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"The music industry in Germany has secured a legal victory over the hugely popular file-hosting service, Rapidshare. According to the rights holders, Rapidshare is going to have to stop its users from downloading infringing music tracks from its servers, or face the prospect of being shut down," according to a report published at Mashable today. "For its part, Rapidshare has always insisted that it cannot be held responsible for these actions, such as when users upload copyright works (in this case, music) to their servers for subsequent downloading by others." Read More

Nice! aint no choosin no time for snoozin

Emilíana Torrini is an Icelandic singer, best known for her worldwide debut album, Love in the Time of Science.

Anonymous - Round III

This is the opening to a skateboarding movie called "Flared', which is directed by Ty Evans, Spike Jonze and Cory Weincheque. The music is 'Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun' by M83, from the album 'Before The Dawn Heals Us."

Meet the Reverend

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Reuters reports that Led Zeppelin's world tour has been delayed until at least September. . Jimmy Page told reporters in Japan, "I can assure you the amount of work that we put into the O2 (concert), for ourselves rehearsing and the staging of it, was probably what you put into a world tour. Robert Plant also had a parallel project running and he's really busy with that project, certainly until September, so I can't give you any news." Read More

Here's a short clip of the band playing at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967:

I actually queried AskMetafilter and got some great recommendations for books on 'breaking into the music industry'. Highly recommended was "All You Need To Know About The Music Business" by Donald Passman. Read More Suggestions Here

Pitchfork reports that along with R.E.M.'s April 1st release of their new album, "Accelerate", tour plans have been put in place, with The National and Modest Mouse joining the tour and opening for the band. Count me in! R.E.M. / Modest Mouse / The National: 05-23 Vancouver, British Columbia - Deer Lake Park 05-29 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl 05-31 Berkeley, CA - The Greek Theatre 06-03 Denver, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheatre 06-06 Chicago, IL - United Center 06-08 Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre 06-10 Raleigh, North Carolina - Walnut Creek Amphitheatre 06-11 Washington, DC - Merriweather Post Pavilion 06-13 Boston, MA - Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts 06-14 Long Island, NY - Jones Beach Theater 06-18 Philadelphia, PA - Mann Center for the Performing Arts 06-19 New York, NY - TBA 06-21 Atlanta, GA - Lakewood Amphitheatre R.E.M.: 03-08 Big Cypress, FL - Big Cypress Indian Reservation (Langerado Festival) 03-12 Austin, TX - Stubb's Bar-B-Q (SXSW) The National: 02-22 Brooklyn, NY - BAM Opera House ! 02-23 Brooklyn, NY - BAM Opera House ! 03-09 Big Cypress, FL - Big Cypress Indian Reservation (Langerado Festival) 04-25 Indio, CA - Empire Polo Field (Coachella) 05-14 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia Theatre 05-15 Dublin, Ireland - Olympia Theatre 05-16-18 Minehead, England - Butlins Holiday Centre (Explosions in the Sky ATP) Read More

The fine folks over at PinkFloydz.com have made the screenplay for the Pink Floyd movie, "The Wall', available for free online. Written by Roger Waters, the free download includes illustrations by Gerald Scarfe. You can find it HERE. Enjoy.

Depends how its used. If its just used for sampling, its one thing. If it's blatantly stolen, and the guy is making money off your work, you have a legal case.

Where are the brakes in that thing?

I accidentally ran across this app... It is unbelievable fast.

They hang out anonymously in IRC channels. "According to Jose Nazario, security engineer with the company Arbor Networks, the denial-of-service attacks on Scientology.org flooded the site with 220M bps of traffic. Nazario described this amount of traffic as a mid-range attack. The attacks each lasted an average of thirty minutes and used 168M bps of bandwidth. Arbor Networks has recorded data on attacks to other sites in the last year which were 200 times this amount. Nazario stated that there were 448 denial-of-service events on January 19, 2008, prior to the Church of Scientology's move to Prolexic Technologies. These attacks averaged 15,000 packets per second. Nazario described this as "common, garden-variety DDoS attacks." Speaking with SCMagazineUS.com, a security strategist for Top Layer Networks, Ken Pappas, told SCMagazineUS.com that he thought that botnets were involved in the "Anonymous" operation: "There are circles out there where you could take ownership of the bot machines that are already owned and launch a simultaneous attack against [something] like the church from 50,000 PCs, all at the same time"." - Wikipedia

So far, the response from the Church of Scientology has been subdued: "Karin Pouw, public affairs director for the Church of Scientology, focused on the leak of a Tom Cruise video on YouTube earlier in the week," according to CNet. As the Church previously announced, the pirated and edited excerpts of Mr. Cruise were contained in an official Church event in 2004, an event attended by 5,000 Scientologists and their guests and further available for viewing in any Church of Scientology world over. Having presented these selective and out-of-context excerpts with the intent of creating both controversy and ridicule, nevertheless resulted in people searching for and visiting Church of Scientology Web sites as evidenced by "most searched for" lists of various search engines. Those wishing to find out the Church of Scientology's views and to gain context of the video have the right to search official Church Web sites if they so desire."

I asked about the 'Blue', as in sane states, not 'Red', dummy

Nice! What is the name of that black and blue bird?

19 HEATWAVE - ALWAYS AND FOREVER "Heatwave" was an international Rhythm and blues/Funk band featuring Americans Johnnie Wilder, Jr. and Keith Wilder (vocals) of Dayton, Ohio, Englishman Rod Temperton (keyboards), Spaniard Mario Mantese (bass), Czechoslovakian Ernest "Bilbo" Berger (drums), Jamaican Eric Johns (guitar) and Briton Roy Carter (guitar). They were best known for their hits "Boogie Nights" and "Always and Forever", which appeared on their 1977 debut album, Too Hot To Handle). "Always and Forever" reached #18 U.S. Hot 100 and #2 R&B in 1978. Always and Forever Lyrics You can find it at Amazon.

18 JAMES BROWN - COLD SWEAT "Cold Sweat" is a song performed by James Brown and written by his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis. Brown recorded it in May 1967. An edited version of "Cold Sweat" was released as a two-part single on King Records was a #1 R&B hit. A complete version of the song, over 7 minutes long, was included on the album Cold Sweat. Cold Sweat" was recognized as a radical departure from conventional songwriting at the time of its release; it is sometimes cited as the first true funk song. Cold Sweat Lyrics Get it at Amazon.

17 BILLY STEWART - I DO LOVE YOU Billy Stewart was an American musical artist, with a highly distinctive scat-singing style. Stewart hit both the pop and R&B charts in 1965 with “I Do Love You." During the late 1970's and early 1980's, in the West Coast, his music became popular among Chicano, youth. In 2005 weeks after Hurricane Katrina, rare recordings of Billy Stewart's music could be heard around the French Quarters of New Orleans. Stewart was inducted into the Washington Area Music Association Hall of Fame in 1982. I Do Love You Lyrics His music is available at Amazon.

16 OTIS REDDING - SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY "Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay" was written with the help of producer and guitarist Steve Cropper. Shortly thereafter, Redding died in a tragic plane crash. The song was released in January 1968 and the song shot to number one on the R&B charts in early 1968. By early summer of that year, "Dock of the Bay" topped the pop charts and brought Redding the greatest success of his career. The song went on to win two Grammy Awards: Best R&B Song (for songwriting) and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance (for vocals). (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay Lyrics You can find it at Amazon.

15 ETTA JAMES - AT LAST "At Last" is a 1941 song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren and first performed by Glenn Miller. Although the song was a major hit for Miller, it was largely forgotten until it was covered by blues singer Etta James. The son was released in April 1961, it became her second number-two R&B hit and crossed over to pop radio, reaching number forty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100. James was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 for her rendition of the song. http://www.last.fm/music/Etta+James/_/At+Last Live with Count Basie At Last Lyrics You can find it at Amazon.