I always liked this track. There is some good energy buildup in there. Some kind of anger manages to bleed through the popness of it. Perhaps what motivates the addiction, or perhaps frustration at the distance it creates. Youtube fidelity totally washes out the guitars here, unfortunately.
Link to the Henery Rollins Radio Show that Noteworthy indirectly referenced back in the day. LA Weekly says:
Earning local and national props as a DJ, Rollins labors over his playlists and it shows. Every week is an in-depth lesson in contemporary music history ranging from Delta blues to death metal to little-heard art rock from across the globe. Some of the songs he plays were never released to the public — a few he received as gifts “back in the day,” and some he retrieved from the clutches of another collector.
U Unfortunately I haven't been able to find the actual audio for this on the web. There are a few archived shows from 2004, but nothing recent. Anyone got links, let me know.
Slashdot | Court Rules Playlist Customization Is Not Interactive
Topic: Music
4:22 pm EDT, Apr 30, 2007
The court decision determined that recommendation algorithms that rely on usage data to build playlists server-side are still eligible for broadcast license, thereby substantially lowering the costs of operating a music recommendation site.
MemeStreams could generate agent based music under the compulsary license!
There is a crisis facing internet radio: new mandatory royalty rates are so high that they will force most or all independent internet radio stations off the air.
Rusty Hodge of SomaFM, which has been my favorite internet radio station for years, speaks out on the threats posed by the new webcasting royalties.
For SomaFM, this means our royalties for 2006 will be increased retroactively from about $20,000 to about $600,000. That's more than 3 times what we made in 2006. And our royalties for 2007, based on our current audience size, will be over $1 million dollars, and over $1.5 million by 2009. That's if our audience size stays the same.
For historical reference, all of the small webcasters were shut down due to a similar dispute from June until November, 2002. Congress didn't listen that time until it was too late. Near the end of the negotiations RIAA CEO Hillary Rosen said:
This is like trying to turn chicken shit into chicken salad.
There has been no moment in the history of the Internet that the total lack of understanding of the economics of new media on the part of the music industry was more clear. If you fools had built a participatory culture around music when you were busy trying to destroy it you wouldn't be watching your revenues drop hand over fist today. When will you get a clue?!
Failure is an under-recognized alternative rock band from the early to mid 90's. Their last album, Fantastic Planet, didn't really have a bad song on it. I like this track, and the live recording here is fairly clear.
Spectragrams of the static in songs on the new Nine Inch Nails album draw pictures! The first picture is from their trailer video. (The spectragram itself is from My Violent Heart.) You can now listen to the entire album on their website.
