This Is The Last…

… at Coachella this weekend. He did it in a uniquely Prince kind of way. What do you think?

It looks like every single video that was on You Tube has now been taken down. Sorry.

On Saturday night I was sitting at home watching TV with my husband, when I realized that Porthishead was playing Coachella at that very moment. We were able to watch the live stream through AT&T Blue Room which was amazingly beautiful and frustrating. Portishead has not performed in the U.S. in over a decade, and they gave the performance of a lifetime. I am kicking myself for not being there.

Listen for yourself here.

Here are a few clips of their Pre-Coachella rehearsal in LA at the Mayan theater.

Wandering Star

More videos here, here, here, and here.

Their new album Third is available in stores today.

(Links via Stereogum and Brooklynvegan)

We were experiencing techinical difficulties over the last 2 days. I think we have it all worked out now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I’ve been sick, but I’m starting to feel better.

Today I came across this dress on Slashfood. I think its so cute. I could actually be talked into wearing this in public, its kinda hot. No?

The MP3 player is ten years old this month. The first commercially released personal music player capable of handling MP3 files was the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea’s Saehan Information Systems and launched in March 1998.

The F10 contained 32MB of Flash storage, enough for a handful of songs encoded at 128Kb/s. It measured 91 x 70 x 165.5mm. It connected to an old-style parallel port on the host PC from which songs could be copied to the player. There was a tiny LCD on the front to give an indication as to what you were listening to.

The device made its debut at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. It was a prototype, but Saehan must have garnered enough interest to put the player into mass production, which it did in May 1998 before going on sale in the US and Europe through importers in the summer.

In the US, local supplier Eiger Labs wanted $250 for the F10, though the price fell to $200 the following year prompted by the release of the Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300, which was priced at $200.

The PMP300 - widely but wrongly held to be the world’s first commercial MP3 player - also had 32MB of storage fed through a parallel port. But it boasted a larger display than the F10 and also featured a Smart Media slot to allow users to increase the gadget’s storage capacity.

In the interim, MPMan had continued developing and offering MP3 players, but Apple’s move to allow Windows PC owners to use the iPod, from April 2003, resulted in explosive growth. MPMan, Rio and other pioneers couldn’t keep up.

via The Reg

Hi Guys…. Another Aussie Gold post… (we are running out of good aussie music to post…..!! kidding kidding)

Stevie Wright made it pretty big back in the late 60s… I was talking with my mum the other day, and she said that he had so much charisma when he was young… All the girls loved him… Check him out

Friday on my Mind - The Easybeats

Did u see that head tilt….. Who would have thought…. And those jackets….. almost as bad as the Australia cricket team’s….

Good Times - The Easybeats

How good is that??? seriously…..

There was a tribute concert thing to Stevie Wright, where some bands got together to sing Evie pt1,2,3….. Ill post it up later on….. Its the bomb…

Jukebox is the eighth album to be released by Cat Power. It is scheduled to be released next Tuesday on Matador Records. Except for “Song To Bobby”, the album is comprised entirely of cover songs. According to Matador Records, there will be a limited-edition silver foil deluxe package containing a bonus disc with five extra songs.

Her cover of “Sea of Love” was so damn beautiful, I can’t wait to hear her Patsy Cline cover.
Sea of Love.mp3

Here’s the track listing:

1. “Theme from New York, New York” (John Kander, Fred Ebb)
* Popularized by Liza Minnelli in 1977 and Frank Sinatra in 1980
2. “Ramblin’ (Wo)man” (Hank Williams)
* Originally released by Williams in 1953 and 1976
3. “Metal Heart” (Chan Marshall)
* Previous version appears on Cat Power’s 1998 album Moon Pix
4. “Silver Stallion” (Lee Clayton)
* First appears on Clayton’s 1978 album Border Affair; later popularized by The Highwaymen in 1990
5. “Aretha, Sing One for Me” (J Harris, Eugene William)
* Originally released by George Jackson in 1972[1]
6. “Lost Someone” (James Brown, Bobby Byrd, Lloyd Stallworth)
* Originally released by James Brown & the Famous Flames in 1961
7. “Lord, Help the Poor and Needy” (Traditional)
* Recorded by Jessie Mae Hemphill in either 1979 or the early 1980s, released on her 2004 album, Get Right Blues
8. “I Believe in You” (Bob Dylan)
* Originally released on Dylan’s 1979 album Slow Train Coming
9. “Song to Bobby” (Marshall)
* The sole original recording on the album
10. “Don’t Explain” (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday)
* Originally released by Billie Holiday
11. “A Woman Left Lonely” (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn)
* Originally released by Janis Joplin on her (posthumous) 1971 album, Pearl
12. “Blue” (Joni Mitchell)
* Originally released by Mitchell on her 1971 album Blue

[edit] Limited Edition Bonus Disc

1. “I Feel” (Dwayne Carter, Christopher Dorsey, Terius Gray, Byron Thomas, Tab Virgil, Jr.)
* Originally released by Hot Boys on their 1999 album Guerrilla Warfare
2. “Naked, If I Want To” (Jerry Miller)
* Originally released by Moby Grape on their 1967 self-titled debut
* Previous version by Cat Power appears on 2000’s The Covers Record
3. “Breathless” (Nick Cave)
* Originally released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on their 2004 album Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
4. “Angelitos Negros” (Andres Eloy Blanco, Manuel Alvarez Maciste)
* Originally released by Roberta Flack on her 1969 album First Take
5. “She’s Got You” (Hank Cochran)
* Originally released by Patsy Cline on her 1962 album Sentimentally Yours

Enjoy…. Its very very good…

The Blogotheque crew recorded St. Vincent performing “Marry Me” at the Hot Freaks! party in Austin a few months back. This is a great recording.

(Via Gorilla vs Bear)

Beijing (China) - China is known for creating pirated versions of DVDs and even video games, but now it is also the home of a cheap version of an entire gaming console.

James Wong takes the credit for inventing the strikingly similar-looking Wii clone. In addition to making the console look very realistic, Wong has created a “Vii” remote that also mimics its Wii counterpart.
In addition, the Vii comes with “Vii Sports” as well as Vii channels similar to the ones offered on the Wii. It also comes with a knock-off of Cooking Mama, and another bowling game.

The Chinese rip-off first showed up earlier this year but has gained more attention as the holiday season approaches, and Nintendo still faces production problems with the Wii.

The Vii is currently being sold at an online Chinese retailer for 986 yuan ($125).

From Toms