• Posts Tagged ‘music’

    Downloaded

    by  • March 28, 2013 • Internet • 1 Comment

    Downloaded PosterThis is a film I’m definitely looking forward to.

    Directed by Alex Winter (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Freaked), Downloaded chronicles the evolution of digital media, focusing primarily on the rise and fall of the pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service Napster.

    Featuring exclusive interviews with Napster co-founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, software developers, musicians, and the music industry elite, Downloaded explores the controversial file sharing software and follows Napster’s rise in 1998, through the gauntlet of copyright infringement lawsuits, to its acquisition by Rhapsody in 2011.

    Some of those interviewed for Winter’s documentary include Henry Rollins, Billy Corgan, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, former Sony Music Chairman Don Lenner, former CEO of the RIAA Hilary Rosen, Beastie Boys’ Mike D, and Noel Gallagher of Oasis.

    Read the full review & watch the trailer on GeeksOfDoom.com.

    Songs of my childhood

    by  • October 26, 2011 • video • 0 Comments

    I’m going to skip all the messy details about how I got myself to looking up these songs on YouTube (there’s a loose connection to the Steve Jobs biography when it comes to the first song below) but I thought I’s share these with you. My parents have these on 45s and I grew...

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