Monday Shorts
Can I get a show of hands of people that fell off the couch laughing at that truly horrible performance by The Killers on SNL? They are one of the most over-rated bands on the planet. Just horrible.
And on the opposite end of the spectrum, I give you Britt Daniel on the AOL Interface.
The Futureheads have cancelled their U.S. tour, but the Cold War Kids will be soldiering on without them.
AOL has some good albums available for streaming this week. Cold War Kids, Beck and a few others.
Quoth Mac Bunnymen: "We'll go in the middle of the arena so everyone can see the back of your head. We're going to do that with an orchestra and play 'Ocean Rain' (1984 album) from start to finish, plus other songs, but that will be the kind of centrepiece of the gig."
The world's worst mp3 blog would look like this.
The Secret Lives of Baseball Card Writers.
Count me among the masses that don't get this whole Apple wants to own the term "podcast" legal thing. PS - they won't win.
Lastly, big ups to Jess Blueprint/Gawker! Congrats.
I'd actually like to see Apple win that case, if only because it would force everyone to finally abandon the inaccurately ipod-centric term. It always should have been "audiocast" anyway.
Me, I'd better copyright "bradcast" pronto.