As his final project for a graphic design course, James Houston grouped together “a collection of old redundant hardware” to perform a remix of the stripper-tested, stripper-approved song “Nude” by Radiohead! The results are both visually and aurally inspired! James may have missed the online remix contest deadline, but he still gets Hypeful’s vote!
MP3:
Radiohead - “Nude” (Big Ideas (don’t get any) Remix)
Radiohead - “Nude”
VIDEO:
Big Ideas (don’t get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
If you happen to have an extra £250,000 lying around (that’s $486,802 to us Yanks), you may want to consider buying the 1965 Fender Stratocaster guitar that Jimi Hendrix famously set fire to at the London Astoria on March 31, 1967. That’s the price tag that is expected to be raised from the guitar, which had been kept in storage for the past 40 years and is set to be auctioned this summer. (It would also make a lovely gift for Hypeful…just sayin’…)
MP3:
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - “Jimi Thing (Live at Luther College)”
The best part of waking up, can now be Midlake in your cup! Eric Pulido, Midlake guitarist, has launched his own brand of coffee. Cappulido Coffee (not Roscoe Roast?) features six different blends of
fair traded coffee, which gives aid directly back to farmers in developing countries and lends them the financial support necessary to continue developing an excellent product and compete in the world market. Check out the Cappulido Coffee site for more info and to score a good feeling of giving something back with your next caffeine buzz.
MP3:
Midlake - “Roscoe”
Can you believe it’s been almost five months since the last episode of The Office? Thankfully, the series returned last night with plenty of hilarity, brutally awkward moments, and - oh, yes! - a soundtrack of cringe-inducing coffee-shop tunes courtesy of Jan’s former assistant Hunter! Last night’s ep (”Dinner Party”) revealed that Hunter’s band (The Hunted) released a CD featuring a song (”That One Night”) that seems to imply cougar Jan took her assistant’s virginity. Another fun fact: the music for “That One Night” was written by Todd Fancy of The New Pornographers!
If you’re interested in winning an exclusive copy of “The Hunted” CD (that you could share with Hypeful, of course!), Dunder Mifflin Infinity has released a forty-five second clip of the song and are asking fans to create a music video! If you want Jan’s Serenity Candles, however, you’re going to have to pay to smell Merlot Morning…
Take note fans of electro-pop and indie foot fetishists! Hotly-tipped French dance band The Shoes have been taking pictures of their famous friends’ shoes, and are giving an autographed polaroid of a different star’s feet away free with each copy of their new 7″ single “Knock Out”. There are some 300 unique polaroids in all to collect and trade with your friends, featuring such artists as Band of Horses, Bloc Party, the Cribs, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, MGMT, and “Barry-Gwen Stefani’s maintenance man.” (Don’t be surprised to see Barry at SXSW next year…) I wonder if polaroid-enthusiast Jason Schwartzman/Coconut Records makes an appearance…
Financial Times reports that Apple is currently in discussions with the big music companies to allow customers unlimited access to the entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices (presumably for the life of the device). This “all you can eat listen” plan recalls Universal’s Total Music plan with Nokia, in which the cost of music is embedded into the music player itself. Negotiations have allegedly stalled due to disagreements in pricing - Apple wants to keep the charge as low as $20, while the labels presumably want something closer to the $80 Nokia deal. Other possibilities may include a subscription based service for iPhone users ($7-8/month, for example) with the capability to keep up to 40-50 tracks/year even after the subscription lapses.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the world’s first MP3 player - the MPMan F10 (pictured above). The tragically named MPMan F10 was a landmark invention that laid the groundwork for modern gadgetry (and serves as an excellent reminder of just how super-sexy and amazing today’s iPods are…). Manufactured by Korea’s Saehan Information Systems, the device was launched in March of 1998 at CeBIT, and went on sale in the Summer for $250. The player featured 32MB of flash memory (which could be upgraded to 64MB via mail-in scheme), connected to PCs via parallel port, and had a miniscule LCD for playback info.
Two iPhones and a Ninendo DS comprise the instruments in the world’s first iPhone band calling themselves (what else?) - iBand. The band is hoping to replace the DS with an iPhone through fan donations, but the results of their first jam session are pretty ace with the DS as a rhythm instrument. If you’re inspired to put together your own pocket band, iBand’s first jam session used the DS game Electroplankton and the iPhone applications iAno and Pocket Guitar.
VIDEO:
Known for dropping videos loaded with eye candy, Missy Elliott’s new video “Ching-A-Ling” is being released in 3-D and is almost certain to be a visual blast. In a YouTube era of seeing most new music videos in pixels, it’s exciting to see Missy joining artists like Arcade Fire and MGMT in presenting their videos in creative new ways. After the jump, check out the locations/times to find out where you can pick up your 3D glasses before the video’s premiere on February 4th.
(Further good news for lovers of the third dimension - Pixar announced today that the first two Toy Story movies are to be remade in 3D ahead of the release of Toy Story 3 in June 2010!)
On December 10, EMI/Parlophone are releasing a limited edition box set of Radiohead’s first 7 albums in three interesting formats - a CD box set, digital download, and 4GB USB stick. The download contains 320 kbps DRM-free MP3s and the USB stick contains cd-quality WAV files.
While the set (particularly that USB stick) looks tasty, a reader over at Boing Boing has suggested that EMI is putting out the reissues without the band’s participation and as retribution for their unconventional In Rainbows release. The tipster says:
“I think people need to know that the band isn’t some greed machine. I can tell you with 100% certainty that EMI is putting out all those reissues without the band’s participation, blessing, permission or involvement at all. They are doing it as retribution for the band’s decision not to go with them in releasing the new album. Despite their contract being expired, EMI had been counting on the revenue from the forthcoming album. When the band put out the digital version of the album themselves, EMI threatened them with re-releasing their entire catalog on the same day the discbox of IN RAINBOWS was being sent out, Dec 10, unless the band gave EMI the standard physical release of the album. Of course the band/managers told EMI to piss off and were appalled that at such an important point in the band’s career that their former partners would do this to them.”
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