Buskers! Radiohead! Thom Yorke! David Byrne! - A Stream of Consciousness Rave-Fest

First, hats off for the busking adventures!

This new addition to ER is really exciting and just goes to show that when Dr. Confusion brings it, he brings it raw! That's right, honeys- smarts, a fine storyteller, and one hell of a looker (if I do say so myself). These little tales of magic and woe, of singing into the cold alone and with strangers, have touched my inner troubadour right where he lives....

So what else has got me excited? The new Radiohead album!! It's affirmative, chilluns, that In Rainbows is already out in the land o' the rising sun and will be available on CD stateside January 1st!

In case you've been living under a mossy stone in some forgotten forest somewhere, Radiohead's long awaited follow up to 2003's Hail to the Thief is a double-disc extravaganza that's been getting stellar reviews left, right and center. Many worldwide have already snatched up the album online, as it was originally made available back in October from Radiohead's website where you could choose your own price to download the album!

Speaking of Radiohead:

Thom Yorke announced that Radiohead will be "broadcasting a pre-recording of some songs and other bits on New Years Eve.." over at Radiohead.tv.

It starts at midnight GMT on December 31, which is in the early evening here in America, leaving plenty of time to go get ready to see Spoon or the Black Lips or R. Kelly or whoever.

-according to Pitchfork.

Mmmm. A pretty sweet way to spend New Years if you're going to be staying in....

And by the way, if you like Thom Yorke and Radiohead, then you might (and by "might" I mean damn well should) check out the recent interview that Mr. Yorke did for Wired Magazine. It gives some nice insights AND (!!!) his interviewer is none other than mega geek and music legend David Byrne! Talk about givin' the peoples what they want....

LINK to the Pitchfork article for more details on the Radiohead New Year's broadcast.
LINK to David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music at Wired Magazine

Byrne Speaks on the Future

Mr. Doctor Confusion sent me a LINK to this little snippet in Boing Boing about a presentation by David Byrne where the music icon muses that record labels will soon be obsolete and that he currently gets all of his music from eMusic or via illegal download. Mr. Byrne quotes issues with DRM for his not purchasing music online from distributors like iTunes. Very interesting indeed. I might try to dig up more on this, but thanks for now to Dr. C for catching this cool piece of info!

"My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" + Creative Commons = 2 Free Classics + Hundreds of Remixes!

I just heard!!!

If you dig the 1981 David Byrne - Brian Eno release "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" (and if you don't dig it, probably some of your favorite artists do), then you'll be as erect as an exclamation mark to hear that the Byrne - Eno team have re-released the album with 7 new tracks, AND AND AND AND AND (!!!!!) two of those tracks, "A Secret Life" and "Help Me Somebody," have been offered-up online under a Creative Commons license!

AND, for those who haven't heard, it gets betta, kids. The two tracks have been made available in their ORIGINAL 24-TRACK FORM. Byrne and Eno have set up the site bush-of-ghosts.com to allow common peasants such as we to download the original pre-mixed album tracks, mutilate and/or remix them to our heart's content, then UPLOAD the remixes back onto the site where they will be available for the public to vote on, share, laugh at, etc.

That's right. And, we're not JUST talking remixes either, as you are also free to use samplings of the two songs in your own original compositions. Pretty sweet, especially when you consider that the terms of the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license dictate that all derivative works must also be "share-alike".

This much exstacy may require a mea culpa or two……….