Random Noise

• A Taster for the New Maiden Album
  Sony's Connect online store has little low-bitrate samples of all tracks from the new Iron Maiden album A Matter of Life and Death. The sound quality on the clips isn't great, but you'll at least be able to hear a snippet of every song. The samples d…
• Super Happy Valentine's Day Free Gift
  Ah love is in the air at Grumpyrocker towers...at the risk of turning one less than grumpy, news reaches our ears that we felt we had to share with you. Those loveable rascals the Super Happy Fun Club (read d-jaysea's review of their debut album here) h…
• Line6 Update
  Just a quick update on the Line6 driver issue I posted about recently. I have now got the system working without those white noise spikes.I found that if I removed my other sound card from the third PCI-E slot the problems disappear. Previously I'd a…
• Jools Holland's Formulaic Tosh
  There was a time when "Later..." the live music show presented by Jools Holland was essential viewing. On a bbc that knows so little about music that in every documentary it trots out the usual bollocks about how important punk was1 1Punk rea…
• Satch Sues Coldplay Dullards
  It seems that guitar maestro Joe Satriani is sueing the exceedingly dull Coldplay for ripping off one of his songs. The story is being reported over on BBC Online. Satriani alleges that Coldplay's Viva La Vida takes considerable portions from his own…