Archive for March, 2007

I Never Thought This Day Would Come: The White Stripes Officially on MySpace

Famous and well-documented Luddite Jack White has apparently given the OK to finally go where “the kids” are and greenlighted an official…WHITE STRIPES MYSPACE. (Meg must’ve given the OK too.)

Hello, is that the sky falling? What’s that crazy sound? Oh yes, that’s me manically laughing in the background.
Question is, why wasn’t the first song on [...]

links for 2007-03-08

DECEMBER BOXSCORES HAD MILD HO, HO, HOS AND HUMBUGS
The overall Web trends in December were away from content and towards commerce, but unlike b2b sites (see min’s b2b, February 26, 2007) there was no major hemorrhaging.
(tags: publishing digitalpublishing business)

MediaPost Publications - NYMag.com Puts Listings On The Mobile Phone - 03/06/2007
New York foodies and baristas can [...]

Top Shop Now Delivers to the USA!!

YESSSSSSSSsssssssssssss!
SO exciting!

Little Nia Lip Syncing to Mary J. Blige

I heard about this on 1010 Wins today. Pretty cute…

Tonight Tonight…

Hightower Smith w/band
Mercury Lounge
March 4th
8p
$10
w/ The Essex Green

links for 2007-03-04

brooklynvegan: Help - intern needed
“Intern” wanted for BV. You get paid in tofu.
(tags: blogs)

Trying to Crack the Hot 100
Where is the Asian-American Justin Timberlake? Asian-Americans cite the ‘Asian Thing’ as keeping them from pop-star status.
(tags: music pop asians)

Kaiser Chiefs deny feuding with Arctic Monkeys | News | Guardian Unlimited Music
Story of fight at NME Awards [...]

The NME Awards 2007: Knocks Lily Allen, Cheers for MUSE

NME Awards 2007
Best band = MUSE
Sexiest male = Matt Bellamy
Worst dressed = Lily Allen
Worst band = Panic! at the Disco
To illustrate this sexiness, Daniel Boudposted this totally super sexy photo of Matt:

What Does “Icky Thump” Mean, Who Is the Skeleton, and Other Random Thoughts about the White Stripes

A lot of questions and comments have been raised ever since Jack and Meg released info about their new album, Icky Thump, and a preview video to accompany the announcement.
First off, the major question has been “What does ‘Icky Thump’ mean?” Well according to the posting on the official White Stripes site, “some residents of [...]

Links for 2007-03-02

Digg - The true impact of Fiji bottled water–absoluetly staggering!
The production of one liter bottle of Fiji water uses 26 times more water than the bottle contains. Twenty-six! The production also consumes almost one kilogram of fossil fuel, and emits over one pound of CO2.

White Stripes New Album Recorded, Completed, and Called “Icky Thump”

Yes ma’am… New album by Jack and Meg called Icky Thump.
Check out Whitestripes.com for all the deets.
Recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, TN.

Check out the video of Jack singing “I’m Slowly Turning Into You” with a skeleton dancing behind him. It’s brilliant.

And check out the article that Mojo did about the new album (below, click [...]