Digital Buzzard

Here’s a roundup of tracks I’m listening to this week. Everybody has different tastes, so you may love them, hate them or be indifferent, but give them a listen – you might find something new. Got something to add? Drop it into the comments.

My Robot Friend – Robot High School
Electro Pop with a heavy beat, from a New York performing arts group. Featured on an awesome tilt-shift Monster truck video

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Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Pomplamoose – My Favourite Things
Beautiful track from the Pomplamoose, a collaboration bewteen Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte
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Midfield General – Seed Distribution
More electro – this time from Midfield General, the alter ego of DJ/Producer Damian Harris on Fatboy Slim’s Skint label. Featuring the ramblings of The Mighty Boosh’s Noel Fielding.
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Naomi Roper – The Way You Make Me Feel
Fantastic acoustic cover of a Michael Jackson classic.
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If you haven’t heard of Spotify by now, then you’ve been living under a rock. Its simply the most exciting thing to happen to the digital music scene for a long time, and promises to reshape the way we experience music online.

It’s been just over a week since they opened up their beta service to the all UK users. If you haven’t signed up yet, do so now.

As momentum for the service continues to build, related sites and cool web-apps are beginning to pop up. Let’s take a look at a few of them:

Spotify Search – A simple idea and a great plugin that allows you to search the spotify database by selecting an artist name or other text from any website.

Afront’s CD Collection – This user has taken a picture of his physical CD collection and linked each jewelcase to the smae album on spotify. Fantastic idea. Step by step instructions included on the blog.

One of Spotify’s best features is the ability to share playlists between friends. Several similarly-named sites have appeared offering you the chance to share your tastes with other users, and discover new music. It’s the new mixtape.

http://www.spotifylists.com/

http://spotylist.com/

http://www.spotifylist.com/

http://spotifyplaylists.co.uk/

http://www.spotyshare.com/

http://www.yourspotify.com/ – deserves a special mention for their use of a coverflow-style browser.

UPDATE:

Worth a mention – WordMagazine.co.uk is handing over the office playlist to its readers for the day.

Last night, The Bloomsbury Bowling lanes played host to the latest ‘Dirty Boots‘ event – a screening of ‘The Story of Anvil‘ followed by a performance by the Band themselves.

This moving and funny documentary (or ‘Rockumentary’, if you will) received a standing ovation at its Sundance premiere, and it’s easy to see why. The film follows two ageing Rockers (Robb Reiner and Steve “Lips” Kudlow) as they stage a last ditch attempt to make it, after 30 years of near obscurity, despite playing alongside some of the greatest names in metal.

A quick search of Twitter reveals users film-maker @benjyfilm, @jowebbuk and @totalfilm were in attendance last night, as was Kerrang Editor @paulbrannigan – although he didn’t seem to enjoy the company as much as the rest of us:

Great film. Great band. Audience of complete cunts.

Flickr has coverage of the Shepherd Bush gig earlier in the week, along with some great shots from user MykReeve.

The current growth of twitter means that you can almost certainly find live commentary of events you attend, and even participate via your mobile. Twitpic users proivde live photographic coverage, and you’ll be sure to find fantastic pictures on Flickr the following day, both from average-joe concert-goer, and professional photographers shooting from the pit.

I love this mashup from the New York Times, mapping tweets during the recent superbowl. A half-time performance from Bruce Springsteen dominates the conversation.

Springsteen preforms at half-time

I’ll leave you with the trailer for ‘The Story of Anvil’ and a hearty recommendation to go and see it as soon as you can.