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pOne wonders sometimes, with all the other stuff they've always got going on, if the members of a
href="http://www.sonicyouth.com/"strongSonic Youth/strong/a ever have to remind themselves that
they're in Sonic Youth. Like, can you picture Thurston, jamming out with a
href="/article/record_review/145413-original-silence-the-second-original-silence"strongOriginal
Silence/strong/a, thinking, "Oh, crap, a
href="/article/news/145351-sonic-youth-link-with-matador-for-next-album"strongwe just signed to
Matador/strong/a! I better call Lee and get my lanky behind to the studio!" Or Kim's a
href="/article/record_review/50830-free-kitten-inherit"stronghanging out with Yoshimi and Julie
Cafritz/strong/a and realizes she's gotta write a bassline for that pesky other band of hers?
There's been a wealth of happenings with the members of Sonic Youth lately, though precious little
of it has to do with Sonic Youth proper./p pBut more about those side gigs in a minute.../p
pFirstly, the four Yoofs managed to get together in the same room recently to collaborate
withnbsp;Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and composer Takehisa Kosugi on a brand new piece of
music. The piece will soundtrack a new work by the a href="http://www.merce.org/"strongMerce
Cunningham Dance Company/strong/a that will debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in mid-April, in
celebration of choreographer Merce Cunningham's 90th birthday. The a
href="http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=703"strongMerce Cunningham at 90/strong/a piece will be
performed on April 16-19. (You might remember the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as being the
people who a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/11/03/031103crda_dancing "strongbrought
Radiohead and Sigur Roacute;s together/strong/a back in 2003.) br /br /So, yeah. Sonic Youth + Led
Zeppelin + dancers = MASSIVE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM EXPLOSION!!!/p pAlso, that traveling,
career-spanning a href="/article/news/48683-sonic-youth-plan-career-spanning-art-exhibit"strongart
exhibit/strong/a, a href="http://www.sonicyouth.com/main/includes/sensationalpop.html"strong"Sonic
Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix"/strong/a is on display until January 4 in Bolzano, Italy. It'll move
to the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, Germany from January 31-April 26, Konsthall in Malmo, Sweden May
29-September 6, and Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporaneo in Navarra/Nafarroa, Spain from October
2009 through January 2010.br /br /Other than that, and presumably working on their Matador debut,
Sonic Youth as a unit has been pretty quiet recently. Individually, though, they have a hell of a
lot going on.br /br /Thurston Moore's a href="http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/"strongEcstatic
Peace/strong/a label recently offered up an LP from a trio comprised of saxophonist Paul Flaherty,
Vampire Belt guitarist (and Thurston's partner in Northampton Wools) Bill Nace, and Thurston
himself. The three-track set, emFlaherty/Nace/Moore/em, was crafted last winter, and sports three
very amusingly-titled tracks: "Sex", "Drugs" and "Lavender". Northampton Wools promise their debut
LP from the label shortly, and Ecstatic Peace will also issue an album by Hat City Initiative, a
group featuring Thurston and his brother Gene Moore, as well as a forthcoming collaboration between
Thurston and noise god Prurient. Thurston also just issued an ultra-limited edition cassette to a
href="http://www.destructiveindustries.net/"strongDestructive Industries/strong/a which they call
his "most encompassing and introverted work to date". We'd tell you more about it, except it is
sold the hell out. Moore also recently a
href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/spike-jones-where-the-wild-things-are-1/"stronginterviewed
director Spike Jonze/strong/a for emInterview /emmagazine, and introduced a screening of David
Bowie videos at NYC's Museum of Modern Art earlier this week.br /br /Moving on, Sonic Youth drummer
Steve Shelley pops up on Spanish singer a href="http://www.christinarosenvinge.com/"strongChristina
Rosenvinge/strong/a's recent album emTu Labio Superior/em, which was recorded and mixed by a
href="/article/record_review/36646-rather-ripped"strongemRather Ripped/em/strong/a producer John
Agnello at Sonic Youth's studio in Hoboken, NJ. Rosenvinge will hit the road in Spain with Shelley,
Chris Brokaw, and Jeremy Wilms early next year./p pSY guitarist Lee Ranaldo and photographer Leah
Singer (his wife) have an art exhibit entitled "Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated" hanging at
the Teaching Gallery at Troy, New York's Hudson Valley Community College through December 6. They
also have two art shows scheduled for February 2009: ILoveYouIHateYou" at Magasin3 in Stockholm and
"Between You amp; Me" at CNEAI (Centre national de l'estampe et de l'art imprim) in Paris. Ranaldo
is also producing a series of three 12" singles by the French band a
href="http://www.hifiklub.com/"strongHIFIKLUB/strong/a, set to be released in 2009. And he shows up
in the new documentary film a
href="http://www.flickerflicker.com/flash/index.html"strongemFLicKeR/em/strong/a, about artist
Brion Gysin's "dream machine."/p pa
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Japanese college student Takena makes splatterpunk claymation movies with death metal soundtracks.
The above collection of clips from his work is to promote an upcoming claymation event. For more,
may I suggest his masterpiece, Chainsaw Maid, which Mark posted about before. Takena's YouTube
Channel (via Ask Earache) Previously on BB: · Claymation zombie film...br style="clear:
both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=d409bf1a405e458257cc2cbd9cc0ef86p=1"img alt=""
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pIt's the holidays, and a href="http://www.colbertnation.com/"strongStephen Colbert/strong/a is
taking a
href="/article/news/40227-colbert-cheats-to-victory-over-decemberists"stronganother/strong/a
musician to task. To support the release of a
href="/article/news/147488-stephen-colbert-is-putting-out-a-christmas-album-too"strongemA Colbert
Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!/em/strong/a, the soundtrack to his a
href="/article/news/145651-feist-elvis-costello-do-christmas-with-stephen-colbert"strongChristmas
special of the same name/strong/a, Colbert has launched "Operation Humble Kanye": a mission to
topple "sunglasses display mannequin" a href="http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/"strongKanye
West/strong/a's a href="/article/record_review/147813-kanye-west-808s-and-heartbreak"strongem808s
and Heartbreak/em/strong/a from its (former, last we checked) #1 spot on iTunes' "Top Albums"
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flashvars="autoPlay=false" bgcolor="#000000"/embed /object /div pThen, last night, Kanye responded
with a a href="http://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1035306836"strongTwitter update/strong/a./p pimg
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Our pal Christopher Campbell has put together a pretty cool top ten list over at Spout Blog. Inspired by
the frenzy surrounding Paramore, who has been fortunate enough to land two songs on the Twilight
soundtrack, he's put together a list of one hit wonders made by the movies. As memorable (and
impossible to eradicate from easy listening stations) as Lookin' For Love, King of Wishful
Thinking, and Stay (I Missed You) are, they're really just that one song from that one movie -- you
know the one ... yeah, that movie! (By the way, the above three are from Urban Cowboy, Pretty
Woman, and Reality Bites, respectively.)
The best thing about these lists is the debate they inspire. I disagree that Chris Isaak's Wicked
Game fits the mold, as I think it's associated less with Wild at Heart than with a sandy and sexy
Helena Christensen. In coming up with nominations of our own, Scott Weinberg and I immediately
disagreed on whether Peter Cetera and Glory of Love from Karate Kid II qualified, or if Cetera
being in Chicago was an automatic pass. (I say no, Scott says yes.) But we did manage to nominate
Better Than Ezra's Circle of Friends from Empire Records, Gerard McMann's Cry Little Sister from
The Lost Boys, and Chris DeBurgh's Lady in Red from Working Girl. Campbell, with his vast
knowledge, could veto all three. What about you, readers? Give us some of your nominations, debate
the popularity of Chris Isaak, or at least help us decide whether Glory of Love qualifies.
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//div pNot so longnbsp;ago, I was given a preview of a href="http://www.resetgeneration.com/"Reset
Generation/a, an "action-puzzle" game that draws elements from the old-school arcade titles. There
are numerous details that gamers would get, like the hedgehog, plumber, space invader and so on.
Even the 8-bit soundtrack will remind you of the old good days. /p pThe game opposes two (human or
bot) players, but the twist is that you can network-play from a PC or a Phone (PC vs. phone, phone
vs. phone, I'm not sure for PC vs. PC). the PC version of the game is free, while the handheld
version costs about 10 Euros. If you wonder, Mac OS X and Linux versions are on the way./p pThe
game has been designed for one-handed operation andnbsp;Nokia assures me that this is the most
played N-Gage gavenbsp;ever. As with any networked game, this is much more fun when playing against
a buddy than a computer. You try it in the widget in the full post. Drop a comment to tell us what
you think./p pPermalink: a
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It’s that
time of year – the “best of” 2008 lists. Previously the realm of
TV specials, web services now routinely put out their own lists, providing a glimpse into the
trends of the past year.
Over the past 24 hours, both iTunes and Last.fm have put out lists of the most
popular music on their respective services, based on the number of downloads and listens.
Here’s a side-by-side look at how the two compare:
Top Track
iTunes
1. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
2. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
3. Flo Rida - Low
4. Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
5. Rihanna - Disturbia
6. Lil Wayne - Lollipop
7. Jordin Sparks - No Air
8. Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful of Sunshine
9. Sarah Bareilles - Love Song
10. Rihanna - Don’t Stop the Music
Last.fm
1. Coldplay – “Viva La Vida”
2. Coldplay – Violet Hill
3. MGMT – Time To Pretend
4. MGMT – Electric Feel
5. Coldplay – Life In Technicolour
6. Coldplay – Cemeteries of London
7. Katy Perry – I Kissed A Girl
8. Coldplay – 42
9. Coldplay – Strawberry Swing
10. MGMT – Kids
Top Album
iTunes
1. Coldplay - Viva la Vida
2. Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static
3. Juno (Soundtrack)
4. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
5. Sara Bareilles - Little Voice
6. Once (Soundtrack)
7. Jason Mraz - We Sing. We Dance. We Steal.
8. OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud
9. Across the Universe (Soundtrack)
10. Leona Lewis - Spirit
Last.fm
1. Coldplay – Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
2. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
3. Portishead – Third
4. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV
5. The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
6. The Kooks – Konk
7. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
8. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
9. Jack Johnson – Sleep Through The Static
10. Sigur Rós – Með suð í eyrum
við spilum endalaust
Best New Artist
iTunes
1. Santogold
2. Lady Antebellum
3. Flo Rida
4. Hercules and Love Affair
5. Katy Perry
6. Glasvegas
7. The Cool Kids
8. Jazmine Sullivan
9. Esperanza Spalding
10. The Parlor Mob
Last.fm
1. MGMT
2. The Ting Tings
3. Sara Bareilles
4. Fleet Foxes
5. Katy Perry
6. The Last Shadow Puppets
7. Foals
8. Bon Iver
9. Does It Offend You, Yeah?
10. Santogold
Not surprisingly, the iTunes list is much more reflective of the pop charts, while Last.fm
– a music discovery service – has some lesser known artists
in its rankings. Interesting to note is the absence of hip-hop on the Last.fm list, and the lack
of Country on both end-of-year charts. Coldplay, however, appears to be universally popular.
---
Related Articles at Mashable | All That's New on the Web:
pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgYouTube.jpg"YouTube is announcing today that video
publishers will now have more than 25,000 new songs to choose between for their video soundtracks.
The songs are provided by independent music licensing firm a
href="http://www.musiclicensingstore.com"Rumblefish/a and are available using a
href="http://www.youtube.com/audioswap_main"YouTube's AudioSwap feature/a./p pRumblefish is a
Portland, Oregon based company that provides music for film makers, marketing firms and others. Is
it just a lot of elevator music? Searching through the company's own online catalog, a
href="http://www.musiclicensingstore.com"MusicLicensingStore.com/a, our first impression was
relatively positive. You can even search for well-known band names and get suggestions for similar
sounding unknown groups. /p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a
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//a/p h2How It Works/h2 pAudioSwap was launched as an experimental feature a
href="http://mashable.com/2007/02/23/youtube-audioswap/"in February of 2007/a, with a fairly
limited selection of songs separated by genre. If YouTube gives AudioSwap more prominent placement
on the site, we suspect this could be a very big hit. The feature replaces the entire audio track
of a video with the selected tune, an approach that will admittedly suit some people better than
others./p pWe hope that YouTube will add a search function similar to the one on the Rumblefish
site; the project would get a lot more traction if users could search for big names in music and
get recommendations of similar bands they haven't heard of before./p pMusic licensing is an active
if complicated market online, with major labels doing deals over the past year with both YouTube
and MySpace. Video publishers interested in getting off the beaten path of mainstream music
emand/em doing so legally at no cost to themselves could find the newly expanded AudioSwap of great
interest./p pFollowing on the heals of YouTube's a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_global_symphony_carnegie_hall.php"Global
Symphony project/a, the Rumblefish announcement is another example of how much room for innovation
still exists in online video./p stronga
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_adds_25k_new_songs.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong
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Deal offers YouTube community access to fully licensed, indie-based music for use as soundtrack
material in videos via free AudioSwap music tool (PRWeb Dec 3, 2008)
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Only Apple Garage Band + iMovie. Nothing more! James Newton Howard - Harry Gregson Williams -
Hans Zimmer - Klaus Badelt - Brian Tyler - John Williams - Jerry Goldsmith - Trevor Rabin - John
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Category: Entertainment
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Price: $1.99
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Showglobe is the ultimate 3D snow globe. Get lost in the woods while you watch the snow fall in
your hidden cabin. Explore the scene with a touch of your finger. Swipe left and right to rotate
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Features: - True 3D snowglobe model. - Shake Mode gives you that 'real' snowglobe feel with
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Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced the special features for three of their upcoming films,
including 'Saw V', 'Repo! The Genetic Opera', and 'W.'. The first two films are due to hit store
shelves on January 20th, while 'W.' will come out a few weeks later on February 10th. Technical
specs have still yet to be announced, but you can expect to see a combination of AVC video and a
DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack....brbra href="http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2130"Read full
article at Blu-ray.com/a
This is the soundtrack to the Berlin concert film, recorded over four days in 2006 with
Antony, Rob Wassermann and many other guests. Originally released in 1973, Lou Reed's
Berlin had the unfortunate timing to be following up the massive arena rock hit
Transformer and disappeared quietly before being rediscovered by critics. This was the
first time Reed performed the album live in it's entirety and adds "Sweet Jane" and "Candy Says" as
encores. Not only is the recording quality crisp and raw, but Reed sounds amazing. -
mark
Category: Music
Released: Nov 01, 2008
Price: Free
Description:
Have you ever wanted to see a list of iTunes Top Songs or Albums while on the go, but couldn't
because you weren't connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot? Now you can with Tunerator! Tunerator is an
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YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google Inc.,
announced an online classical-music contest whose winners will gather at New York’s
Carnegie Hall and perform a specially written orchestral work. Musicians have until Jan. 28 to
video themselves each playing their instrument’s segment in the five-minute piece by Tan
Dun, composer of music for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the soundtrack to Ang Lee’s
2000 movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” The project’s partners include the
London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony
and artistic director of the New World Symphony.
“There are a phenomenal number of communities out there in the classical space already on
YouTube,” Ed Sanders, product marketing manager for YouTube, told a London press conference
via satellite from New York yesterday. He said he hoped the project would help bring together
these scattered musicians. As an example, a violinist may go to the YouTube Symphony Orchestra
Web page, pick “violin” from the drop-down menu, download the sheet music, and get
online tips from an LSO violinist on how to play it. Then the musician plays the violin part on
camera and posts the video. Winners will be flown to New York in April for a three-day
“summit” led by Tilson Thomas, and will perform Tan Dun’s work at Carnegie Hall
on April 15. Their original video clips will be merged into a YouTube symphony posted on the
site.
Last week, I dropped by the PlayStation.Blog to find out what you wanted to know about Ubisoft’s new release, Prince of Persia. And to my excitement,
there were well over a hundred questions about the first Prince of Persia game on the PS3. I took
the time to answer some of the most interesting questions regarding everything from combat to the
game’s new art style. Thanks for your support, and don’t forget that Prince of Persia
is available today! Charliesdad asked: Wondering how you addressed the
balance issues from earlier entries in the series. For example, Sands of Time was amazing, but
going back to it recently the combat wore thin after a while (especially in the first big group
fight) to be followed by long stretches of almost no combat. Does the new game fall on one side or
the other or is there a middle ground that you all shot for and hit? And Demo tomorrow?
Maybe?
First, one of our main goals in combat was to make every fight grandiose and meaningful, to
make every encounter feel more epic. Thus, we decided to make the new combat system a duel mode
in which every enemy has special attributes, a unique personality, cool moves, and his strengths
and weaknesses. Having one enemy to fight at one time gave us much more possibility to push this
encounter to the limit. Every enemy is as strong as the Prince and will seize his chance to use
the environment, his corrupted abilities to counter every mistake the player makes. Every enemy
has a background and their own personal objectives that will help push the story forward. Also,
there are multiple combat moves and these will take some time to figure them all out and access
the most spectacular combos. Using your glove, Elika, your sword and acrobatics, players will be
able to combine those to create some breathtaking moves. This new combat system is not meant to
be button mashed, but instead requires timing, strategy and the right combo depending on the
situation. Also, many quick real-time mini-games where the player has a little fraction of time
to react will keep the tension high. The battle system uses some dramatic camera shots that make
every fight feel even more epic. Battles will take place usually before saving a fertile ground
and pushing away the Corruption. There are different challenges before healing a fertile ground,
one might be an acrobatic challenge, a puzzle, a fight and a lot of them are mixes of them
all.
Sorry, there are no demo plans at this time.
KingBroly asked: What’s the framerate like on the PS3 version? I’ve heard
this game employs the same engine as Assassin’s Creed, and the framerate on the PS3 version
of that…not so good.
Fluidity of control and animation quality are hallmarks of Prince Of Persia games. We would
never ship a POP title unless we were confident the player could fully appreciate the movement of
the Prince in acrobatics and combat and – simply put
– framerate hiccups get in the way of that. They break the </p> We
have some of the most talented PS3 engineers at Ubisoft working for us on POP (and Ubisoft has
now made quite a few PS3 titles) and I can assure you the performance on the PS3 is the same as
the 360 – a solid 30fps throughout the game.
narde15 asked: are their any trophies?
POP does indeed ship with trophies from day one.
FeaturePreacher asked: Will the prince be able to
use different weapons besides the sword that is seen in gameplay videos?
AND
Will the prince be able to level up his combat abilities? I hope the prince has a long list of
combat combinations. Does he?
We want the player to feel like the Prince is an adventurer with a lot of experience already
– he is an acrobatic warrior who has already been through and seen a
lot. As such it made sense to us that he start out this adventure with all his abiliti
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It’s that
time of year – the “best of” 2008 lists. Previously the realm of
TV specials, web services now routinely put out their own lists, providing a glimpse into the
trends of the past year.
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YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google Inc.,
announced an online classical-music contest whose winners will gather at New York’s
Carnegie Hall and perform a specially written orchestral work. Musicians have until Jan. 28 to
video themselves each playing their instrument’s segment in the five-minute piece by Tan
Dun, composer of music for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the soundtrack to Ang Lee’s
2000 movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.” The project’s partners include the
London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony
and artistic director of the New World Symphony.
