Perfect Röyksopp. Well Röyksopp. Personally I'm not a fan and that's putting it mildly. My friend Arnaud once described their music very well as "one endless ringtone" and I think I have to agree with that description. However, just because I don't like it, doesn't mean I can force other people have to hate it as well (but I can try!). Victor Romijn created a 2 hour (that's a really long ringtone) summary of Röyksopp highlights you can listen to by dowloading here and spotifying here.
Battles have a new video / single. It features a certain Matias Aguayo and it's taken from their forthcoming album called Gloss Drop and I for one love it!
I never heard of this "United Breaks Guitars" song till last Saturday when my buddy Niels Alzen informed me about it. What we have here is a classic example of how internet-power-to-the-people can not only help build a brand, but can also help destroy it.
The story... Country singer Dave Carroll goes on tour in the U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!, flies a United Airlines flight between two places and sees how his $3500 710 Taylor is being thrown around like a bag of potatoes. The guitar ends up broken and when United airlines refuses to pay up, Dave has his revenge the only way he knows how, by writing a youtube sensation called "United Breaks Guitars" that's currently been played over 10.000.000 (10 million) times.
For those who read and understand Dutch. My column with a top 10 of commercials featuring Snoop Dogg just went online over at Hip-Hop magazine State. For those not familiar with the official language spoken here in the Nether-regions, just watch the youtube clips... right here.
The website seattlebandmap.com states: "The Seattle Band Map is a project that showcases the northwest's vibrant music scene by documenting the thousands of bands who have performed throughout the decades; it also explores how these bands are interconnected through personal relationships and collaborations." Pretty cool, but maybe a little redundant since we already have bandtoband.com, nonetheless, either website is a great place to ruin parts of your day.
Perfect Röyksopp. Well Röyksopp. Personally I'm not a fan and that's putting it mildly. My friend Arnaud once described their music very well as "one endless ringtone" and I think I have to agree with that description. 
I never heard of this "United Breaks Guitars" song till last Saturday when my buddy Niels Alzen informed me about it. What we have here is a classic example of how internet-power-to-the-people can not only help build a brand, but can also help destroy it. 
For those who read and understand Dutch. My column with a top 10 of commercials featuring Snoop Dogg just went online over at Hip-Hop magazine State. For those not familiar with the official language spoken here in the Nether-regions, just watch the youtube clips... right here.
The website seattlebandmap.com states: "The Seattle Band Map is a project that showcases the northwest's vibrant music scene by documenting the thousands of bands who have performed throughout the decades; it also explores how these bands are interconnected through personal relationships and collaborations." Pretty cool, but maybe a little redundant since we already have bandtoband.com, nonetheless, either website is a great place to ruin parts of your day.
