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A compilation of some of the past week's best videos, brought to you by the Download.com Video team. This week brings computer nerds, "Band Camp" bimbos, and Diddy's scandalous smell.
1.) "Why We Fight" trailer
2.) Super Monkey Ball Touch & Roll Official Trailer
3.) "Doogal" trailer
4.) Tour of the "American Pie: Bandcamp" set
5.) Singing man
6.) Bobby Bare: "Are You Sincere?"
7.) Download.com's Macworld recap
8.) William Shatner: "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
9.) P. Diddy's ad pulled
10.) Hurra Torpedo: "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
11.) Coming soon
12.) Stephen Malkmus: "Baby C'mon"
13.) "Hard Candy" trailer
14.) SNL: "Nick Burns: Your Company's Computer Guy"
15.) "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" trailer
16.) "Islandshasten"
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Chris Stones: "There's a Bunny"
A brief musical about a bunny.
Touring behind his new album, the former Beatle Paul McCartney talks with CNN's Daryn Kagan about aging and loss. (September 21)
Carly Fiorina reflects on the "Tough Choices"
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina continues her "Tough Choices" book tour at CNET Networks' offices in San Francisco. In an animated discussion with ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber, Fiorina addresses her critics, defending her performance and outlining the challenges she faced. She also discusses leadership and offers her views on the back dating stock options and HP's pretexting scandal.
There's something odd about Hot Chip. Some fracture between conception and actuality that makes them all the more intriguing. Ostensibly Hot Chip sign up to the Hip-Hop dream as espoused by MTV Cribs and presumably as lived by, ooh, Pharrell Williams? They just seem to have some problems translating it to Wandsworth, SE London, is all. In fact they seem to have trouble squaring it with the equal, but to some extent opposite, influence of, say, Bill Callahan from Smog. Or Lambchop. Or Crystal Gayle. So, instead of doing the obvious thing and working out what sort of band they are going to be, they conclude that they will be all of them at once. And then they'll make it all in a room smaller than the box room at your Mum's house. With whatever's lying around. That is, whatever's lying around - toy trumpets, kazoos, blah. This to conform to a cherished idea of Brian Wilson's that, in the studio, anything goes. "Whereas a band like Primal Scream simply want to BE The Rolling Stones for one album, then King Tubby on the next, and Royal Trux on another, we prefer to make references in miniature to the spirit of the records and performances we love and admire," says vocalist/keyboard player Alexis Taylor. Unlike most of their heroes and role models, however, Hot Chip prefer things to be slightly off or too loud or in some way odd, and set great store in the accidental nature of recording. Perhaps it is this that gives them the slightly homemade feel that permeates the whole "Coming On Strong," and makes it an album so high on charm.
Google adds magazines to its book project, Microsoft launches a blogging platform, and "Playboy" launches a very silly Webcast called "Interns."
Loaded: Reading Playboy for the articles
Google takes some of the fun out of Street View, Amazon and iTunes go high-def, and Playboy lets you check out centerfolds from way back when.
Bonde Do Role: "Marina Gasolina"
Hailing from Curitiba, in Southern Brazil, Bonde Do Role - Marina, Pedro and Gorky, create funk carioca in a rockin' way. Their dance party electro punk is the sound of 2007, taking the Bailefunk rhythms of their homeland and mashing them up, rapping in their native tongues. Discovered by DJ/Producer Diplo in 2006, Bonde Do Role released their first domestic single "Melo do Tabaco" on Diplo's newly formed Mad Decent label. Bonde's March 2007 North American tour found them touring with Diplo once more, after taking the South by Southwest Festival in Austin by storm. Look out for dates with fellow Brazillians CSS in June and a full U.S. headline tour in September.
This is a tour blog from Passenger's busking tour of the UK (2008).
# We started back in 1998 from the ashes of other previous hardcore/punk bands in our hometown, Jerez in South Spain. We rehearsed a lot and recorded a couple of demos. We managed to support Randy in their spanish tour of ?99 and after that Slide Chorus made us an offer to release our first album ?Proud to be nothing?. # Once the album was released we toured non - stop, and we played in every place possible in Spain, including the Islands. In summer ?00 we toured europe for the first time with our friends PPM. then, back to spain we managed to play big shows with bands like No Fun at All or Undeclinable. # In early 2001, we toured Europe again in the well known ?Stronger than Metal tour?, which led us to meet great bands on the road as the Donots, Against time or 5 days off. Later that year, we toured Spain with Adhesive and right after we flied to the Uk to rock along 10 days with Twofold. Then we played at the Deconstruction Tour in Portugal. # In June ?01, New Horizon Records released ?Proud to be nothing? in north america. In summer ?01 the band their basement to create ?The True Charm of Bourgeoisie?. We signed to Wild Punk Records to release the album in Spain. In september ?01 we went to ?Pig Studios? in Granda, Spain (same as for ?Proud to be Nothing?) and we repeated with Javi PPM as the producer. # In march ?02 we toured Canada. We did 10 shows in the states of Quebec and Ontario with a successful result. Then, in october ?02 we did a 21 dates european tour along 9 different european countries to present the latest album. It was the best tour ever for us! # In 2003 we signed to BCore Disc, and we worked hard to finally record "Dialectics" in September '03. The album was produced by Paco Loco (Australian Blonde, Steve Wynn...) at Odds Studios in El Puerto, very near our hometown Jerez. # "Dialectics" is no doubt the finest workpiece we've ever done, a very own soundfield where we feel really confortable. As always our touring plans this time are definitively serious, so watch out there!
