The Magnatune article I was interviewed for is in the current issue of the Economist (which is subscription only, but you can read it in Magnatune's press section.) It's some great press for Magnatune and there's also a real nice plug for me in the second paragraph:

You can legally listen, free of charge and with high sound quality, to full albums by any of the 200 or so artists who have signed to the label. (Your correspondent was immediately hooked by a song called "Making Me Nervous" by a one-man electro-pop band from Ottawa called Brad Sucks.)

Sweet! Can't get in SPIN, but the Economist likes me. Hello bankers!

The article also goes on to say Magnatune's goal is to focus on second-tier genres, which makes business sense as really, who wants to compete with the majors? But it's kind of a downer for little old me in the Rock genre.

Hello to everyone coming in from Boing Boing. My server exploded under the weight of everyone trying to download my source files and remix album at once, but things seem better now. I've had to take the remix album MP3 files offline temporarily and I'm trying running everything else through Coral.

If you can, please use Bittorrent to grab the remix album and source:

Here's the I Don't Know What I'm Doing Remixed torrent. (96 megs)

And here's the I Don't Know What I'm Doing Source torrent. (560+ megs)

Thanks!

I went out amp shopping today as my amp is a tiny hilarious thing and some Brad Sucks live stuff is fast approaching. I tried out a bunch and I think I'm basically sold on this sucker:

It's the Peavey Delta Blues 210. I'm an amp novice so I wasn't sure what I was listening for, but it impressed me when I tried it, it sounded so much better than any amp sim garbage I've been using. Then I came back and looked it up on Harmony Central and it has a 9.4 overall review. So I uh... want it.

I Don't Know What I'm Doing Remixed is finally online. 18 tracks, 1:04:09 playing time. It was a lot of work putting it together but I think it turned out pretty well. Thanks to all the remixers and to everyone who helped spread the word that I've been giving away the source to my album I Don't Know What I'm Doing. (You can get the full source here.)

Here's the zip file for I Don't Know What I'm Doing Remixed. Here's the torrent.

Since I've been dragging my gear around for the live Brad Sucks practices lately, I've been getting annoyed at all my cables being tangled constantly. I remembered reading about Velcro Grip Ties that are meant for plants but allegedly work great on cables.

I swung by the nursery tonight and picked up 18 feet of 2" wide Velcro Tree Tie for $7.99 Canadian dollars. So far I'm hella impressed. It's sturdy and my cable bag is far more organized. And I have this compulsive urge to go neatly velcro-tie every cable I own.

The remix compilation is just around the corner (finally), so here's the source for the final two songs off the album: Never Get Out [20mb] and Work Out Fine [43mb]. So now after a lot of cutting and looping and exporting, the source for my entire album I Don't Know What I'm Doing is available online here.

I've also got a torrent of the whole thing: Brad_Sucks_-_I_Dont_Know_What_Im_Doing_(source).zip.torrent. The source to all the songs is in there and it weighs in at 560+ megs. This may crap out if bandwidth gets tight, so get it while you can.

Google launched a blog search service. Exciting stuff! It's sparse and quick and it works decently enough. I like to keep tabs on who's linking to me, so I've subscribed to the search results for my site alongside my Technorati and IceRocket results. Google returns 80 results, Technorati returns "218 links from 157 sites" and IceRocket returns 106 results. I haven't done any research into the additional 26 links that IceRocket returns, but the way it displays its results is still my favorite, with the entries grouped by day.

Harry Shearer launches record label - man, I'd love to be signed to Ned Flanders' label.

iPod nano - Apple announced a line of super thin 2GB and 4GB iPod flash players today. Slick.

More Than Soup live - Video of Starfinger (aka Dr. Kong Balong) performing More Than Soup at Songfight Live! in Boston a few weeks ago. Very awesome.

VSTunnel - a plugin that lets people collaborate over the net using VST plugins inside any sequencer.

I drove by this the other day:

It says "Loving God..." over the exit and "...Loving people." over the entrance. I didn't go inside.

Rubberduck for free - you can now download the legendary Rubberduck TB-303 software for free as well.

iTunes Music Store Top 10 Songs - top 10 charts from all the iTunes stores in the world. Very neat.

ReBirth Museum - Propellerhead software's classic ReBirth program (303/808/909 emulator) is now free.

PayPal introduces micropayments - 5% + 5 cents on transactions under $2. Not sure if it's automatic or if you have to set up your account for it.

Bill Cosby Talks To Kids About Drugs - "People take pills to get high, you see." Waxy's hosting MP3s of this album and it's sensational.

Audio Files GDS Indexer - Plugin to index tons of audio file formats in Google Desktop Search.

Bandnews.org - a slick and very smart aggregator of band news. Great idea.

Magnatune "Big Ideas" - John Buckman has a list of potential new features for Magnatune.