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Meh. I've got this annoying thing going on with my PC and I can't quite locate when or why it started happening. I know some shit about computers, I even used to do tech support, but I don't know what's going on. The first time I go to access a domain name I get "host not found" type errors...

This mpeg of a Rhapsody song is utterly ridiculous. Not that I would expect less from a song called 'Rain of a Thousand Flames', but it cracked me up no end. Apparently the band have since collaborated with Christopher Lee on a song called something like 'Wizard of Evil'. Hot diggety.

A band called Yat-kha have released an album of covers involving Tuvan throat singing... you know that distinctive overtonal chanting business. MP3 samples of Motorhead and Joy Division on the site... I haven't had a chance to check them out yet, but think they'll be pretty exciting (novelty...

I've seen various comments on members' blogs and on this site about artists like St Etienne and Annie, who are developing some kind of retro, clingfilm wrapped idea of shiny pop bliss. It's been pointed out that while this kind of music sounds "pop", it never has any impact on pop music itself...

I'm not sure if there are other fans out there, but I'd thoroughly recommend any of The Books albums for those getting excited by Animal Collective and so on. They're different - more composed and "electronic" - but making music from primarily acoustic instruments and American folk sources...

I just got off the phone from sorting out a bill. The woman on the phone said she cancelled the incorrect portion, "but you still need to physically pay" however many dollars. A computer trainer I know says stuff like "to get this to work you have to physically select the icon you want"...

Fundue, "the World's first desktop USB fondue set". Right.

Starship Troopers was on TV last night in Oz... it's pretty damn funny, with the satire being even more blatant now. I remember at the time friends having heated discussions about the idea that it was just a really, really dumb action flick with incidentally fascistic overtones cos that's what...

Sorry if this has come up in one of the other threads and I missed it, but has anyone heard Murs' verses on the topic of white people into hip-hop on the track 'And this is for'? The track's on his album with 9th Wonder, '3:16'. Pretty good I reckon, fairly equivocal in that he's acknowledging...

Has anyone checked out Sugartruck records? Deep Dick Kollective seems to be the biggest act on there. Would be interested to hear from anyone in the US who's had any "real life" experience with these acts, cos it's always hard to tell from someone's web page whether they actually achieve what...

Just read that Mos Def is playing Ford Prefect in a movie of 'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'. With whatshisname Freeman who's Tim in 'The Office' as Arthur Dent. Funny.

I've been thinking about Sturgeon's Law lately, particularly how it's applied to music. Generally it's used as an anti-genre-snobbery call, when you get kids going on about how some genre fucken rules and is so much better than everything else. So in that context it's taken as "90% of the...

Hey all, I've been reading for a couple of weeks and thinking this could be a good place to kick off a discussion on how digital media has affected our listening habits. I download a lot, I listen to a lot of ripped music from CDs and vinyl on my PC, and I also have a portable HDD player which...