Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It’s more like reviewing a unicorn. Should I primarily be blown away that it exists at all? Am I supposed to compare it to conventional horses? To a rhinoceros? Does its pre-existing mythology impact its actual value, or must it be examined inside a cultural vacuum, as if this creature is no more (or less) special than the remainder of the animal kingdom?

›› Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy

Interesting promo site for IKEA — upload your own MP3, play with a keyboard-driven drum kit or shout into your computer’s microphone and see the action. Pretty fun, even funny, and beautifully executed but somehow seems a pointless: I really don’t see how sound will make all the difference if I am buying a cupboard.
But, hey… you know… it’s really nice.

MTV just launched MTV Music where they have a free database of over 16,000 music videos available free for everyone to watch. They even have an API to perhaps entice geeks to ditch YouTube and MySpace as their source for music videos.

The first thing that went through my mind was “What took them so long?!?”. The second thing that went popped into my head was “They’re calling it MTV Music? How redundant!”.

The third thing I did was to watch Dire Straits‘ Money For Nothing video which was one of the first few things I remember watching on MTV back in the days when they used to show nothing but music videos.

Warning: Video quality is quite crap for the older stuff

You could say that if Definitely Maybe was their Stone Roses, Dig Out Your Soul is their Second Coming. It won’t win them any new fans, but those that believed the truth last time will dig this.

›› The Observer reviews the new Oasis album

Radiohead. “Reckoner”. Remix.

Very Advanced Beauty, curated by Universal Everything and FreeFarm.

Really? He’s blocked it?
Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our… song.

›› Thom Yorke reacting to the news

It’s hard to believe this film was made in 1944. What a piece of work! So slickly done, it could have been made in 2004 (except for the opening credits and all).

This electrifying film was where “prominent jazz musicians of the 1940’s get together for a rare filming of a jam session”. It features Lester Young, Red Callender, Harry Edison, Marlowe Morris, Sid Catlett, Barney Kessel, Joe Jones, John Simmons, Illinois Jacquet, Marie Bryant, Archie Savage and Garland Finney, and was directed by Gjon Mili.

I wish there was some way of seeing this on the big screen…