It’s been hailed on Boing Boing as the “weirdest and worst Beatles cover ever.”

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by Duke
This is the first in what I hope will be a series of short posts about artists who grab creative control and run like hell with it. Most of these artists may have initially damaged their chances of short-term success, only to come out in the long-term with a solid career & a [...]

by Duke
The second annual Nu Jazz Festival runs tomorrow (November 12th) thru the 14th at El Mocambo & the Revival Bar in Toronto. Tickets are still available at $15.00 advance, $20.00 at the doors.
At the Revival on the 12th are headliner Nickodemus with DJ’s Medicineman and Goldfinger, with live guests Escalate. Next night’s [...]

by Duke
The song was apparently crowd-sourced from start to finish as a charity single, and as a part of BBC’s ChartJackers.
As Mashable’s Stan Schroeder lays out the process:
“The lyrics of the song are made up of YouTube comments, compiled into a song by another YouTuber. The lyrics were released and then YouTubers wrote a melody [...]

by Duke
Open Rights Group – founded in 2005 by 1,000 digital activists – is “the UK’s leading voice defending freedom of expression, privacy, innovation, consumer rights and creativity on the internet.” Fitting that they should be the ones to organize a nationwide protest against the “3 Strikes Law” touted by Lord Peter Mandelson.
It’s a [...]