Ricky Rouse Has a Gun (SelfMadeHero), a new graphic novel from Jörg Tittel, illustrates all the weirdness of contemporary copyright culture — and our need for new sources of inspiration. These are strange days for intellectual property. We live in quotes and click-able links. We accept retweets as a measure of meaning. Curation is, like,…
In this edition of Staff Picks: punk and rock and friendship; all, maybe, in equal measure. Download Radical Friends, February’s forty-track mixtape Bundle, courtesy of the fine people over at Tangled Talk Records. Consider it your crash course in UK hardcore, which feels about right for an end-of-Monday. Listen up: new music from Gnarwolves, The…
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for Publishers. In this edition of FDL: collection and redemption. Scrapper is the story of Hollis Wallace (Michael Beach, The Wire); a man who seeks out survival in scrap metal; selling what he finds to support his sick…
The indie hip hop artist premieres his new album, Loss Leader Vol. 1, as a BitTorrent Bundle. Listen up. You might not have heard of Cassius. But you’ve heard him. He’s the GRAMMY Award-winning songwriter behind Bruno Mars’ “Just The Way You Are”; a single that’s sold over 12.5 million copies around the world. “I…
Amanda Palmer asks fans to decide how music is distributed. You can download the full talk, plus live performances, as a BitTorrent Bundle. Amanda Palmer taught us that musicians could make money on Twitter. She showed us that we could survive, and thrive, in the Kickstarter economy. She reminded us — more than 5 million…
