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Pearl Jam – Backspacer – Full Album Listen For Free
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Free Music, MP3, Music on October 9, 2009
For its ninth album, Pearl Jam chose to go back to working with producer Brendan O’Brien. The album was the group’s first album to be produced by O’Brien since the band’s 1998 album, Yield. “At this point, I think we’re willing to let somebody cut the songs up a little bit,” says lead vocalist Eddie Vedder. “In the past, Brendan would say, ‘It’s a great song, but I think you should do it in a different key’, and we’d say no. But now that we’ve heard Bruce [Springsteen] has listened to his suggestions, I think we will too.” Bassist Jeff Ament said, “He brings a brutally honest approach to what he thinks is working and what isn’t, and it really moves things along… We don’t get weighted down with ideas that maybe aren’t even that good. He’s one of the few people outside of the band that we trust with our music, and we’re really, really looking forward to making this record.”
In 2007, after Pearl Jam’s 2006 tour had ended, the band members began recording demo material on their own while staying in occasional contact via e-mail. Guitarist Mike McCready revealed at the time that he had tested out some ideas with guitarist Stone Gossard and drummer Matt Cameron in separate sessions as well. Rolling Stone reported in May 2008 that Pearl Jam was in the early stages of working on its ninth studio album and had already had one session with O’Brien. McCready stated in 2008 that the album is “really in its infant stages right now” and that the band had “about five ideas that have been worked on.” After laying down some instrumental beds in 2008, additional demos were put to tape in December, and Ament, Cameron, Gossard, and McCready came up with another array of material during a trip to Ament’s home in Montana. Ament said, “It’s the first time since the first record that we’ve really rehearsed… instead of just going to the studio with a handful of ideas.”
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David Gray – Draw the Line – Listen To Full Album Free
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Free Music, MP3, Music on September 30, 2009
Draw the Line is the eighth studio album by the English singer-songwriter David Gray, released on 14 September 2009 in Europe and 22 September in the US. The first single “Fugitive” was released on 7 September 2009.
Gray recorded the album, the first set of new songs since 2005’s Life in Slow Motion, in his own studio–The Church Studios–while un-signed to a record label. The studio previously belonged to the Eurythmics, and when Gray invited Annie Lennox to guest record the duet “Full Steam,” she reprimanded him for not changing the carpets. The track, described as “a broad political thing,” is one of two duets on the album.
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Muse – The Resistance – Listen To Full Album Free
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Free Music, MP3, Music on September 17, 2009
Muse – The Resistance – Listen To Full Album For Free… music player by Grooveshark
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“Muse have made an album of genius, brilliance and beauty!” (The Sunday Times Culture)
“Too few bands have this level of ambition, this desire to explore new territory… life affirming” (Q Magazine)
“Berlioz meets Bowie.” (The Mirror)
“…a streak of utter brilliance.” (The Fly)
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Faster Grooveshark Search Add-on for Firefox (auto-suggest feature)
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Firefox, MP3, Music, Personal on September 12, 2009
I coded this firefox add-on to query the Grooveshark search site much quicker than their standard search tool add-on.
Grooveshark currently provide a useful search add-on, it installs Grooveshark search to your current list of search engines within Firefox. By searching for an artist or song you are directed to the Grooveshark website and results are displayed.
I re-coded their XML install file to include a live suggest feature pulling related words as you type from Yahoo to speed up your search query.
Examples:
1. The below image shows the default Grooveshark add-on, you have to type in the artist and song title and then click on the magnify button to complete a search: Read the rest of this entry »
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YoughalOnline.com Live Webcast – A Big Success
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Broadband, Music, Personal, Videos on January 31, 2009
I am really pleased with the result of the second YoughalOnline.com Live Gig Broadcast which was streamed using Ustream.tv on Thursday 29th January 2009. The band “Little Big Man” performed a live set at Claycastle Recording Studio, Youghal and also an interview with front man Brian O Glanby.
1,570 viewers accessed the webcast over the hour with traffic coming mainly from Ireland, UK, USA, Netherlands, & Australia. We had a chat box enabled on the site and at one stage there was 144 active users chatting . Below is a screen shot of the Ustream Metrics for the broadcast.
Getting the Traffic
Part of the success of this webcast lay in pre-planning. A group of the people involved in this project posted the gig details on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace & Bebo also SMS Text, Forums, Email and traditional word of mouth. I also created a YoughalOnline.com Facebook group and also a Facebook App for people to install so they could watch the webcast from within Facebook.
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