Amazon just updated its Cloud Player music storage service with an iTunes Match-like feature that allows Amazon to just scan a user’s music library and add matching songs to that user’s library without having to upload those songs one by one. Like Apple’s service, it costs $25 per year. Apple’s service only makes sense if you have an iPhone [...]
Winamp is turning 15-years-old. It’s hard to believe it now, but long before iTunes, Winamp was the only software capable of organizing Mp3s. Sure there was Windows Media Player and RealPlayer in 1997, but no one seriously considered using those apps. At its nascent height, Winamp had a user-base of some 60 million people. Then, [...]
Ben Folds Five are readying their reunion album, and the trio just posted a demo from one of those recording sessions to Ben Folds’ Facebook page. “Do It Anyway” proves that Ben Folds has been missing Darren Jesse and Robert Sledge creatively over the last decade. This song is easily the most interesting thing Folds has done [...]
This cover of the Carly Simon classic “You’re So Vain” by Marilyn Manson and Johnny Depp is a bonus track on Manson’s forthcoming, album Born Villain. Before listening to the song, I was going to write that Carly Simon killed herself just so she could roll over in her grave, but actually, the tune itself [...]
When you get an email from a friend that reads, “post on Sly asap. Boom. Get your rocket sauce ready and start doing your cock pushups,” you know you’re in for a treat. So, because Ben Smallen asked nicely, here is the first song from the upcoming album by The D. I really don’t know [...]
Despite Mason Jennings‘ disappointing concert last weekend in Boston (curious choices for his setlist, lack of full backing band), his new album Minnesota has some really great tunes on it. The album as a whole is a mixed bag, which has been the case with the last three or four albums from the midwest troubadour. [...]
A new single from Pearl Jam, free from their website. Here they are killing it on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last week. You know, it’s a pretty damn good effort. Pearl Jam is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its classic debut album Ten with the film, book and soundtrack Pearl Jam 20. The film, directed by Cameron Crowe, premieres [...]
It’s been ten years since the power-pop trio Ben Folds Five have recorded music together. Their break-up was unexpected and to this particular fan a harsh blow. Sure, Folds himself has gone on to have a successful solo career. But deep down, everyone knows that his musical output just hasn’t been as good as the [...]
It’s hard to believe that The Strokes’ Is This It? just turned 10-years-old. But it has! Amazingly, it’s the only album the band has produced that’s worth a damn, but you can hear the album’s influence on so many younger bands. Anyway, Stereogum has put out a nice tribute album full of covers, that includes [...]
