This just in from Drowned In Sound

Drowned In Sound posted its top 50 albums of 2007. Read and compare to your own list (if you've been keeping up with it all.)
Enjoy!
Zelo

SOURCE: DrownedinSound.com

Radiohead Celebrate New Year With Webcast

Al Gore brings the rock to your television set

Although there are already plenty of nice musical options to entertain you on New Year's Eve this year, here's a last-minute surprise: Today on Dead Air Space, after wishing us all a "peaceful Christmas", Thom Yorke announced that Radiohead will be "broadcasting a pre-recording of some songs and other bits on New Years Eve.." over at Radiohead.tv. It starts at midnight GMT on December 31, which is in the early evening here in America, leaving plenty of time to go get ready to see Spoon or the Black Lips or R. Kelly or whoever. "this is a wee celebration of the release of the physical manifestation of 'in rainbows'," Thom continues, referring to the fact that the new Radiohead album is finally due in stores. It's out today in Japan (via Hostess Entertainment), the UK December 31 (via XL), and the U.S. and Canada January 1 (via ATO/TBD and MapleMusic, respectively). Apparently the webcast is going to consist of a performance of In Rainbows in full, taped at the band's Oxford studio, a place we are already intimately familiar with. In America, the live show will be aired commercial-free on Al Gore's television station, Current TV. It premieres at 12 a.m. EST/9 p.m. PST. Current's website will also archive the show, so you can watch it again New Year's Day while writing your resolutions. (Resolution #1: Watch less television.) [MORE...]

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SOURCE: Pitchforkmedia.com

Marshall Arisman: The Ayahuasca Series

Mr. Arisman is the subject of a full-length documentary film directed by Tony Silver titled 'Facing the Audience: The Arts of Marshall Arisman.'

SOURCE: MarshallArisman.com

M. Night is trying to tell us something…

After months of rumors, cast updates, and hints about the film's content, we finally have our first official look at M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, in the form of a teaser poster.
The poster, first made available by ComingSoon.net, shows a city skyline in the distance, with a number of abandoned cars scattered over a long stretch of highway. At the top, it contains the following tagline: "We've Sensed It. We've Seen The Signs. Now... It's Happening."

SOURCE: MNight.com

The Death of High Fidelity

In the age of MP3s, sound quality is worse than ever

David Bendeth, a producer who works with rock bands like Hawthorne Heights and Paramore, knows that the albums he makes are often played through tiny computer speakers by fans who are busy surfing the Internet. So he's not surprised when record labels ask the mastering engineers who work on his CDs to crank up the sound levels so high that even the soft parts sound loud.
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SOURCE: RollingStone.com