Want a taste for a rich "radio" experience that fits its medium like a glove? Sample CBS-owned Last.fm on XBOX Live - or watch this video. This is an example of something I talk about all the time: When you...
Mumford & Sons Genre: Indie Folk /Folk Rock / Bluegrass From: London, England, UK Mumford & Sons are one of the most significant success stories of 2009, with their debut album charting at number 11, and number 1 on iTunes. But like all great stories, we’re not even halfway through the first novel and the best is still to come. Their new single, ‘Winter Winds’ is released...
The Black Elevators Genre: Garage / Psychedelic / Jungle From: Kent, Ohio, United States I stumbled upon the Black Elevators, or rather they stumbled upon me, when they sent me a friend invite on myspace. Yes, in these short attention span twittering days, Myspace does still exist! I liked what I heard and voila they have a prestigious spot on the mighty Devil's blog. The Black Elevators name makes...
Martha Argerich is just an amazing piano virtuoso – you can read her biography at last.fm for some basic details. Her debut recital, performed at age 24 (!) in 1960 includes a performance of Chopin’s Scherzo No. 3 that is legendary. I bought the Deutsche Grammophon CD of that recital a day or two ago [...]
I have a Nokia 5800 mobile phone, which I really love. It's easily the best mobile I've ever had. I've recently been playing with the podcast client, which is pretty good, and also the Last.fm client, Mobbler, which is great. But until Spotify release their client for my phone, something ...
French For Cartridge Genre: Rock / Experimental From: London, United Kingdom London's genre defying, style blending, art-pop geniuses (or should that be genii ?) Cartridge changed their name to the very similar if slightly longer French For Cartridge. While they've been busy changing their name they've thankfully not tinkered around with their incomparable sound. If you check your dictionary (do people...
We’ve been matching up popular web services, applications and mobile apps against each other in heated one-on-one battles here in our weekly Faceoff Series . Last week Microsoft Office bested Google Docs in a head to head race for the title of office suite champion. This week we turned our attention to a rather timely battle being waged on the mobile front, between Apple’s still wildly-selling...
Summer Dregs Genre: Electro-pop From: Chattanooga, Tennessee United States Summer Dregs is the result of Carl Cadwell collaborating with a group of hyper talented musicians in an effort to prove that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The band have chosen their name well because their new album From Gold To Green is the sound of an Indian summer. It's light and breezy short sleeved music....
Microsoft drops its Xbox LIVE Gold cover charge for the weekend to let the masses sample services like online multiplayer, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Last.FM.
Ommm: Get this widget | Track details | eSnips Social DNA Brilliant music from Meghdol , a theatrical(!) band from Bangladesh. Listen to their albums here . More information about them can be found in their Last.fm page : The word Meghdol is actually borrowed from a poem by Baudelair. By Meghdol, the band mean their desire to surrender themselves to infinity in the most desirable way. And also, the...