MacadamiaAlison Scott; her online journal and switching weblogWhy I Just Keep On Lovin' MySpace When it Done Treat Me So Bad- March 12, 2006 I really don't like MySpace. In fact, I dislike almost everything about it. The design seems shoddy, the pages are badly organised, it can be really hard to find anything you're interested in, pages play unsolicited music and video at you, if you open 86 MySpace pages at once it crashes Safari, and, you know. So on. However, it appears that we are rapidly approaching the point where every band in the entire world ever has a site on MySpace. Most of them stick new tracks on there too, either...http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/archives/000380.html Accordion Hero- March 5, 2006 Erik Olson wrote to tell me that the button-melodeon teaching game I was searching for actually has a web site. It's called Accordion Hero, and is the latest game from Schadenfreude Interactive, the company that brought you Need For Speed: Underhill, Grand Theft Ottoman and Hannibal Crossing. I want one.http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/archives/000379.html Hail Music- March 4, 2006 I've updated the Potted Music page, mostly because I discovered a link on TradTunes to a free sampler album from HAIL Music. They're a collective of Highlands and Islands labels, and the sampler includes Blazing Fiddles, Karine Polwart and Julie Fowlis, amongst others. You will have to register with Trad Tunes to see the tracklisting, but still. Great stuff. In one of those weird coincidences, The Wailin Jennys came to London just after Erik Olson recommended them to us, so we saw them at the.http://www.kittywompus.com/macadamia/archives/000378.html |