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I don't know how I'd never come across this San Francisco band before

(they've been around for a while, and have toured w/ Wilco, Pavement,

and Elliott Smith), but I was instantly smitten by their psych-pop

style, which makes an absolutely perfect soundtrack for a summer

evening. Oranger's new album, "New Comes and Goes", comes out on

September 20, and I personally can't wait.

Highly recommended for fans of the Elephant 6 collective bands,

Grandaddy, the Beach Boys.

Here are a few tracks from "New Comes and Goes":

Crones

New Comes and Goes

Crooked in the Weird of the Catacombs

And a couple older songs:

Vegetables (Beach Boys/Brian Wilson cover)

Heavy Denim (Stereolab cover)

Bluest Glass Eye Sea

Butterfly Magician

Head over to Scenestars to get a couple more tracks from the new

sunday morning music fest

Sunday morning music fest

My early morning Sunday walk around town consists of a cup of coffee

and the iPod attached to my ears. I always use this time to enjoy the

outside and listen to new music.

I came across the band Coco B's recently and really liked what I

heard. Figured I should share the musical goodness with everyone.

Modern Lover

Hot Pantz

I Live in L.A.

Check out more on their myspace page.

Mark Mathews comes to us from London, where after playing in various

bands for nine years, he pursued a solo career. He credits his music

to be in the same vein as The Beatles, Smokey Robinson and Oasis,

while still offering his own unique style.

London Lives

A Better Vibe

It's Cool You Dig Me

Choir of Young Believers is the solo project of songwriter Jannis Noya

Makrigiannis and is a growing among the Danish indie rock crowd. I

find myself bobbing my head a little more than I should be - I am

outside walking around in plain sight remember.

video friday new music

Video Friday (New music)

The Willowz.

They're and indie band from SoCal, and have been making some pretty

interesting music since 2002. Wiki labels them as a garage band, but

the influences are all over the place - punk, funk, the blues, even a

bit of Southern rock.

A lot of layers. A lot of distortion. A lot of good music.

(They also like making videos with animation.)

hd alliance and ive got bridge in

HD Alliance: "And I've Got A Bridge in Brooklyn to Sell You"

I'll admit it.

The HD Alliance has got my number.

It is the most incredible or should I say incredulous group of

intelligent people in the radio industry. The only problem is, they

are not giving you any credit for being intelligent.

Thus the recent headlines that 2007 was a "breakthrough year" for HD

radio sales.

It's getting to the point that whenever Peter Ferrara says anything, I

don't believe it. This is nothing personal about Peter. It's about the

tactics of the HD Alliance.

HD radio, claims to have sold 330,000 HD receivers last year -- a

whopping 725% increase from the 40,000 sets purchased a year earlier.

They cite cheaper prices and availability at Best Buy and Wal-Mart at

the new low-low price of just $99.

First, Steve Jobs would take hemlock if he sold only 330,000 units

last year.

Ferrara apparently told Inside Radio that he thinks a million of these

needless, horrible sounding and redundant sets could be sold next

year. Write that down somewhere -- one million HD radios next year.

Apparently he hasn't gotten through to his pals at the major groups

yet.

You see, they are having tough times right now -- check their

shareholder value, I mean stock prices. The group heads apparently

don't want to spend squat on compelling new programming for HD

subchannels when they sure as hell aren't spending it on their bread

and butter terrestrial signals.

Ferrara thinks that when the cost of manufacturing HD sets gets low

enough then the manufacturers won't make analog sets.

And that is probably the only way HD radio set sales will increase.

Then will the major radio groups lead the way by starting to program

really cool stuff on HD channels? Notice I said "really cool stuff"

because the next generation has no use for HD radio programming same

old, same old at any price. Hell, if you could have either an iPod or

an HD radio, guess the one they would choose?

Okay, a new laptop or an HD radio. Or, maybe a new mobile phone (which

they need every two years anyway) or an HD radio -- well, you get the

point.

Guys and gals -- see if Peter Ferrara can sell ice to the Eskimos,

swamp land in Florida and all the rest.

He may get some people to believe his hype about HD radio, but the

owners are too smart for that.

In fact, if he succeeds spinning for the HD Alliance, hire him away

and offer him a sales job in radio once again -- that is, if the

self-destructive owners haven't already outsourced their sales to

Google by then.

Seriously, try to buy an HD radio in Wal-Mart. See what you get. I've

had readers tell me that they've been "walked over" to satellite

radios when they ask their young sales associate if they can see an HD

radio.

I finally found an HD radio display Saturday. It was at Ultimate

Electronics in Scottsdale. I barely found a station that could be

received and it sure wasn't worth the price of the radio -- which was

cheap looking. (No one else in this crowded store wasted their time at

the display).

It would be hilarious if it weren't so serious.

The answer is...

Internet radio. Cell phone content. Podcasting. Pandora. AM/FM

streaming. Social networking.

It's not HD radio in spite of what the HD Alliance professional

spin-doctors keep saying.

For those of you who would prefer to get Jerry's daily posts by email

for free, please click here. IMPORTANT: First you must check your mail

or spam filter to verify your new subscription before service can

2005_11_06_archive

mp3 100 Greatest Internet Moments, Schwarzenegger Street, Castlevania the

movie?

100 Greatest Internet Moments

Including Punk Kittens playing The White Stripes, Low Morale's

Radiohead - Creep (acoustic) video, DJ Dangermouse, Metallica vs.

Napster, and Eminem's mosh.

music of future

Music of the future

About twenty years ago there was a Radio 4 sketch show called Son of

Clich�, scripted by the not-yet-celebrated Rob Grant and Dave Naylor.

Nick Wilton was one of the regulars (what's he doing these days, I

wondered when I remembered this; the answer's "panto, mainly"). The

music was by Peter Brewis, including one of the funniest moments in

musical comedy I've ever heard: the credits sung in the style of Bob

Dylan, to the tune of "Knockin' on Heaven's door", with each verse

ending

"And the music was by - Peter Brewis,

Peter Brewis, Peter Brewis,

Peter Brewis, Peter Brewis..."

Well, I liked it.

There's an interview with Peter Brewis in today's Indie. It's not the

same one - this one's a member of Field Music - but I do wonder if

he's any relation. Now, Field Music, although they're quite young lads

- this Peter Brewis would have been in nappies when the other one was

doing his Dylan impression - make angular, jerkily melodic, thoughtful

music, heavy on the keyboards and woodwinds. They're so 1970s they

ought to be on Caroline, in other words. They're not alone, either.

The Feeling are Pilot on a good day (or Supertramp on a bad one), and

the Klaxons...

The Klaxons are a bit more complicated (not better, but more

complicated). The Klaxons (or is it just Klaxons? I neither know nor

care, actually) are 'new rave', apparently. Judging from the track

"Atlantis to Interzone" (on the B-side of their single "Golden

Skans"), 'new rave' essentially means 'retro'; the track starts with

whooping sirens and (I kid you not) a woman singing the words "Mu mu".

Then the bass kicks in. A couple of minutes later it kicks out again

and the sound gets stroppy and punky, with a kind of 1979 art-school

cockney vibe; my son pricked up his ears at this point and asked if it

was Adam and the Ants. (He's a fan of Adam and the Ants.) "Make it

new" clearly isn't an injunction that's troubled the Klaxons greatly.

"Golden Skans" itself takes me back to a period I'd completely

forgotten: post-glam, pre-punk pop-rock. Think Graham Bonnet-era

Rainbow, but without the metal cliches or the long hair, and with

aspirations to make both three-minute singles and deeply meaningful

albums. Think Argent earlier in the 1970s, or City Boy later on, or

John Miles at a pinch. Punk cut a swathe through prog rock, but the

pop-rock scene it destroyed. But it's back in the hands of [the]

Klaxons. I think they can keep it.

The Earlies, now - there's a fine band. I'm listening to their new

album The Enemy Chorus at the moment, and even though it's only the

first listen I can thoroughly recommend it. Most of the tracks have

that "I'm going to like this later" itch to them, and a couple are

instant synapse-flooding beauties. (Like a good strong cafe con leche,

when it's cold outside. With two sugars. Like that.)

But even their music has its 1970s and late-60s echoes. It's stacked

with them, to be honest - I've been reminded of Soft Machine, Robert

Wyatt, Faust, Neu! and the Beatles, and several times of Family

(someone in that band knows Music in a Doll's House and Family

Entertainment).

I'm not complaining about the Enemy Chorus - it's a wonderful album.

But still... it'd be nice to hear something that would pin my ears

back the way punk did - and, for me personally, the way the Desperate

Bicycles and Scritti Politti did. The Fugees did it; cLOUDDEAD did it

(cLOUDDEAD were very punk). Since then, not so much.

I wonder what they'll find to play at Noughties Nights.

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mp3 SNL - Chronicles of Narnia Rap (video)

snl chronicles of narnia video lazy sunday

[DEL: snl chronicles of narnia video lazy sunday SNL - "Lazy Sunday",

Chronicles of Narnia Rap (video) :DEL]

snl chronicles of narnia video lazy sunday SNL - "Lazy Sunday",

Chronicles of Narnia Rap (video)

EDIT: added a new link since poopyheads at NBC nuked YouTube.

A rare good SNL skit/short about watching the Chronicles of Narnia;

Parnell and Samberg kick it Beasties style.

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mp3 Random news

* Lyrics fight ends in apology

Interesting development: music publisher Warner/Chappell Music

sends apology to PearLyrics creator!

* Bush 'backed spying on Americans'

* RIAA sues 751 file-swappers

* Software Predicts Movie Success

* Anatomy of a Photoshopped magazine cover.

2005_03_01_archive

Reject #5. And, while we're at it, #6.

Crown passed on Destination Out!, as did (o my lord) Billboard Books,

publishers of Freebirds: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story. We're down to a few

majors now, and a sad string of farm teams that are just on this side

of being vanity presses. Seems the audience for free jazz, in most

editors' minds, is miniscule. (It is, isn't it. Don't tell me.) And it

seems that we haven't been especially convincing when it comes to the

overlap we claim exists between fans of out jazz, and, say, jam bands.

Also, most editors have mentioned that a narrative history, rather

than a record-centered approach, would appeal more, though whether

this is simply a hollow, face-saving gesture is anybody's guess.

Anyway, here's more of what they're politely saying No to, for your

trouble:

1978

Arthur Blythe

Lenox Avenue Breakdown

Columbia

Arthur Blythe, as; Bob Stewart, tuba; James Newton, fl; James Blood

Ulmer, g; Cecil McBee, b; Jack DeJohnette, ds.

Dexter Gordon ended his self-imposed exile in Europe with a series

of ecstatically received gigs in New York, followed by the release

of the disappointing and predictably named album The Homecoming.

Viewed at the time as a sign of jazz's reemergence as a relevant

artistic force, in retrospect it signals the spot at which jazz

turned in on itself, shedding new influences in favor of a

museum-grade worship of the past. A much less heralded moment of

jazz transformation came when NYC loft veteran Arthur Blythe signed

to Columbia in 1978. After a week of rehearsals with bandmates,

Blythe created Lenox Avenue Breakdown. A bracing amalgam of the new

and traditional, the album balances melody and free play, cohesive

group dynamics and wild fights of fancy, in creating an ode to

urban life in all its contrasts. Ranging from noirish nocturnes to

vampy blues wails, the album brought the influences that had been

incubating in the hot-house of loft jazz earlier in the decade into

the mainstream, however briefly. The first track in particular, the

carnivalesque "Down San Diego Way," is as breezy as its name, with

all players contributing equally to the lightly free funk. It

stands as a high point in the careers of all involved, particularly

Stewart, who put down here one of the great tuba statements in

modern jazz. Once loosed on the world, the world took little

notice. But sometimes it's important to step out of the museum and

into the light of day.

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Sad-eyed gentleman of the Low Life.

The wonderfully erudite Luc Sante gives Dylan's Chronicles, volume

one, the New York Review of Books treatment in their March 10 issue.

The multi-part essay also folds in a look at the complete Lyrics;

Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader; and the recently re-released astral

emission that is Tarantula. It's a great review, the best of

Chronicles I've seen, as Sante finds a way to place the book into some

kind of context ("young man arrives in the City, wide-eyed but

nobody's fool"), while also allowing for its weirder, sui generis

aspects --- the non-peak moments described in chapters devoted to the

making of middling efforts New Morning and Oh Mercy.

Sante also looks closely at Dylan's lyric writing process, how he made

an art out of marrying "the folk-lyric tradition and Western

modernism," his linking of trad./arr. and his own Dada-fueled

unconscious. Some of this is just Sante conjecturing, but he does a

fine job of picking over the tidbits related to Dylan's creative

process that litter the four books under discussion. And, as a bonus,

he (too gently) puts Sleater-Kinney PR flak Rick Moody in his place

regarding the overall importance and merit of Blood on the Tracks.

Dylan bonus #2: The Independent (UK) recently posted a chunk from Sam

Shepard's Rolling Thunder diaries, on the occasion of the publication

of Shepard's Rolling Thunder Logbook in the UK this month. The book

was re-released in the US back in December.

Dylan bonus #3: TMFTML recently linked to this amazing story by Ian

ways we have influenced music over 35

Ways we have influenced music over 35 years

You might think that just because I'm an old cunt from Dublin I've had

no impact on the world of popular music. Long term readers will know

this is false as older stories will prove. However, there are many

other examples of how I, or my friends, have influenced music over the

years.

Oh, you want specifics? Ok then.

1 - Stuttering Steve, Dirty Dave's second cousin, was in a bar in

London in 1970 and asked David Bowie if he had any ch-ch-change for

the cigarette machine.

2 - Jimmy the Bollix had a friend who had an ice factory in America.

He would go round with these massive blocks of ice selling chunks at a

time to people during the hot summer months. Sadly, this man also had

a young son who got run over by a car. He was on the point of death

when the man had an idea. Distrusting of hospitals he decided to

freeze the boy, Walt Disney style, until a cure was found for his many

injuries which included a fractured arse, dislocated testicles and

ruptured armpit.

So the boy remained in a freezer for many years. One night Kate Bush

came into Ron's for a pint, which she often did back in the day, and

Jimmy told her the story which then inspired Kate's big hit 'The man

with a child in his ice'.

3 - I once told Stinking Pete to take our mates Supertramp to Bewley's

on Grafton Street for breakfast. Being a piss head simpleton he

thought I said take them to New York. The rest is history.

4 - One day me and Jimmy were in Northern Ireland and we ran in to

Undertones lead singer Fergal Sharkey. After we'd stopped taking the

piss out of him for having no lips whatsoever we went on the lash and

got to discussing how things used to be much better 10 years ago.

Music, clothes, girls, everything. Even bodily functions were so much

poorer in that day and age prompting Jimmy to opine "A good fart these

days is hard to find."

5 - Lucky Luciano tells of his sexual prowess, particularly when he

was a young man. He tells the tale of when Abba toured Italy and he

scored with the blonde girl. Apparently they had sex for 48 hours

straight but after the first 24 hours she went into some kind of

trance and completely blanked out the rest, including Lucky's enormous

climax. Some time later they released 'The day before you came' in

tribute.

6 - Me and Jimmy used to hang around in San Francisco with Chris Isaak

in the early 90s. What a quiff he had. To take the piss a bit we got

toupees made in the exactly same style. "What a wigged game to play",

he'd say.

7 - Not many people know there were originally 6 members of Duran

Duran. As well as the ones you all know there was a lad called Lorcan

McManus from Clondalkin and I was actually the manager of the band at

that stage. Well, I decided we'd go on a bonding weekend to

Yellowstone National Park which went fantastically well until we got

lost in the woods one day and Lorcan was set upon and consumed by a

starving wild beast.

Although "Hungry like the wolf" was a massive hit I never got any of

the credit as I'd been fired by a distraught Nick Rhodes just after

the tragedy.

8 - While in New York Stinking Pete introduced the Fun Loving

Criminals to a new type of Ecstasy which were shaped exaclty the same

as Great Dane testicles. Scooby's Nacks became all the rage then.

9 - Gilbert O'Sullivan once came into Ron's and after a few Canadian

Club and Ginger ales proceeded to read us a poem he'd written.

"That's a load o' me hoop", said Ron. "Nothing rhymed".

10 - Stinking Pete was involved in a tempestuous affair with Rosanne

Barr whilst he was going out with a triple amputee with two tongues

and a gee that joined up perfectly to her anus. As my good old friend

Bernard from New Order commented that was a bizarre love triangle.

All true.

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2006_02_19_archive

mp3 New Ambulance Ltd - New English (MP3), other stuff

ambulance ltd mp3 music

* ambulance ltd mp3 music Ambulance Ltd. - New English (MP3)

I've been waiting for Ambulance Ltd. to come out with new stuff

since their enjoyable eponymous debut LP in 2004. Their

forthcoming EP is entitled 'New English', and this is the title

track. If this track is any indication, this EP will build on the

unique throwback sound they gave us a glimpse of on their debut.

Their myspace.

linklater a scanner darkly trailer

* linklater a scanner darkly trailer A Scanner Darkly (trailer)

Trailer for 'A Scanner Darkly' starring Keanu Reaves, Robert

Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Winona Ryder with freaking cool

Rotoscope animation from director Richard Linklater. Based on the

novel by Philip K. Dick.

* Sleeps with the fishes: Actor Richard Bright fatally hit by bus

He appeared in all three Godfather movies as the Corleone's handy

hit man. RIP.

* Flyspy lets you look up historical airline prices and decide the

best time to buy.

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mp3 Jens Lekman, Myspace on the Daily Show, Joined the YouTube bandwagon, more

* Jens Lekman generously offers three free tour EPs for download.

It's a mixed bag, not as polished as his album tracks, but still

pretty good. [thanks]

* Myspace on The Daily Show

Cheap shot on Friendster. Ouch! Dig the emorific song at the end

too.

2005_02_06_archive

mp3 Sigur R�s - Star�lfur

For those of you who've seen "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou", you

know about what an important role the beautiful song 'Star�lfur' plays

in the film. While Sigur R�s have drawn comparisons to Spiritualized

and early Pink Floyd, Star�lfur and other songs reveal their style to

2005_11_01_archive

Footnotes of note.

The first in what is sure to be an arhythmically occurring feature:

I'm trying to work out how this makes sense as a noun meaning "the

product of a bowel movement." This is not Dawson's personal

euphemistic misstep; the usage persists in medical writing today.

Should you have had the forturne of visiting a web page called The

Constipation Page, you will [sic] have seen the phrase, "the motion

or stool is very dry or hard." Perhaps this is why the term "motion

pictures" was replaced by "movies." Now that I see it on the page,

"movie" would have been a far better BM euphemism than "motion."

I'd love to chat, but I need to make a movie.

2005_10_01_archive

In Lovely Ektachrome

I Hate The Bloody Queen - The Queen Haters

recorded 1983

A forgotten corner of punk history, this cry against the Falklands war

is one of the forgotten milestones of punk history, contrasting a rant

against British foreign policy with the lead singer's need to score

dope against overwhelming financial odds. Banned by the BBC for fear

of offending...

OK, OK...

This is actually a clip from the final NBC episode of SCTV in 1983,

now out on DVD. Mel's Rockpile was the skit, a recurring parody of

dance shows with Eugene Levy as the unfunky, totally clueless Rockin'

Mel Slurrup. This episode was "Punk Day", with a square set of dancers

whose jaws drop when the Queen Haters yell away.

Martin Short is the stereotypical, yet convincing, punk lead singer.

Andrea Martin and Eugene Levy are on backup vocals. John Candy played

the blank-faced bald drummer, while Joe Flaherty tries to keep up on

guitar. This tune has been covered - there was a version by Mudhoney

on a tribute to Canadian punk disc that was much slower and nowhere

2005_12_04_archive

mp3 Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy at Amazon

Looks like the folks at Amazon have a sense of humor: Guns N' Roses -

Chinese Democracy

Availability: This title will be released on December 31, 2025.

Haha!

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mp3 Eminem - When I'm Gone (music video)

eminem when i'm gone music video

eminem when i'm gone Eminem - When I'm Gone (music video)

If you didn't think Eminem's melodrama could be affecting, well, this

video might prove you wrong.

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mp3 The White Stripes Live on the Daily Show

2005_11_20_archive

mp3 American Idiot mash-up album, Bad day for Sony

American Idiot mash-up

Dean Gray presents American Edit

Not sure what I think about this one yet. While most of it is done

pretty well, it has more curiosity value than repeat-listen value.

EFF sues Sony, Texas sues Sony, FoxTrot makes fun of Sony. Bad day for

Sony.

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mp3 Bush confused by locked doors (video)

Bush locked doors video

This is hilarious! I love that helpless expression.

Door thwarts quick exit for Bush

Bush vide) Bush confused by locked doors (streaming video)

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mp3 R.I.P. Link Wray

Link Wray

R.I.P. Link Wray.

Sample some of his music here. [via donewaiting]

I suppose I'm late with this sad news of his passing. How influential

and respected was he? From the official site:

Link Wray is known for being the first musician to experiment with

the sounds that pioneered rock and roll and punk styles. Link

virtually invented fuzz tone by deliberately punching holes in his

amplifier speakers. He was also a true pioneer of the use of

distortion on instrumental rock recordings....

Link was a musician's musician:

Elvis Presley invited him home in the 50s.

Bowie, Dylan, Van Zandt and Springsteen attended Link's concerts

since their early youth.

2007_03_01_archive

Jamendo Goes Platinum!

Congratulations to the Jamendo team for reaching P2P platinum with

their 1,000,000th BitTorrent download today!

The Owl team appreciates your commitment to the worldwide music

community and we share your enthusiasm for using technology and

creativity to help expose the music-loving world to thousands of

emerging artists from all over the globe--like Maya de Luna and La

Petite Mort whom I just discovered (and downloaded legally!) this

afternoon using The Spiral.

We value your partnership and look forward to working closely with all

of you as you push toward P2P plutonium--1 BILLION downloads!

--Dave and the rest of the Owl development team

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More Jamendo!

More music today! We've just added about 6,000 new Jamendo tracks,

bringing the Owl music search inventory to about 80,000 tracks in

fes festival of world sacred music 2008

Fes Festival of World Sacred Music 2008

It's late. It's very late. But at last there's a holding page at the

Festival's website and we're promised more news shortly.

Meanwhile, the only place to see the Festival programme is at Fez

Riads and, of course, right here on your favourite Fez blog (see

below). It certainly looks like a great programme!

Friday 6 June

Bab Makina 20:30

Jessye Norman (USA), with the Regional Lyric Orchestra Avignon

Provence (France). Conducting: Rachael Worby (USA)

Saturday 7 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Ghada Shb��r (Lebanon) Songs of the Eastern Christian Churches

Bab Makina 20:30

Sacred African American and Sufi Songs Night

Spiritual/Hymns/Qawwali/Gospel

Faiz Ali Faiz (Pakistan) ensemble with and Bernice Johnson Reagon and

the Sacred Sound

Ensemble (USA)

Sunday 8 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Mari Boine (Norway) Sacred Songs of Sami of the Scandinavian Far North

Bab Makina 20:30

Al Kindi ensemble with Sheikh Hamza Shakour, the Munshid of the Great

Umayyad Mosque and

the Choir of Greece - Dir. JJ Weiss (Syria/Greece/France)

Stabat Mater Dolorosa: Christian and Muslim Homage to Mary

Monday 9 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Thanh Huong (Vietnam) Traditional and sacred songs

Bab Makina 20:30

Belen Maya Company (Spain) Dibujos Flamenco dance

Tuesday 10 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Tartit Women's Ensemble (Mali) Folk and sacred songs of the Tuareg

Bab Makina 20:30

Panti Pusaka Budaya Ensemble Sacred Traditional Dances of

Bali/Indonesia

Wednesday 11 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Ysa�e Quartet (France) The Seven Last Words of Christ (J. Haydn)

Text: Michel Serres, Narrator: Michael Lonsdale

Thursday 12 June

Batha Museum 16:30

The Roza Enflorese (Belgium) Sephardic sacred and traditional songs

Bab Makina 20:30

Abdelwahab Doukali (Morocco)

Friday 13 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Cantus Colln (Germany): Around JS Bach/Spiritual Paths (Buxtehude - J.

Rosenm�ller - JS Bach), Director: Konrad Junghanel

Bab Makina 20:30

Mohamed Abdou (Saudi Arabia)

Saturday 14 June

Batha Museum 16:30

Madhup Mudghal (India): Bakhti devotional songs

Bab Makina 20:30

2005_07_01_archive

Multiple Uses of Blog Comment Function

The multiple uses of the blog comment function makes the blog a

multi-purpose platform of interactive communications.

If you thought blog comments were only praise, criticism, questions,

or complaints, look again. There's more going on in those comment

boxes than you may realize.

Multiple Uses of Blog Comment Function

(1.) User Generated Content.

Add user content to enhance blog content:

...reader insights, facts, opinions, emotional responses, questions,

error-reports, clarifications, opposing views, and other material,

hopefully relevant to the blogger's post or to the general blog topic

area.

(2.) Instant Message Input.

Email-like personal message to blogger (blog author).

Sure to be read by the intended recipient, the blogger, since bloggers

tend to read their own blogs, and the comments posted to them.

(3.) Slow Chat Room.

Conversation thread, which may be somewhat OT (off topic) or very

personal in content, within post comment thread:

reader-with-reader

reader-with-blogger

readers-with-readers-and-blogger

(4.) Link Loading.

Reader adds no comment per se,

rather URLs to relevant online material.

(5.) Trouble Shooting.

Reader critiques relative to problems and solutions for problems with

blog layout, colors, type fonts, functionalities, forms, factual

errors, hypertext links and link rot, spelling, historical

backgrounds, browser incapatabilities, image quality, etc.

(6.) NEGATIVE: Spamming.

Scumbags, con artists, liars, cyber-vandals, and other low life

garbage people may attempt to post comment spam using your comment

forms.

Then your blog's comment field becomes a billboard, a bulletin board,

an advertisement for dubious or malicious web sites. The URLs (web

addresses) are generally to porn, pharmaceutical (narcotics and other

medicines), real estate and mortgage loans, gambling, software offers,

or domain name sites.

Your comment field also becomes a search engine rank booster for these

potentially dangerous sites (including Trojan, virus, print logging,

email logging, screen shot logging spyware/adware attaching sites).

(7.) NEGATIVE: Cyber-vandalism.

Trolling, baiting, scam-baiting, griefing, flaming, and other abusive

or vulgar comments, usually irrelevant or over-reactive to the post

topic thread (conversation flow).

(8.) Footnotes to the Post.

Finally, the blogger and a reader may start a new topic within the

original topic conversation thread of the blog post, or a deeper

examination of the original post.

The blogger and reader comments act as scholarly footnotes,

sub-chapters, esoteric probes, backchannel ponderings, sub-terranean

explorations underlying the main thought, idea, or observation.

[signed] Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate

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blogs superior to television

"There has been a lot of tension among publishers about technology.

But if you ask me if I'd rather have someone watching television or

someone surfing the Internet, I'd prefer the Internet because it

requires some form of reading," says Richard Sarnoff, president of the

Random House, Inc. corporate development group, according to a recent

Associated Press report published in Quad City Times.

I think I see what he means.

We've already long ago established beyond any serious dispute the

supremacy of blogs over email and telephone communications.

To communicate with another person through blog comments or email

means that, simutaneously, as I read their remark or compose my reply,

can also listen to music, read a book, and eat pizza. I can't eat a

book, read music, and listen to coffee while talking on the phone to

someone.

Phoning someone is an invasive, demanding, selfish act.

Your aggressive act of telephoning someone means that you wish to have

someone's full attention for an uncertain duration of time.

If that wasn't bad enough, the communication has to be done in real

time. That other person you've decided to bother has to drop whatever

he's doing and engage in talking repartee with you.

Telephone conversations are interactive, which is good. But they're

also invasive real-time full-attention drainers.

Television viewing is largely passive. You interact with the

television when you turn it on, off, and change channels with the

remote. The screen contains all the movement necessary for the

communication. The viewer can remain stiff in a paralytic trance and

just soak it up.

With blogs, however, one must at least read. To interact, to post a

comment, one must type and know how to activate and cooperate with web

forms. And having something to say. And be able to articulate it in

text.

Even cats and dogs have been known to watch television. None have been

observed turning the pages of books with rapt attention to the plot or

topic.

Thus, blogs are better than television. Blogs are almost as good as

books. Blogs excel books in being interactive. Books excel blogs in

nokia want music consumer

2006_03_01_archive

A great year for movies.

Not that you'd particularly know it from the Oscars. An unusually

bland, safe, and boring selection this year. Yeah yeah, they chose

some "darker indie films" but what choice did they have? The studios

produced so few good movies this year that the Academy's back was to

the wall. And they still punked out.

At least the Oscars give me an excuse to air my Best Movies of the

Year list since I was too far behind in my viewing to post it in

January. Still haven't seen Cache, Mysterious Skin, and a few other

celebrated films. But this year's crop was so strong that my picks for

11-20 could have easily been my Top 10 in just about any other season.

And there were plenty of wonderful movies that didn't even make the

list, from fun popcorn fare like Batman Begins to smart political

thrillers like Syriana, Munich, and The Constant Gardner to quirky

gems like You Me and Everyone We Know. Anyhow, the list:

1) The Century of the Self

Visionary doc about the direct role Freud's theories have played in

advertising and gov't, tracing Freud's nephew Alan Bernais - who

invented the term "public relations" and was later employed by the CIA

- and his daughter Anna, who was also hired by the government in the

late 40s and whose ideas about therapy were based on her beliefs that

analysis should help people conform to their environments and smooth

over any deviations. Also looks at the 60s backlash against these

ideas and how radical politics were later co-opted by the

self-centered pursuits of EST in the 70s and by advertisers who hit

upon the idea that people can be made to feel like they are expressing

their individuality through purchases. Commodify your dissent, indeed.

The movie comes full circle by examining the Clinton and Blair

governing philosophies of marketing political initiatives to target

demographics. Even-handed, dense with factual backup, and filled with

startling images and juxtapositions, director Adam Curtis unrolls his

four hour narrative in an always entertaining and striking manner.

2) Memories of Murder

A straightforward but hardly simple police drama that seems familiar

at first but slowly reveals itself to be one of the most trenchant

character studies, haunting crime stories, and layered meditations

about obsession in ages. Filled with both unexpected humor and horror,

it's also a very subtle critique of Korean history.

3) 2046

Long rumored, many years in the making, Wong Kar-Wai's lovelorn epic

bounces between Hong Kong in the 60s and the sc-fi world of the

future. One of the most visually ravishing films ever made, it's

brimming with terrific performances, dense narratives, and creates a

sense of loss and longing so palpable you're sure those emotions have

taken shape right in front of your eyes.

4) A History of Violence

A taut thriller worthy of Hitchcock. About how you can have two

different personalities and be completely sane. Among other things. A

perfect 90 minutes.

5) Old Boy

A cold-blooded Jacobean revenge tale worthy of Webster. With a nod to

Tarantino and set in modern day Seoul. Virtuoso filmmaking.

6) Chain

Half-doc, half-drama, Jem Cohen spins a one-of-a-kind tale about

people marooned in the nowhere zone along those endless, lookalike,

mini-mall stretches of highway. Are you in New Jersey or the outskirts

of Brussels? It all looks indentical and feels numbingly the same.

Shot on locations in 10 countries and over 100 suburbs, it's a

singular tour de force.

7) My Summer of Love

Ah, the throes of teenage passion. This sun-drenched, delicate wisp of

a film embodies those times when play-acting at being in love crosses

the line into something else. Faking it so real you're beyond fake.

And then back again.

8) The Holy Girl

With novelistic density, this film unspools its soap-opera plot in the

most oblique manner possible while still making it magnetic. The

story: Girl who lives in hotel has vision of Virgin Mary and falls for

older guy who molested her but really wants her mother. The result:

The transubstanciation of pulp into art.

9) The New World

Terrence Malick's worst movie, which means it's still one of the most

stunningly beautiful and jaw-dropping things you'll ever see. Career

performance by 15-year-old newcomer who plays Pochahontas. Filled with

lovely longeurs, radical editing, and an emotional whallop of an

ending.

10) Werner Herzog trifecta: Grizzly Man; Wheel of Time; The White

Diamond

None of these by themselves might been so high on the list, but

together they attest to the continuing vitality and strangeness of The

World's Greatest Documentarian. Herzog avoids the "facts of the bean

counters" for the "ecstatic truth." Filled with oddball digressions

and searing images, deadpan humor and moments of pure visual rapture.

THE BEST OF THE REST:

11) The Beat My Heart Skipped

12) Brokeback Mountain

13) Last Days

14) Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

15) Tropical Malady

16) The Squid and the Whale

17) Capote

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Thurston said no.

Thurston Moore politely passed on our invitation to write a foreword

for our free jazz book, citing too many current assignments. He was

considerate, and had a bland word or two of support for the project,

but the news was disappointing, as he seemed such a natural for the

gig. I took it as a negative judgment on our work so far. Why even

request a look at the proposal if he was over-committed? Ah, well.

Next! (The prospective list now includes Thom Yorke, Iggy Pop, Lou

Reed, David Bowie, Brian Eno ... free jazz fans all.)

Anyone out there have Iggy's number?

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We should all rock with the government-supported fury of the Dutch.

Tuesday Morning Quarterback, the best weekly, 7,000-word football

column penned by a Brookings Institution fellow, made a rare fumble in

a recent article. Poking fun at the Dutch Rock and Pop Institute, TMQ

wrote, "Rock is supposed to be a form of rebellious anti-establishment

expression. Can't they do anything without government hand-holding in

the European Union?" This is semi-amusing, as is the notion of an

Under Secretary of Wa Wa Effects (I nominate this guy), but any nation

that celebrates the 25th anniversary of a wonderfully extreme band

like The Ex -- former squatters who are something like the ur-Fugazi

-- has the right idea about arts support. (Hear for yourself.)

Meanwhile, speaking of government hand-holding, back at home, our own

Mom and Pop Institue, the FCC, so fears for our moral purity that the

linear music explained

Linear music explained

Karol Berger's book Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow sets as its task the

origins of musical modernity, specifically from the perspective of

musical time. Berger carefully distinguishes modernity from modern

music, where modernity is a fissure in a continuous historical

lineage, generally located around the Industrial Revolution (with the

French and American revolutions as the political counterparts). In

pre-modern times, time was viewed as a cycle (e.g., of the sun and the

seasons). By the end of the 18th century, time was viewed as

progressive, a linear history moving from the past toward the future.

Berger chooses Bach and Mozart as musical illustrations of these two

perspectives, and Augustine and Jean-Jacques Rousseau for

philosophical background.

His chapters on Bach deal primarily with the St. Matthew Passion

(which it has been a pleasure to hear again), with a short interlude

on the first fugue from the WTC. The most illuminating section on Bach

was on the fugue, which points out that the events in the fugue do not

depend on one another in any meaningful way. Given the subject of a

fugue, a certain number of "demonstrations" of the way the subject(s)

may be harmonized and combined, each demonstration being independent

of all the others. The demonstrations are essentially in an unordered

set. Bach of course does combine them in a meaningful way according to

a tonal plan, but in Berger's estimation, this combination comes

later, and is of lesser importance than the demonstrations themselves.

I was much less moved by his discussion of the Passion, where he shows

how Bach musically represents the Christian belief that our finite

human time is enmeshed in the infinite time of God. While I don't

doubt that this was indeed Bach's intent, the Christian story was

considerably more real in Bach's time than it is in ours, where it has

become more metaphorical (this is part of the transition to modernity

that is the overall subject of the book). I don't believe one needs to

be a devout Christian, versed in the arcane details of 18th century

theology, to appreciate this magnificant work.

Undeniably, by the time of the Viennese classics, a listener was

certainly expected to remember various events that occurred in the

course of a piece. The classic sonata form, with two themes, a

development and a recapitulation, all on a fairly standard tonal plan,

makes little sense without some kind of short term memory to

understand the structure of the piece. Berger demonstrates musical

linearity with detailed examples from Mozart and Beethoven, but in

both cases already showing how the conventions of the sonata form

become expectations to be subverted.

A long interlude in the center of the book describes in some detail

the philosophical changes that underpin Berger's arguments. Both the

theological arguments behind the eternal time that precedes and

follows the insignificant human time scale, as well as a summary of

Rousseau's philosophical positions on our rational self-determination,

are presented in some detail. Berger's intent is to show the

philosophical changes that were current during the late 18th century,

and which informed both the composers and listeners. If the arguments

seem a bit esoteric and irrelevant today, an awareness certainly can

inform contemporary interpretations of the music.

Granted, the classical concert repertoire is often too heavily

invested in the Viennese classics that form the primary focus of this

work. But when Berger says that "the Viennese classics have shaped our

musical expectations and values to such an extent that we expect these

values to inform any music we encounter," well, I'm sorry, but Berger

needs to get out more. Discontinuity and various kinds of nonlinearity

have been part of classical music since Schoenberg and Stravinsky --

are there corresponding changes in our views on time? What perspective

change do we need to appreciate a mobile form work like Cage's Atlas

Eclipticalis, where the linearity is subverted from one performance to

the next? Unfortunately, Berger's steadfast refusal to consider modern

2005_05_01_archive

Enhancing Blog Credibility: 36 Tips

build believability into your blog Posted by Hello

[NOTE: This is an identical version of an article that originally

appeared at my new site Blog Core Values.]

To succeed, a blog must provide:

* practical value

* relevant content

* ease of use

* strong credibility

* interesting topics

* good writing, design, archiving

* friendly tone of voice

* authoritative presentation

NOTE: Be sure to CHECK all your blog's links, the hypertext links

in the editorial (posts), sidebar links, blogroll links, ALL links.

"Link rot", meaning links that produce a 404 Not Found error

message, must be avoided with all diligence.

Thomas Powell, Jakob Nielsen, and others warn us that "broken

links" should be considered "catastrophic failures" (TP) for blog

or web site credibility. It indicates either stupidity, slopping

coding, or negligence.

Any blog, personal, business, artistic, literary, organizational, etc.

can boost its believability...and win the loyalty and trust of

readers...by adhering to these basic guidelines.

(1.) Professional and appropriate design, colors, typeface, photos,

art, illustrations.

(2.) Good blog title, URL, tagline, slogan, logo, description.

(3.) Upfront display of name(s) of author(s), contributors,

affiliations.

(4.) Upfront display of sponsoring company or organization.

(5.) Prominent display or link to type, purpose, mission, location,

staff bios of business or organization.

(6.) Upfront "About Me", Bio, or Profile information or link.

(7.) Upfront "Contact", "Feedback" or "Email Me".

(8.) Quality writing: intelligent, interesting, personal, intimate,

self-effacing, candid, honest, sympathetic, controversial, adamant,

comical, or serious...as appropriate to blog author, audience, and

purpose.

(9.) Absence of typos, incorrect spellings, vulgarity, street slang,

grammatical errors, faulty logic, fuzzy thinking, prejudice,

bitterness, drunkeness.

(10.) Absence of hype, no hard sell tactics, no high powered

merchandising excess.

(11.) Perfect functionality: contact forms, registration forms,

comment submission forms, captchas, file downloads, site search, print

version page activation, image galleries.

(12.) Explanations of such anomolies as comment moderation/delay

posting, required registration (tell benefits of), comments turned off

on old posts to prevent comment spam, etc.

(13.) Presence of charts, graphs, lists, images of referenced objects

and material.

(14.) Hypertext links within posts, leading to reputable

substantiating information.

(15.) Timely and valuable response to emails.

(16.) Timely and valuable response to user comments, within the

comment threads, and not just in a summarizing post. Avoid appearance

of having staff tell you "users are saying such and such", which you

then create a post to address.

(17.) Blogroll and sidebar links to relevant and reputable external

sites. Not "clinking": clique linking, e.g. links to ONLY friends and

other sites on your blog host. [But also see next point, #18 below.]

(18.) Links to other blogs, corporate web site, ecommerce or "store"

sites, and other associated sites.

(19.) Testimonials, endorsements, caveats, compliments from reputable,

trusted sources.

(20.) Editorial (post) references to reputable, trusted sources and

sites.

(21.) Cite affiliations with, and memberships in, reputable and

prestigious associations, trade guilds, educational institutions,

discussion lists, forums, conferences, and professional, industry, or

government organizations.

(22.) Display awards, commendations, certificates, honor enrollments,

tributes, and other distiguished accomplishment evidence.

(23.) Minimum amount of ads, book promotions, pay-for-it downloads

(e.g., e-books, white papers, PDF reports), add-ons (maps, weather

advisories, calendars, chatboxes, site meters, hit counters), and

widgets (audio, video, music MP3s).

(24.) Ready admission of faults, errors, regrets, shortcomings,

problems, site dysfunctionalities, site limitations...with promises to

fix or remedy, and clear statement of anticipated date of full

compliance or realization.

(25.) Visible adherence to core values of honesty, competence, and

integrity...with open debate without censorship of controversial

opinions.

(26.) Courage of convictions, steadfast bravery, not wilting under

pressure, not intimidated or compromised by abusers, crybaby bullies,

flamers, cyber-vandals, or trollers.

(27.) Triumphant, postitive, futuristic, optimistic, forward-looking,

trend-setting, pioneering attitude and environment.

(28.) Bold ability to, when appropriate, adopt a non-conformist,

contrarian, herd mentality-defying, independent thinking orientation.

(29.) Relentless pursuit of ideals, tireless and eager investigation,

and astute analysis of, negative aspects (that others ignore, deny,

de-emphasize, sweep under the rug, or downplay).

(30.) Consistency, not deviating from ethics, organizational culture,

promises, committments, obligations, standards, mission, goals and

objectives.

(31.) Inquisitiveness, curiosity, openess toward reader opinions and

ideas: seeking reader input, encouraging users to comment, asking

readers questions, challenging readers, requesting advice, asking for

suggestions.

(32.) True open forum: non-dictatorial, inviting the free expression

of opposing viewpoints, protecting users from abuse and flaming,

embracing diversity, anti-cultish environment, kind and welcoming to

newcomers.

(33.) Strong vision and desire to accomplish mutually agreed upon

goals of user community.

(34.) Tolerance toward, and willingness to learn from, enemies,

detractors, those with very different belief systems, aesthetics,

religions, fields of expertise, or cultures.

(35.) Tranparency (non-secretiveness) regarding strategies,

influences, allegiances, alliances, agendas, guiding methodologies,

tenets, organization memberships, ultimate goals.

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blogs as channels of insight

Blogs as Channels of Insight

We were with some new friends at a little get-together last night.

One feller exclaimed with tremendous vocal volume that his daughter is

in college and "is really into blogging." My ears perked up. I heard

the magic word that makes my world go round, that single thing that

mattered to me, meant more to me than life itself.

"Blogs, eh? Say on, good sir", I think I might have yelled at him.

"She writes stuff for her blog every day, she's an English major, and

she reads the blogs of her friends, and writes comments on them." he

answered with all his might.

"I would like to see her blog sometime", I shouted.

He looked at me with what I assumed was good-natured and polite

tolerance of the shape of my shoes, which I admit are lumpy looking.

As he stared down at the lopsided galloshes I had slopped onto my

feet, I reached for my cup of coffee, hoping that abrupt and dignified

motion would detour him. I have other shoes, I just never wear them.

"It's on Xanga", he explained loudly.

I refrained from showing off by suppressing a strong desire to

ponitificate on Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogspot, Typepad, Craig's List,

Always On, Corante, Metafilter, Blog Expulsion, Personal Democracy

Forum, and other blog communities, multi-authored team blogs,

web-rings, and portal hubs.

"I will check it out," I screamed crazily. "What's the name of the

blog? Or her full name? Does she use her real name in the blog? Is it

password protected, so only friends and family can read it?"

I was wishing someone would turn off the lawnmower in the livingroom.

I mean, the carpet was freshly cut, hence--the noisy, gassy mower had

served its purpose, hadn't it?

So, why did someone have to let it just sit there? and idle like that?

with a rope tied around the handle? to keep it running while no one

was attending it? Rather annoying.

He told me, in a vocal register quite in excess of a whimper, that it

was not locked. He gave me the name of the blog, and her real full

name.

So I'm going to check it out later.

I will post a comment at it, no lurking.

"It's a great way to keep tabs on her, what she's experiencing and

thinking", he wailed thunderously, entirely unprovoked. "I've

explained how to be safe online and she mostly just writes about

classes and activities going on at her college. I love it."

Here a blog is used as a tool to gain insight into a loved one's life

who is off to college.

Blogs, the miracle that they are, even bring families together in a

digital monitoring that can be better than letters or photo file

sharing.

A blog by a college student can contain photos with poetry or

explanations of what's going on in the photo. The frequent updating of

blogs means that parents can have very current information on their

children's moods, problems, and adventures.

Now if dad had a blog, his daughter could keep tabs on him, in a

mutual surveillance for reciprocal benefit.

[signed] Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate

:^)

Posted by steven edward streight at 8/01/2005 12:52:00 PM 0 comments

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Blog Blindness: an untreatable disease

Blog Blindness: an untreatable disease

Some people are blinded by strange shimmerings and cannot see blogs.

Symptoms of This Tragic Incurable Ailment

(1.) They ask "What's a blog?" You explain "blog, blogging,

blogosphere" very well. They still don't "get it".

(2.) They hear about blogs from others, they watch television news

reports about blogs with blogger interviews and screenshots. They are

no wiser than they were before. They still wonder what a blog is.

(3.) You show them a blog, maybe even your own blog. They look right

at the blog and cannot see it. It's there, but they're not. They're

somewhere else, in a faraway outmoded land, a brazen frozen

terrasphere, cracked and bleeding ground of being something that's

behind, straggling shamefacedly, stalled and negligent, stuff with

Other Things, eyes burned out of their sockets by rockets of nowhere's

glands.

The Dreaded Cure that's No Cure

The only way to heal the person is to convince them to start their own

blog.

This is dismissed as a totally undesirable solution, since the

formerly Blog Blind person generally turns into a Chronic

Overcompensating Blogging Evangelist, trying to get others to follow

down the slippery slope of hardcore bloggery.

Blog Creation, although it is potent enough to flush out misgivings

and mistakings, will only result, in most cases, with manic pursuit of

addictive:

"template tweaking"

"blogroll rubbing"

"clinking syndrome"

"blooging"

"reciprocal comment posting"

"blog traffic exchange cult involvement"

"blogocombat"

"blogoslang"

"visitor stats frenzy"

and

"blattooing (self-inflicted blog tattoos)".

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don't do consecutive series posts

Do not do a "series of posts" on a specific topic in a sequence. Say

you decide to do a series of posts on "Web 2.0 and Telepresencing".

And you will post 8 different posts on this topic. Don't do those

posts consecutively, one after the other, all 8 in a row, maybe

covering 8 days. Why? Because a lot of your readers will not care

about this specific topic, and, no matter how much they "like" you,

they will be bored by 8 posts in a row on an irrelevant or marginal

interest topic. Additionally, the posts may seem to blend in together

and not be distinct, readers may even think, "Did I read #4 already,

or is it new?" Readers are in a hurry. If you do 8 posts in a row,

with the same graphic identifier, they will blur together. Space them

out. Consecutive series posts are a good way to lose readers and ruin

loyalty.

Posted by steven edward streight at 8/01/2006 11:55:00 PM 0 comments

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big blogocombat at Chartreuse: join the fun!

Some schmuck did a horrible lousy boring inept copycat imitation of

MoBuzzTV video shows, and called it PopCruch. Chartreuse reviewed it:

it sucks. Now people are coming out of the wordwork to bash a chump

named David and a worm called Matt.

Old school blogocombat waged primarily by Loren Feldman of 1938 Media.

Of course, I had to kick the losers, David and Matt, rumored to be

proprietors of deceptive vaporware, con artists and no payers, while

they were down and wallowing in their self-inflicted misery. Seems a

blog was sold and the new owner is not happy with the deal. Can you

say "rip off"?

Chartreuse blogocombat scene.

Posted by steven edward streight at 8/01/2006 11:05:00 PM 0 comments

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Future of the Web = Telepresence

What will be the next big thing after Blogs, Podcasting, and Video

Posts?

I have declared it to be Blog Conferencing, where, via live web cams,

users will interact with you and each other in a live interplay, or

will record audio and video for later consumption. I think the text

post with text commentary is a dinosaur that is being laid to rest.

BEHOLD: personal computers and laptops are already being sold with

mandatory embedded video appliances, that are built right into the

unit, what they're calling "integrated web cameras".

For example, the new Lenovo ThinkPad Z61.

This moving beyond text blogging will be a welcome change for the vast

majority of users, who are not comfortable with their reading and

writing skills. Jakob Nielsen says reading text online is a pain,

especially lengthy dissertations. I agree. Long text is better

consumed by printing it out and reading it away from the computer.

But let's go still farther out, shall we?

Blogs may evolve into virtual worlds where visitors come and interact

with simulations of you, your company, your showroom floor, your

inventory, your services. Second Life is demonstrating strides in this

direction.

Beyond that, what?

You can probably guess it.

Telepresence: projecting a illusory but realistic 3D image, a floating

digital embodiment of your self, into the room of the user. People

don't just interact with your text, photos, audio, or video. They

interact with an electronic simulation of you. Your online surrogate,

your web representative, your cyber-clone.

I quote now PC Magazine, August 8, 2006 issue, page 68:

"...Calit2 in San Diego are using super high definition projectors,

wall size screens, and extreme Internet connections to relay images

and sounds that are barely distinguishable from reality. In the

future, this may enable full 'telepresence', the illusion that another

person is physically present when he or she is actually in another

location."

Physical screens will give way to water vapor and other types of

electro-ethereal screens, planes of near-immateriality upon which to

transfer and embody your illusory body. People will ask not only "what

did you do today?", but also "what did your illusory compu-telepathic

body do today?"

These technologies exist and are being perfected for the consumer

market now.

Just think.

No more writing our boring blog posts, or rambling on needlessly in

podcasts, or hamming it up in front of a camera for videos.

We'll be creating simulated clones who will be programmed to represent

our expertise, talents, tastes, personalities, beliefs, opinions,

criticisms, fears, quirks, and dreams. Then that will be projected out

of a portal hole in the user's computer, and a digital telepresent you

will pop out, materializing before their eyes.

A you they can see and hear, eventually even touch.

A new porn industry will arise, unfortunately, where men will be able

to electronically conjure up a hot babe, that they can either actually

have sex with physically, or at least play coy voyeur-exhibitionistic

games with as they practice self-abuse (archaic term for pleasuring

oneself).

Or you could make your product materialize in an illusory body, and

customers could examine it more closely, in the comfort of their

homes.

Then, from telepresence will flow forth actual teleportation, delivery

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Recent faves from hither, yon.

Dylan doc blog entry (has nothing to do with Dock Boggs):

"I'm not anythingggg! -- I'm just inscrutable and shit!"

Katrina-inspired radio show:

Doug Shulkind paying his respects and dreaming of the masters during

"Give the Drummer Some," on WMFU, September 2d. Shulkind fits in,

inter alia, the whole of the Mayor Ray Nagin/Garland Robinette

interview on WWL-New Orleans (around 2:18 into Shulkind's show), which

segues devastatingly into James Booker's "Make a Better World." Not a

benefit, a beautiful, heart-breaking elegy.

DVD reissue:

On the heels of No Direction Home, the Murray Lerner documentary

Festival, a remarkable (and remarkably compact) chronicle of the

Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1966, is going to see the light of

day on DVD later this month. The Lerner footage provided some of the

performance highlights of the Bob'n'Marty Show. Saw this years ago on

a small big screen, and recall a burning Howlin' Wolf segment and some

phenomenal people-watching. That pre-hippie, post-beat look adopted by

the cool set c. '64 was probably the closest the US came to having its

own mod moment. Festival offers perhaps the only extant evidence that

Joan Baez was once hot. Lerner later captured the 1970 Isle of Wight

festival on film; it's called Message to Love, and features, among

many memorable moments, a stunningly ineffective Joni Mitchell

wig-out. [ via ]

Kiwi rock:

The Bats are back.

Inaccessible rock:

In 1979, the members of Nurse With Wound, Steven Stapleton, John

Fothergill and Heman Pathak, compiled a roll call of their favorite

"outsider" musical artists to include with their first album, Chance

Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella. No

other details were provided, just 300 or so names in block type. The

second version of the list included several newly added names, and

came with the To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl LP in 1980. Stapleton

and co. knew not what they hath wrought; the so-called Nurse With

Wound List has since become a scavenger hunt of holy grails for

fanatical collectors of Krautrock, progressive rock, psychedelic,

post-punk, jazz, free improvised and experimental music.... So begins

'FMU's William Berger's three-part MP3 compilation/public service

announcement...with glockenspiel. Part one. Part two. Part three.

Please excuse me while I bathe myself in the bitter tears of rock

snobs who spent their paper route money and countless stanky hours

trolling record fairs looking for this stuff.

Postage stamp mega-event:

Would we lie?

Educational music blog post:

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mp3 Week in Review

* HFStival: Photos and Quickie Review

* HFStival coverage

* Yeah Yeah Yeahs Go Folk?, Next from Napoleon Dynamite's production

co., At Cannes

* Bright Eyes videos

* Yahoo Unlimited Music, David Lynch's 'Inland Empire', more

* Rolling Stones announce world tour, Life Aquatic on DVD today,

Awful plastic surgery update, Jay-Z can't stay away

* The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe trailer

* Weezer gets panned, former RIAA head laments iPod DRM, more

* Ciara - Oh (video)

* History of sampling (java applet), DJ Spooky on remixing, HFStival

set times, Dave Chappelle's issues

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My HFStival schedule:

* Missed The Bravery

* End of Louis XIV set 7/10

Partial setlist: Finding Out True Love Is Blind

Not bad, for the little bit that I heard.

* They Might Be Giants 6/10

Complete setlist: Why Does The Sun Shine?, Fingertips, Birdhouse

In Your Soul, Boss Of Me, Clap Your Hands, Ana Ng, Alphabet Of

Nations, Particle Man, Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

I think the nerd factor was of great comic value to the group I

was with. It was nice to hear the old classics though.

* Interpol 8/10

Partial setlist: Slow Hands, NARC, Say Hello to the Angels, Evil

(I forget the order, too bad they didn't play C'mere)

Interpol strutted their stuff pretty well. They sound clean and

stoic live, like they do on their albums.

* (lunch)

* Echo and the Bunnymen 0/10

Ian McCulloch lost his voice. Boooo.

* Garbage 9/10

Partial setlist: Stupid Girl, Vow, Bleed Like Me, Paranoid, Push

It, Only Happy When It Rains

Shirley Manson was sultry and incredibly energetic. She really

charged up the crowd with new and old tunes after the EatB

disappointment.

* Sum 41 (regretfully, at my friend's insistence, and briefly) 1/10

* Buzz Tent (Reid Speed, Gray Area) 7/10 and 6/10

Young raver learning the sticks.

My friend flashing the glowsticks.

* (dinner)

* Buzz Tent (DJ Rap, Scott Henry) 6/10 and 8/10

DJ Rap was all right. The MC was frikkin' annoying.

* End of Billy Idol set 8/10

Partial setlist: Rebel Yell, Scream, Flesh For Fantasy, Mony Mony

Oooold school, but he can still rock.

* (rain delay, impromptu slip and slide using large plastic signs)

* Coldplay 10/10

Partial setlist: Yellow, Clocks, In My Place

Chris Martin was charismatic, acknowledging the crowd and praising

the other HFStival acts. He played an inspired, heartfelt set.

* Foo Fighters 10/10

Full setlist: All My Life, Learn to Fly, My Hero, Times Like

These, The Last Song, Stacked Actors (with retro jam session

featuring Grohl on a Les Paul and the guitarist on a Rickebacker,

I think; then, he walked into the crowd, to the chagrin of

security), Monkey Wrench, Everlong (beautiful way to end the

night)

lastfm signs deal with warner music

Last.fm signs deal with Warner Music Group

Congrats to last.fm who just announced its first content agreement

with a major label.

The deal will let Last.fm's rapidly growing community have access to

Warner's amazing roster of artists through their free streaming radio

service and tee up a premium subscription radio service.

Last.fm is growing like crazy, with over 15m monthly active users now

experiencing the joys of discovering new music through the

recommendations of other community members. Making it easy for people

to access major label content will only make the service more valuable

to its users and easier for labels to promote both new and catalogue

product to consumers - so great news for everyone.

This service is particularly close to my heart (and not just because I

am a small investor) as I've been dabbling in the entertainment

recommendations space for over ten years now.

First with Firefly, where we launched the web's first music

recommendation service (later sold to Launch, now Yahoo Music) and

then again with Video Island (now Lovefilm) where we applied similar

principles to movie recommendations to build Europe's largest online

DVD rental service.

There is no doubt that at Firefly we were way too early and the

Internet was too immature a medium for the real power of

recommendations to take off, but in the last ten years both Amazon and

Netflix have done an amazing job popularizing collaborative filtering

and making recommendations a central plank of consumer discovery.

Amazon has elevated the application of datamining to help consumers

decide what products to buy to an art form. Netflix values the

approach so much it's offered a $1m prize to anyone who can improve

their approach to movie discovery.

More often than not the weapons of datamining have been wielded by

companies on behalf of companies - they mined to see how to sell more.

Companies in the future will put these weapons to work for consumers.

Last.fm is at one of the new businesses at the vanguard of taking

discovery to the next level.

One thing which is particularly nice about their approach is the fact

that through their scrobbling software (which attaches to your media

player), they make it so easy for you to contribute to and benefit

from the rest of the community.

We wrestled with the earliest applications of social information

filtering at Firefly and one of the big challenges was always about

how to best motivate explicit (ie. a rating) and weight implicit (ie.

an observed behaviour) data. There is no doubt implicit data

collection is much easier on the user, it takes no time, all you have

to do is agree to be observed and feel comfortable that in return your

information will get great value and your privacy will be protected.

Nic Brisbourne has an interesting post on this subject.

Last.fm works because people trust the service to watch what they are

listening to they get discover new things -- clearly this works

beautifully with music, but there is no doubt with the emergence of

other digitally based services we will see more and more of this

paradigm. My old friend Seth Goldtsein, as usual, is really pushing

the envelope here with his work on Attention Trust and Roots Market.

side note: another cool thing about last.fm is their integration

with Skype. All the communications service (Skype, Google, AIM,

Yahoo! and Messenger) are now opening up to 3rd parties here are

going to be amazing opportunities to build great application on top

of platforms which come with presence, contacts, voice, IM and

video built in. What an amazing platform for new applications to be

built around.

Like with Last.fm, obviously this can work with people's explicit

knowledge with video (think where Joost can go) and it is already

working to some degree without people's knowledge in online

advertising and the current vogue for behavioural targeting.

We are scratching the surface of how we will be able to leverage the

computational power now available to us for the analysis of vast

swathes of comples data to benefit consumers and help them improve

their decisions. One of the best examples of a service helping people

make better decisions through the application of hard core math and

computation is Farecast -- delivering an amazingly valuable view of

airfare information to help people decide when to buy tickets.

Congratulations to Last.fm for showing the tip-of-the-iceberg to 15m

people. I'm looking forward to seeing what's next.

Labels: amazon, collaborative filtering, datamining, farecast,

firefly, joost, last.fm, music, portfolio, recommendations

2005_03_13_archive

mp3 Ubuweb: Sound poetry, art, historical, contemporary audio

Ubuweb is a unique site featuring sound poetry, art, historical, and

contemporary audio that is out-of-print, not readily available, or

prohibitively expensive.

Some examples of precious archived material:

An extensive William S. Burroughs archive

John Cale

e.e. cummmings

Salvador Dali

Jean-Luc Godard

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mp3 Satellite Rides

Jason, lead singer of Satellite Rides asked me to check out his band.

This Canadian power pop / alternative band hails from Halifax, Nova

Scotia. Some of it may sound like familiar alternative, but

contributions from Charles Austin (Superfriendz), Graeme Campbell

(Buck 65), and Andrew Glencross (Buck 65) add an extra dimension. They

have a good start here with their debut EP. It's certainly better than

most alternative on the radio nowadays (my reference point being the

soporific alternative garbage radio available in the DC metro area;

not that I listen to the radio anymore).

Their site

1-minute song samples from their eponymous EP :

Love Is All That Matters

Kill Them With Kindness

What Do I Do

Man For You

The Cure

Ever Be The Same

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mp3 Week in Review

* News: The Hobbit, New Order technology, Spamalot, New AIM TOS,

What's your #?, WWW over power lines

* M.I.A. - Galang (video)

* Tegan and Sara

* The Life Aquatic

* Misc: Archived concerts, Money and hip-hop, Yo La Tengo, P2P

Spyware, Legal P2P in France?, Nintendo WiFi, Apple wins case,

Paul Newman=old, Austinist

* Basement Jaxx - Oh my gosh (Bugz in the attic remix)

* New Star Wars Trailer (not the crappy camcorder version)

* Jadakiss - Checkmate, Kiss Tears 50 Cent a New One

* Unreleased Stereolab

* How music gets stuck in your head, 5 cents per song?, Dan Rather

signs off, LexisNexis hacked, Benicio and Scarlett?

* Gorillaz SXSW Invitation

* Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) music video

* The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th

* Preventing image overflow?

* Morerandom stuff: Durst apologizes to Gawker, Naomi Watts vs. King

Kong's hand, Ja Rule pleads guilty, MiniMozilla, BitTorrent 4.0

* Jimi Hendrix Live in Atlanta (video)

* The Clash vs. Stevie Wonder mash-up

* New Keren Ann

* R.I.P. Martin Denny, State Downloading Crime, Sued for P2P,

Blogging on the Job, Free Napster, Sony Flash

* The Clash music videos!

* Get the new Wilco EP (only if you own 'A Ghost Is Born')

* Jimi Hendrix and B.B. King (live)

* Kasabian

* Misc: The most expensive album never made, Shannon Elizabeth

splitsville, Another hot mash-up

* Musical potpourri: New Coldplay, Common and Laetitia Sadier of

Stereolab, Shins' Postal Service cover, The Rapture - House of

Jealous Lovers video

* News: Controversial UN landmine ad, Beck in NYTM, Yahoo vs.

iTunes, AllofMP3.com, Nick Carter arrested, Oasis, Weezer, Sufjan

Stevens LPs,indie mix

* Drum and Bass Archive

* News: Niche entertainment markets, Blogging limits, R.I.P. Tommy

Vance, Schwarzenegger gets tough on roids, Finger aggression,

Triumph on 50 Cent

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your #?, WWW over power lines

* The Hobbit movie is three years away

* New Order uses Bluetooth posters to wire music to users

This is a novel idea that very well could be the wave of the

future in advertising. Special digital posters beam song clips,

ringtones, and photos to fans' cellphones at HMV's in London and

Manchester.

* Spamalot

Define irony: Those who registered at the website for Monty

Python's Spamalot, a Broadway musical, received a lot of spam when

their information was pilfered by spammers.

* New TOS for AIM includes 'No Privacy' clause

"...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its

parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees

the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display,

perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium.

You waive any right to privacy." Thanks to Slashdot for alerting

2006_07_23_archive

Ja Rule Heading To Africa For Performances, Launches Poker Site

Posted at 7/23/2006 01:52:00 PM

U.S. rapper Ja Rule is heading to Africa to headline a concert in

Nairobi, Kenya next week.

The Inc.'s star artist will perform at the Carnivore grounds on Friday

(July 28) as part of the Celtel Kenya Win a Porsche World Cup

promotion.

The rapper will hand over the keys to a Porsche to one winner of the

contest, which started last month.

Celtel, which started mobile phone operations in Africa in 1998, has

networks across 15 African countries and covers more than a third of

the population of Africa.

According to reports, Ja Rule, along with Ashanti will travel to the

African nation of Tanzania, which borders Kenya the following Saturday

(July 30), for a show in nation's capital of Dar es Salam with radio

station Clouds FM.

In May, Ja Rule launched a new business venture, starsonpoker.com, a

new online gaming/card tournament website as a member of the Action

Poker Network.

Players can play such games as Chinese Poker, Texas Hold'em, 7 Card

Stud and other card games for cash prizes.

-article courtesy of AllHipHop.Com

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Jurassic 5 Take Shots At President Bush In New Video

Posted at 7/23/2006 01:45:00 PM

Jurassic 5 take shots at several US Government figures in the video

for their new single "Work It Out."

The satirical video follows a humorous depiction of President George

W. Bush as he jogs through downtown Los Angeles while listening to J5

on his iPod, taunting the unemployed, raising gas prices and

exercising with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State

Condoleezza Rice along the way.

"The traditional rap video just wasn't doing it for us. We wanted to

hit people with something interesting, something relevant to the

world. The video, as a political commentary, does just that, " J5's

Chali 2na told SOHH.com exclusively.

"Work It Out" is the group's first single off their fourth album

Feedback. The video is scheduled to hit music television stations

around the world this week.

Jurassic 5's most recent album Feedback will be released next Tuesday,

July 25th. The "Work It Out" single also features the Dave Matthews

Band. J5 DJ/Producer Nu-mark handled most of the production for

Feeback, while Scott Storch, Salaam Remi, Exile and Bean One also

contributed tracks for the album. Mos Def also makes a guest

appearance on the LP.

-article courtesy of SOHH.Com

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Oaklander starts Black Biker Magazine

Posted at 7/23/2006 01:36:00 PM

Na'il Karim washes and waxes his two Harley-Davidson motorcyles every

other weekend.

He likes his White Wall tires perfectly white, and his footpegs and

pipes must sparkle. The V-Twin engine should bling like a big piece of

iced out jewelry, he said.

"Owning a Harley-Davidson mortorcycle is about giving it your own

signature and personality," said Karim, 59. "When you ride around,

people should see your bike and know it's you before you get there."

Karim has taken his passion for Harley-Davidson motorcycles to print

by creating The Black Biker Magazine. As founder of the new

Oakland-based publication, Karim's goal is to capture the flavor of

the black biker community. Full-color pages filled with photos,

interviews and stories focusing on African-American bikers from around

the country are part of the glossy magazine.

The publication is subscription-based and published quarterly.

"Our culture penetrates the atmosphere and you can feel it," Karim

said. "It's warm, inviting and the camaraderie is invigorating."

In recent years, Harley-Davidson motorcycles have become increasingly

popular among black bikers who have embraced this American icon as

their own.

Tricked out motorcycles with custom paint designs, chrome rims and

vibrant colors represent some of the ways African-American bikers are

creating a unique trend, culture and style.

According to motorcycle aficionados, Alameda County has more than 100

black motorcycle clubs. Many of the clubs promote freedom of

expression for members and provide a sense of community.

"Riding with club members in a pack down the highway is euphoric,"

said Karim, a member of the Nubian Brothers Motorcycle Club. "... And

riding on the open road and sitting on top of an iron horse gives you

a wonderfulfeeling."

In the late 1960s during the black revolution, African-American biker

clubs began to form in Oakland. The East Bay Dragons was the Bay

Area's first all-black Harley-Davidson motorcycle club. It set the

trend for the black biker set.

Although some motorcycle clubs are perceived as having gang ties, many

are known for their good works in the community, such as organizing

rallies, dances and other charity functions.

Karim has been riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles for years. His

interest in the black biker culture and his close-knit friendships

with other African-American bikers inspired him to start his magazine.

He invested $25,000 of his own money to get the project off the ground

and launched the premiere issue of the magazine in June.

He said his niche publication will help to add an African-American

perspective, which is sometimes overlooked in mainstream motorcycle

magazines.

These days, the hip-hop generation or younger people in their 20s are

fueling the recent boom in black biker culture. Women also are

becoming more interested in motorcycles. As a result, these motorcycle

buyers are spending thousands of dollars to accessorize their bikes

and themselves with matching gear, such as helmets, jump suits and

boots.

"It's fun and it's become attainable for a lot of folks," said Dominic

Angelo, a salesman at Bob Dron Motorcycles, a Harley-Davidson

dealership in Oakland. "It's like taking a Cadillac off the showroom

floor and putting custom wheels and paint on it."

Angelo said on average a Harley-Davidson motorcycle costs $20 to

$25,000. To customize a bike can cost another $5,000 and $10,000, he

added.

Harley-Davidson acknowledges the black buying power and has made a

push to market to the African-American community.

Earlier this year, Harley-Davidson began sponsoring the nationally

syndicated program of African-American radio show host Tom Joyner.

Harley-Davidson also is sponsoring the 29th Annual Bikers Roundup in

Fort Pierce, Fla.

The largest African-American biker event in the country, the Roundup,

is expected to draw more than 40,000 this year.

On a warm summer day at his home in East Oakland, Karim proudly

displays his two Harley-Davidson motorcycles parked in his driveway.

His chromed out handle bars and rims glisten in the sun.

"I'm 'old school,'" he said.

He likes to bump music from the Temptations or Smoky Robinson while

riding his 2001 Harley-Davidson Road Glide motorcycle in his 'hood.

Karim's road name on his license plate is Shayk, which comes from his

Muslim culture. The custom paint designs on his motorcycle of Islam

temples in Mecca, Medea and Jerusalem represent his faith, he said.

"Some people think it's odd for a Muslim to be a biker," he said. "But

my spirit is my spirit."

In August, Karim plans to retire from his job at FedEx and continue to

promote the distinct voice of his magazine. Currently, the

publication's circulation is about 5,000 and growing. It is

distributed in Oakland and a few places in New York, Texas and

Wisconsin.

"African-American culture brings a certain attitude and mystique to

biking," Karim said. "People don't realize how big the subculture

really is."

For more information about the magazine visit,

http://www.theblackbikermagazine.com

Staff writer Kamika Dunlap can be reached at kdunlap@angnewspapers.com

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The Black Eyed Peas Ring Tones Offered on New Site

Posted at 7/23/2006 01:30:00 PM

Ring tones for the popular hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas have been

made available on a new site, which can be found at

http://www.Black-Eyed-Peas-Ringtones.com. The clean and simple

resource includes a short biography of The Black Eyed Peas, a profile

picture, and an organized listing of the free ring tones. The ring

tones are categorized under the album that the tracks were released

on. Black-Eyed-Peas-Ringtones.com offers an informational resource for

their ring tones that come at no cost to the user.

The ring tone team at Black-Eyed-Peas-Ringtones.com has presented

users with a thorough biography and listing of songs as a result of

comprehensive research. Users will find a listing of The Black Eyed

Peas songs that is not limited to just their hit singles that reached

the charts, but includes all tracks from each of their albums.

Users who visit the site will also have the chance to read up on more

information on the artist. The concise biography will present facts

and stories about The Black Eyed Peas that may not be known to most

people. The bio will cover anything from their birthplace, birth date,

and hometown to their early, current, and future projects.

In order to get the free ring tone a user just has to find the song

they want as their ring tone and click on the button next to the

track. The clean layout of the site allows users to quickly find which

ring tone they want and easily download it directly to their mobile

cell phone.

Black-Eyed-Peas-Ringtones.com was created by its founders to

conveniently and quickly provide cell phone users with The Black Eyed

Peas ring tones at no charge. The site is currently up and running

with all features functional. For more information please contact via

email.

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