Wednesday Intermezzo: Lala Begins
We’ve got a bunch of links for you today, so let’s just jump right in to the mess…
- Kings of Leon are playing a free show on Friday at the SoHo Apple Store and they’ve booked a run of epic venues in September
- Guess you can: Pete Townshend explains I Can’t Explain
- Shine A Light, Martin Scorsese’s film about the Rolling Stones, will debut on September 21st
- Mountain Jam Blog is featuring Dino Perrucci’s stellar photos
- Kurt Cobain – About A Son has a soundtrack featuring songs from David Bowie, R.E.M., and many other artists
- North Mississippi Allstars present their second annual Hill Country Picnic
- Check out this stellar Ozzy/Randy Rhodes bootleg from 1981
- MoBoogie is featuring an interview with Girl Talk
- Recapping Bright Eyes run at Town Hall
- Running Away is the first single from The Polyphonic Spree’s new album
- There are still five days left on Neddy’s shows of the week
- Jim DeRogatis on posthumous releases
- Everyday Companion starts Year Two of killer Widespread Panic podcasts
- What are the albums that changed your life?
A new free service from Silicon Valley upstart Lala may revolutionize the music industry. Lala has just introduced a new service that allows you to stream songs from Warner Music Group and many indie labels…and get this, for free. The labels hope Lala users will listen to a particular track and then decide to buy an album directly through the Rhapsody/Napster competitor.
Lala users can upload tracks to their iPod without using iTunes, something that gives many record label execs hard-ons. The other cool feature at Lala is the ability to mirror your music collection so that you can access your music from anywhere. The quality of the tracks is extremely crappy, but we are getting closer to the day that you will be able to stream all your music at high quality via your cellphone.
Dare we say, craisins!