There’s a nice site which uses the data from your Last.fm account to find out how eclectic your musical taste is.
The script takes the 20 top artists in your musical profile from Last.fm, and finds the collection of the top 5 similar artists for the each of the top 20 for your profile. The result […]

I’ve been bothered recently that a couple of folk I know have told me they’re not interested in listening to a new band or album they haven’t heard, because it’s “not the sort of thing” they like, or “so-and-so” is the best band ever, therefore “what’d be the point?”
Please think for a minute about the […]

It’s that time of year in Edinburgh again. The main Edinburgh International Festival, and most of the other specialist festivals, including The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (known simply as “The Fringe”), have either started or are due to begin soon.
Usually we never go to anything at any of the festivals, but this year we decided to […]

Following on from my post on free video games mp3 remixes (where everything went wrong!), I thought I’d mention some game and demoscene music streamed stations.
What follows are links to the front pages of these websites. Which radio stream you choose to listen to will depend on whether you have broadband, cable or prefer a […]

Sheesh.
I had almost completed a lengthy post recommending websites where people could download remixes of video game music, when Firefox (and ScribeFire) crashed and I lost the whole damned thing. I’m not happy.
Anyhow, to cut to the chase, I had been about to recommend these four excellent sources of free remixes: OverClocked ReMix, Remix.Kwed.Org, AmigaRemix […]

The world becomes more bizarre by the day.
A man was arrested in Denver, US, and held on two counts of harassment for telling two women they were “extremely beautiful”.
NPR reports that the most popular guitar tutor on YouTube was accused of copyright infringement for showing his pupils how to play a Rolling Stones song on […]

What’s with the folk that do captions at the BBC? Only yesterday, I mentioned that the BBC will be using MusicBrainz metadata for the artists and track names mentioned on its music website. And yet they somehow managed to misspell the names of two of the artists at one of the biggest series of gigs […]