Direct .mov link.

The Hidden Cameras official site.
(via.)

He’s Derek Roddy. Wikipedia.

Rory Nunn @ myspace.

Mad Bjork based biscuitry for your Tuesday morning work slump. Squarepusheresque sort of in parts. And you can read about the little bear in the video; Colargar here.
.Mov quicktime link. (via.)

Some words for your notebook:

Biscuitry
Squarepusheresque

It’s powered by YouTube. It’s a lot of Jazz. JazzTube. Jazz at wikipedia.

I typed tell me something interesting about jazz and I ended up at this, Jazz Fundamentals, by Marc Sabatella.

Inspector Gadget:

Super Mario Brothers:

Sesame Street:

Neat video.

Official site. (via.)

More than 100 of the world’s top musicians will perform at a series of worldwide concerts this summer to highlight the threat of global warming.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Black Eyed Peas will be among those taking part in the Live Earth gigs on 7 July.

The eight concerts were announced by ex-US Vice President Al Gore, whose global warming film An Inconvenient Truth is up for two Oscars.

Go on the Gore! Gore 2012! Full BBC story.

Cool footage from November last year at the Flaming Lips concert in Vicar Street where they handed out laser pointers to everyone in the audience.

via spoilt. Also a Flickr set from the same tour but somewhere else.
Official Flaming Lips site.
The Flaming Lips previously at TCAL.

A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.

Entitled “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,” the study matched an extensive sample of music downloads to American music sales data in order to search for causality between illicit downloading and album sales. Analyzing data from the final four months of 2002, the researchers estimated that P2P affected no more than 0.7% of sales in that timeframe.

Causality. Felix Oberholzer-Gee. Strumpf. It’s official then. Full story at Ars Technica. The Journal of Political Economy. (via Irish Eyes.)

The North Strand Klezmer Band was founded in 2005 with the previously unexplored aim of bringing the traditional songs of the Hasidic and Ashkenazic Jewish culture to Dublin. A six piece featuring brass, accordion, guitar, double bass and percussion, the band stay close to original material with a tight hypnotic rhythm section and striking lead melodies veering into the dancehalls of ska.

And here they are playing up a storm in Burger King in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin in 2006:

Myspace. Fair few other videos at youtube.

Wikipedia for Hedges, who died in 1997.

This made the front page of several US newspapers yesterday; and no doubt a lot of you already heard about it, but it’s important enough that I’m going to link to the statement on Apple’s site and you should all read it in it’s entirety if you care at all about the music you own or listen to.

The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely. Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. That’s right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player.

Finally. But wait. Does he really mean it? Loads of good boing boing linkage here.

Ozzy Osbourne’s 2007 Ozzfest tour will be a literal free-for-all - tickets will be given away.

The rocker’s manager-wife Sharon has struck a deal with a consortium of sponsors who will cover the costs of the summer trek, allowing rock fans to see the show for free.

She says: “Everybody has been so good to us over the years, and year after year ticket prices get higher and higher and higher.

“We just thought we can’t keep on raising ticket prices because there is not that much money out there anymore. Hey, kids can go online and download music, why not go to a show for free too? What the heck?”

breakingnews.ie

Eh… well its him alright. All 12 minutes of him. Even has time to butcher a Foo Fighters song!!

You owe it to your iTunes, or whatever mp3-mcgigger you have, to check out WFMU’s Beware of the Blog the blog of a great radio station that often includes free mp3s of bizarre raities that no one wants (or has thought of) making money from yet.

My favorite of these is Van Morrison’s Contractual Obligation Album, as the WFMU’s blog explains:

Listener Scott S, who originally brought the tapes to our attention in 2001, wrote:

As far as I know, none of this stuff was ever issued in the ’60’s. I can only surmise at some point in the early ’90’s, whoever controlled Van’s Bang masters ran across the tapes and - either having questionable ethics and/or a twisted sense of humor - licensed the tapes to European labels that were releasing compilations of Van’s Bang-era material. I know of at least two double-CD sets that include demo stuff as the second disc - one is Payin’ Dues on Charly in 1994, and the other is New York Sessions ‘67. WIll Rigby told me that he saw a single-disc best-of that actually mixes legit Bang-era Morrison tracks with material from the demos - now that must be an interesting listen. I guess there’s irony in the fact that Morrison recorded these tunes as a big fuck-you to his label - before he signed to Warner and recorded Astral Weeks - yet ultimately the joke’s on him, now that they’re being packaged as legitimate tracks (on “best-of” collections, no less).

I enjoyed this.

A New York teen, dubbed a pirate by the Record Industry, is counter suing them for defamation, violating anti-trust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.

In papers responding to a lawsuit filed by five record companies, Robert Santangelo, who was 11 when he is supposed to have downloaded music, has come out fighting. He denies sharing music using P2P technology and says it’s impossible for the record companies to prove that that he did.

Robert Santangelo and his lawyer, Jordan Glass, have raised 32 defences against the music industry’s charges. Amongst Robert’s defence is the information that all the music that it was claimed he downloaded he already owned on shop bought CDs.

Full story. It’s the son of Patti Santangelo.

…are tonight in the point. How exciting. The official site. The nominees.