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How Your Dad’s Music Influences Your Taste

I wish my dad listened to Iron Maiden, but he didn’t. However, at the end, I’m glad I found ACDC, Kiss and Black Sabbath to grow up with. Happy Father’s Day, Dad! (RIP). Infographic via Sonos’ blog.

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2010 Music Website Heat Map

Green indicates positive growth while Red indicates negative growth in 2010. Via Virtual Music.

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The Recording Industry and Online Piracy by the numbers (infographic)

Warning! This post contain very large (but very cool) image. This image was found via Via Oddee & via @Ryanve

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Hey, Have a Look at My Song Page!

I just tweaked the song page in this blog as I now use Soundcloud to host the songs. The thing i like about Soundcloud is their pretty widget, and by far has a fairly useful free account. Their widget is customizable, and its waveform graphic is so cool! The widgets are embeddable too, so if [...]

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David Byrne: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve (TED Talk)

As his career grew, David Byrne, the Talking Heads founder went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation. The idea is to explain how musicians are constantly challenged to produce music [...]

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My Mix Tape on WADEZIG!

Well, sort of. No tapes involved so i don’t know what to call this. Anyway, @iing from Wadezig asked me to make a mixtape (again, sort of) for Wadezig’s website (Monday Mix). I know Wadezig from my times in Bandung several years ago, and i think they have done a good job running apparel business. Wadezig is [...]

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Metal Monk

Brother Cesare Bonizzi, is the lead singer in a heavy metal band which has just released its second album. The Capuchin monk (yes, a Monk!) also known as Frate Cesare and Fratello Metallo (“Brother Metal”) – which is also the name of his band, attended Metallica concert some 15 years ago, and began his his [...]

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Cool Dude Chased by Girls, Who’s The Coolest?

There are many cool dude with girls scene but these ‘cool dude chased by girls’ scene is my favorite. There’s no better way (it’s in rockstar’s skill package i suppose) to show off rockstar status to public broadcasts, i mean hoping that you can show off how you can shoot a long drug line is [...]

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Nostalgic Album for Lemonheads Fans

Image from Wikipedia I’m a big fan of Evan Dando’s Lemonheads. I play hardcore metal in my music days, but i’m also a big fan of acoustic guitar. Everytime i need songs to play on my acoustic guitar, Lemonheads songs were always my choice to play on the first set of songs i play. However, [...]

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