Links for 7.10.08: 80s cover songs, swastikas online, the ad-supported future…
*Analysis: Silicon Alley Insider’s take on ad-supported music’s chances. (Not great.)
*Music: You can now get exclusive music tracks (legally) from Limewire.
*Festivals: There are a lot of hydration-and-sunscreen guides to rock-and-roll festivals out there. Obviously, the one you want to go with is from the Wall Street Journal.
*Song lyrics: The London Telegraph tried to track down the worst song lyrics ever. The misheard lyrics for Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter” aren’t very good either.
*Inexplicable things: I don’t pretend to understand it, and I do not even know how to create one, but a weird swastika symbol dominated the Google Trends feed there for a couple of hours.
*Covers: Buffet Libre collects covers of 80s songs. I bet most of them are hilariously outmoded! [pop candy]
*Video: What are the 10 most embarrassing music moments caught on tape? Includes Britney at the VMAs. But no sign of the baby dangling incident! [absolute punk]
*Localish: Gothamist interviews The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn. “Yeah, people point out blogs that report me being in a bar really wasted when I wasn’t drinking.”
*Hello: Please feel free to tell me that this blog sucks in the comments.
Love the blog! Rob T introduced me to it. Great stuff!
Raj
July 10, 2008 at 9:02 pm
This blog sucks in the comments! LOL
startlingmoniker
July 10, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I have to admit that that last little part was sort of a playful poke and an intentionally obscure commentary on comments – to an audience of half-dozens. Ugh.
Yes, this is an echo chamber. Amber. Mber. Ber. Er. R. .
Josh Kimball
July 11, 2008 at 6:59 am
Josh, your blog sucks…at not sucking!
(Like I said to you before, this is why I didn’t include comments on Switchbladecomb.com)
Kanye glasses!
Mojo Marshall
July 11, 2008 at 10:47 pm