Steal this Album is a name that says everything about the album. It’s an anti-society themed album: asking people to do something illegal, namely stealing this album. It, on the other hand, can also be a message to their fans: don’t download our music, as a lot of tracks on this album were pre-released (not by SOAD) in slightly different versions on the internet as Toxicity 2.
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Mar
23
World World World by AKFG Album Review
Posted by Sandstorm in Music, Reviews on March 23rd, 2008.Mar
23
Tags: ajikan, Asian, Fu, Generation, Kung, review, world
The Japanese rock scene is a crowded one. Hundreds of bands make so-called Jrock and most of it is enormous crap. Luckily for us, there are some very good bands out there that really make good music. The best band is Asian Kung-Fu Generation and they’ve released their new album World World World.
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Mar
21
10,000 BC Movie Review
Posted by Nick in Movies, Reviews on March 21st, 2008.Mar
21
Roland Emmerich (director) likes to go back and forth in time, accompanied by a big budget. With Independence Day he considered an alien invasion, in The Day After Tomorrow he showed the results of an abrupt global warming, in 1998 he remade Godzilla. Even though these movies are big business, the quality varies from questionable to bad. Therefore it is no surprise that I was not very excited to see his newest movie, 10,000 BC.
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Mar
09
Extract Now: small but powerful
Posted by Flo in Freeware, Tech on March 9th, 2008.Mar
09
Tags: archives, extracting, files
Hundreds of extracting tools exist, of which most are free. There aren’t a lot of differences between them, but Extract Now does differ from the other free extracting tools. It’s small, it’s powerful, without any kind of ads and it´s incredibly easy to use.
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Mar
07
Weekly Album #2: The Hives – The Black and White Album
Posted by Flo in Music, Weekly Album on March 7th, 2008.Mar
07
Tags: album, garage rock, Music, punk rock
The Swedish band “The Hives” is one of the leading punk/garage rock bands. This is one of the reasons why I just can’t ignore their newest album, The Black And White Album. It’s their first album in three years since Tyrannosaurus Hives, and the music on this cd surprised me: it’s not the Hives as I know them.
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Mar
06
Burn any image file to CD/DVD with ImgBurn
Posted by Nick in Freeware, Tech on March 6th, 2008.Mar
06
Before I discovered ImgBurn, I was looking for a freeware application that could burn a DVD from .VOB files. I knew Nero Burning Rom could do it, but that one isn’t free. Luckily I disovered ImgBurn, a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application, that can burn anything to anything.
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Mar
05
Improve your music listening experience with MP3gain
Posted by Flo in Open Source, Tech on March 5th, 2008.Mar
05
Tags: audio, editor, loudness, mp3, MP3gain
If there’s one thing I hate when listening to music on my mp3 player, it is the difference in loudness between songs. If you’ve got a very poorly ripped album, you’ve got to change the volume of songs time after time. Besides that, these differences in loudness may go unnoted leading to hearing problems. With MP3gain, this problem is history.
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Mar
04
File-sharing showdown: Usenet vs. Bittorrent
Posted by Nick in File sharing, Tech on March 4th, 2008.Mar
04
When Bittorrent inherited the earth a while ago, file sharing became more popular than ever. The other major player in file sharing land is Usenet. Usenet has been around for quite a while as a public message network, but is also very popular when it comes to file sharing. Therefore it’s time to make a comprehensive comparison between these two.
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Mar
02
Your computer can help science with BOINC
Posted by Flo in Open Source, Tech on March 2nd, 2008.Mar
02
Did you ever want to do something for science? Now is your chance! With BOINC you can donate your hard disk space and CPU power to (scientific)projects with just a few clicks.
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Mar
01
Weekly Album #1: Wolfmother’s Wolfmother
Posted by Flo in Music, Weekly Album on March 1st, 2008.Mar
01
Youtube is a great way to share music and video media with the world, and luckily people do share this media with each other, so why don’t make use of it? From now on, I will try to discuss an album of a popular artist every week, and add links to the songs (on youtube) and the lyrics to the review. I will also mark the tracks I really like with an “*”, so you’re able to get an impression of what the album offers in a few clicks. The first album I will discuss is the album Wolfmother from the band Wolfmother, as it is an album that let me appreciate metal music.
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