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Lily Allen, the pirate against piracy

Lily Allen, the pirate against piracy

Lily Allen is a British pop singer, her record company sold enough copies of Lily Allen albums to get several gold and platinum certifications. Recently she started a blog called “It’s not alright” against music piracy. According to her filesharing is a “disaster” for emerging artists “as it’s making it harder and harder for new [...]

Evolectronica: survival of the funkiest

Evolectronica: survival of the funkiest

Earlier this blog brought you a story about possible developments in computer technology and music in the future. With increasing computer capabilities it might be possible one day the computer produces music that’s good by human standards. It was mentioned that new algorithms inspired by nature might be used for this, evolutionary techniques improving the [...]

Will we run out of new music?

Will we run out of new music?

Maybe this question sounds absurd to you. Maybe you think there’s no limit on new musical pieces that can be created. But this can’t be true, limitations on human hearing puts constraints on the number of possible sounds we can hear. Since not all sound is music, it follows that the number of all possible [...]

Suggestion to the Sisters of Mercy; songs to cover….

Found this Youtube clip; someone is making suggestions for a good cover song – which can (should…?) be played by the Sisters of Mercy…..
Thought it was a little funny….
My main thing is; what song is that – in which they say it is Jerry Seinfeld…??
I could not find this song…. and uh…. I don’t think [...]

Sisters of Mercy – Cry Little Sister = WRONG

Okay – I will come back later about my trip to see the Sisters of Mercy at Suikerrock – Tienen – Belgium….
BUT; on my search for videos of the Sisters yesterday = I found something which was irritating me…..
Just follow this link (I am NOT going to put this video on my webpage).
Again someone who [...]