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Vardagsrumsturné med Peter och Frans!

Oscar — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:35:21 +0000

Det här var så coolt att det förtjänar all uppmärksamhet det bara kan få. I lördags var jag på fest hos Joel, han bor mycket märkligt (men fantastiskt) på en husbåt på Skeppsholmen. Det var en skitbra fest och Joel (+ syskon) hade dessutom fixat så att Peter & Frans kom förbi och spelade. De har under våren kört något de kallar för Vardagsrumsturnén. Ju mer jag funderar på det, desto bättre tycker jag att hela konceptet är. Det är så klockrent!

På deras site beskriver de turnén såhär:

Om du vill att vi ska komma och spela hos dig – skickar du ett mail till vardagsrumsturne@gmail.com. Om vi kommer överens om ett datum skickar du ut inbjudningar till dina vänner och bestämmer utöver det hur mycket utomstående publik du vill ta in. [..] Om du vill komma och titta på en konsert – mailar du ditt namn och mobilnummer till vardagsrumsturne@gmail.com och skriver att du vill komma på konserten till exempel “6 februari – Radhus i Vällingby”. Om det då finns platser kvar skickar vi i ett svarsmail: adress, starttid, mobilnummer, ev portkod samt lösenord.

Huruvida mat och dryck serveras är individuellt för varje spelning.
Värden är arrangör och har alltid rätt.

Såhär beskrev de Vardagsrumsturnén innan de började spela i lördags (spelningen på båten var mer som ett “efterfestgig” på Vardagsrumsturnén):

Peter & Frans Vardagsrumsturné – Berättar om turnén from Christian Gardö on Vimeo.

Jag har snott videon från Christian, han filmade även en del låtar i HD som du hittar på hans blogg. Det är inte bara ett bra koncept de kör, de är bra också!

Det finns så mycket med deras idé som är bra, så mycket de gör rätt, och så mycket jag som åskådare tyckte var häftigt. Jag är förvisso ingen ‘roskildehjälte‘, jag kan garanterat räkna antalet konserter, antalet band jag sett live, antalet festivaler jag varit på – på mina tio fingrar. Det här var bara så galet bra ändå. Jag tycker inte bara att det är bra för att det blir så personligt, och inte heller bara för att Peter och Frans är sköna killar. Jag tycker “Om du vill komma och titta på en konsert”-fenomenet är ett så jäkla skönt tillägg också. Ombord på båten hade vi t.ex. besök av två damer (tjejer?) som bodde på Tyresö, de kom helt enkelt för att återuppleva Peter och Frans samt dricka ett glas vin. Det var fantastiskt!

Jag skulle varmt rekommendera Peter och Frans till dig som ska köra en fest i gott sällskap och vill höra lite skön musik!

Var du på Norna i lördags? Gå med i Facebookgruppen! De finns givetvis även på MySpace (Peter och Frans).

Det verkar inte vara så många som upplevt det vi gjorde. Tack JJJ!

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Spotify hacked, time to change password!

Oscar — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:34:01 +0000

Short snippet from the Spotify blog. It’s time to change your password my friends.

Dear Spotify user,

Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise our protocols. After investigating we concluded that this group had gained access to information that could allow testing of a very large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one. The information was exposed due to a bug that we discovered and fixed on December 19th, 2008. Until last week we were unaware that anyone had had access to our protocols to exploit it.

Not cool Spotify, not cool. Not good for PR or security online either for that matter.

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Kleerup – With Every Heartbeat, Acoustic

Oscar — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:15:37 +0000

Genius. He’s come a long way since hanging outside of “cafét”.

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Coda.fm, launched!

Oscar — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:21:20 +0000

Saw a post on TorrentFreak about the newly launched Coda.fm today. It has since then been Digged and and is now flying through the ranks, currently at 818 Diggs. I think it’s right that Coda.fm gets a bit of blogging attention, it’s a fantastic service embedded in a neat Web 2.0 package. With easy navigation and overview, it’s all about putting the user in focus.

Great work!

A quick search on Google brings about roughly 600,000 results, most of it reviews and comments from users of social media/social bookmarking sites and tech blogs. It’ll be interesting to follow.

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Spotify now scrobbles, awesome!

Oscar — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:40:22 +0000

Being a super fan of Spotify and a huge fan of Last.fm, I must say I was really pleased when I noticed that Spotify now offers its users to scrobble through Last.fm! It’s been more or less ‘wanted’ (more like demanded) by the Spotify-community since day 1, which makes this an even bigger success for Spotify – they listened to the users – and gave them exactly what they wanted.

Now, please take it to the next level and develop an iPhone application guys, that’d just make my day completely.

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The community starts harvesting Spotify

Oscar — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:55:04 +0000

Even though Spotify officially is still in beta, sites ‘offering’ shared Spotify Playlists have already starting to pop up left and right. It’s going to be really interesting to see who has the best and most user friendly solution, and/if this is something that Spotify eventually will offer through its own software and very loyal community. I’m not talking about the possibility to share playlists (as this naturally already exists) but rather sites that creates opportunities for lazy people, or not so tech-savvy users to use other peoples playlists.

Check out the likes of Spotify Friends, Listply, Spotifylists, and Spotlists. Spotify has the potential to become another Facebook (or Google if you wish to go big) but for the music industry, offering its own bubble in which entrepreneurs will feed of any idea to create business opportunities. I’m consciously exaggerating here, but if you can only see one use for Spotify – think again.

One ‘bigger’ thought is; how long will it be until we see a lightweight software like Spotify – but for Video? Interesting …

Update; TKJ recently found this as well.

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Hypem/SoundCloud

Oscar — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:52:05 +0000

I just wrote about Spotify the other day. Reading about Spotify and its benefits took me to a lot of other places that focused on connecting or helping people unite their common interest, namely music.

The other day SoundCloud had their release. On the site reads that: “SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.” I’m not sure that this has been as big of an issue as they’d like to emphasize, but it will be interesting to see what comes out of it. Check out the video on the front page, quite cool.

Another service that I stumbled upon the other day is Hypem which really caught my attention. I normally stick to more ‘common’ resources for my music online, such as Last.fm or longer back; Pandora. But Hypem or “The Hype Machine” is really really clever and self-driven by thousands of bloggers. It collects data and music from blogs around the world and then presents it on the site with a clean interface and the possibility to listen to new blogged music in a pop-up player, even though the player at the bottom is sweet enough. If you want to see what music is the ‘buzz’ around the world, Hypem is really a one stop shop to get updated.

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Spotify, music revolution from Sweden

Oscar — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:36:39 +0000

Today it was officially announced that Spotify has signed licensing deals with a list of companies that included Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, EMI Music, and Warner Music Group.

Spotify wrote on their blog today: “What this means to us, is that after just over two years, thousands of lines of code, and even more cups of coffee, Spotify will launch today. We plan to roll out invites to our free service gradually over the coming months, while premium access to Spotify has now been made fully available.”

Read more on the official blog from Spotify.

I found an old article about the founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzen at InternetWorld as well. Edit: Well, of course there was a new one on IDG as well, check it out.

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Josh Groban – 30 years of TV themes

Oscar — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:54:43 +0000

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Jason Mraz – I’m Yours, live in Borlänge

Oscar — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:35:21 +0000

In Sweden we like to sing-a-long, crazy. It’s like a karaoke show!

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John Mayer – Where the light is (Live in LA)

Oscar — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:31:17 +0000

Very much recommended. John Mayer released his new album on DVD/CD/BLU-RAY on the 1st of July, it’s a really good concert and buy if you ask me!

Go Buy. Download. Watch. Whatever.

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Cas Haley

Oscar — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:25:40 +0000

I just saw a rerun of America’s Got Talent, the season when Cas Haley was in the final. I really wonder what happened to this guy? He’s great!

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Jose Gonzales live

Oscar — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:48:32 +0000

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Releaselog

Oscar — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:07:38 +0000

I don’t know if any of you has made this your favourite site yet, but I do know that I recently have. When I started visiting the Releaselog (rlslog.net) it wasn’t big at all, not that many releases were being posted and I can’t remember if the RSS was working or not. Now it’s not only a strong competitor but definately one of the best “investigating” blogs you can find. If you’re considering downloading something, be sure to check out the quality and reports first has always been a rule. But it’s not until now that this rule can easily be checked without visiting half of the Internet.

Pick of the year for sure.

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The Village Sessions

Oscar — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:34:27 +0000

I’ve just found a great session with John Mayer, I’d recommend downloading it asap! The Village Sessions is an acoustic session with songs from his new album.

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