I just recently noticed the little checkbox labeled "Use external player" on the latest last.fm player (for linux, anyway).

Turns out this works great with the slimserver.

Make sure you launch the player from the same box as the one you're running slimserver.

Check the "Use external player" box, then press play and select a station. A dialog box pops up to point your player to http://localhost:32214 (dunno if the port is standard).

Create a playlist for the slimserver that has that url as an entry. Then play that playlist using a squeezebox (or other slimserver client.)

Click the ok…

Just realized that you can go to the profile editor to remove songs from your profile (charts). Not only that, you can wipe an entire band.

So, with all due respect to my daughter and the Wiggles, I gotta see what my charts look like without 15 Wiggles songs in my top 50.

T, you'll understand when you're older.

I don't doubt that Shaky Shaky will climb up the charts from my own playing ;)

I'd liked The Cardigans since first hearing their Minty Fresh stuff on KCRW, but lost touch after First Band on the Moon. Oh, I guess during the Napster days when I was downloading live stuff (easily the coolesting thing about Napster was all the live boots you could get), I was hearing stuff like Explode, Starter, and My Favourite Game.

Seeing/hearing I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to be Nicer on their site, I was encouraged to go fill my backcatalogue. After hitting the shops, I came away with Gran Turismo and Long…

mark gardener (formerly of ride) is playing a show at the bottom of the hill in SF next tuesday, the 13th Dec.

i live in denver, but i'll be near the City for work that week. if anyone's gonna be there, let me know. we can have a drink or some'n.

i just ordered his special edition release. i know i shouldn't be buying music right now (with xmas and all) but there were only 42 of 2500 left! and it's got a dvd with live footage.

he's also supposed to be on kcrw.com's morning becomes eclectic soon, but…

just got this documentary from netflix on the clash. great footage and interviews.

when this whole xmas thing blows over and i can spend money on #1 again (that's me), i gotta definitely get at least the clash, sandinista, and london calling.

in the doc, they talk about the reggae/punk crossover, which i didn't really know about. i knew some of the clash's songs had a reggae flavor with their dub bass and beats… but what other punk bands incorporated reggae?

some words to describe some songs i recorded a while back. wrote them for my then-girlfriend, now-wife, when she went off to study abroad. while she was gone, i took a music class where the prof had this neat studio set up. i kinda blew off the assignments and played around with the studio's reel-to-reel 4-track tape recorder and other gear. using the guitar i got the previous xmas, a few learned chords, and lyrics i wrote for mah girl, a couple songs were born. …i did get a C in the class, tho' :(

just thought i'd share. i'll…

cool! better fill out my dandy warhols collection. it's the worst hearing a song in concert for the first time.

http://www.nipp.com/show/detail/3553

anyone going?

i didn't even know echo and the bunnymen were touring. i presume it's the original lineup.

http://www.nipp.com/show/detail/3568

they do have lots of singable tunes… perhaps i'll go if i can drag some peeps out. i think i'll cue them up right now!

i half-expect morrisey and johnny marr to succumb to the smell of green, too. never did see the smiths, though i saw johnny marr play for the the.

well, this isn't music related (except that it shares the name of a band), but they've axed my favorite TV show, Arrested Development. Bastards. Hopefully another network will buy them up.

i didn't want to make the group name some huge thing, but my tastes include indie/twee/shoegazer/britpop/lo-fi/dreampop. Even manchester.

i'm willing to add more music connections as we get a feel for what the group likes.