Hip Hop Chess ? Frodo Pop ? Transformers Etc

Posted over 2 years ago

Artist:

Iggy Pop
Album:

Lust for Life
Track:
- PLAY
The Passenger

Things I've Read & Stuff That May Be Of Interest To Some :

Elijah Wood who played Frodo in The Lord of The Rings trilogy is scheduled to play Iggy Pop in a new bio-pic called "The Passenger" that's in development.

in other mainstream movie news: Full Length "Transformers" Trailer Up Now at Yahoo...

CGI feature film geeks rejoice, those who could give a rats behind...keep reading...

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/transformers.html

Yesterday, believe it or not, was Dennis "Easy Rider" Hopper's 71st freaking birthday

here's what it would sound like if he was the guy doing the voice of your car's navigation system

Dennis Hopper - Nav Tones

Other reason's to celebrate ...creepy Paul "da wolfman" Wolfowitz at least had the good sense to resign from the World Bank only after most of the freaking planet demanded it...

(of course he's no doubt giving himself a month and a half to clean out his desk and hire a few "qualified" chicks he knows...)

Hip Hop Chess & Life Strategies in SF This Saturday

The Omega Boys Club in SF is hosting the Hip Hop Chess Federation event this Saturday. Scheduled participants include RZA of the Wu Tang, Casual of the Hieroglyphics, DJ QBert, Boots Riley of the Coup, Balance the mix tape king, documentary filmmaker Kevin Epps, author Josh Waitzkin, Stockton's Okwerdz, Bay area rapper Shamako Noble and many many more...

The group is dedicated to helping young bright minds actualize their potential. The event is open to anyone who loves Hip Hop and chess, nonviolence, and learning. The Hip Hop Chess Federation doesn't care about your faith, race or landbase. Come kick it!

Hey, Here's a lil party pumpin' pre release track love from an upcoming Rondo Bros CD coming out officially on the streets in June.

Liberate it yerselves...

The Rondos make the rounds occasionally as Dan The Automator's live band, so hopefully that means something to ya and you can understand where they are coming from. I guess geographically that would be Berzerkely California...

Hence the hyphy shout to "Go Dumb"... at yer own risk of course...

Rondo Bros - Liberation

from "Seven Minutes To Midnight"
by Rondo Brothers
Fortune Records/Citrus 2 Citrus

Buy at eMusic
Stream from Rhapsody
Buy at Napster

Amazon.com has announced a DRM mp3 store is in it's future, while a new start up has launched called MTraks.com.

Mtraks based in San Diego, is online already, but they don't have major label material of course. The mp3s are unprotected 192kbps VBR and are sourced through 6,000 indie labels, with a subscription model very similar to Emusic.com. There's currently about 750,000 songs online and the site encourages more bands to sign up at www.Mtraks.com

Artists can add their own customized 'mini web page' including bio, pictures and original music. Users can create 'Listener' profiles, and enjoy social networking features. The founders claim

"We believe that we now offer a better
consumer solution to that of EMUSIC.COM(TM)."

In the works: bands and labels will soon be able to sell direct on mTraks. Features will include sales reporting through secure profile management system, booking and administration tools that M-Trak claims are "very slick". Much like Emusics parent company The Orchard, M Traks wants to distribute music via other digital retailers including iTunes(TM) through partners Naked Jain Records and Cafeteria Records. ( Uh, Now that's music industry cachet... Cafeteria Records ! oh and did you say Naked Jain, mooma would be so proud... Ahmet Ertegun, quit rolling around in your grave buddy... )

Another service gathering press momentum currently is called PassAlong Networks who do have partnerships inplace with artists, labels, concert promotors, and have announced that they will be offering EMI's catalog of millions of songs including material from top tier acts like Frank Sinatra James Brown, Coldplay, Norah Jones, Joss Stone etc without DRM-restrictions.

"We already offer around two million tracks in MP3 format to the stores that we power. I predict that it will be up to three million tracks by the end of the year. It is all moving in the direction of an open MP3 format"

, said CEO/Founder Dave Jaworski, to Digital Media Wire.

Meanwhile in the hopelessly chasing their own long tail void of the DRM world...

Seattle's RealNetworks, in it's perpetual battle to lose money and marketshare, has bought out Sony's mobile downloading service in Europe for $9 million bucks. One look at this photo of Dieter Daum of Sony shaking hands with RealNetworks lackey John Giamatteo and you can tell that the Japanese electronics giant couldn't be happier to ditch the money losing unit. Of course the losing end of cash stick fits right in with Real Networks plan of world non-domination. More corporate hype here

Just read about a crappy new "legal" downloading service called SpiralFrog that's not a leap forward.

Apparently it's a bitch to install, only works with Microsloth's IE browser, ain't dishing out royalties to artists, and is Canadian only. Needless to say it's already dead in my humble opinion...

If you must read more ...go here

Few more tracks for y'all...keep it real and DRM FREE my G's...

Here's a track from the upcoming release from San Diego's reigning acid metal kings Earthless... The band is on the Tee Pee label who brought us stoner rockers Witch last year featuring J Mascis...

so get yer lighters up...