Arcade Fire Album Likely Out….at the End of 2013
We know Arcade Fire are in the studios, so when is the album coming out? Those hoping for a few months time will be disappointed. Drummer Jeremy Gara spoke to Ottawa radio CKCU 93.1, where he worked back in the day, and noted they are working full time on the album, and it should be out by the end of next year (that’s 2013).
Describing where they’re at, Gara said “We are just working like we always have. We took a couple months off and we’ve been writing songs. Now we’re in the studio pretty much full-time just doing what we do. And we kind of shut the door. We haven’t really gone out and done anything in over a year now. We haven’t done photos or interviews or anything. We’re just working on music and growing beards and living at home a lot and going out to dinner together” (via Pitchfork).
I’m not looking forward to seeing Régine with a beard, that’s for sure. Although if Win Butler can pull off that haircut, I’m sure she can pull off a beard. It’s totally rock and roll.
When Numbers Become Meaningless: Discussing Apple’s Sales
Apple have discussed their 4th Quarter numbers, and they contain many confusing 8-digit numbers. Let’s just say they are doing well for themselves. In the 3 months during Q4, Apple sold 125.04 million iPhones, 58.23 million iPads, 18.1 million Macs and 35.2 million iPods (via Tech Crunch). In all of 2011, they sold 72 million iPhones – apparently it’s not a dying market.
Tech Crunch also brings Steve Jobs’ famous quote about not making a smaller iPad to the forefront, with a response from Apple CEO Tim Cook. Jobs said, “While one could increase the resolution to make up some of the difference, it is meaningless unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of their present size. Apple has done expensive user testing on touch interfaces over many years, and we really understand this stuff. There are clear limits of how close you can place physical elements on a touch screen, before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them. This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps.”
Cook said yesterday, “On comments that Steve made before about 7 inch tablets, let me be clear, we would not make one of the 7 inch tablets, we don’t think they’re good products, we’d never make one.”
Bring out the sandpaper! Yup, won’t make a 7 inch iPad, but 7.9 is totally acceptable.
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That Didn’t Take Long – Justin Timberlake Announces New Album Follow Up
It seemed like just the other day Justin Timberlake was making bizarre video trailers to announce that he is making music again. Today, he releases his first album since before Dick in a Box, with his 20/20 Experience album. Last night, he addressed rumours of another album in the works (or already in the bag), saying “I’ve got to clear up the rumors. This whole thing about this only being the first part … is true. There is another half. I’m not giving you a release date” (via Yahoo).
Pro-Radiohead and anti-Timberlake fans might not like this next statement, when talking about album closer Blue Ocean Floor, “I’m a huge Thom Yorke (Radiohead frontman) fan, and I was listening to some ‘OK Computer’ and ‘Kid A’ and this song just happened. This is probably the most unique so far and probably took me out of my comfort zone.”
I can see the headlines now – “British prog rock band inspires former mouseketeer from Mickey Mouse Club.”
Barenaked Ladies Move On From Making Beer, Sign New Record Deal
Barenaked Ladies are celebrating their 25th anniversary of being a band by signing with Vanguard Records, releasing a new album, and going on a tour with Ben Folds Five and Guster (via Hollywood Reporter). 25 years – does this mean the rock and roll hall of fame will be calling? And I don’t know about you, but I think I liked the band more when they were making yummy beers.
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Drake Hooks Up His Label OVO with Warner Bros.
Drake has built up a pretty good brand in his label and merchandise outfit, OVO (October’s Very Own). OVO have announced they’ve made a deal with Warner Bros. (via Pitchfork).
The label can no longer acknowledge October as a monthFull details of what the deal means will be announced today. But Drake will remain a Young Money artist.First Acts Announced at Teenage Cancer Trust Benefit
I was lucky enough to attend one of the wonderful Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall in London this year. Noel Gallagher is curating the 2013 event, and has booked Kasabian for March 22, as well as Russell Brand and Noel Fielding and other guests for a night of comedy on March 20 (via NME). You mean Carrot Top isn’t available?!
Kasabian have said “The work that Teenage Cancer Trust carry out is vital and invaluable. We are honoured to have been invited back for the third time to perform and support such a worthy cause.”
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Arcade Fire Album Likely Out….at the End of 2013
We know Arcade Fire are in the studios, so when is the album coming out? Those hoping for a few months time will be disappointed. Drummer Jeremy Gara spoke to Ottawa radio CKCU 93.1, where he worked back in the day, and noted they are working full time on the album, and it should be out by the end of next year (that’s 2013).
Describing where they’re at, Gara said “We are just working like we always have. We took a couple months off and we’ve been writing songs. Now we’re in the studio pretty much full-time just doing what we do. And we kind of shut the door. We haven’t really gone out and done anything in over a year now. We haven’t done photos or interviews or anything. We’re just working on music and growing beards and living at home a lot and going out to dinner together” (via Pitchfork).
I’m not looking forward to seeing Régine with a beard, that’s for sure. Although if Win Butler can pull off that haircut, I’m sure she can pull off a beard. It’s totally rock and roll.
When Numbers Become Meaningless: Discussing Apple’s Sales
Apple have discussed their 4th Quarter numbers, and they contain many confusing 8-digit numbers. Let’s just say they are doing well for themselves. In the 3 months during Q4, Apple sold 125.04 million iPhones, 58.23 million iPads, 18.1 million Macs and 35.2 million iPods (via Tech Crunch). In all of 2011, they sold 72 million iPhones – apparently it’s not a dying market.
Tech Crunch also brings Steve Jobs’ famous quote about not making a smaller iPad to the forefront, with a response from Apple CEO Tim Cook. Jobs said, “While one could increase the resolution to make up some of the difference, it is meaningless unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of their present size. Apple has done expensive user testing on touch interfaces over many years, and we really understand this stuff. There are clear limits of how close you can place physical elements on a touch screen, before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them. This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps.”
Cook said yesterday, “On comments that Steve made before about 7 inch tablets, let me be clear, we would not make one of the 7 inch tablets, we don’t think they’re good products, we’d never make one.”
Bring out the sandpaper! Yup, won’t make a 7 inch iPad, but 7.9 is totally acceptable.
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Morning Music Notes – Hitchhiking is a Great Way to Meet People, and To Have Sex
Rock the Bells Line Up Features Missy Elliott and Timbaland, Nas, Wiz Khalifa, and um, Salt-n-Pepa
Rock the Bells is hitting up 3 cities this year – San Bernardino (Aug 18 & 19) and Mountain View (Aug 26 & 27) in California, and Holmdel, New Jersey on September 1 & 2. Forgive me if I can that it would probably take me a few minutes to find some of these “cities” on a map – I’ve never even heard of Holmdel – I would’ve guessed it was in Sweden. The line up of the rap festival features the somewhat surprisingly headliners of Missy Elliott and Timbaland – can you say “new album”? They also nabbed the movie star Ice Cube, who is taking a break from his Disney career. Also on deck are Nas, A$AP Rocky, Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi, Wiz Khalifa, Method Man and Redman playing Blackout! from top to bottom, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony playing E. 1999 Eternal all the way through. Hopefully you like those albums! Salt-n-Pepa, who are still apparently in the music industry, are also showing up. Don’t miss it!
The Pirate Bay Attacked – Perhaps By Anonymous?
Internet drama amongst illegal internet sites and activities! As we mentioned last week, the (illegal) torrent site, Pirate Bay, condemned the Internet hacking group, Anonymous’ attack on the Virgin Media website in the UK. Those of you who have had trouble getting the latest episode of Game of Thrones (or in my case, the finale of Desperate Housewives) from the Pirate Bay will now know why – they have been victim of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack (via Slash Gear). This DDoS attack has left the site mainly inaccessible for the past 24 hours. Obvious payback, or a coincidence? I’m a gambling man and I am NOT betting on coincidence. However, I did bet on
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Morning Music Notes – It Only Took 50 Years, But Now Paul McCartney is a Star
So, Steve Jobs Had an FBI File
Is there anyone in America who doesn’t have an FBI file? America feels they are under constant threat, so much so that they flag people like Steve Jobs and John Lennon. Actually, the FBI was checking out Jobs (if you know what I mean) for a tech job within the Bush administration (via Slash Gear). The FBI interviewed colleagues of Jobs and collected the interviews, which are now available for downloading (and surely boring reading) because of the Freedom of Information Act. There are huge sections of text blacked out, but that is to protect the address of information of the people interviewed – or so the FBI would like us to believe. The file reveals Steve Jobs’ drug use, and his vast intelligence. So, nothing earth shattering
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Morning Music Notes – Neil Young, Future iPod Inventor?
Was Neil Young Working on a new iPod with Steve Jobs?
Neil Young
notorious liarclaims he was working on a new iPod with Apple co-founder, the late Steve Jobs (via Guardian). “Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music, but when he went home he listened to vinyl,” Neil Young has said. The diminishing audio quality concerned both Young and Jobs, and they set out to work on hardware to store better quality audio. Not much has happened with this product since Jobs died – I guess Neil Young isn’t much of an inventor.“What everybody gets [on an MP3] is 5% of what we originally make in the studio,” Young said. “We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it’s degrading our music, not improving.”
“I look at [the] internet as the new radio,” he explained. “Radio [is] gone. Piracy is the new radio; it’s how music gets around.”
Very good analogy – both are free methods of listening to music. Now let’s worth on making that vinyl player portable, shall we?
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When Techies Meet Snowboarders: An iPad Embedded in a Snowboard
Now that snowboarding season is in high swing, there is a product that seems pretty cool in theory, if not in execution. Every Third Thursday (ETT) take fan suggestions and try building cool shit. I tried taking suggestions for building items once, but it turns out birds cannot get inside a square box with no holes. Alternatively, my sandwich is now trapped inside said box and is rotting away. Shortly after Steve Jobs died, ETT set out to embed an iPad into a snowboard, so when you’re whipping down a hill at 50 km/h, you can check your GPS to see exactly where you are on the hill (/end sarcasm).
You can watch a video of the making of the snowboard, and see them test it. They play the Black Keys though, so at least they have good taste in music. Of course, the name for this one-off product is the iShred.
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Who Wants a Creepy, Realistic Steve Jobs ‘Action’ Figure? (Hint: not me)
Black turtle neck? Check. Jeans? Check. Pimped out with Apple swag? A must. All of these trademark Steve Jobs components are in effect for the $100 Steve Jobs ‘action’ figure (via Geekologie). Not sure if ‘action’ really describes what a Steve Jobs figure would do, but I don’t name toys (well, not ones that ever get mass produced).
You can get shoes, sets of hands, pretty much any accessory (what, no casket?) for the figure. Check out a few pictures down below (courtesy of Geekologie and the product site).
Morning Music Notes – End of Year Edition
This will be the final Morning Music Notes of 2011 (please contain your excitement or tears – I don’t like emotions). Later today, you can check out the PeteHatesMusic top songs of 2011. Tomorrow will be the best albums of 2011. Saturday will be the gummi bear eating contest – boy, those gummi bears sure can eat a lot! As Year 1 of this website draws to a close, I think I speak for everyone when I say – I hope Year 2 doesn’t suck as much as Year 1 did.
The Most YouTube’d Video of 2011 Is….
….Rebecca Black. We all hated it (didn’t we?), yet the terribleness of it garnered her 180 MILLION views, and made her some nice pocket change along the way. The video, which was paid for by her parents and NOT her weekly allowance, was made by a production company, and it had lame written all over it. Amazingly, the third most viewed video was the Michael Bolton cameo on the Lonely Island song Jack Sparrow. Since the song was initially so awesome when it first came out, I will run it again below for those that missed it.
Lonely Island – Jack Sparrow
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Rebecca Black Also Popular in Google Searches
Google released their Zeitgeist 2011 list, which is a fancy way of saying what the top 10 searches of 2011 were. #1 was Rebecca Black, #2 was Google+ (ya right, Google!), #6 was iPhone 5 (which was not released nor announced), #7 was Adele, #9 was Steve Jobs, and #10 was iPad 2. If you like fancy graphs and stats, then
you are a nerd!pop on over to the Zeitgeist 2011 to see some pretty pictures and all that.Just in time for Christmas (and free!) –
NEW REBECCA BLACK SONGLykke Li’s The Lost Sessions Vol. 1Swedish singer, Lykke Li, released her second album this year to critical acclaim. She pulled out 3 alternative versions of her songs from the vault, where all good singers keep their extra songs, and has made them available on her website. If you’re against downloading, even though it is legit (trust me….), you can stream the songs below.
Have Time to Kill? Watch: Steve Jobs – Billion Dollar Hippy
I just finished the Steve Jobs book, and boy were there some interesting things. For example, did you know that before he invented the iPod, he made computers for Apple?! Fascinating stuff! If you’re really this clueless about Steve Jobs, you might want to watch the BBC hour-long special on Steve Jobs, called Billion Dollar Hippy. Due to “copyright crap”, the video might get pulled, so watch it while you can.
Tristan Quinn, the producer of the documentary, says “Jobs was the kind of person that could convince himself of things that weren’t necessarily true. That always worked with him for designing products, where he could go to people and ask them to do something that they thought was impossible.”
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(via iPhone in Canada)