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Ringtone drummer

I knew that my mobile phone ring tone was missing something: a drummer!

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Wikipedia names your band

What a great meme, spotted on Ricky Carvel’s blog: Wikipedia names your band. Here are the rules: Band nameGo to a random Wikipedia article. The name of the article becomes your band name. Album titleNext go to Random Quotations. The … Continue reading

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Spotify

Over the last few weeks, with many thanks to James for access to the invitation-only beta, I’ve been trying out a new online music player called Spotify. What is Spotify? According to their website Spotify is a new way to … Continue reading

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New Metallica song: The Day That Never Comes

Another new Metallica song — their first single — from their forthcoming album Death Magnetic: The Day That Never Comes. To me it sounds like a combination of songs from Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, … And Justice For … Continue reading

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New Metallica song ‘Cyanide’

Spotted on the Metal Hammer website: Metallica played a track that will appear on ‘Death Magnetic’ at their Ozzfest debut on Saturday night in Dallas, Texas in its entirity, the first all-new material from the band in half a decade. … Continue reading

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We’re just as lost as them …

Photo by barunpatro. I spotted this quotation in an interview with Rob Flynn from the Californian thrash metal band Machine Head in the Christmas 2007 (vol 02, issue 06) of the Soundcontrol magazine Reverb: The four of us need this … Continue reading

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NYCGB 25th anniversary weekend

It’s been a crazy week since I got back from Birmingham that I’m only now getting around to writing about it. But what a superb weekend, packed with great friends, good food and much laughter. Jane and I drove down … Continue reading

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