For Brian

This blows my mind a little!

45sound is a four-person start-up based just down the road from Google on Barrow Street, Dublin. They've developed a service for easily fan-sourcing live music videos and making them sound great by automatically matching them with a proper live audio recording. The band arrange the audio recording and promote the idea to their fans so we don’t have to be at any of the shows. It can scale around the world. Here's a sample from the Volvo Ocean Race in Galway at the weekend.

 

This song has been in my head ALL day!

Loading it off my mind on to the blog

Song of the day.

Lots of love going on

Hannah Hooper met Christian Zucconi late one evening on the lower east side of Manhattan. They had both been living in New York for years and had never crossed paths before. But from that night forward the two could hardly be pulled apart. Soon after their connection Hooper was invited to an art residency in Greece on the island of Crete and Hooper insists “without any hesitation” she invited Zucconi to join her on this journey.

On Crete, in a small remote mountain village, Hooper and Zucconi met the members of their future band “GROUPLOVE” a year before it was officially formed.

Like all good things, the summer and the residency came to an end and the five friends scattered back to their homes all over the globe. With Sean in London, Christian and Hannah in Brooklyn and Ryan and Andrew in Los Angeles GROUPLOVE was faced with the challenge of what to do now.

This is what happened:

Grouplove (2011)
Tracklist
01. Itchin' On A Photograph 4:19
02. Tongue Tied 3:38
03. Lovely Cup 4:17
04. Colours 4:17
05. Slow 3:38
06. Naked Kids 3:30
07. Spun 3:25
08. Betty's Bomb Shell 3:34
09. Chloe 3:18
10. Love Will Save Your Soul 3:47
11. Cruel And Beautiful World 4:03
12. Close Your Eyes And Count To Ten 4:48

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George RR Martin releases 5th novel today!

Amazon

Things have certainly changed for Martin, 62, since his book tour for A Game of Thrones in 1996. At a Dallas bookstore, he was thrilled to see hundreds of people until he realized they were parents and kids. "Clifford the Big Red Dog crushed me," he recalls. "There were like 12 people to see me. It was humbling."

On a recent visit to Slovenia, 2,000 fans stood in line to meet Martin, who now gets recognized in airports. "It's flattering if a little disconcerting," he says.

- USA TODAY