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Misty Roses covers David Bowie’s “Fantastic Voyage”

 Misty Roses’ Robert Conroy does an excellent cover of David Bowie’s “Fantastic Voyage”, live on Irene Trudel’s WFMU radio show, 26 October 2009. Backing him with some lovely 12-string guitar is my good friend Greg Fasolino who had last played with Robert back in ‘86, when they were both in the band Burning Rome.

Check out more Misty Roses on their website, their MySpace Music page and their Facebook page.

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Optus Whale Song

via www.youtube.com

Using human orchestra instruments to play whalesongs in order to communicate with humpback whales... This is an ad for the Australian Telecommunications company Optus. They've set up a site where you can learn more about the project and the science behind it.

Staying away from the RIAA

Everybody bitches about the RIAA but nobody does anything about it... except the folks over at RIAA Radar. They've created a search site and a bookmarklet (drag this to your links bar) which allows you to browse any music page on Amazon and with a single click, determine if the record was released by a member of the evil RIAA. They've even got a "Top 100" list which shows -- pretty starkly -- just how much control the RIAA members maintain over the music industry and what we hear. (I count 5 non-RIAA releases on this week's chart.) So, if you want to maintain your indie cred, this is the place to go to vett your purchases.

There's also one of the clearest, most concise description of why the RIAA is evil on the Radar's home page:

...just the highlights of the RIAA's practices involve price-fixing, blaming its poor financial state on unfounded digital piracy claims (and in turn, blaming and suing its own consumers), lobbying for changes that hinder technological innovation and change copyright laws, underpaying the artists it represents, invading personal privacy to enforce copyrights, and dismantling entire computer networks just because of their ability (of their users) to share copyrighted files.