In this edition of Friday Download: a first look at Evangeline Lilly’s new graphic storybook, The Squickerwonkers. Grab it here. Introduced by Peter Jackson, and illustrated by Weta Workshop’s Johnny Fraser Allen, the book tells the tale of a girl who falls in with traveling troupe of vice-stricken marionettes. Dark. We caught up with the…
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Metal is about blurred lines; catharsis and doom, chaotic and calculated, masked and stripped bare. Maybe no one knows this better than Corey Taylor: the lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour; two of the biggest bands in recent rock history. According to Taylor, “Nobody is one side.” Nobody less so than this artist. Blur…
Good ideas can come from anywhere, which is why BitTorrent holds regular hackathons which we here at BitTorrent call a “Palooza.” The basic idea is that we set aside two work days where anyone within company can form a team to work on a new product, feature, internal tool, or general idea. At the end…
Public Enemy is on tour, and as a reminder, you can download the Public Enemy Bundle to receive the group’s new single “Get Up Stand Up.” Opt to unlock the Bundle with your email, and you’ll get even more from the group: the music video, outtakes and an exclusive multitrack. If you’re in the Los…
In this edition of Friday Download: lo-fi-indie-gypsy-rock sounds like quite a lot, and just quite right. Three live shows from Beirut, spanning over seven years of material. Links to the torrents below, with thanks from our friends at archive.org. Friday Download: Beirut 1. O-WEST / Tokyo, Japan / 2012 2. KLRU / Austin, Texas /…
We made this, which makes it easy to tag the Internet. Here’s how it works. 1. Drag the sticker into your bookmark bar. 2. Go to any website. Click Not A Crime. 3. Move your cursor, and start dropping truthbombs. bittorrentisnotacrime.com
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgRo9K1Kq0&w=570&h=370] In which we get serenaded by the charming and talented Alex Day. Here’s a preview of Alex’s new song, “Scared Like Me”. Tune in next week for a conversation with Alex on Youtube farming, chart hacking, and using BitTorrent to get music to the people.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5tmOJkYP8&w=570&h=370] We caught up with the guys from Okayplayer, Macklemore, and Robert Glasper back at the Roots Picnic. It ended in a tiny piano death match. As expected.
In this edition of FDL: rock revivalism and alt-country experimentation. We’ve got three live shows from My Morning Jacket, spanning a decade of the band’s work; lovingly preserved by Internet Archive’s intrepid curatorial team. A soundtrack worthy of this (fine, first) summer weekend. Links to the torrents, below. Friday Download: My Morning Jacket 1. The…
Public Enemy broke out over 25 years ago: a sonic bomb of crazy invention and crazier virtuosity; a call to arms and a call to change (music) culture as we know it. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys maybe said it best: “No one has been able to approach the political power that Public Enemy…