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Back in the 70’s Ace Frehley posters could be found on the walls of budding guitar players worldwide. Fast-forward to 2009 and much of today’s youth probably A) does not know much about Frehley or B) doesn’t care (it has been 20 years since his last full-length solo album!!!).
Well Ace, The Metal Show cares and is rooting for you to put out one of the best albums of your career. OK, so that might be a tough thing to do, but at least something that is not too cliche and cheesy in today’s world.
Frehley did say he was looking towards his first solo album outside of Kiss (1978’s Ace Frehley) for inspiration. If he can write a song that even comes close to Snow Blind I will be satisfied.
For those of you who don’t follow the lives of Kiss members as extensively as your host Randy, Frehley’s new album is titled Anomaly and is supposedly coming out this Spring. He designed a new promotional site and the album cover which you can check out below.
Both give off a little bit of a cheesy old-school rocker feel, but at the same time the album cover has grown on me and is a simple retro 90’s looking Web site really that terrible?
Here’s to Frehley releasing an album that is fun, energetic and rockin’ in 2009, even if he isn’t trashed out of his mind.
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DJs and VJs: unlock your true AV potential.
Watch videos about this product on DJsounds.comDesigned for use with our DVJ-1000 DVD/CD decks, the SVM-1000 gives you comprehensive control by synchronising both audio and video elements of your performance.
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DJs and VJs have worked together to deliver immersive AV experiences for decades, and of course it is natural that the two art forms are so closely interlinked.
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For many artists this mixer will be the missing link they have been waiting for. DJs and VJs around the world now have the potential to explore new avenues of creativity! ????????? / Replicant (2001) DVDRip
Big Trance Archive:
http://ligamusic.com/Genre/69/Trance/1/
http://soundsity.com/69-Genre-Trance-mp3-download-1.html
Original Article:
http://www.pioneerprodj.eu/eur/products/44/74/461/SVM-1000/index.html
Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda put together a punchy, synth-laden remix of Metric’s "Gold Guns Girls" that easily matches the energy we know from his work with Linkin Park. Shinado produced this atmospheric revamp as a soundtrack to his art show, Glorious Excess (Dies), now showing at Los Angeles’ Japanese American National Museum until October 4.
The exhibit is Shinoda’s collection of paintings and digital works that explore society’s obsession with celebrity culture, consumer addiction, and fascination with excess. (Below a video with more info about his exhibit.)
Shinoda writes on his blog, "I mentioned the band Metric a long time ago…and some of you know I like their music. Their album ‘Fantasies’ contains a song called ‘Gold Guns Girls.’ When I first heard it, I thought: this is like a theme song for Glorious Excess! Well, I contacted the band, and (to make a long story short) I remixed the song."
When Radiohead keyboardist / guitarist Jonny Greenwood shrugs off the issue of audio fidelity, indie musicians should take note. Given that Radiohead is perhaps one of the biggest proponents of alternative music monetization, it’s ironic that Greenwood is discrediting one of the industry’s key price differentiators. Musicians with tracks on iTunes, Amazon and DIY stores like Bandcamp have often chosen to price MP3s at lower rates while higher quality recordings have fetched more per track. In a recent article with The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones, Greenwood admits there is little reason for the MP3 generation to look for a higher quality experience.
Said Greenwood, "We had a few complaints that the MP3s of our last record weren’t encoded at a high enough rate. Some even suggested we should have used FLACs, but if you even know what one of those is, and have strong opinions on them, you’re already lost to the world of high fidelity and have probably spent far too much money on your speaker-stands."
radiohead_mp3s_aug09b.jpgGreenwood’s biggest complaint about MP3s was not quality or sound compression, but rather abundance. He suggests that MP3s make it far too easy for fans to hoard music without "giving it their full attention". In a recent Pitchfork article Eric Harvey suggests the opposite. Says Harvey, "The mp3 may have atomized music into millions of little pieces, but each piece, it seems, found a publicist. The average music fan now has the built-in capacity to double as promoter and distributor in an ever-expanding arena that’s making and eliminating rules every minute."
Whether you see them as hoarders or promoters, one thing is certain, the iPod generation is changing how music is consumed. But if they can’t depend on tiered pricing for audio quality, how can companies monetize the new music fan? While a Stanford study suggests that the iPod generation prefers the flat sound of an MP3, it doesn’t mean today’s listeners aren’t willing to pay for their music. According to an NPD Group report purchasers of digital music downloads increased by 29% last year with iTunes controlling a quarter of all music sold. Some of the ways fans still generate revenue for bands include streaming music subscriptions, track and album purchases, concerts tickets, merchandise and paid application downloads.
Update, Ed: there can be a big difference in audio quality of MP3s promoted on the Web. For example the quality varied greatly between Radiohead’s In Rainbows album and Saul Williams’ album (promoted by Trent Reznor). See Kim Gaskins’ post on the new Latitude Research blog Life Connected for further analysis.
Radiohead Big Mp3 collection
Well in the running for Coolest Gadget Ever, Sony’s new W-series NWZ-W202 Wearable Walkman is a stereo headset and MP3 player all in one.
NWZ-W202 Wearable Walkman
Platform(s): Audio
Publisher: Sony
U.S. Price: $69.99
That is to say, it’s a hands-free, cord-free, pocket-free, and belt-clip-free personal audio player worn like a pair of Bluetooth headsets (like one might use singularly with a mobile phone), tethered with a firm but bendy cord around the back.
Charged and connected to a PC by way of a free-standing USB docking cradle, the NWZ-W202 is easy to load up, accommodating all popular/competitive music file formats.
With the unit’s rechargeable battery housed in the left ear piece, a simple jog dial and a couple of volume up/down buttons (plus a "shuffle" on/off button) are available on the right.
And that’s it, that’s all there is to it. Push the dial in and it plays; whip the dial forward or back for next/previous tune; press and hold for "Zappin" mode which delivers short successive sound bites of each tune (supposedly the chorus, but in reality it’s hit & miss) until you hit play again to play the one you like (why you would uploads songs you don’t like is a mystery).
Tested and verified, every other passerby will give you a queer look when you wear this thing in public, because the NWZ-W202 makes you look like a total nerd (or a person with a bad Bluetooth fetish). But that’s okay, "borg chic" is in.
Mp3 site – Where you Can Download Mp3s For your Mp3s Players

For those Creative faithful who were a bit disappointed that the Zii Egg wasn’t launched as a fully baked-and-branded media player for the masses, the company is about to make it up to you. This morning, Creative unveiled the Zen X-Fi2, a second-generation device that adds a touch screen and TV-out capability to the already solid X-Fi foundation. The new player features a 3-inch, touch-sensitive, TFT LCD capable of displaying up to 262,000 colors, and by the looks of it, this new Zen carries over the excellent icon-based menu found on other players in the line.
At 4 inches long by 2.2 inches wide by 0.4 inch deep, the Zen X-Fi2 is quite a bit longer than the previous-generation model and more inline with the size of the iPod Touch, though it’s still smaller overall. It also appears to offer some sort of home button, but we’re happy to see that Creative elected to orient this player in landscape mode, making it standout from the touch-screen masses. In addition to the updated navigational method, the Zen X-Fi2 features direct TV-out capability, though you will need to purchase a cable accessory to take advantage of it.
Credit: Creative
Other than that, the features largely carry over from the Zen X-Fi. Creative continues to offer support for multiple audio (MP3, secure WMA, Audible, AAC, and FLAC) and video (WMV9, MPEG4-SP, DivX4/5, and XviD) formats as well as JPEG and BMP photos. There’s an external speaker for sharing the tunes, a built-in mic for making voice recordings, and an onboard FM radio with autoscan and 32 presets. The X-Fi2 also has basic PIM functionality for syncing calendar and contact information, and you can wake to your own music via the alarm clock feature. Naturally, the player still includes the fully adjustable X-Fi sound enhancement features, and there’s now a microSD card expansion slot for adding more memory (though no word on whether the content will be integrated into your main library).

(Credit: Creative)
The Creative Zen X-Fi2 will also come preloaded with a variety of content, which is something that hasn’t been a standard offering in the past. You will get nine eMusic tracks as well as an audiobook (James Patterson’s "Maximum Ride") valued at $19.99. What is not mentioned is whether the device will offer any wireless features for updating content on the go or even accessing a basic Web browser. (And it’s doubtful that this player would offer Bluetooth…or Mac-compatibility, for that matter.)
The good news is you won’t have to wait long to take advantage of Creative’s first touch-screen MP3 player. The Zen X-Fi2 is set to be released at the end of September in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB models for $129.99, $179.99, and $229.99 respectively.
El-Creepo! is the debut solo record from singer songwriter Todd Edward Smith. Over the past decade Smith has been the voice and chief songwriter for Dog fashion Disco, The Alter Boys and current band Polkadot Cadaver.
El-Creepo finds Smith taking a stylistic detour from his past efforts into more acoustic based mellow and sometimes hauntingly meditative musical passages. El-Creepo! is best experienced on mind altering substances while sitting in a dark room. Smith sings of all things sadistic morbid disturbing and unsettling (what’s new?)!
If you’re looking for a record to drive around in your Iroc-1 with the t-tops off this is not the one!
Looking for This Album ? go Here http://ligamusic.com
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Revered for his work fronting the influential group Pedro The Lion, Curse Your Branches is David Bazan’s first full-length release under his own name. It’s a flat-out masterwork by a modern American poet at the height of his powers (Paste Magazine called him a Dostoevsky for our all-at-once world and one of the 100 Best Living Songwriters alongside indie-rock stalwarts like Iron and Wine’s Sam Beam, Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle, and Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, and
legends like Nick Cave, Merle Haggard, Sly Stone, Dolly Parton, Kris
Kristofferson, and John Prine and that’s not even listing any of their Top 20).
Pedro the Lion got started playing to the Christian rock scene, but the narrative arc of Bazan’s albums has increasingly traced his crisis of faith and his questioning of the Evangelical world in which he was raised; while retaining the vast majority of his original audience, the strength and subtlety of his work also has built a large secular audience and garnered him mainstream critical acclaim.
Curse Your Branches is the deepest and most overtly autobiographical exploration of his theological struggles and resulting battle with alcohol to date, and a meditation on all things passed between the generations belief, doubt, love, addiction that showcases his incredible arrangements and melodic sense,
and, of course, the trademark dark humor, incisive lyrical economy, and light touch in dealing with heavy themes that has drawn comparisons to no lesser talents than Prine, Randy Newman, and Leonard Cohen.
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With an album title inspired by the Franz Kafka classic ”The Metamorphosis,” Otto’s new album follows suit, mingling rhythms, textures, words and emotions on an album rich in orchestrations and new sonic creations.
”This album is more independent and more mature. It comes from a concrete change that happened inside me. This album is a tale I found in my soul,” says Otto.
Backed by a stellar band, including co-producer Pupillo on drums, Dengue on bass and Catatau on guitar, Otto seamlessly blends an intoxicating mix of tropicalia, samba, folk, rock, reggae and pop, all layered with rich story lines of deep emotions and reflections. ”It’s like it is my first album,” says Otto.
The album also features special guest vocalists, Grammy winner Julieta Venegas and CéU.
The CD digipak includes a 12-panel insert with photographs of an art installation created for this album by Tunga, a world renowned conceptual artist.
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