Entries from October 2005

Party Ben San Francisco Mashup King

October 24th, 2005 11:15am
Filed under: Music
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In my constant persuit to find new and exciting music on the web, I came across Party Ben out of San Francisco. It was really not hard to find him because he is one of the top mashup dj’s out there and seemed to be everywhere I looked. His site, partyben(dot)com, is quite cool (though […]

Hurra Torpedo Is Home Appliance Rock

October 23rd, 2005 12:38pm
Filed under: Music
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I was throwing back a few beers last night and ended up chatting music and such with this guy named Mike. He pulled out a little notebook from his pocket and flipped to a page reading “Hurra Torpedo” He pointed ot it and said I needed to get online when I got home and check […]

Elliott Smith, Aug. 6,1969 - Oct. 21, 2003

October 21st, 2005 2:25pm
Filed under: Music
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Elliott Smith was a folk-punk singer/songwriter who rose from indie obscurity to mainstream success. He died two years ago today from a self-inflicted knife wound to the chest. His suicide cut short a career filled with promise. Each of his five albums showed musical growth and songwriting developement that drew comparisons to such artists as […]

Pocker Spammers Pay Back The Bloggers

October 21st, 2005 1:13pm
Filed under: Glorified Junk Bucket
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Anyone who runs a blog knows what it is like to get spammed by every online poker and texas holdem website out there. There are some days I will find over 150 comments from these leaches. It looks like one of them has woken up and decided to say sorry….sort of.
PokerStars.com, an online pocket site, […]

akaRaff Live Drop - Matisyahu

October 21st, 2005 10:51am
Filed under: akaRaff Live Radio
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The Skinny:
Matisyahu - December 25th, 2004 - BB King’sNew York, NY
I was listening to the

Wired Hypes Web 2.0 and Tim O’Reilly

October 19th, 2005 3:38pm
Filed under: Software
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I just finished reading this great article on Tim O’ Reilly in this month’s Wired Magazine. If you are interested in the man, or just getting an idea of what the “Web 2.0″ is and where the thoughts around it began, this is a great read. For me is cool to finally meet […]

3hive Is Sharing The Sharing

October 19th, 2005 10:18am
Filed under: MP3 Blogs
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I just can’t get enough of MP3 blogs. As someone who enjoys the challenge of peeling back the onion in search of new and kick ass music from around the world, these blogs are essential. If you take a look at the left sidebar, I already have a few listed that are my prime targets. […]

akaRaff Radio Drop 013

October 18th, 2005 5:22pm
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The Skinny:
Thanks to the folks over on the open side for throwing up some suggestions on the Collaborative Music Hunt. As promised to those who participated, all of your tracks are included in the list. This drop is a bit up beat and with all of the requests for mashups it wasn’t necesarily that […]

PUSA Makes First Music Video Shot on Cell Phones

October 18th, 2005 8:58am
Filed under: Music
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Here is a post from panopticist.com about the first music video show by cell phone only. The Presidents of The United States (who in the world knew these guys still were around and may I ask why? Another topic for another time.) shot this video for their new Australian single “Some Postman”.
During the production of […]

Get Your Mashup On

October 14th, 2005 6:53pm
Filed under: Music
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I came across this gem in search of some new mashup resources. Get Your Bootleg on is a great message board where a whole gaggle of mashup dj’s share and test their gear.
Dig in and watch your eye’s grow as wide as mine did.
Enjoy.