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Not So Grim Reaper
Reaper is taking a shot at the music software market, with their super lightweight multi-track studio software. It's a mere 3.2mb download and can run off a USB keyring, but only costs $50 for non-commercial use. Mac version coming soon.
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You Can't Put Me In A Cage, Man!
Looks like Point Break 2 might be on the way, as well as a Werner Herzog directed Bad Lieutenant remake (no quotes needed for that one).
14th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
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More Cure
now everyone's ripping them off instead of Joy Division, The Cure have got a new single
13th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Online Fishing
Dean Ween's got his own fishing show ...with talk brewing of it being picked up as a series. You can watch some here, or read more over at his website: http://brownietroop.ning.com/
13th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Radiobestofhead
EMI's cash-in-now-they've-left Radiohead compilations are out. Amazon is helpfully suggesting that the "perfect partner" to the single disc version is, yes, the double disc version... here's a handy guide to making your own:
Disc: 1
1. Just 2. Paranoid Android 3. Karma Police 4. Creep 5. No Surprises 6. High and Dry 7. My Iron Lung 8. There There 9. Lucky 10. Fake Plastic Trees 11. Idioteque 12. 2+2=5 13. The Bends 14. Pyramid Song 15. Street Spirit (Fade Out) 16. Everything In Its Right Place
Disc: 2
1. Airbag 2. I Might Be Wrong 3. Go To Sleep 4. Let Down 5. Planet Telex 6. Exit Music (For A Film) 7. The National Anthem 8. Knives Out 9. Talk Show Host 10. You 11. Anyone Can Play Guitar 12. How To Disappear Completely 13. True Love Waits
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13th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Drone Wars
At least this one admits it's for the kids - trailer up for Lucas' animated The Clone Wars project.
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Summerset House 2008
line-up for this year's Somerset House series is up; hope the films this year are better
July 10 - The Fratellis
July 11 - Justice
July 12 - Unkle
July 13 - The Blue Nile
July 14 - Lupe Fiasco
July 15 - We Are Scientists
July 16 - The Zutons
July 17 - The Feeling
July 18 - Duffy
July 19 - Adele
12th May 2008 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Even More Indy
Some mixed reports coming through for the latest Indiana Jones movie .....but nothing to stop me making the effort to see this one on the big screen. Another new trailer up now over at the Apple website.
12th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
David Simon chats
just spotted that David Simon's going to be doing Wire chat at the BFI ahead of the UK screening of Season 5 - sold out already though!
12th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Heroes 3
Trailer up for a third season of Heroes, which will hopefully address the glaring weaknesses of the truncated second season...
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Myrmekiaphila Neilyoungi
Neil Young's had a trapdoor spider named after him: Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi
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Donnie Darker
It seems that a sequel is in the works to Donnie Darko. S. Darko follows Donnie's sister Samantha on a road trip across America. The original barely held together, so some pretty substantial super-glue's going to be needed for this one....
12th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Anthrax v Guitar Hero
"you're going to have to write easier songs 20 years ago"
9th May 2008 - 4 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Neil Young v MP3
long-time vinyl advocate/mp3 disser Neil Young is throwing his cowboy hat in the Blu-Ray ring with some huge 5 volume/10 disc box thing
8th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Best Thing
The Wedding Present are back with an excellent new album El Rey in a couple of weeks, but for now you can pick up the digital-only single The Thing I Like Best About Him Is His Girlfriend.
8th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
It's She & Him Again
Domino's Double Six spin-off has picked up the M. Ward / Zooey Deschanel project She & Him for a UK release. It'll be out on July 14th.
8th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Moon Rock(well)
more lunar news today - Sam Rockwell's new sci-fi Moon has been picked up for distribution. he's an astronaut stuck on the moon for 3 years with only Sam Rockwell clones for company. heard they're going for more models than CGI which bodes well
7th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Free Peep
ep 1 of Peep Show season 5 is free on iTunes UK at the moment
6th May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Freesat
Freesat's launching today, with BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four; ITV1, ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4; Channel 4, E4, More4 and Film4; BBC News and Al-Jazeera English; CBBC, CBeebies and CiTV; Chartshow TV and The Vault; BBCi; digital radio; and BBC HD and ITV HD (which is coming soon).
Freesat will have three different types of receiver: a standard definition box, an HD box and an HD integrated digital TV with Freesat built-in (IDTV). Digital recorder boxes are coming later in the summer with all the Sky+ style features.
Box prices will start from £49, with a high def boxes around £120, plus installation costs from around £80. (Installation includes the satellite dish). Sky have got a version going for £150
6th May 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailers x 3
New trailer up for Indiana Jones IV, as well as The Dark Knight ...and WIll Smith's drunk superhero comedy Hancock.
4th May 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Best Foot Forward
Radiohead are asking fans to think about how they are getting to the shows on this summer's tour, as a report they commissioned showed that fan travel had the biggest carbon impact (" ...it's not you, it's me"). Read more details on their site.
4th May 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Radiophonic Workshop
Nice little documentary on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Mark Ayres, who worked for the Workshop in its last days interviews Dick Mills, one of the original members who produced the sounds for Doctor Who and other programmes.
Using synthesizers such as the VCS 3 and the briefcase version the Synthi, as well as boiler tanks, lamp shades and other found objects, they demonstrate some of the techniques used to make the sounds.
3rd May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Move Mountains
The mighty, mighty, mighty Black Mountain are back in town on Sunday May 18th, with a quick warm-up show at the Scala before they play the ATP Festival in Camber Sands. Phosphorescent is supporting, We Got Tickets have got the tickets.
2nd May 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Hang Them All
Video up for the news Tapes 'n Tapes single - Hang Them All.
They're also coming over to the UK on tour:
Wednesday 28th May - London ULU
Friday 30th May - Birmingham Barfly
Saturday 31st May - Glasgow Stereo
Sunday 01st June - Manchester Club Academy
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From The Basement round 2
From The Basement is coming back w some more bands playing in a basement. First up, Bangers and Mash and House of Cards from Radiohead
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Black = Green
Many chimps will remember the website Blackle claiming to save energy by using a black background, rather than the white of Google.
The helpful boffins at ZDNet have made a video that examines this claim.
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In further Green News, a new search engine ( ........ ) has been launched that aims to combat climate change. Using Yahoo! technology to drive the searches, Ecocho will plant 2 trees for every 1000 searches carried out via the site.
2nd May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
2004AD
After a pretty slow period, the 4AD label is revving up for expansion - mainly by taking in the bands from Beggars Group sister labels Too Pure and Beggars itself. That puts chimp favourites like The National, Tindersticks and Electrelane under the same roof as Pixes and The Breeders, which can't be a bad thing. Unfortunately it does spell the end for Too Pure and Beggars as entities... R.I.P.
1st May 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Vote London
it's going to be close... don't forget to X your boxes London chimps
1st May 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Scarlett Falling Down
video up for Scarlett Johansson's surprisingly not-shit cover of Tom Waits' Falling Down poduced by Dave (TV On The Radio) Sitek, w some Bowie backing vocals... album's pretty decent too by all accounts. First Zooey Deschanel w She And Him, now this? what's up with the actress-turned-singer genre? Are they the first 2 since since Grace Jones to make good albums?
30th Apr 2008 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
the history of sampling
hours of fun; wish it went beyond 2004 and had audio...
30th Apr 2008 - 3 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Wallastfmpaper
Check out this nice little script for generating wallpaper from all the albums you've listened to on Last FM. For your convenience you can download the chimpomatic version here.
Warning: may contain funk.
30th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
DRM Theft Auto
Amazon's MP3 store is getting a boost - literally. Thanks to a collaboration with Rockstar Games, you can buy 200 MP3 tracks that you might hear playing on the various virtual radio stations that supply the sound track to Grand Theft Auto IV. Just dial ZIT-555-0100 on your in-game cellphone.
30th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Google Artist Themes
Google has added some themes by 'world-class artists' such as Rolf Harris, Ronnie Wood and Coldplay. They also have work by Jeff Koons (shown above).
Other Artists' work includes that of popular beat combo the Beastie Boys, Kung Fu legend Jackie Chan and designer Philippe Starck.
Never quite got the point of having a personalised Google homepage.
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Made In China
If you want something done cheaply these days, you pretty much have to get it made in china.
30th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Virgin iPlayer
the BBC iPlayer is now available on Virgin TV
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30th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mark E Smith on Front Row
The ubiquitous Mark E Smith was on BBC Radio 4's Front Row being interviewed by Mark Lawson last night (Monday). He talks about his recent autobiography, Renegade: The Lives And Tales Of Mark E Smith, and whether he said that he hoped it would be, 'the Mein Kampf for the Hollyoaks generation'.
You can listen again to the programme here
the feature starts at around 15'40"
29th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Los hombres lo llamaron Sr.
Chimp affiliated band Men Called Him Mr are playing out in Madrid on May 23rd. Real life report hopefully coming this summer.
29th Apr 2008 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Broadband 2.0
Interesting article up at Wired about the bottleneck we are facing with current broadband speeds.
28th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Blood's a Rover
The best un-made TV show of all time has a third season due this year - in the form of James Ellroy's new book Blood's a Rover. Following on the story from the corruption-riddled American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand, it's the final chapter in his American Tabloid Trilogy and wil focus on the Vietnam War and the death of J.Edgar Hoover. Sound complicated enough?
27th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet