May 2012
39 posts
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Oh Susannah
Neil Young and Crazy Horse are coming back on June 5 with their first album in nine years. Enjoy “Americana”, the first track released, which is a strong side of things to come.
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Fluxtumblr: Beck Live at the Budokan 5/31/2000 →
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Today’s free download. Beck Live, from 2000
Devil’s Haircut / Loser / Get Real Paid / Mixed Bizness / Pressure Zone / Hollywood Freaks / Nicotine & Gravy / Debra / The New Pollution / Lazy Flies / We Live Again / One Foot in the Grave / Cold Brains / Tropicalia / Where It’s At / DJ Swamp solo / Beercan / Sexx Laws
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High-Speed Materials Discovery →
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Todays big afternoon read:How Wildcat and its new technologies can make our batteries run even better.
Electric cars could travel farther, and smart phones could have more powerful processors and better, brighter screens, thanks to batteries based on new materials being developed by San Diego–based Wildcat Discovery Technologies.
The company is accelerating the identification of valuable energy storage materials by testing thousands of substances at a time. In March of last year, it announced a lithium cobalt phosphate cathode that boosts energy density by nearly a third over current cathodes in popular lithium-ion phosphate batteries. The company also unveiled an electrolyte additive that allows batteries to work more reliably at higher voltages.
Choosing the optimal materials for batteries is a particularly tricky problem. The devices have three principal components: an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. Not only can each be formed from almost any blend of a huge number of compounds, but the three components have to work well together. That leaves many millions of promising combinations to explore.
To hunt down winning combinations, Wildcat has adopted a strategy originally developed by drug discovery labs: high-throughput combinatorial chemistry. Instead of testing one material at a time, Wildcat methodically runs through thousands of tests in parallel, synthesizing and testing some 3,000 new material combinations a week. “We’ve got materials in the pipeline that could triple energy density,” says CEO Mark Gresser.
Courtesy of unexpectedtech
Sun Kil Moon - That Bird Has A Broken Wing
Sun Kil Moon
Sun Kil Moon’s newest is a peach as well:
Sun Kil Moon’s new album “Among the Leaves” out today: Mark Kozelek’s brand of brooding folk, here in a very direct and spare form, accompanied simply by a nylon-string guitar, has been around for a couple of decades. But never quite like this. The lyrics here are extremely blunt — discussing the aftermath of a one-night stand he had on the road. “I’m half-man, another half-addict,” he sings. While the lyrics in “That Bird Has a Broken Wing” are blunt, Kozelek thinks common ground is to be found with this song. “‘Broken Wing’ is a very human, honest, relatable song. I think many people will relate to it, whether they admit it or not,” the Sun Kil Moon mastermind told Pitchfork recently.
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New Albums Tuesdays
It’s Tuesday, once again, which happens to be our favorite day of the week. Why? Because that’s when all the new album releases happen! Here’s our weekly round-up of album-streams and performances:
The Walkmen Heaven
Japandroids Celebration Rock
Sigur Rós Valtari
Regina Spektor What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
Edward Sharp and The Magnetic Zeros Here
A wood table that is a perfect cassette tape replica
For the true music buff’s furniture stylings
I remember buying my first cassette tape at the local Waxie Maxies near my house when I was just a young kid, maybe 12 yrs old or so. My first tape, if I remember correctly was, Ice Cube’s Death Certificate. Cassette tapes were cool back then, but later came the CD and they slowly died off. CD’s are now suffering the same fate.
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PLAY & RECORD: 2012.05.28 The Who - Live At Leeds →
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Absolutely beautiful:
Color: Black
Released: 1970, May 16
Label: Decca
One of the greatest live albums in rock and roll. Without a doubt. If you don’t like The Who then you pretty much don’t like rock and roll. They are a prime example of what was once great about rock and roll. They were dangerous….
Listen
Your daily high school nostalgia affirmation:
The Killers - “Andy, You’re a Star”
download: amazon mp3 | itunes
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20th Century Boy
T Rex
Your morning cup of coffee: RIGHT HERE
T Rex - “20th Century Boy”
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