Part canny marketing idea and part musical goodwill (surprising considering Liam Gallagher is involved), last September Oasis decided to preview four songs from their then upcoming album ‘Dig Out Your Soul’.
Production
14
Jan 09
Oasis: Taking It To The Streets
18
Nov 08
Big Day Out 2009: Side Shows Announced
All the 2009 Big Day Out Side Shows Have Been Announced: 
TV ON THE RADIO
SYDNEY – Saturday 24 January – THE METRO (plus WOLF & CUB)
MELBOURNE – Thursday 29 January – THE HI FI BAR (plus WOLF & CUB)
SERJ TANKIAN AND THE FANTOMAS
BRISBANE – Wednesday 21 January – THE TIVOLI
SYDNEY – SATURDAY 24 January – THE ENMORE THEATRE
MELBOURNE – Sunday 25 January – THE PALACE
DROPKICK MURPHYS
SYDNEY – Sunday 25 January – THE METRO (plus THE CORPS)
MELBOURNE – Wednesday 28 January – BILLBOARD (plus BULLDOG SPIRIT)
THE PRODIGY
BRISBANE – Tuesday 20 January – RIVERSTAGE (previously announced)
SYDNEY – Saturday 24 January – HORDERN PAVILION (previously announced)
MELBOURNE – Thursday 29 January – PALACE
13
Nov 08
Metallica: Lars Ulrich – “..to get it sound loud”
A colleague at worked passed this over – “Lars Ulrich Defends Sound Quality Of Metallica’s Death Magnetic“. Sure, everyone can have a whinge about the quality of an album’s sound – that’s not new – but what astounded me was the shear lack of audio knowledge that Ulrich has. It was this next line that got me:
“But I’ve been listening to it the last couple of days in my car, and it sounds … smokin’.”
8
Oct 08
The Best of 2008 Hip-Hop Vocoder (Key-Specific Auto-Tune)
As we near the end of of 2008, it’s been very clear that the use of key-specific autotune or the Vocoder effect has been a huge hit, and at the forefront of it all has been T-Pain. Whether you like him or not, I think the following comments are fair: Continue reading →
22
Sep 08
My band’s first gig
First of all a big thanks to Jye for inviting me to contribute to The Music Blogs and it’s been awesome to see how popular the blog has been since being formally launched only a few weeks ago.
7
Sep 08
Zoom H2 handheld audio recording
I had been keen on getting a Zoom H4 when the Zoom H2 was announced last year. The feature list, size and price was too good to pass on so I pre-ordered one from the USA and got it months before it landed here on shelves in Australia. Continue reading →
16
Jul 08
last.fm on iPhone 3G and iPod Touch
Even though I’m still actually waiting for my iPhone 3G to arrive, one application (of many to come, I’m sure) has me very excited – Mashable! recently uncovered that Last.fm is now available for download (pictures included).
22
Mar 07
Found My Zen
My review of Creative Zen Vision:M
The boy who dies with the most toys, wins. After using an Ipod standard (20gb) for 18mnths I decided it was time to upgrade. After browsing many different review sites not only did I find that CNET.com.au was the easiest to navigate, but it also gave the most objective opinion over various levels of technical depths. So if you want the nuts and bolts or just an outline of the features – it covers as much or as little as you want.
In the end I chose the Creative Zen Vision:M. Even now as I’m writing this, I’m looking forward to jumping on the bus for an episode of Family Guy in very sharp detail (the 2.5-inch LCD has a resolution of 320×240 pixels and displays a fucking 256,000 colours, compared to only 65,000 colours on the video iPod), and perhaps not looking forward to the breath of some young punk who decides he needs to LOL – that’s right, I said it – while peering over my shoulder.
4
Mar 09
Tony Allen – Master Drummer
Continue reading →