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Amazon has compiled it’s top 200 free music downloads in one easily-available list, available here. This Firefox plug-in will come in handy.

Okay, usually I wouldn?t do this, but this piece over at Coolfer is just too spot on not to disseminate in whatever means I have at my disposal.

Really, just read it.

As they say in my country, looking good, More Cowbell!

We’re really happy about sponsoring tomorrow’s Damon and Naomi concert in Columbus. It’s their only Ohio date, and we really hope you can make it.

Sounds like their show in Boston this weekend was nothing short of amazing.

Utterly beautiful. That was the sound of the music that Cambridge couple Damon and Naomi parlayed, sequestered in the cozy ICA’s theater Saturday night, two floors below Andy Warhol’s peculiarly watchful image, exhibited in the gallery above. (full story)

The House has passed the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 (HR167), legalizing technology like Clearplay, which removes/edits “objectionable” content from DVDs. In an obvious handout to placate the RI/MPAA lobbies, the legislation also makes using a video camera to record a film in a movie theater a federal crime with a maximum penalty of three years in prison for the first offense. Sharing a movie or a song before it’s “official” commercial release will get you up to 10 years.

Get the dates here, sucka!

We’ve got three lovely concert reviews for you. First off, Han Q Duong reviews The Decemberists out in California. Steve Miller, aka our writer with the British accent, reviews a recent Wedding Present concert as well as an Idlewild show.

If photos are more your thing, Kim’s just posted a great photo gallery of Ben Lee and Har Mar Superstar. A sample of Mr. Lee:

Trent Reznor wants you to rework his latest single as much as you want using Apple’s Garageband software.

“For quite some time I’ve been interested in the idea of allowing you the ability to tinker around with my tracks – to create remixes, experiment, embellish or destroy what’s there. . . . What I’m giving you in this file is the actual multi-track audio session for ‘the hand that feeds’ in GarageBand format. . . . Drag the file over to your hard disk and double click it. Hit the space bar. Listen. Change the tempo. Add new loops. Chop up the vocals. Turn me into a woman. Replay the guitar. Anything you’d like.”

Here’s the download link for NIN. I’m gonna screw around with it myself.

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Download “Blue Orchid” by the White Stripes here.

Kyle tells me it sounds like Electric Six. I don’t know if I personally feel that way, but it’s definitely different from the rest of their songs, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s just a thing.

Not sure how long that link is gonna work, either, kids, so get it while it’s hot.

According to Derek Slater, the folks that opened the “backdoor” of iTunes are a short step away from cracking part of Napster’s .wma DRM. The crack would enable:

…people to turn songs acquired through Napster Light (the a la carte service) and Premium (the non-portable subscription service) into unencrypted files.

Code available here, for anyone interested in checking it out.