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- Spinnerette EP Ghetto Love Available at Long LastDecember 13 2008
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Congrats to Brody and Tony (formerly in The Distillers) on the release of the new Spinnerette EP, Ghetto Love (including a video by Liam Lynch for yer iPod). After a couple of live shows these songs started to leak in odd live versions anyway, so everyone gets a few tracks from the upcoming album (which rules) before the holiday. Yeah, they’re releasing this record via our company, Topspin, but I’m writing about it because I love the record, the video, and the peoples.
$5 well-spent. Get on it.
Here’s the video, please stick this on your blog, MySpace page, whateva:
If you add the video to your site, take a screen shot and upload it to this Flickr pool.
Oh and the video you get when you buy it is way better quality than the streaming one above, of course.
ian
- Goose, Delicious Goose (Yahoo!’s In-Page Media Player)December 6 2008
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TechCrunch ran a story this morning on “Delicious’ new media player”.
This looks like this media player:
It’s been available on blogs like Aquarium Drunkard and Aurgasm for many months. Oh, and FISTFULAYEN.
The Drones - Cortez The Killer
It was the brainchild of Lucas Gonze when I brought Lucas and Webjay into the company three years ago. He walked in the door with this idea. As per usual, it took me two months just to get my head around it and then more than 12 months to build enough support in the company to actually build it. But build it we did, first with some very talented MusicMatch engineers and then with some great Web engineers in Santa Monica (big ups to you all!).
It’s very cool in that it is a single line of javascript and reads simple, easy to author, HTML on the page to create the play button
- Seymour Stein Could Have Been Steve JobsDecember 4 2008
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I don’t know Seymour, I have mad respect for the guy, and I’m sure this quote was taken out of context, but dig this quote.
We blew it. The first major music labels were all phonograph manufacturers, but by the time the Beatles came along, most companies were no longer involved in the hardware. Had we remained in control of the hardware, we wouldn’t be hurting as much as we are now. And the iPod would be ours.
Am I crazy or is he essentially saying, “If we’d have stayed in the phonograph business, we could have invented Apple computer!”
Um, no. Even Sony couldn’t figure out how to be Apple, let alone Diamond, Samsung, Toshiba, Dell, iRiver, and, um, Microsoft. Sorry.
Someone please send me Seymore’s address, I’m going to ship him a copy of The Innovator’s Solution. I’m serious.
ian
- Week In The KneesNovember 22 2008
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What a week. Last Saturday we saw Torche at Spaceland then jammed downtown to see Earthless officially bury my ears in Chinatown. Then I traveled to SF on a steady diet of Earthless’ latest live record (HIGHLY recommended), hosted a Topspin meetup, met with friends Erin (of ATC) and Jon (and their lovely boys), Steve and Dalton (who named his kid after me, which is rad) from iMeem, and Ali from iLike before heading back home. Then early this morning we saw a great Web design company in the UK called Outside Line push live a slew of options to purchase the new Paul McCartney/Youth collabo, The Fireman. Yeah, Macca on Topspin! Crazy! Album is good.
- What Does America Have to Offer You Now, Morrissey?November 5 2008
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From my favorite Morrssey album
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“But where the president is never black, female, or gay / and until that day / you’ve got nothing to say to me / to help me believe”