ITUNES’ DIGITAL 45S DEBUTS
Yesterday New Music Tuesdays (Mardi Melodies in iTunes France) debuted a new salvo of sound in the form of Digital 45s. Those flippy black disks are back, digitized, heavily featuring tracks from the 1980s and earlier when you could actually find 45s in stores with relative ease. I may be young
La Blogothèque Showing at Centre Pompidou
On Thursday, the 12th, in the Cinema in Centre Pompidou in Paris, the co-creator and many people involved in La Blogothèque‘s incredible concert series, “Take-Away Shows” or Concerts à Emporter, held a showing of some selected clips. This was held as part of the Cinésong 
TOPS OF 2008/LA FIN DE L’ANNÉE
Top EPs/Mixtapes:8: 10 Deep x DJ Benzi “The New Deal”7: The Hood Internet – The Mixtape Volume Three6: Metermaids – Nightlife in Illinoise5: Late of the Pier – The Bears are Coming EP4: Past Lives – Strange Symmetry EP
ON THE HORIZON: TRANSATLANTIC URBAN POP ARTIST, ZAHO
So in the last Qui? I wrote of a London-based folk group turning heads (and Saturn Vues). This time around, something a slightly different from every genre I’ve previously written about. It happened in Ninkasi Ampère in Lyon last year, over their artisanal beer and f
IPHONE + ITUNES + MOBILEME
Apple‘s new service, MobileMe, debuted recently. While many features are compelling to different users, especially used in conjunction with an iPhone 3G or iPod Touch, one feature request just sprang to mind. Personally I’m hesitant to purchase an iPhone until it matches or s
LAST.FM’S FRESH REDESIGN
Alas, I’ve lost my black Last.fm homepage and have to deal with an impersonal red…but the improvements galore make up for the lack of color choice. Last.fm, on Thursday, unveiled to the public its redesign. Since I joined in 2005 and haven’t seen anything major like this, it was a very we
Noah & The Whale’s Latest Single
If you could hire Wes Anderson to produce a film and soundtrack to document yourself during those summers you reminisce over first loves and breaking into cold storage facilities, Noah And The Whale has beat you to the punch with indie pop’s contender for best song of the summer. Fe
Now & Then: The Anniversary and Dri
Years ago I opted out of doing the 1h20m drive into Chicago to catch a Kansas band, The Anniversary, a missed opportunity to this day. Signed to Vagrant Records since 1999, prior to Vagrant’s burst of activity-which continues to this day, The Anniversary blended indie pop and early
Now & Then: Past Lives and The Blood Brothers
Earlier this week I had to justify why Gogol Bordello put on the best show I had ever seen out of the roughly 200 bands I’ve seen in my time. It’s easy to top The Faint (who’s orchestrated better than the New York Philharmonic), but I had trouble justifying how they could b