I encountered an unfortunate situation with my shiny new iPhone 4 where every time I tried doing a sync / backup in iTunes, the sync would go fine but I’d get an error as soon as the backup started. My solution was to point a finder window to:

~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup

And set aside the preexisting backups. I did this, relaunched iTunes and the sync followed by a backup went flawlessly.

180˚ South is a documentary about adventurers in Patagonia and Ugly Casanova is apparently contributing nine songs to the soundtrack:

01 Ugly Casanova: “Mountains of Storms”
02 Ugly Casanova: “Here’s to Now”
03 Mason Jennings: “Machines”
04 James Mercer: “Doug’s Theme”
05 Ugly Casanova: “Wave Goodbye”
06 Ugly Casanova: “Lonesome Blues”
07 James Mercer: “Journey Through the Past”
08 Ugly Casanova: “Hotcha Girls”
09 Jack Johnson: “Spring Wind”
10 Ugly Casanova: “Maybe We’re Lost”
11 Ugly Casanova: “Corcovado”
12 Love as Laughter: “Coconut Flakes”
13 Ugly Casanova: “The Geezer”
14 Ugly Casanova: “Lay Me Down”

Release date is currently June 22nd.

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I need to check out the new Gorillaz one of these days.

Amazon link

I can’t get the guitar from “We could be friends” out of my head. They have a another free mp3 on their site but really the whole album is solid:

http://www.freelancewhales.com/

Lala has a stream of the first single from LCD Soundsystems new album coming May 18th.

Mimicking Birds new self titled album is pretty much already secured itself as one of my top picks of the year. I’ve been falling asleep to it and playing it in my morning rotation for the last few weeks and it’s really just a solid album all around. Happy was I to find that they have a slew of home recordings posted on their virb page here.

A couple of my favorites:

mimicking birds - On the Warm Side
mimicking birds - Rivers, Veins, and Roots
mimicking birds - The Fear Parade

Mimicking Birds on amazon

Totally missed this but Tunng has a new album out. I’ve only had a brief chance to listen but it sounds great so far.

Here’s the opening track off of the new album: Hustle
Find more here: http://www.tunng.co.uk/

Lots of new music this tuesday. More than I can handle but that wont stop me from picking up at least a few things from this list:

• Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the devils tattoo
• JJ - No. 3
• Broken Bells - Broken Bells
• Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
• Jason Collett - Rat A Tat Tat
• The Liars - Sisterworld
• Mimicking Birds - Mimicking Birds

In particular I wont be missing out on the new Frightened Rabbit or Broken Bells!

I have to say, watching Concours d’Elegance play some newer songs the other day at the High Dive has me pretty excited for them to release a record.

Check out their 4 song “demonstration ep” here: http://www.ilovecde.com/download/

Or see them live, March 17th at the Comet!

I’m a big fan of building new sites and (un)fortunately I tend to not keep them around long always moving onto some new idea. Well my new idea I’m hoping may have a little more hold. You see, there are things I do online and continue doing on line. I love to use twitter and flickr for instance. I appreciate the social aspects behind blogger and tumblr but prefer the control of a wordpress blog.

I can aggregate a lot of my personal content into my facebook feed. Great! However facebook is convoluted and has a million features I don’t really care about not to mention it doesn’t let me personalize it the way I’d like to. So the idea is this, create a site that will aggregate my content. My friends can find the site and see what I’m up to and they don’t have to have a facebook account.

-Troy