Subject URL: New Powderfinger single

Powderfinger site announces a new single soon. Originally going to be "Whatever Makes You Happy", I wonder what it will be now. There was a bit of a stink when "Like a Dog" came out. Triple M decided it was "too rock" (they do that a lot, they did it to Killing Heidi, oops) and played "Whatever Makes You Happy" instead. Powderfinger's management complained it would "stuff up our release schedule". All incredibly stupid.

Does anyone know where The Odyssey went? The awesome Powderfinger discography used to be on One.Net (http://web.one.net.au/~stooch/) but it's dead now.

I've been a bit slack with the digital music news lately so here is a quick update based on a quick browse today.

MP3.com has had (or has been involved in) a Digital Music summit during which they have been discussing the future of digital music and the leasons to be learnt from the last year of carnage.

CNet has a good overview of the summit and the issues discussed.

Choice quotes from Michael Robertson, MP3.com CEO :
On innovation :
"There's no room for small companies to do big things anymore"
On digital music sales :
"If the only thing they can do is listen to it on a PC they're not going to buy it."

Also mentioned in that article is the fact that Napster has been shut down in order to implement new technolgoy and has been asked by a judge to stay shut down until they can proove that they have done "everything in their power" to make their filtering software 100% effective. So that's the end of that then. Oh, and Metallica and Dr Dre have settled (via Slashdot).

Interesting side note, MP3Machine's top download for the last two months has been Morpheus.

Also on Slashdot, the results of a comparison between MP3, MP3Pro, Vorbis and Windows Media. The article and test are a load of crap of course because it was with only two songs and the testers knew which codec was what and had pre-formed opinions on the results.

My advice with music compression is use whatever you feel most comfortable with and whatever you think sounds best. It depends on your desired result. I still prefer the suggestions on r3mix.net and I still prefer MP3.

Subject URL: Regurgitator Live At The Wireless

July 23rd 7:30pm according to the official page. I've never known a live at the wireless to start that early but you never know. Might actually be live live live or something. They're also playing on cable TV's [V]HQ on Wednesday 18th July 7pm (that's this Wednesday). Mental note : I have access to cable, watch it.

...Art is dead, long live Eduardo & Rodriguez! Damn this album is good.

New Fantomas album rules too BTW. And thanks to those collective types who already have collected together MP3s of the original versions of these horror movie themes. They're much appreciated.