After a week break for some good times and some sun in Israel, another Monday is upon us.
Today’s main feature isJosé González, a Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter of Argentine descent.
The song ‘Heartbeats’, from his first album, Veneer, is a cover of a song by fellow Swede duo The Knife.
The special for today is Readiohead‘s latest video clip, ‘House of Cards’ [from the album In Rainbows], which was done without lights or cameras, but with the use of a 3d scanner. Released last week, this is a unique collaboration between programmers and musicians, and with Google Code as the Host.
“The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this,” [Gene, aka Chaim] Simmons said, according to AOL News. “They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we’ll record new material.”
Since iTunes 7 went to the public, mashed up with Cover Flow, I’ve been obsessed with finding the covers to most of my albums. It actually started to annoy me when I didn’t have the covers.
The biggest problems is the collection of mashup tracks that I’ve got. I don’t know how I got them but some of them are really good (Radiohead with Sneaker Pimps for example). And for the most of them, I don’t know who created them.
So I decided to group them all together and create a logo and album cover to clarify that these are mashups.
The logo was inspired by iTunes symbols for Shuffle and Repeat.
During the design process, I had the vain idea that it will become the international recognised symbol for mashups. Yes, Recognised all over the world for what it is.
So in order to help me achieve it, and organize your library – you can download, use and share it if you like. Oh, and mash as well. [Download files: album, gif or eps]
“The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this,” [Gene, aka Chaim] Simmons said, according to AOL News. “They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we’ll record new material.”
