"Six words" is the new haiku.

Peter

That is why I hate Hemingway.

Is it just me, or maybe just my mood while listening, or does a lot of this year's SXSW torrent really suck? I've listened through bands starting with E and only two songs have landed solidly on my list of "bands worth looking in to" (Anamanaguchi, Clare & The Reasons). This torrent is giving my Delete key a workout!

The "6 words" review is interesting. I sometimes agree with the reviewer, but other times we're polar opposite. Evangelista was insufferable, Delorean was unnerving, and Dandi Wind was long winded ("Zing. Rimshot."). Yet, Anamanaguchi tugged at my nostalgic heart strings, and, um, that's all that's really on my good list so far.

Well, I've got months of listening to go, so we'll see how it picks up.

http://sites.google.com/site/sxsw2009torrent/

Peter

Time to fire up Vuze again!

Are these still 128kbps?

Some of them are, but, like last year, there's lots of variation. Some seem to be 320.

Peter

Hey, as you've not got to SXSW yet, how about coming with me & Neil to Coachella next month?

Hugo

this... cannot... be true...

Peter

But it's so much slower downloading and you seem to get so many less connections than when using µtorrent. It's also a lot more bloated and slower running. It does have the advantage of supporting more platforms though.

Might not be.

Probably a good thing anyway. They'd never be able to live up to the promises of the first two albums, much in the same way that the second album didn't live up to the foundation of the first. Don't get me wrong, I love A Second Coming, but for completely different reasons than the first album.

Brown has a successful solo career and IMO, has been producing some solid material on each album.

I just can't believe it's been almost 20 years! Damn.

I agree with you on the bloat - they have added so much nonsense to it. However it easily maxes out my broadband on the connections it has (when doesnloading SXSW I had around 70 peers connected) and it plays better with the platform than utorrent ever did, so I put up with the advertising nonsense and bloat :-)

Well, if it is true, round-trips to SFO are coming in at sub $500 (on Continental, ie the flight is a virgin atlantic one) and Coachella still has tickets available. I rest my case.

Also, I have a spare room

Hugo

Longest running thread ever?

I actually scheduled this as a yearly reminder in my Outlook. Another year, another mess of music. Still have half of 2008 to listen to.

Thanks again Peter.

In a matter of days, the SXSW Festival will start.
Already, Volume 1 of the music compilation is available- 3.5GB!
http://sites.google.com/site/sxswtorrent/2010

There is also a stream of SXSW 2010 music.

http://opml.radiotime.com/Tune.ashx?id=s121973&formats=aac,mp3,wma,wmpro,wmvoice,wmvideo,ogg&partnerId=16

And part 2 is up there now as well.

It's that time again.

Seen linked from JWZ's blog, linked from jonrosenberg's twitter, linked from amultiverse.com. And they say clicking on these things is a waste of time!

Peter

Here's hoping it's better than last year's collection!

Thanks for the tip!
Vuze pulled it down yesterday. I've got to get some space on the empeg for it now.

2013 collection is now available.

And for those still following... 2014 collection is available. Quite possibly the last.

Very nice! If you don't continue this in the future, there's a smaller sampling that NPR Music puts out every year of the top 100 tracks to look out for. That's here.

On a related note, my best bud is NPR Music's sole SXSW photographer. If you do a Google Image search for "npr music sxsw 2013 photos", almost all of those are his, including this one of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs:



And this one of the Smashing Pumpkins, that their bass player ended up ordering for Billy Corgan's birthday because Billy liked it so much. Apparently it's hanging in their studio with their gold/platinum records:



(my apologies if I've posted this stuff here before, I'm proud of the guy)

Oh, yes! Thanks! Didn't know about that one.


IIRC, you mentioned it once before. I really like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs photo, because of the vibrancy of the colour, as well as the composition, but I find the Smashing Pumpkins photo kind of "meh".

Also of note this year is the iTunes Festival at SxSW. Free streams and recordings after the performances.

Classically, the iTunes Festival has only been a London event.