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    Dec 07

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    Pavement Special launch is tonight

    posted 09:47 AM, 2007
    Just a reminder that the Pavement Special launch takes place tonight at the swanky Bohemian in Melvile. My good friend Lloyd Gedye of Isolation.tv fame is behind this brilliant new music magazine, and I will be MC'ing the event and keeping the ladies entertained. The line up is killer too - Jim Neversink, Kid of Doom and the BLK JKS are worth the price of admission alone. Come on down - if you're stuck in Johannesburg at this time of year it's not like you have anything better to do, right?
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  • 12
    Sep 07

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    Led Zeppelin confirm reunion gig

    posted 07:47 PM, 2007
    Reunion gigs as a rule generally suck. They reek of crass commercialism and are hardly ever as good as the original gigs, mainly because the musicians now dislike each other and it's pretty hard to recreate the magic that they originally had when playing together. A notable exception to this rule was the Pixies' recent triumphant reunion tour but I suspect this is because there was always the feeling that they had split before their prime. South African bands have been known to stretch the reunion...
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  • 21
    Jun 07

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    Arno Carstens is supporting the Rolling Stones in Spain this weekend!

    posted 06:50 PM, 2007
    Yesterday I got a call on my landline from Arno Carstens looking for Jerome, my housemate. Jerome is the ex-drummer for Cape Town rock pioneers Nine, and nowadays he splits his drumming duties between Arno Carstens' New Porn and my band The Diesel Whores. It turns out that Arno and his band had been selected to open for the Rolling Stones in San Sebastián in Spain this Saturday the 23rd June. A few minutes ago Jerome left for the airport and the band flew to Spain tonight to what is certainly going...
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  • 20
    Apr 07

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    MyKakFest - Guns and Roses withdraw from the concert

    posted 01:01 PM, 2007
    Guns and Roses have just announced their withdrawal from MyCokeFest due to an injury to legendary ex-Replacements bassist Tommy Stinson. To be honest, Tommy Stinson was the only reason that I would have attended the gig at all. Some of the South African acts are worth watching (Dirty Skirts, Taxi Violence, Parlotones and maybe the Nude Girls), but the rest of the line up was lame as all hell. Hey, now that they don't have to pay Guns and Roses (which should have changed its name to the Fat Axel Experience...
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  • 03
    Apr 07

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    Last.fm - social networking for (almost) grown ups

    posted 11:37 AM, 2007
    I have been using Last.fm since October 2004 and over time it has grown into my favourite website ever. Last.fm utilises a plugin that reports the songs that you listen to to a central database that gradually builds up a profile of your music tastes. The geniuses at Last.fm explain it better here : Last.fm is the flagship product from the team that designed the Audioscrobbler music engine. More than ten million times a day, Last.fm users "scrobble" their tracks to our servers, helping to collectively...
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    Apr 07

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    EMI to sell DRM free music for $1.29/song

    posted 08:57 AM, 2007
    Techcrunch reports that EMI and Apple have just announced that they will be selling DRM Free music on iTunes at a premium rate of $1.29 a song. This is in all probability the beginning of the end of DRM, especially for music. DRM was a bad idea, both in concept and execution, and the fact that a major label has decided to go this route is a big step. A few things still irk me though. Why sell the DRM free music for $0.30 a track more than their crippled music? Why not simply replace the DRM'ed tracks...
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Hi, I'm Jaxon Rice. By day I run a Johannesburg based web company called Soup and by night I am the frontman of the Diesel Whores. This is my personal blog. more...