Todosantos and Cobra Krames, both with releases on Flamin Hotz, take over the 941 Theater (aka red warehouse aka green warehouse) tonight for the monthly Solstice Party with DJ Ginkgo and Captain Ridiculous. There is free booze all night, byob if you want, 21+ and $11 or $7 with a can of food.

Bonus:

Todosantos – Acid Boys and Acid Girls

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Cobra Krames – Players Choose You

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Back again with our semi regular look at various stories around the globe primarily looking at your rights in the digital age. Some of these are old but they’re easy to skip over if you’ve already seen them.

• In Venezuela, schools have been created to teach inner city and poor children from rural areas classical music. The program has been so successful, 300,000 children have passed through, a graduate of the program was chosen as the next director of the LA Philharmonic and a number of countries around the world are piloting the program. The program has expanded to 181 schools in the past 20+ years. Link
• Learn how to upload mp3s to flickr by hiding them in images. Or you know just upload them to your own website. Link
• Disco is surely not dead, and if you’re not up to snuff, check out this Disco Handbook on Scribd. Highly recommended are the pages containing definitions including heavy, deejay, beat, funky, freak and more.  Surprisingly holds up well despite its age.  Well worth a skim at least.
• David Byrne plays a building!!! I’m speechless. Link
• The inexact science behind DMCA takedown notices. Did you know printers have received DMCA notices? Link
• LastGraph automatically generates graphs based on your Last.fm listening habits. I just ran it at 2AM and I’m in position 73, looks a bit popular. Looks like my graphs will be here, although I haven’t used Last.fm in awhile
• You don’t say, a double standard from the music companies? Universal complains about fines that are just to high for a little bit of copyright infringement. Link
• Somewhat interesting essay from Rasmus Fleischer, cofounder of the Piracy Bureau and the Pirate Bay. His is the lead essay at the Cato Institute’s online magazine Unbound. Argued well, if a bit long. Link
• Avril Lavigne fans have created a site to automatically add extra views to make her video the number one video with over 89 million views. No comment, it’s Avril Lavigne, I can’t believe I actually just typed those words in here. Link
• Finally, I saved the best for last.  MediaDefender said oops after performing a DDOS on Revision3 swamping their network connections.  Read the full details over at Revision3′s blog.  This is amazing, a typically hacker/extortionist tool used “accidentally” against a legitimate media site.  Congratulations on yet another stupid move.

Ok, so that was alot mate.  Next time I’ll try to do this a little more regularly to keep up to date with all of this.   Btw, did you find the bonus mp3?

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