Don't steal music. Buy for free.

The waiting has ended! Radiohead have finally unleashed their new album “In Rainbows” to the world! And released their music it is truly. Without the help from one of those bastardeous record labels they’re promoting and selling the album themselves. You can either buy a pure download (for as little as £0,00) or a gorgeous disc box, which is filled with £40 worth of silvery plastic and jet-black vinyl. The demand for these little gems is actually so high that the server’s almost dying from the load and wouldn’t let me buy a thing before I suggested the sadly low retail price of zero pound sterling. So for now I am listening to the new album and once the shop’s running again, I’ll sure as hell pay for their effort to get music to their audience without neither a record company nor drm. Hail the Radiohead!

YT – Kay

Worship the TENORI-ON!

Last night I took a mini break from my duties in the motion graphics industry and attended a concert of Berlin-Düsseldorf-based band To Rococo Rot at Munich’s Rote Sonne promoting their forthcoming album “abc 123” (wich will be released on Domino Records in October). Not only was the music highly enjoyable but I also got the chance to get close to their brand new TENORI-ON, Yamaha’s über-cool ‘visible music’ instrument which they've obviously got only a few days ago.

In case you’re living in Berlin you got lucky: there will be one last concert on Sunday night at the Babylon.

Sounds pretty good to me.

Getting literally paralyzed by the abundance of brain-damaging ringtones on the internets and in the real world around me, I was pleased to hear about toneShared.com – a library of fantabulous soundbits created by musicians and artists from the electronic alternative music scene. And not only are these tones so much less annoying than commercial ringers, but also they are given away completely for free. So there’s little excuse not to get some decent sounds pronto.

http://www.toneshared.com/