Tag: meh
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New Beatles via AI?
Paul McCartney has announced a final ‘new’ Beatles song, created via AI extraction – but as ever, it seems to be a response to fan-made videos doing the same thing – even the announcement came about a month after Dae Lims very moving Fab Four Artificial Intelligence recreation of a John Lennon demo ‘Grow Old…
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New Epic Beard Men Album On The way
I was looking up the new album releases for this year and was struck by how meh the list was. As Kirk famously said, ‘sequels are so disappointing aren’t they?’ and so many of them are retreads from well-established artists or the same-old. I want something new, something novel! I want to hear something that…
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Who will be big in 2010? BBC’s Sound of 2010 hits the meh barrier (again)
Heard a bunch of the BBC’s Sound of 2010 on Music Week and on the wesbite, apparently ‘165 UK-based tastemakers’ worryingly, and my instant responses: The only ones I liked were The Drums who have been getting airplay already, Two Door Cinema Club cos of the Vamps influence (ditto Stornaway cos I’m a big fan…
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New for 2009?
Just looking through the BBC’s Sound of 2009 – and I’m struck by the thought that unlike 2008 which in rock and pop has been fairly MEH with a few exceptions (dance and drum and bass is in rude health though; indie has become corporate and bland; pop is ringtones now with only a few…
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Apologies if you get show 75 twice…
..but due to exceeding bandwidth on one of my servers I had to move show 75; and there is a big chance since Juice (although being one of the best podcatchers/podcast ‘receivers’) is still pretty stupid it doesn’t recheck enclosures whether they have moved since it started to download them… Hence it keeps hitting the…