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I think Sandeep said it best with this image. I can’t wait for this album to drop in two weeks.

What’s even better, on the site you can sample the whole album.  Sadily it only plays about 20sec at a time.  As brilliant as that is, the album sounds awesome.

Noooo! Come back Muxtape, pretty please.

Herbie on iTunes

I was browsing around the iTunes jazz sale today and caught this awesome little gem.  Talk about a deal right?  4 tracks @ $1.00, or $8 for all four.  I suppose apple feels that the time it takes you to click only one button is worth the extra $4.  C’mon, how you going to play Herbie like that?

For the poor folks at Yahoo! who are still left, this just must hurt more and more every day that goes by.  Unfortunately they pain is nothing like the unknowing suckers who signed up for their DRM laden subscription based service will feel.

The Final Days of DRM: Yahoo Music Store Closing, Will Eat Your Purchased Music 

Digital Rights Management technology is dying, it’s becoming understood that hobbling tunes to enforce scarcity isn’t the best way to monetize the music business online. What about all the suckers who bought DRM laden music in recent years, though? When the Yahoo! Music Store closes its doors this fall, the company announced today, past customers dependent on their music “phoning home” to get license approval before playing are out of luck. They’ll be able to continue playing purchased tracks on a single computer, until they make any changes to their operating system.

Yahoo! now encourages customers to burn their music files to CDs. That may not be a terribly onerous requirement, but the point is that when you purchased a license for songs, everyone really meant it when they said this might not last forever.

The rise and fall of the Yahoo! Music Store will make for an interesting story some day, but for now the DRM story is particularly important. …

This is just classic.  Yahoo! wont put out any software that will clean up their mess from here because it will get abused, so you’re stuck with that quickly dying version of XP for as long as you can enjoy that Jonas Brothers LP.

I can’t even express how excited I was earlier today when Sandeep told me about the new Cinematic Orchestra release. Live at the Royal Albert Hall is an amazing Live Album.. fantastically performed and the vocals are sublime. I’ve been obsessed with their music for about the past half year when I randomly found them through a review on allofmp3. After Gilles Peterson interviewed and praised them in one of his podcast’s, it just sealed the deal. Their music is so addictive and sexy you just want to keep listening to it.  So far everyone I’ve introduced them to can only agree.  

 

One of the highlights of my weekend at Coachella this year is going to be watching them perform, I just hope I can fight off the 10,000 people that will be battling me to the front of the stage.

 

Thanks for the link deep. Coachella is officially 1 day away!

For anyone who needs it, here is the schedule.. thanks deep for the hookup. We leave tomorrow night, can’t wait!