Monthly Archives: January 2010
Starting Today, Facebook Apps Can Ask You To Hand Over Your Email Address
def. a big deal. it’s especially relevant for bands/artists, as email is such a key form of communicating to fans.
Vampire Weekend Lands First No. 1 Album
wow, that’s crazy. good for them. I’ve been digging this a lot lately…so does that mean I have mainstream musical tastes? ha!
Phish’s Sparkle set to The Fire Gang from The Labyrinth
Phish’s Maze set to The Labyrinth
Fun with GIMP: Concert Photo Collage
I’ve been toying around with a few image-editing programs. I just downloaded/installed GIMP (aka GNU Image Manipulation Program), which seems to be the closest open-source program you can get to Photoshop. It’s very cool and quite robust. I’m a total novice with this stuff, but I think I managed to put together a decent photo collage of some favorite (mainly) concert photos:
It’s just a draft so it’s a bit rough around the edges. But I think I kinda like it that way. In fact, I decided that this should be my new twitter background.
Currently Listening to Spoon’s New Album ‘Transference’
Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem cover Llama by Phish
Taboot! Awesome. (thanks to Jon Weber for this one)
How to Fake Like You’ve Listened to Animal Collective via Flavorwire
posting this one for the other Animal Collective fans. lolz.
Soulive Doing 10 Nights at Brooklyn Bowl in March
Called “Bowlive” http://bit.ly/7Y64im good times.