Links for 07-02-2008
Metaplace; those difficult second albums; the literature of ideas; music reviews …
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“Metaplace is designed to allow users to host these [virtual worlds] on the Web the way they might host embedded video, and to build them the way they might build other content on the Web.”
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“The old pop-music cliché is that you have your entire life to write your debut album and only a year to come up with your second, but it’s a little more complicated than that.”
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3 – SF Signal MIND MELD: The Literature Of Ideas
“Science fiction has been called “the literature of ideas”. Focusing on the ‘ideas’ part, what science fictional idea do you wish you had written first?”
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4 – Album review: The Out_Circuit – Pierce The Empire With A Sound
“This is what happens when post-hardcore musos spend a lot of time messing around in a home studio and getting out of the box that their genre had shoved them in.”
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5 – Album review: Rivers Cuomo – Alone – The Home Recordings of
“A must for any die-hard Weezer fan or completist, and an interesting disc for aspiring songwriters (or those simply fascinated by the process) to pick over.”
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6 – Album review: Dead Meadow – Old Growth
“The best guitar albums seem to be the ones that make you think “hell, yeah, I could play that”, only to leave you hunched baffled over your fretboard wondering exactly how they made it sound so easy.”
