Posted by admin on 08 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: news
The British have this fixation with the n° 1 Christmas single that is quaint. Very often, a charity record gets the prized position (either that or Sir Cliff Richard). But for some time, X-Factor artists have been dominating the spot. So two fans of Rage Against the Machine are launching a viral campaign to reclaim [...]
Posted by admin on 24 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, meanings, news
As WordPress users are often told by WordPress, “code is poetry“. But what happens when coders take a look at songs and determine the logic behind the songs? A geeky in-joke has now become one of Twitter’s funniest trends. Type #songsincode into the Twitter search engine and you’ll be bombarded by song titles and lines [...]
Posted by admin on 28 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: news
I was on Twitter again last night, and I must say that the sheer number of posts about lyrics is phenomenal. So I did what I have been humming and hawing about for some time, I opened an A_Lyric Twitter account. Their widget (on the right column) is buggy. So to hook up with me, [...]
Posted by admin on 10 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: events, gadgets, news
OK, it’s a bit gimmicky but it could be interesting. US band Of a Revolution has launched a call to co-write a song on Twitter. They are asking people to submit lines that they will choose and collate and chop up into verses and choruses. Said frontman Marc Robege in Billboard magazine: “I do a [...]