock-up stage tends to be a total sauna at the Reading festival, whereas the Dance stage sometimes appears to be little bit out of context at a ROCK-festival like Reading. This year I’m looking forward to see (again) the Bronx, who were brutal last year in the Carling tent, I’ll also give might Turbonegro [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]