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Thanks to Osh for pointing this out - looks freaking cool! I mean they got Ozzy.

A peak behind the making of Slash's self-titled album, featuring Fergie, Ozzy Osbourne, Andrew Stockdale (of Wolfmother), Kid Rock, Ian Astbury, Myles Kennedy, Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Lemmy Kilmeister (Motorhead), Dave Grohl, Duff McKagan, M Shadows (Avenged Sevenfold), Rocco DeLuca, Cypress Hill and Iggy Pop. Slash hits stores April 6, 2010.

Thanks Blaze, I actually avoided it until you sent the link then I watched it and wow - They got another super viral hit with geek flair on this one.

Link: http://radiotuna.com/

Check it....

We thought searching radio should be easier (we like easy stuff), and we also felt we were missing out on great stations, so we built RadioTuna. We imagined how a radio search engine should work and set about creating it. The result turned out to be quite a lot less easy to build than we’d imagined, but it is the site that we were always looking for. It turns out we were right - we had been missing out on lots of great stations!

Awesome - now tune in, turn off and um, tuna fish?

AC/DC fans have reason to celebrate along with us geeks waiting for Iron Man II. (Thanks Osh)

AC/DC has just announced AC/DC: Iron Man 2, the official album set to be released April 19th through Columbia Records in support of the upcoming Iron Man 2 film from Marvel Studios. The album will feature 15 classic AC/DC songs, selected from ten of the band's studio albums, ranging from 1976 to 2008. Included in the album are notable classics such as "Shoot To Thrill", "Thunderstruck", "Let There Be Rock" and "War Machine", from the recent Black Ice release.

Link: http://www.geek.com/articles/news/warner-to-remove-music-from-all-free-streaming-services-20100210/

Another stupid move by a record company. They don't think that hearing a song for free gives them anything.... perhaps they missed the last 40 years of Radio Play = Album sales ... and Radio is what? Free.

Good riddance Warner, I'm sure that this won't inspire more people to just pirate the music.

Link: http://musicovery.com/

If you're anywhere and needing a some new tunes... maybe the playlist you brought has gotten stale?... this fixes everything.

Link: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/01/mark-mothersbaugh-talks-new-devo-album.html

I'm happily looking forward to this one,

Devo is currently finishing its first album of new music since 1990’s Smooth Noodle Maps. “It’s got quite a bit of form, and unless we were to all of a sudden have an about-face, we’ve got it pretty much 90 percent or more nailed down,” Mothersbaugh tells Paste. “We kind of did some bold things with this record. You talk about what’s changed in Devo over the last 30 years—I think something that’s changed is a somewhat more sophisticated approach to music and different tools that allow us to voice ourselves in ways that we didn’t do back in the day.”

Oh please don't be using Autotune - that's my only request.

Link: http://listen.grooveshark.com/

Or well, for the listening .... I think I probably posted this before but lately it's been getting a whole lot of good press and I thought I'd remind you of it.

Link: http://www.billboard.com/news/jimi-hendrix-explores-new-valleys-1004057960.story

I wrote about this earlier last year and it looks like it's coming true. Get ready for a whole new Hendrix experience!

An album of previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix studio recordings is set for release in March, kicking off a brand new exploration of the legendary guitar virtuoso's life and works in the lead-up to the 40th anniversary of his death in 1970. "Valleys of Neptune," a 12-song collection that includes the final studio sessions of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience lineup and Hendrix's first recordings with bassist Billy Cox, is set for release on Mar. 9 on Sony's Legacy Recordings. The album marks the launch of the 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, a partnership between the label and Experience Hendrix LLC, the company charged with overseeing the guitarist's music and image.

Always loved this one - and the literal version put into words all the craziness of this puppy. Really, this was one of the top wtf videos of the day.

I can't believe how good this sounds - all they need is someone with a tin can and they'll have a band.

A Christmas Literal Video ? Heck yes. Bonus for Holiday Theme!

Link: http://spotlightmusic.blogspot.com/2009/12/dr-demento-greatest-christmas-novelty.html

Can't go wrong here if you don't already have most of these songs.. ( via mookie )

The Chipmunk Song - The Chipmunks with the Music of David Seville
All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Jingle Bells - The Singing Dogs
The Twelve Gifts of Christmas - Allan Sherman
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - Gayla Peevey
Nuttin' for Christmas - Stan Freberg
A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy
I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas - Yogi Yorgesson
Twelve Days of Christmas - Bob & Doug McKenzie
Green Chri$tma$ - Stan Freberg
I'm a Christmas Tree - Wild Man Fischer (Duet with Dr. Demento)
I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus - Kip Addotta
Santa Claus and His Old Lady - Cheech & Chong
Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovic
Christmas Dragnet - Stan Freberg & Daws Butler

I expect you all to know this for next year when we have our sing along

Link: http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2009/12/a_glam_rock_chr.html

Do you remember all the Glam Rock and Hair bands that did Christmas songs? I bet you don't remember all of THESE.

Yes but no but Yes has a great list that will surely bring back the 80's - um, for better or worse

To really put the X in Xmas, tease out your hair, put on your spandex and raise your limp fist.

Hair bands of the 80s may have hit it big with ballads, but they also sold out on the holidays.

Enjoy this little flashback playlist.

Yeaaaahhhh!

Link: http://mashable.com/2009/12/08/vevo-details/

Whaddya know - Google is getting into music videos.

If you haven’t heard, YouTube and Universal are launching a new music video Web site tonight with great fanfare and a giant, star-studded party in New York City. VEVO will host most of YouTube’s music videos (85 percent of them, actually), including ones from EMI, Sony Music and Universal.

Kinda like the MTV of the 00's - now all they need is someone like Beavis and Butthead to make it complete.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8390712.stm

Rare footage of Syd Barrett singing with Pink Floyd on the BBC One music show Top Of The Pops has been discovered after more than 40 years.

The damaged footage of the band playing See Emily Play has been restored and will now be screened for the first time since its initial 1967 broadcast.

For you Floyd fans I'm sure this is the Valhalla across the rainbow bridge.

Link: http://www.8bitchristmas.com/

8 bit Christmas is back with a new album and it's as great as you might imagine - you can stream it in it's entirety or order a CD. All hail the sounds of 8 bit!

Link: http://www.audiorealm.com/

Don't forget the many many online commercial free streaming radio stations out there. It's easy to forget them with the advent of Pandora and Slacker. This site will help you fall back in love with Internet Radio.

Link: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/google-audio-lala-ilike-pandora-and-imeem/

I mentioned last week how Google is getting into the music scene, today some more details became available.

Google will announce a new playable-music search service next Wednesday, creating a special box in search results with links to songs to stream and download, multiple sources familiar with the situation told Wired.com. The service — likely called Google Audio — will be powered in part with streaming music from LaLa and recommendations from iLike, the sources said.

Interesting for sure, I wonder how they'll justify the downloadable content?

A recently discovered alternative version of 'I Will' from The Beatles' White Album from 1968, that was deemed too controversial to be included on the release.

Link: http://geeklovesongs.com/music/Walkthrough.mp3

You know, you've gotta be a bigtime geek to write the walkthrough of Zork into a song...

and boy does it work.

Awesome!

Link: http://beatcrave.com/2009-09-21/unreleased-jimi-hendrix-music-on-the-way/

No - they didn't re-animate him ... and he didn't fake his own death or anything.

“We probably have another decade of music, including video. Every 12 to 18 months we’ll continue to have new releases and Dagger [Experience Hendrix's label for live recordings] official bootlegs,”

Well, this is pretty cool - I'm wondering why they waited until now?

Link: http://listen.grooveshark.com/

Want to hear a song? Want to hear any song in the universe?

Listen to any song in the world for free. Create free Internet radio stations. Search for free mp3's to stream & Create your own libraries.

I've not tested this thing to it's full capacity but I'm thinking either tonight or tomorrow the lass and I will - maybe while playing some poker or something.

(hint - to search -(if the search bar does not appear hit popular))

Whaddya know? Nortons Antivirus actually made a funny commercial.

Link: http://www.sirgalahad.org/paul/doom/

Awesome . I don't have a CD player in the car but it'll go on my phone and mp3 player for sure.....

my wife and I were replaying some of our favorite levels of DOOM I and II. I thought it would be neat to play the soundtrack's MIDI files through something other than the generic garden variety PC soundcard. I don't believe that I am the first to do this, but it was fun anyway.

Generally, there was a big improvement in the sound of the drums, particularly the hi-hats and other cymbals. A synth guitar still sounds like a synth guitar though. I very briefly considered overdubbing my own on it, but quickly decided that that would be worse than the synth version.

Burn it to a CD and it makes great driving music during rush hour traffic!

Remember the Final Countdown ? Of course you do... Well, the band just released a new song. I think I like it ! Also get a load of how young the lead singer looks... how is that possible? (Thanks Osh)

Link: http://wms.selene.jaxa.jp/selene_sok/moonbell/moonbell_en.html

Moonbell is an automated music generator that plays musical scores based on lunar topographical data obtained by Japan’s Kaguya (SELENE) explorer during its orbit around the moon from late 2007 to June 2009.

Oh, and it looks all geeky and hi-tech too

Who knew ?

They take this one apart on the mixer and reveal how they created the cha ching track - awesome.

Link: http://www.cemetech.net/projects/item.php?id=24

With bonus narration from the geekiest narrator ever......

Argh - and for some reason they've disabled embedding, sorry but if you're geek enough you'll get a kick outa it.

Well, it's been a bit since we had a good musical mashup - and this is perfect Friday Fare... W00T - it's like Friday and stuff...

Link: http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/queens-brian-may-furious-over-leaked-jacksonmercury-tracks-211978

Yep, they did - and the videos have been out on You Tube for 2 or 3 years... Course this is the first I've heard of it.

And of course Brian May is all bungee corded up about it ...

Queen guitarist Brian May is reportedly 'furious' after "music thieves" posted clips of songs featuring the late Michael Jackson and Queen's late frontman Freddie Mercury on YouTube.

Link: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/05/cheap-trick-releases.html

No, I'm not kidding - they found a company who still makes 8 Track tapes and released their new freakin album.... Super cool - except that I got rid of my 8 Track player last year...

Link: http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/

This site is an awesome repository of music from Newfoundland. All songs are legal and from what I saw while checking things out - most are on You Tube. There is a vast amount of good music here.... you just have to take some time to explore. I found this one in less than 2 minutes - ( and I like it a lot )