music
The new economics of music publishing
My good friend Graeme recently started a new band with a bunch of his more musically talented friends called the Nobodies. Caught them live last night and they’re pretty awesome. The nobodies just had their first CD professionally produced and mixed.
The great thing, Graeme tells me, about starting a band with seven people [...]
Tom’s End of 2009 indie music mix
Just under the wire for 2009, I bring you my last of my 2009 music mixes. As always, this is a sort of autobiographical best-of mix featuring the songs that made the biggest rotation in my itunes since the last 6 months or so when I last published a mix. Some great tunes on here. [...]
It’s back! the 2009 Indie-punk-ass Christmas Mix
Long time readers will know what time of year it is. It’s indie-punk-ass music mix time of the year on thomaspurves.com!
Here you go kids, this year’s 2009 compilation. Enjoy =)
01
Stars
Fairytale Of New York
02
Barenaked Ladies
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
03
Sufjan Stevens
Get Behind Me, Santa!
04
Ramones
Merry [...]
Announcing Lift@home Toronto and DemoCamp2019 [Location Updated]
ATTENTION NEW VENUE: Canadian Corps Association Hall 201 Niagara Street Toronto
Introducing Lift@Home Toronto and DemoCamp 2019 [ticket link]
LIFT Conference is an international tech conference based out of Geneva, with events in Switzerland, France and Korea. For the first time this year, Toronto has been invited to participate as part of the Lift@Home. Lift is not [...]
New best-of indie podcast up Summer of 09
It’s been toooo long since the last time I posted a real mix. What was once a once a quarter thing is now sadly stretched out to once every nine months or so. So my apologies that half these tracks didn’t have a release date anything like “summer 09″. Originally this was going to be [...]
A musical birthday present to you
Thanks for all the facebook birthday love! I was overawed by so many taking the time to say happy birthday. Yay for social media. Here is my return present to you! Pirate radio free dingo is now live, streaming the very best of 33 years and one half dog years. By limited engagement through to [...]
New 2008 indie punk-ass xmas mix is up!
It’s back! My (in)famous indie punk-ass Christmas mix for 2008. This is the 3rd year running and last year’s mix nearly blew out a year’s worth of bandwidth allocation, but here we go again. Because sometimes ordinary Christmas Carols just won’t do.
This year’s mix is an update from last year with some of [...]
Summer/Fall 2008 Music Mix is up!
After kicking around on my iPod for a while, I’ve finally found the time to package and upload this mix to the site. The last mix was in spring, so this one covers all the essential indie-awesomeness I’ve been listening to in the meantime. As it happens, the last one was pretty funky/electo while [...]
Greg Gillis’ Girl Talk kicks music in the ass
At the $5-or-more level, buyers can choose to download the album in [DRM-free] MP3 or FLAC format, the latter being exact copies of the original source files without compression. Also included is a single MP3 file featuring the music without track breaks. Link Moar
M:
mp3 or flac?
T:
flac is for wankers
M:
…
T:
Audio compression algorithms work [...]
How to support real (music) artists with or without “strong” copyright reform
Don’t buy DRM infected media. This includes CDs, DVDs, protected iTunes files, Microsoft Plays for sure (which by the way, usually doesn’t). DRM is a pain in the ass, you don’t need it and if Canada’s new legislation passes unamended, by accepting DRM you effectively void any privileges of how, when and where you might [...]
Spring 2008 Indie Music Podcast
It’s been far too long since I last uploaded a new music podcast but here at last is my long-awaited spring 08 catch-up mix. If you are new here though, you should know that a quarterly music dump of indie and discovered music is an old tradition on thomaspurves.com
Now, of these tracks, many probably [...]
Goodbye DRM, you won’t be missed
“The slow death of digital rights” – The Economist
Radioheads success is just the latest signal that DRM is dying a welcomed if unanticipated early demise.
“iTunes Plus DRM-free tracks expanding, dropping to 99 cents” – Ars Technica
There’s now no reason to buy any other kind of music. I just thought I’d point this out.
And of course, [...]
Summer 07 Podcast is up
It’s been 5 months since the last one, but here it is my latest seasonal indie music mix. All the best bands that have made an impact on me from March to August of this year. Refresh your iTunes subscription, or just download and listen from the links below. Enjoy!
#7 Tom’s Best of Summer 2007
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Stars
Stars’ new album comes out on CD in September, but is available now legally, cheaply and for DRM-free digital download at the arts-and-crafts store $11.86CAD / 10.98 USD / 5.54 GBP / 8.87EUR and just today from Zunior.com only $8.88CAD and eMusic.comCategories with free ringtones cheap if you have a subscription, or free if [...]
Worthy Toronto Concerts coming up
The Hot tips:
31-JUL-07 HANDSOME FURS LEE’S $10.00
11-AUG-07 BAND OF HORSES LEE’S $16.50
28-AUG-07 STEREO TOTAL LEE’S $13.50
10-SEP-07 AMIINA HORSESHOE $15.00
12-SEP-07 GIRL TALK PHOENIX $15.00
21-SEP-07 OKKERVIL RIVER LEE’S $13.50
02-OCT-07 BEIRUT DANFORTH MUSIC HALL $22.50
The skinny:
(yet another awesome wolf parade spinoff)
(Put out one of the top indie rocknroll albums last year)
(Dirty French Electro Love Pop – [...]
Thomas Purves
is a technology designer, futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of Toronto. Thomas not currently available for hire (though you are always welcome to try).
