Month: January 2022
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When We Were Young mashup triple bill!
The buzz is big about the When We Were Young festival (is it the new Fyre festival? Is it for real?) and appropriately the Crumplbangers Discord challenge this week was to create a mashup from the massive lineup. And now the festival has added a third date, there is three mashups to download! The When…
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Paul Draper – Omega Man featuring Steven Wilson
Paul Draper formerly of Mansun has a new album about to drop called ‘Cult Leader Tactics’ about the music industry, and this song recorded in lockdown with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree summed up my current feels – love the footage from Pripyat (Chernobyl) also – must have been fun shooting that with recent tensions…
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The Problem with NFTs
It’s the video version of a long read at 2 hours but this highly researched myth and hype-busing video by Dan Olsen on cryptocurrency and NFTs is well worth watching. It starts with the last recession – the 2008 sub prime scandal – and the anarcho-capitalist fall out that begat cryptobros and all that. I…
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Fleetwood Mac vs Radiohead & Run The Jungle
In a long running series of ‘why can’t I mash up every Fleetwood Mac track EVER’ – here is a mashup I started and pretty much finshed in 2021 for a Crumplbangers Challenge and never released. I rediscovered it yesterday on my backup MP3 player and went ‘why did I never release this?!’ It’s not…
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The Linda Lindas – Oh
Checking in with The Linda Lindas, the scarily young punk Asian-American/Latinx band from Los Angeles and much has changed – they are signed to Epitaph now and released a massive jam Oh! last year…. And later on last month they released the ode to one of the group’s cat, Nino which I think they did…
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Radio Clash Live – Again!
Back in 2007 I was an early pioneer in live podcasting – i.e streaming your podcast while you are recording. Back then it was Icecast or Shoutcast only audio streaming, and eventually it became Radio Clash Live (the online radio station) I ran in the early 10’s. Again it was hard to keep Radio Clash…