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by Bill Pearis
Toronto's Odonis Odonis release their new EP, Better, this week (4/16). Forging industrial elements with heavy blasts of garage-pysch, it's a paint-peeler of a record. You can stream the EP's title track below.
The band are currently on tour with their noisy neighbors, METZ, which includes two shows in NYC this week. They were good when I caught them at M for Montreal last year so if you're going to Shea Stadium on Tuesday (4/16, sold out) or Bowery on Wednesday (4/17, tickets) do get there early and check 'em out. The Bowery Ballroom show is also with a third Toronto band, The Soupcans, who played Death by Audio last night (4/14). Odonis Odonis' tour wraps up at Austin Psych Fest, and all tour dates are listed below.
Continue reading "Toronto's Odonis Odonis releasing 'Better' EP, touring with METZ (dates, stream)"
M.I.A., Solange, Wire, Savages, Phosphorescent, Julia Holter, Waxahatchee, KEN Mode & more added to Pitchfork Festival
Pitchfork Festival 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)
The final Pitchfork Festival lineup has now been announced, and in addition to previously announced acts like R. Kelly, Joanna Newsom, and Swans, it now includes M.I.A., Lil B, Solange, Wire, Yo La Tengo, Low, Savages, Toro Y Moi, Phosphorescent, Metz, Autre Ne Veut, Mikal Cronin, Parquet Courts, Merchandise, Woods, Julia Holter, Glass Candy, Andy Stott, Pissed Jeans, Frankie Rose, Ryan Hemsworth, Waxahatchee, Blood Orange, Daughn Gibson, Evian Christ, White Lung, KEN Mode, and DJ Rashad.
Three-day passes and single-day tickets are still available.
In other Chicago music festival news, Lollapalooza early bird passes went on sale today, sold out, and then regular 3-day passes went on sale and sold out. Single day tickets go on sale April 9.
Full Pitchfork Festival lineup and schedule below...
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METZ @ BV SXSW 2013 (more by Sarah Frankie Linder)
As mentioned, METZ (who played one of our SXSW day parties last week) are currently on tour and will rip into NYC for a show at Bowery Ballroom on April 17. That show is not sold out, but if you'd rather go see them somewhere a little smaller and sweatier (and all-ages), they Toronto trio have just added a show the day before (4/16) at Shea Stadium with tourmates Odonis Odonis. Tickets to that show go on sale Friday at 10 AM.
Updated METZ dates are below.
Continue reading "METZ add NYC show at Shea Stadium before Bowery Ballroom (updated dates)"
BrooklynVegan SXSW Thursday day party in pics (METZ, Beach Fossils, Widowspeak, Parenthetical Girls, Spits + more)
photos by Sarah Frankie Linder
Beach Fossils/The Spits/Parenthetical Girls
The second of our four SXSW day parties at connected Austin venues The Main and The Jr. happened Thursday (3/15). In addition to Cloud Nothings' joyously raucous set, The Main was fairly wild all day. We got reunited Detroit protopunk legends Death, fellow Micheganites The Spits, Pacific Northwest fuzz-freaks Milk Music, highly-excitable Canadians METZ, plus Rough Francis and Single Mothers.
Meanwhile on The Jr. stage, things were a little more indie, with a double shot headlinging sets from two Captured Tracks bands, Widowspeak and Beach Fossils. Not to mention: Dutch artist Jacco Gardner made amazingly precise recreations of late-'60s baroque pysche pop; Scotland's PAWS did raw-throated, seriously catchy yell-alongs; Parenthetical Girls kept Austin strange during their mesmerizing set; Toronto's Moon King gave a dose of shoegaze; plus Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru and the folky sounds of J. Thoven. What a day!
For those reading this in NYC, don't forget Parenthetical Girls play Glasslands on March 25 (tickets) and Bowery Electric on March 26 (tickets); and Jacco Gardner plays Mercury Lounge on March 23 with his Trouble in Mind labelmates Mmoss (tickets)
In addition to the music, Onkyo was there, sampling their new headphones which hit stores next month. mophie, maker of invaluable iPhone chargers, were giving away discount cards good at their pop-up shop which was set up right across the street on Red River.. We were also serving complimentary Jameson, and Zico coconut water, free vegan queso and chips from Food For Lovers, and free vegan breakfast tacos from Pink Avocado. We also had BrooklynVegan t-shirts for the first 50 people in the door, thanks to American Apparel. Also thanks to our other sponsors, Korg, Vox, Blackstar, Creative Recreation, Signazon, Mirrored Media, ASCAP, and Redigi.
Our free Friday day party at The Main and The Jr. just got underway. The Main stage will be crowded for 20-something headliners The Polyphonic Spree, and that side will also have sets from Akron/Family, The Thermals, Shout Out Louds, Diamond Rings, TOY, and Half Moon Run.
The Jr. stage today is curated by out loud brethren at Invisible Oranges, with Today is the Day, Pallbearer, Royal Thunder, Inter Arma Batillus, and Babtists.
Then tonight is the official BrooklynVegan showcase at Maggie Mae's Rooftop with 3421, Brooke Candy, Giraffage, Man Without Country, Mykki Blanco, Pictureplane, The Underachievers, XXYYXX, and Zebra Katz. If you're in Austin, come on down!
More pics from Thursday's day party are below.
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BrooklynVegan free SXSW 2013 Thursday day party lineup (Cloud Nothings, Death, Parenthetical Girls, Widowspeak, METZ, Beach Fossils, Milk Music, Spits, Single Mothers & more)
As you know, BrooklynVegan is returning to Austin for SXSW this year and throwing four days of day parties at The Main & The Jr aka 603 Red River Street at the corner of 6th aka the old Emo's location. Those happen Wed (3/13), Thurs, Fri and Saturday (3/16). All shows are 100% FREE with RSVP.
We announced the Saturday lineup, and then the Friday lineup, and now HERE IS THURSDAY...
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Thee Oh Sees curating 2013 Sled Island Fest; initial line-up includes JAMC, Swans, EITS, Divine Fits, Mac DeMarco + more
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Explosions in the Sky, Swans, Divine Fits, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Colin Stetson, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mac DeMarco and Metz are the first confirmed artists to be announced for the 2013 Sled Island Festival which will happen June 19 - 22 at 30+ venues in Calgary, Alberta. This year's fest, now in its seventh year, is being curated by Tim Hecker & John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees. Around 250 bands are expected to be a part of Sled Island this year, plus art, film and comedy. Festival Discovery passes are on sale now.
METZ at Knitting Factory, Nov 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)
Canadian noise-punks METZ have returned with a new video for "Wasted," from their self-titled Sub Pop debut. Check out that video below.
As discussed, METZ will play Bowery Ballroom on April 17 (tickets) as part of a larger tour that will also take them to SXSW. Look for the band to play the BrooklynVegan Day Party at the old Emo's location on Thursday (3/14)! More info on that party coming soon.
Tour dates and that video are below.
Continue reading "METZ get "Wasted," playing BV day party during SXSW"
by Bill Pearis
Montreal's No Joy are set to return with their new album, Wait to Pleasure, which comes out April 23 via Mexican Summer. Working in a proper studio for the first time -- with Violens' Jorge Elbrecht at the helm -- the band are still in the hazy shoegaze world, but where previous records were focused on noise and volume, the new one aims for atmospheric, ethereal textures. So less Swervedriver, more Lush if that means anything to you. Stream the dreamy first single, "Lunar Phobia," below.
No Joy have dates coming up with Clinic and Metz, neither of which jaunts will hit NYC but hopefully they'll play here soon. All dates are listed below.
Continue reading "No Joy ready 'Wait to Pleasure,' touring (dates, stream)"
by Andrew Sacher
Greys (photo by Jesse Crowe)
Toronto noise punks Greys formed about two years ago when singer/guitarist Shehzaad Jiwani teamed up with high school pal Cam Graham (guitar) and began playing the type of abrasive guitar-based rock they grew up on. They eventually brought in drummer Braeden Craig and bassist Colin Gillespie, and turned Greys into the four-piece touring force that they are. They surfaced with the Ultra Sorta EP in 2011, followed by the Easy Listening EP in 2012, and they're about to drop their heaviest release yet, the Drift EP, on February 12 via their new home, Kind of Like Records. It was recorded by Josh Korody (of Beliefs) at Toronto studio Candle Recording (Owen Pallett, Austra, Doldrums, and more). That EP is making its premiere in this post, and you can stream it in its entirety below.
An easy comparison to make for Greys is their Toronto neighbors METZ (who're touring), but like that band, Greys have reached back to the noise rock-meets-post hardcore of early '90s bands like Drive Like Jehu, The Jesus Lizard, Unsane... the list goes on. You'll also hear elements of My War-era Black Flag sludge, Seattle scene grunge, and straight-ahead fast punk. Plus, the band are working on a full length right now and according to Shehzaad, one of the songs they're working on "sounds like early Sloan, or Guided by Voices, or Pavement."
Greys might look to the past for influence, but not without a wink in their eye. "Hey, we're late to the party," they shout on "Drag," with the sort of post-modern notion that nothing's really original anyway. And they do this while playing with the kind of urgency where nothing in the world matters for two and a half minutes except playing the hell out of their songs. The guitars are thick, the drums pound away in fury, and Shehzaad shouts with a burning passion as he delivers lines like, "We have no marching song to overthrow our leadership/We have no teenage anthem to make ourselves feel like shit," on "Drag," which itself could end up making a pretty good case for being either of those things. "Drag" is the EP's second track, and it's sandwiched between the fast-paced opener "Carjack" and the notably longer closing track, "Pill," a song about medical issues which opens with a discordant swagger and ends with the band literally sounding like they're drowning and screaming out for help.
Greys don't have a tour booked at the moment, but they're expected to head to the US and stop in Manhattan and Brooklyn this March, so stay tuned for that. Meanwhile, I just spoke to Shehzaad about the making of the EP, the Toronto scene that they come from, and a pretty crazy experience the band had the last time they played NYC. You can head below to read that interview and listen to a stream of the Drift EP.
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METZ at Knitting Factory, Nov 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)
METZ are keeping busy -really busy- this year with some intense touring that will last them into June. The three-piece Toronto noise-punk crew are currently in the EU through middle March, but will fly out to SXSW to complete their first leg of dates. After a couple weeks off of the road, the touring will continue in Montreal as part of a North American tour including NYC at Bowery Ballroom on April 17. Tickets go on sale Friday (2/8) at noon.
All tour dates and a recent Pitchfork video are below.
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Primavera Sound have announced their 2013 lineup, set to go down on May 22-26 in Barcelona, Spain. The announcement came via an animated video and artists performing include Phoenix, The Postal Service, Blur, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, My Bloody Valentine, Tame Impala, Wu-Tang Clan, Dead Can Dance, Grizzly Bear, The Knife, and loads more. Current lineup is below along with the flyer and video...
Laurel Halo
Shapeshifting art pop producer/singer Laurel Halo has a few shows coming up this year including the previously discussed NYC date at the Merkin Concert Hall on February 23, where she'll be playing a collaborative set with fellow art pop mastermind Julia Holter and members of Daniel Wohl's TRANSIT collective as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival. Tickets for that show are still available.
Laurel Halo's other upcoming shows include a couple festival appearances, like Barcelona's Mutek [ES] in February and Katowice, Poland's OFF Festival in August with Deerhunter, Jens Lekman, METZ, Merchandise, and more TBA. And around the time of the Ecstatic Music Fest show, Laurel will play a more traditional show in NYC at Le Poisson Rouge on Valentines Day (2/14) with fellow Brooklynites Teengirl Fantasy, TGF's collaborator Kelela, and Fatherhood. Tickets for the LPR show, which Bandshell is presenting, are on sale now.
Like her Hyperdub labelmate Burial, Laurel Halo capped off 2012 with a last-minute single, "Sunlight On The Faded." You can stream that single and check out a list of all upcoming dates below...
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Today Pitchfork posted the first half (well, first 30 albums) of their Top 50 Albums of 2012 list. There are some surprises on it, like Peaking Lights and Sharon Van Etten, who seemed more likely to end up on their Honorable Mentions list due to their relatively lower scores and the fact that most of the albums on this list were awarded Best New Music throughout the year. Cat Power and Hot Chip also make it, both of whose new albums seemed to have received less love from Pitchfork than previous releases by those artists. A Rustie Essential Mix also makes the list even though his actual album which came out last year didn't make their 2011 list. And of course the expected ones end up there too like Purity Ring, Julia Holter, Schoolboy Q, Miguel, and more. The remaining 20 will be revealed tomorrow (Friday, 12/21).
Check out their 50-30 picks below...
by Bill Pearis
Pitchfork just posted their much anticipated list of the top 100 tracks of 2012. The #1 slot went to... Grimes! Whether you thought the whole of her album Visions was good or not, it was hard to deny the charms of "Oblivion." (Having that great video didn't hurt either.) Do you think it deserved to top the list? If not then what song should've?
You can check out P4K's entire hot 100 of 2012 below.
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METZ appeared on 'Serious Business' (watch); win tix to their free show w/ King Tuff, Sean Bones & Devin
METZ at Knitting Factory in November (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)
As mentioned, Toronto noise punks METZ have two upcoming free shows in NYC this month. First they'll play an in-store at Generation Records (12/18) and the next night, they'll play a Converse Rubber Tracks show at Music Hall of Williamsburg (12/19) with King Tuff, Sean Bones, and Devin. Tickets are required for the MHOW show (they just don't cost anything) but they're "sold out." However, if you missed out on getting yours, we're giving away a pair of VIP tickets. Details on how you can enter to win are below.
METZ recently stopped by BreakThruRadio to record a live-in-studio performance at the Serious Business studio and also sat in with BTR's Travis Harrison for an interview. You can watch a video of that session below.
Continue reading "METZ appeared on 'Serious Business' (watch); win tix to their free show w/ King Tuff, Sean Bones & Devin"
Metz at Knitting Factory, Nov 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)
METZ are racking up free shows in NYC in late December. The latest big gift with a bow around it comes in the form of an in-store at Generation Records on December 18 at 7PM the day before the band heads to Music Hall of Williamsburg (12/19) that night to team with King Tuff, Sean Bones, and Devin for a free Converse Rubber Tracks (all tickets have been given out).
METZ's debut LP is out now, but the band also recently digitally reissued their single "Dirty Shirt" / "Leave Me Out" which was previously only available as a limited 7". Stream the A-Side below and look for it to buy on the internet on Tuesday (12/4).
All tour dates are listed below, along with song streams.
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Long-running UK music weekly NME has just published their Year-End issue and have named Tame Impala's Lonerism as album of the year, with Grimes, Frank Ocean, Crystal Castles and Alt-J rounding out the Top 5. Tame Impala offshoot Pond comes in at #7. Check out the entire Top 50 list below.
As mentioned before, Tame Impala just announced a 2013 tour, and will play Terminal 5 in NYC on February 19. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (11/30) at noon.
NME's Top 50 LPs of 2012 are listed below.
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METZ at Knitting Factory earlier this month (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)
The new-ish free bi-monthly Converse Rubber Tracks series at Music Hall of Williamsburg, which began in June with White Rabbits, continued in August with Action Bronson, and again in October with Ghostface Killah and A-Trak, will continue on December 19 at MHOW with its most rockin' edition yet: King Tuff, METZ, Sean Bones, and Devin. The show is free but you can pick up tickets to secure yourself a spot starting today (11/27) at 2 PM.
Like all of these shows go, part of the lineup includes bands who've recorded at Rubber Tracks, and for this one it's Frenchkiss labelmates Sean Bones and Devin. Converse session videos, all King Tuff and METZ dates, and the show flyer, below.
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METZ at Knitting Factory, 11/20/2012
Somewhere in between Drive Like Jehu, Am-Rep noise rock, Young Widows, hardcore and the vibrato-laden vocals of Jon Spencer lies Toronto's METZ, who blessed Knitting Factory last night (11/20) with Yvette and Bennio Qwerty, their second of two NYC appearances this week (they played Mercury Lounge on 11/19). The performances were METZ's first NYC showing since playing a slew of CMJ appearances (including our own day party) following the release of their new self-titled LP, out now via Sub Pop.
Pictures of METZ from the Knitting Factory show are below (unfortunately, I missed both support bands).
photos by Matt Schiels, words by Andrew Sacher
Pissed Jeans @ Knitting Factory - 10/18/12
Between Pissed Jeans, METZ, and King Tuff, half of this year's Sub Pop CMJ showcase was basically a punk show, a pretty awesome move in 2012 for the label that over two decades ago brought us Mudhoney and a pre-major label Nirvana. The lineup was rounded out by the less punk but still great Daughn Gibson (who we also caught at Villain), Poor Moon and Debo Band. It went down on the Thursday (10/18) of CMJ at Knitting Factory, and we stopped by for headliners Pissed Jeans, who you can see pictures of in this post.
METZ, who we missed at that show but saw when they slayed at our Friday day party, are continuing to tour (they play Chicago this weekend) and will be back in NYC for amazingly-not-sold-out shows on November 19 at Mercury Lounge with Hunters and November 20 at Knitting Factory. Tickets for the Mercury Lounge show and the Knitting Factory show are still available. If you missed these guys during CMJ (and even if you didn't), these shows are highly recommended.
More pics of Pissed Jeans from the Sub Pop showcase, a video of METZ from the Pitchfork showcase, and an updated list of METZ dates are below.
Continue reading "Pissed Jeans played the Sub Pop CMJ showcase (pics) with METZ (who are on tour)"
BV Friday Day Party pics (Deap Vally, Foxygen, Murals, Toys That Kill, Braids, Io Echo, The Intelligence, Savages, METZ + more)
photos by Amanda Hatfield & Dominick Mastrangelo, words by Bill Pearis
Deap Vally @ Public Assembly (by Dominick)
Foxygen @ Public Assemby (by Amanda)
Our Friday not-CMJ day party (10/19) at Public Assembly, our first of two day-long, two-stage shows at the venue over the weekend, had my favorite one-two punch of the entire 2012 CMJ week: Savages followed by METZ both of whose performances we wrote about already (click the links). But I'll add that even though it was a shorter set (that didn't include "Flying to Berlin"_ than when I caught them at Glasslands earlier in the week, Savages were more, relaxed, more electrifying at our show. And METZ bring their insane level of energy (and volume) to every show they do, day or night, and they knocked the crowd for a loop. CMJ in a nutshell right there.
The rest of Friday's line-up was highly diverse: Israeli prog rockers Tiny Fingers; Wisonsin folk duo Blessed Feathers; the retro-fueled shenanigans of the terrific Foxygen; Murals' laid-back dreampop; FIGO and Toys that Kill bringing some punk; Deap Vally bringing riffs and sex appeal; IO Echo's gothy shoegaze pop; MSMR's big pop sounds (a little like an indie Sophie Ellis Bextor?); Doldrums on what was one of their 8000 highly energetic shows that week; Braids' new, electronic direction; and the brainy fake surf of The Intelligence.
Attendees at the show were fueled by complimentary drinks courtesy of Sailor Jerry Rum, complimentary beer courtesy of PBR, and snacked on the free Raw Revolution organic live food bars that were scattered around the venue. Hopefully nobody had a hangover thanks to cans of the Mercy that were given out aplenty. If the PBR and Poggled photographer took your picture, look for it on our Facebook.
We already posted pictures from this party of METZ, Savages, and Sky Ferreira. More from the whole show, below...
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more review/videos from P4K showcase @ Villain (Angel Haze, Hundred Waters, Death Grips, Daughn Gibson, METZ & more)
by Andrew Sacher
Angel Haze at Villain - 10/19/12 (via @wolverskulkbrecht)
You already know what I thought of Merchandise's set at the Pitchfork showcase at Villain in Brooklyn on Friday night (10/19). Here's a bit on the rest of the stuff I saw.
Rapper Angel Haze was on when I walked in and she was probably the best act I saw at the whole show. She delivers with a fast, fierce flow and is a way confident performer. She has a style that will definitely appeal to hip hop purists, eschewing the slow flow of cloud rap and only using pre-recorded vocals if it benefited the song, not as a vice. But though she ignores current trends, she isn't overtly a throwback rapper either. Angel Haze is just a refreshing reminder of the levels that rap can be taken, something that really comes across in her powerful new song.
Hundred Waters at Villain - 10/19/12 (via @twodegreesinbebop)
Up next was Hundred Waters, one of my most anticipated bands for this year's CMJ. I'm not trying to draw any grand conclusions about their signing to Skrillex's label, which I'm still scratching my head about, but I will say that after seeing them it makes a little more sense why he would be interested. Though their album reminds me of a slightly more electronic Joanna Newsom, they're a lot louder and bassier at their shows. There's a noticeable split on stage -- the two girls stay on the left and if it was just them, they'd sound like a forgotten psych folk duo from the late '60s, and on the other side of the stage, the three guys handle drums, bass, and synths, vibing like an edgy jamtronica band. It's a weird mix, but it often meshes really well.
Hundred Waters were followed by Le1f, who I had seen the night earlier at the Studio at Webster Hall. Le1f fit in a lot better on this lineup than he did with the mostly hardcore rap lineup of the Studio show, and the larger crowd were way more into him in this environment. I'm still more a fan of his head knockers and the slower ones wash over me a bit, but still a fun set to watch.
Daughn GIbson was up next, and like Hundred Waters, his strong point is his eclectic mix of sounds. He played mostly off of his debut album, All Hell, which came out earlier this year via White Denim (he's since signed to Sub Pop) and combines gothic country with downtempo electronic music. While other beatmaker/singers like James Blake prefer to sit at their piano and let the music do the talking, Daughn is a natural born frontman and couldn't help but perform like a melodramatic barroom singer.
Then Merchandise played, after which I stuck around for a few songs by Holy Other. His new album, Held, is one of my favorite electronic releases of the year and Holy Other is really on some next level shit, but admittedly isn't much of a live act.
After I left, the crowd was treated to sets by METZ, DIIV, Joey Bada$$, and Death Grips. You can watch some videos from the show below.
Continue reading "more review/videos from P4K showcase @ Villain (Angel Haze, Hundred Waters, Death Grips, Daughn Gibson, METZ & more)"
photos by Amanda Hatfield & Dominick Mastrangelo, words by Andrew Sacher
METZ at Public Assembly - 10/19/12
While much of the BV team has already seen and been sold on METZ a bunch in the last couple years, I didn't get around to it until this year's CMJ at the BrooklynVegan day party on Friday (10/19) (they went on right after Savages). And having not been fully won over on the band's self titled LP (out now via Sub Pop), I admittedly didn't go into it with the same high expectations that many of the people who packed the venue had. That said, it only took me about a few seconds into their first song to "get it," and I'm 100% sold on METZ now. If anyone else out there is a naysayer, many will agree with me that METZ is really a band you have to see live. They're ruthless on stage, naturally thrashing around in the way that you just weren't seeing in indie rock's recent years when it was still rejecting punk. And lucky for METZ (and all of us), they've come along at exactly the right time, because people are showing that they really do care about this sort of stuff again.
More pictures and a video from METZ's set at the BV day party (sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, Sailor Jerry, Mercy, and Raw Revolution) , and more tour dates, below...
Continue reading "METZ @ the BrooklynVegan Friday day party (pics, video)"
The Darkness in Austin in May (more by Tim Griffin)
Divine Fits at MHOW in September (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Justice at Lollapalooza 2012 (more by James Richards IV)
today in NYC
* Sonagi @ Barbes
* Irene Jacob @ Barbes
* Evans Thompson @ The Stone
* Coyote Grace/Tylan @ Joe's Pub
* The Beat Junkies @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Jon McLaughlin, Xenia @ Joe's Pub
* Hannibal Buress @ Knitting Factory
* A-Trak, Flosstradamus @ Asbury Lanes
* Divine Fits, Cold Cave @ Webster Hall
* Janeane Garofalo @ EastVille Comedy Club
* Joseph Arthur w/ Peter Buck @ City Winery
* The Public Side of Paula Scher @ Joe's Pub
* Sylvain Leroux/Max Johnson Duo @ The Stone
* Justice, Chromeo (DJ) @ Hammerstein Ballroom
* Sad Horse, Trabajo, Luxury Prevention @ Big Snow
* The Midnight Beast, Riot !n Paris @ Mercury Lounge
* The Sea and Cake, Matthew Friedberger @ Littlefield
* Little Women, Banned Books, Ryan Ferriera @ Zebulon
* The Darkness, The Dirty Pearls, Sweetheart @ Terminal 5
* Wild Nothing, Merchandise, Mac DeMarco @ Bowery Ballroom
* Calabrese, Coffin Fly, The Knuckle Pucks @ Public Assembly
* Aza Nizi Maza, Hairy Sands, Source Of Yellow @ Cameo Gallery
* Why?, Naytronix, The Black Swans @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
* Ghost Wave, Making Movies, Torches, The Golden Awesome @ Pianos
* Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons on Broadway @ Broadway Theatre
* K-Prime & Eom, Audra the Rapper, Fowl, SmallAxe LA @ The Paper Box
* Sex Mob, Randy Ingram Trio, Noah Preminger Quartet @ Le Poisson Rouge
* Dan Neustadt plays The Smiths' "The Queen Is Dead" @ Le Poisson Rouge
* This Frontier Needs Heroes, Tuff Sunshine, Brother Reverend @ Glasslands
* She Keeps Bees, Slothrust, Ancient Sky, Mrs. Adam Schatz @ Death By Audio
* Ringo Deathstarr, Parquet Courts, Juan Wauters, Son of Salami @ Shea Stadium
* Psychedelic Furs, The Lemonheads (feat. Juliana Hatfield) @ Best Buy Theater
* Humans, Indian Rebound, Freddy Hall, Suntalk, Dialogue From A Silent Film @ Matchless
* Hilly Eye, Blanche Blanche Blanche, Squarehead, So Cow, Heaven's Gate, Potty Mouth, Ava Luna, Butter The Children @ 285 Kent Avenue (noon)
* Unstoppable Death Machines, Juggernut, Bambara, Cinema Cinema, Brooklyn What, Osekre n the Lucky Bastards, Inky Jacks, ZZZ's, Benjees, Bloom, Ravenous, Going Green, Young Adults @ Rock Bottom
* Kyshona Armstrong, Jared Saltiel, Jason Darling, Rachel Ann Weiss, Teeth @ Tongue, May Cheung and Towering Poppies, Max Fisher w/ Mino Cinelu, Lu Horta, Jeffrey Martin, Aria Jay @ Rockwood Music Hall
CMJ is officially over, but if you've still got any energy left, there are tons of good shows today. A handful of bigger bands are making their way through town like Divine Fits (who play with Cold Cave), The Darkness, Justice and Chromeo (DJ), WHY?, Psychedelic Furs and Lemonheads feat. Juliana Hatfield, The Sea and Cake, and A-Trak (who plays with Flosstradamus like he did in Brooklyn last night).
Plus, a bunch of the artists who were here for CMJ are sticking around. Most notably, there's the Wild Nothing, Merchandise, and Mac DeMarco show, but other good ones include Austin's Ringo Deathstarr, local faves Parquet Courts, Juan Wauters (of The Beets), and Son of Salami at Shea Stadium, and if you're up early, the free day party at 285 Kent with Hilly Eye, Blanche Blanche Blanche, Ava Luna, and more should be a great time.
We threw a few events during CMJ, including day parties at Public Assembly on Friday and Saturday. One of the highlights of those parties was London post-punk newcomers Savages tearing up the front room on Friday, followed by an unrelenting set by Toronto punks METZ. If you missed it, you can check out videos of both bands from that party below, via (((unartig))).
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Dum Dum Girls at Sasquatch 2012 (more by Chris Graham)
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today in NYC
* Plank Theory @ The Stone
* The Intelligence @ Maxwell's
* Fiona Apple, Blake Mills @ Terminal 5
* Crosby, Stills and Nash @ Beacon Theater
* Umphrey's McGee, Conspirator @ Capitol Theatre
* Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments @ Joe's Pub
* Rosenkopf, Cult of Youth, Slug Guts @ Home Sweet Home
* Julie Klausner, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists @ The Bell House
* METZ, Die! Die! Die!, Roomrunner @ Death By Audio
* The Jezabels, Hey Rosetta!, Yukon Blonde @ Webster Hall
* Blackbird Blackbird, Maus Haus, TOPS, Motion Studies @ Shea Stadium
* Blondfire, Sky Ferriera, Ghost Beach, Capital Cities, Gabriel Bruce @ Union Hall
* Regal Degal, Ian Drennan, Lame Drivers, So Cow, Squarehead @ Big Snow
* Physical Therapy, Maria Minerva, Von Haze, Arca, Forma, Tempers
* My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Left Spine Down @ Gramercy Theatre
* Flying Lotus, Death Grips, Buke and Gase, Ali Shaheed Muhammed @ (le) poisson rouge
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* Tomorrow's World, Housse de Racket, Lescop, Citizens! @ Highline Ballroom
* Trixie Whitley, GOLD FIELDS, Duologue, People vs. Larsen @ McKittrick Hotel
* Gunfight, Backwords, Quiet Loudly, Indian Rebound, Sharkmuffin @ Muchmore's
* Local Natives, SKATERS, San Cisco, Pacific Air, Solid Gold @ Bowery Ballroom
* Native Eloquence, Cemeteries, Headaches, M. Sage, Foxes in Fiction @ La Sala
* Dead Leaf Echo, Andre Obin, Some Ember, Rarechild, Treasure Teeth @ Tandem Bar
* Electrical Umbilical Cord, Brusque Twins, Silent Em, Some Ember, Excuses, Eraas @ Cameo Gallery
* Matthew E. White, Opossom, Twin Tigers, Fantasmas, Grape Soda, Koko Beware @ Union Pool
* Dum Dum Girls, Guards, Savages, Icona Pop (DJ Set), Port St. Willow, IO Echo @ Glasslands
* The Virgins, Unknown MOrtal Chestra, The Neighbourhood, Indians, Goldroom @ Brooklyn Bowl
* Doldrums, Strange Talk, Hundred Waters, Duologue, Mozart's Sister, High Highs, DIANA @ Mercury Lounge
* The Life & Times, The Hounds Below, Local H, Alvarez Kings, Tango in the Attic, Dignan Porch @ CMJ Union
* Gemini Club, Purple, Monsters Calling Home, Air Traffic Controller, Get People, The Lone Bellow @ Canal Room
* Lights Resolve, The Phuss, Gypsy West, Viva Mayday, Chainwave, Black Bird White Sky, Le resistance @ Matchless
* Bird Call, Vivienne Eastwood, Skipping Girl Vinegar, Phone Tag, The Oyster Murders, Yellow Red Sparks @ Legion Bar
* Nina Sky, Maluca, Anjulie, Lady Starlight, Roxy Cottontail, Chippy Nonstop, Jane Bang @ The Studio at Webster Hall
* Chad Valley, Jensen Sportag, Michna, Erika Spring, Selebrities, Rush Midnight, Heathered Pearls DJ set @ Le Baron
* Thurston Moore and Loren Connors, Hubble, PC Worship, Diamond Terrifier, The Dreebs, Devin, Gary & Ross @ Public Assembly
* The Dearloves, Catch Wild, New York Funk Exchange, Paperdoll, Dangerous Ponies, The Hollows, Pine Hollows, Bottom Dollars @ Sullivan Hall
* ZZZ's, Hussle Club, I.R.O.K., Punks On Mars, Ghost Wave, Psychobuildings, Half Undressed, Communist Daughter, Blessed Feathers @ Cake Shop
* Chains of Love, Heliotropes, papercranes, Aact Rrasier, The Analog Girl, Young Girls, Baron Von Luxxury (DJ set) @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* Flying Points, Fast Years, Ace Reporter, Eytan & The Embassy, The Last Royals, Motive, Mother Feather, New Beard, Raccoon Fighter @ Spike Hill
* Onili, Kosha Dillz, Wordspit the Illest, Bobby 2 Flee, Swinton Rockz, El Gant, Kiss Slash Crooked Smile, Illustrate, Zak Downtown @ Littlefield
* Flatbush Zombies, The Orwells, Children of the Night, Skaters, Bodega Bamz, Moon King, Underachievers, Team Spirit, Haleek Maul @ Santos Party House
* T.H. White, At Sea, The Blakes, Happy People, Bend Sinister, Apollo Run, Mieka Pauley, The Dawns, Old Time Machine, Maya Solovey @ The Bowery Electric
* Dangerous Ponies, Birthmark, Industries of the Blind, You Bred Raptors?, Cuddle Magic, Doe Paoro, Friend Roulette, In One Wind, DTROTBOT @ Living Room
* Archie Powell & The Exports, Laura Stevenson & The Cans, Twin Tigers, Pretty & Nice, Trapper Schoepp & The Shades, Roomrunner, Fantasy Rainbow @ The Rock Shop
* The Foreign Resort, Midnight Spin, Robbin Pain, Watermelon, Screentests, Glitter Freeze, Hidden Cities, Corita, Torches, Maybe The Welders, Starina @ Fontana's
* Main Attrakionz, Kool AD, Deniro Farrar, Supreme Cuts, Cities Aviv, Bryant Dope, Ryan Hemsworth, CBG, Heems, Sasha Go Hard, Kitty Pryde, Weekend Money, SAFE @ 285 Kent
* Kyle Rapps and Diwon, Aaron Cohen and the Inner City Kids, Danse Diamons, Tek (of Smif n Wessun), Black Dave, Cezar, El Gant, Rilgood, Maffew Ragazino @ Paper Box
* Cold Blood Club, Solid Gold, Har Mar Superstar, Me And My Arrow, American Royalty, Lightning Love, Los Encantados, Sean Anonymous w/ Dream Crusher, Enemy Planes @ The Delancey
CMJ starts to get really in the swing tonight, with lots of good options. Toronto's awesome METZ were just added to tonight's Death by Audio bill that also features Roomrunner, Die Die Die and Beasty. $7 at the door.
It's also the debut of UK act Savages tonight at Glasslands as part of Stereogum's showcase that also has Dum Dum Girls, Guards and more. You can probably still RSVP (you'll still need to pay $5 at the door) though this will be a hot show so you may want to get there early (doors at 8:15 PM). If you don't go to Glasslands tonight, Savages will play our free day party on Friday at Public Assembly.
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sir can u please show how to do post production in photoshop for the aboveMaking of 'Treevillas'
I did some tests using the same settings from you, but I can't get same image brightness as yours(1433), it always over burn the white model but the sky is to dark and not as saturated as your image. Am I doing someting wrong?
First of all thanks for this awesome tutorial, it's a great work as well. I've got a question: why the Brute Force subdivs amount had left default? Is it something there to compensate this low amount? The explanation will be really useful for me. Best regards!
very nice work
thanks for sharing
In your screen of the water material, the diffuse map is uncheck. is it normal ?
so why did you put the jpeg in the diffuse map ?
Very nice work, neatly done ... i was wondering what's the numbers above the HDRI test ? is it the timing ? how can i control it ? .. Thank you.
Nice! The mood, colors, attention to details....very lovely! I really like how the vegetation came out.
btw, ty Ronen for the nice updates and the author of this project
Beautiful. the post production topic is so much helpful to see the differences between effects... for me that is learning xD
Hi! It´s impossible to copy settings into a completly different scene and expect similar results. You mention your model is white. There´s no white in the scene above and white overall makes things burn. You can use settings as reference but you need to adapt.
In resume, each scene is different.
Many thanks!
Max subdivs Adaptive DMC Image Sampler is set to 100 so no need to increase BFsubdivs.
After some testing the diffuse map wasnt used/needed in this case. Its just there to show that if you want you can had it for other water effect.
Its just the name of the HDRI (1004 means 10:04). You can´t change day/night time in an HDRI.Its fixed.
sorry, I mean I use a grey material override in order to tweak the HDR, I know there will be differences between defferent scenes, but refer to your lighting test image and settings, the difference is too large, at least the HDR background should be close with same settings, I can't get the lovely blue tint and brightness with 0.74 gamma, I think I still miss something
Just beautiful! I thoroughly enjoyed this particular "making of". Thanks Jacinto and thanks Ronen.
I did have one question though....you mentioned you achieved the lighting with the use of an HDRI and NO vray sun. How were you able to get the sharp shadows? I'm curious because I've tried a similar approach but always find the need to use a vray sun to get the sharper shadows. I too use Peter Guthrie's HDRI's (1103 Clouds and 1433 Sun Blue Sky). Any pointers would be MUCH appreciated. Great work once again!
Yes, to get sharper shadows you should tweak the gamma of the Vray HDRI, in the material editor. Place around 0,7 and 0,9. Depends on the HDRI. Hope it helps.
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(Diarist is a metaweblog app for Windows Phone, developed by Kev Daly).
Why is TelstraClear sending New Zealand traffic to California through Hong Kong?
Is TelstraClear having some routing problems? Why is it routing traffic from New Zealand to the United States via Hong Kong?
Isn't enough that we are far away from content, why use the longest route to get something then?
Discussion going on Geekzone at the moment.
Update: Yes, someone mentioned it's the Internet, if things are not well, alternative routes and all. Yes, I know that. Still, if we are so far away from content that 200ms influences the results, it would be good if a high quality network could make sure things were taking the optimal path and only use the fallback as an alternative for when things go wrong, not as the default for days/weeks. In this case, someone somewhere should be alerted.
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Faster mobile data via 3G WiFi router than 3G USB modem?
I have a Cradlepoint PHS300 and noticed something interesting when using mobile data: if I plug my 3G Sierra Wireless USB modem to the PHS300 and connect my laptop to the router via WiFi I get faster speedtest results than if I plug the 3G USB modem directly to my laptop.
This is obviously for the same network, same location (Auckland CBD), around the same time (as in plug to laptop, test, plug to PHS300, text, plug back to laptop, test)...
Also the connection seems to be more reliable.
Interesting. I know both the laptop USB adapter and the 3G USB modem are USB 2.0, but why the speed difference?
And no, it's not a paid advertising for Cradlepoint products, but I would be interested to know if anyone have similar experiences with other 3G/WiFi routers.
Telstra adds 500GB plan in Australia for AU$119.95, meanwhile in New Zealand…
I just read that Telstra is adding a 500GB broadband plan in Australia for AU$119.95. Users on HFC (cable modem service) can get 100 Mbps speeds for an extra AU$10.00
Telstra's presence in New Zealand, TelstraClear, offers a 25 Mbps HFC plan for around NZ$200 a month with a 120GB allowance, which is about five times more expensive, with 1/4 of the speed. Yes, that bad.
Earlier this year TelstraClear ran a HFC 100 Mbps trial, which I was invited to participate. HFC is a brilliant service (on any speed), as anyone who ever used the cable modem service can confirm, when compared to DSL alternatives. But the company have since gone quiet, and apparently have no plans of announcing new services supporting neither those speeds or allowances.
People keep asking on Geekzone when the 100 Mbps plan is coming and the company keeps saying we should wait, something is coming up. But it's been quite some time now and the company is not known for moving fast. I understand their HFC infrastructure is currently ready for DOCSIS3 and 100 Mbps speeds, but somewhere someone is not signing the "Go Ahead" memo.
Disclaimer: as a participant of the 100 Mbps trial I was offered, at the end of the test period, to return to my original plan or move to the top plan while keeping the 100Mbps profile. It was an easy decision, since I was already paying for the top plan, so in our household we do have a 100Mbps HFC connection.
Announcing Multicore World in Wellington, March 2012
Today I got an invite to a press briefing here in Wellington later this week, with James Reinders (Director, Chief Software Evangelist, Intel) and Nicolas Erdody (Director, Open Parallel Ltd). The invite also mentioned the upcoming Multicore World conference, happening here in Wellington in March 2012:
The World is Going Parallel and New Zealand Software Company has a Leading Role in it
Since the advent of computers, and later of the internet, the processing of massive amounts of data has been growing. Industry has been increasing computing power for decades, but the trend towards increasing speed of processing has reached the physical barrier. Vendors cannot put more processing power into a chip, without overheating it. To solve the problem, vendors changed the architecture, building more processors into a single chip, calling them multicore chips. These new chips entered the mainstream market a few years ago, with all vendors currently selling them.
New multicore chips are also more power efficient, and the potential is basically unlimited for the number of cores that you can put on them. The potential processing power is absolutely unheard of, which will not only allow users to do thing faster, but also add more, and new, conditions to the current problems. Now it is possible to imagine applications that have not been possible before.
However, this new and exciting scenario comes with a challenge. Since the inception of computers, software has been written with a single central processing unit (CPU) in a chip. To exploit the potential of multicore chips, software needs to be written thinking in parallel. Parallel programming is not a new concept, but it is more difficult to write. It is estimated than less than 10% of all the software programmers worldwide are able to deal with parallel programming. In the next 10-15 years, there will be huge opportunities to either deal with all the legacy code written from decades of sequential programming, or to create new software that will take full advantage of thousands of cores in a chip, plus all the range of services, solutions and systems integration in between.
This is an ideal ground for the fertile mind of the technologists, software communities and researchers within NZ. It's mainstream but it's a niche new technology. It's already taken advantage of the skills available in NZ, and parallel computing will be essential to process the vast quantities of data produced by the SKA telescope, a global project that NZ is key part of it. James Reinders (Director, Chief Software Evangelist, Intel) and Nicolas Erdody (Director, Open Parallel Ltd) will be discussing the opportunities and challenges that Multicore presents in a press conference this Wednesday 21 September 2011.
Open Parallel, a NZ based company specialised in Software for Multicore and Parallel Computing has been working with Intel since early 2010. To increase awareness about multicore and to present the ecosystem that NZ already has in place to unveil the potential of multicore chips, Open Parallel organises Multicore World 2012 - a global conference about Multicore Technology (software and hardware) as part of its vision to establish New Zealand as a centre of excellence for multicore and parallel computing. Multicore World will be held 27 - 28 March 2012 at the Wellington Town Hall. The main goal of the conference is to provide IT decision makers being C-level executives as well as software community leaders with the knowledge and the connections they need to make valid business and technology decisions in terms of their multicore software and hardware requirements over the coming years.
James Reinders and Nicolas Erdody will be presenting about Multicore, Parallelism, the SKA project and Multicore World in a press conference in Wellington
Updated HP dm1 announced
I just found out while here on a HP launch event (unrelated because the event I am attending is about imaging and printing, not laptops), that a new HP dm1 laptop version has been released, just eight months after the original model was introduced. The HP dm1 is an ultraportable laptop, not quite as small as a "netbook" (I hate this word), but not as large and heavy as a laptop. The HP dm1 was the first laptop with an AMD Fusion chipset (including AMD CPU and GPU all in one).
I bought one while in the US recently attending the HP Discover conference, to replace my previous HP dv6. It's a brilliant PC. A lot faster than netbooks thanks to its dual core 64 bit AMD CPU, 11" screen, very nice keyboard and light (just a bit over 1Kg). I've replaced the original 500GB HDD with my Crucial 256GB SSD and I get about seven hours battery life with WiFi off, and about five and half with WiFi on. Its Windows Experience Index is 3.8 because of the CPU. My specific model gets 5.1 in gaming graphics (using the standard ATI drivers) and 7.9 in drive (because of the ultra fast SSD). Actually the SSD itself cost more than the laptop.
I recommend this "ultraportable" laptop. It's available in New Zealand now, and I am sure the new model will be out soon.
Full disclosure: I was invited by HP, with a group o bloggers, to attend the HP Discover conference in Las Vegas earlier this year, and I bought the HP dm1 with a gift voucher I won during the conference.
In Shanghai for HP IPG launches
I am in Shanghai today and tomorrow, courtesy of HP, for an HP IPG (Imaging and Printing) launch event. I feel like I have just absorbed more information about printers (laser, ink, networked, managed, etc) than I had in the last five years.
The Kerry Hotel is a beautiful hotel, and the food is excellent. Landed in Shanghai from Hong Kong at 11pm. Flew (no pun intended) through immigration and customs in less than five minutes. Very nice people all around.
Shame HP used an Australian travel agency that put us, New Zealanders, on a QANTAS flight with lots of stops (WLG - SYD - HKG - PDV), when there's a direct Air New Zealand flight Auckland - Shanghai. It could have been twelve hours travel instead of twenty four. My fault too, should have checked the itinerary earlier.
Will post the news on Geekzone later.
Cleaning up the Metservice infection
During the Great New Zealand Snowstorm 2011 the MetService web site was probably one of the most visited in the country. Unfortunately someone thought it would also be a great time to break into Metservice's online advertising platform and plant a little Trojan horse.
What happened is that when serving the ads the MetService web site was also unknowingly distributing a third party piece of code. This little piece of code would be executed by the users' web browser and silently download and install malware on the visitors' computers.
To make it clear: you wouldn't need to click an ad to load this malware, as its code was being loaded directly from the ad server and executed by your browser. The infection wasn't delivered by an ad. In the delivery method could be applied to any other database driven website. It's not an "online advertising problem".
Here is the official MetService email I received when they started the clean up process on their server:
Over the past week, MetService's website has experienced record numbers of visitors due to the severe weather being experienced across the country. The site has handled this record traffic well. The popularity of the site no doubt made it a target for this attack.
An upgrade incorporating a fix is now being installed in order to resolve the issue. The ad server database is also in the process of being cleaned and rebuilt. We have responded to tweets on the issue starting just before 10am this morning, and will continue to respond to users' concerns as they arise.
While there's still an ongoing discussion on Geekzone (where it seems it was first reported), at least one of the installed malware is Personal Shield Pro, a fake security program that will collect personal information, all while pretending to be a legitimate program - and at some point might even ask for credit card details to unlock the "cleaning" feature, obviously not doing anything.
It's also not clear the third party software was distributing one, two or more variants of malware - it's possible that the software could be installing different types of malware depending on what browser was being used, or what operating system version the PC is running, etc.
From the information we managed to collect on Geekzone, the main infection was really Personal Shield Pro. This can be removed with Malwarebytes, a free software (although with a Pro paid version with more features).
To remove the Personal Shield Pro follow these steps:
- Reboot your PC and press F8 just before Windows starts running
- On the boot options screen select "Safe Mode with Network"
- Download Malwarebytes and install
- Run a full scan and accept its suggestions
This should clear the infection.
Obviously your PC could get contaminated again with the same thing if it stumbles upon another web sites carrying the same or similar code. Here are some tips to keep it safe:
- Make sure your Windows PC is always up-to-date with the latest patches and browser versions. If you are running Windows XP make sure you have Service Pack 3 installed and all Windows Updates after that. If you are running Windows 7 make sure you have Service Pack 1 and all Windows Updates after that. You should check for new Windows Updates every second Wednesday (New Zealand time), which is the day Microsoft releases those updates. You should actually set Windows Update to automatically download and install updates.
- If you are running Internet Explorer on Windows XP you should have Internet Explorer 8. If you are running Internet Explorer on Windows 7 you should have Internet Explorer 9.
- If you are running other browser (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari) you should check that you are running their latest updates.
- If you are running any other program (specially ones that plug into your browser) make sure you always have all updates installed. This includes Java runtime, Skype plugins, Toolbars and any other program that changes the browser behaviour.
- You should install one antivirus program (free or paid) but not more than one. Multiple antivirus programs on the same PC will cause problems.
- Earlier this year I posted a blog entry with links to a list of free security programs and you should read it.
If anyone is in the security community and could add or update any information posted here about this specific incident, please contact me. I'm also blocking comments in this blog post to avoid the predictable "Windows vs Mac OS vs Linux vs " or "Internet Explorer vs Firefox vs Chrome" flame wars.
UPDATE: for those interested in finding out how the Metservice ad server was compromised, this is a good read.
UPDATE: Although the JAVA runtime is multi platform, the final payload affected only Windows PCs. All of you running Mac OS X, Linux, iPads and other devices will not be affected.
To the good ISP people on Geekzone
In a previous blog post I lashed at service companies that have problems with their help desk experience, and probably gave the impression the contribution some of their people give in online media is not welcome.
That's not the case. They all do a great work out there, fronting up for the company, enduring some rude comments from people with no social skills (those who keep shouting "mine, mine, mine") and so on.
The post was about the broken processes, not about the people.
Here at Geekzone we can find some examples of great contributors, and I will list them in no particular order (ok, will try and put company names in alphabetical order, and if I forget any, please remind me):
- 2degrees (SaltyNZ, 2DegreesCare)
- Orcon (ptinson, QuentinRead, sounddude)
- Snap (RalphFromSnap)
- Telecom (akianz, NealR, tarasutherland, jaidevp, joeksemail, plambrechtsen, talkiet)
- TelstraClear (TelstraClear, GBowering, olof)
- Vodafone (JohnR)
- WxC (Maverick, Cammeron, joshp, kables)


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Needed a quick place to get some halibut and chips. Found out immediately after my food arrived, this was not the place to get it. Frozen small, overcooked, flavorless, bought from the cheapest supplier fish. This is Alaska...but fresh for crying out loud!!! Service was weak at best. I asked for tabasco and was given a twelve ounce bottle with little more than a quarter ounce left. This place is a tourist trap.... view moreWas this review helpful?Yes No|Flag Abuse
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If you want red meat in your diet, be prepared to pay more.
The latest survey done by the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation shows the cost of a typical market basket of items hit $52.64 in the quarter just ended. That's up just slightly from the prior quarter.
But that figure is close to 10 percent higher than the same time a year earlier, and if you want to know why, you need look no further than the meat counter.
Consider: Last year you could buy a pound of ground chuck for $3.52. This year it costs 15 percent more.
And that $5.69-a-pound sirloin tip roast available last year now is running $6.45.
It's not just the beef that is ringing up higher. Deli ham spiked by 90 cents a pound in the last year, up to $4.59. And even boneless chicken breasts are much dearer, hitting $4.41 a pound.
Julie Murphree, the organization's spokeswoman, said all those changes are related to beef and, more specifically, to the fact there's less of it to go around.
"Certain regions of the country were experiencing drought," she said, making feed more expensive. "They had to pull back on their herds."
Murphree said it's hard for ranchers to react to the market and the higher prices now available. She said that's because it takes about two years to bring a calf to market. By contrast, chickens mature to the size for eating in a fraction of the time. So why, then, has the price of chicken gone through the roof?
Murphree said that probably comes down to the question of supply and demand: As the price for beef goes up, shoppers turn to other sources of protein.
Not everything has gone up in the past year.
Eggs are more expensive, as is cheese, but it's now cheaper to buy milk.
The quarterly survey is based on what federation shoppers found at markets around the state. These prices do not reflect use of coupons or the affinity cards that many supermarket chains provide which give holders additional discounts.


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Proper facial care doesn't only involve cleaning your face. This is because a clean face doesn't always mean a healthy one. Some people don't see the value of proper facial care not until they see pimples and other impurities coming out. It would be good that even in your busy lifestyle, you devote a little amount of money and time for a facial regimen. Remember that your face is the first factor that attracts people to you. More than your personality and characteristic, it is your facial appearance that defines you at first glance. With that, it is only appropriate that you take an extra step to have a proper facial care regimen.
The procedure in Botox injection is fast. This may only take a few minutes. There is no anesthesia required but if the patient requests for a numbing topical cream, then it is allowed. Botox is injected into the skin using very fine needles. Usually, there is very minimal discomfort especially if the patient fears needles or injections. Nevertheless, these discomforts are tolerable and manageable. A Botox treatment needs a patient to wait for three to seven days before she can see actual results. It should be noted that it is best to avoid alcohol intake one week prior to a Botox treatment. Medications such as aspirin and anti-inflammatory drugs should also be avoided two weeks before treatment. Dysport is a newly developed cosmetic method that can be utilized to treat and relax frown lines and wrinkles in the areas that are most prominently affected by it such as the forehead, areas around the mouth and some areas in between the eyebrows. This procedure is developed to be an alternative for Botox that has become increasingly popular over the years. The main difference between Dysport and Botox cosmetic is the timeline by which results are seen and the longevity of its effects.
As observed, Botox treatment would take three to five days before results are physically seen while Dysport treatment only takes one to two days to completely paralyze the facial muscles which would also signify that results are already at hand.
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Panama rounds out 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup field
Jan 26, 2013, 1:33 PM EST
There was surprisingly little drama in Friday's fifth place match at the Copa Centroamericana in Costa Rica. Panama, in the battle of two winless (and undefeated) teams, took a 1-0 lead into half time against Guatemala, striker Blas Pérez putting the Hex qualifiers up after 28 minute.
With the final spot in this year's Gold Cup on the line, you expected more fight from the Guatemalans, but that never happened. Early second half goals from Alcibíades Rojas and Alberto Quintero gave los Canaleros an insurmountable lead, Minor López's late goal unable to save face for Guatemala. Panama won, 3-1.
The result left one 2011 Gold Cup qualifier out of this year's tournament while Panama, so dangerous in the last version of CONCACAF's championship, qualify for their fifth straight competition. They are the last team to book their place in this summer's tournament:
North American zone:
- Canada
- Mexico
- United States
Caribbean zone:
- Cuba
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Haiti
- Martinique
Central American zone:
- Costa Rica
- Honduras
- Belize
- El Salvador
- Panama
Jamaica is the only team in the final round of World Cup qualifying who failed to make this summer's Gold Cup. Belize, Haiti, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago make this year's tournament after failing to qualifying in 2011 while Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala and Jamaica fail to return.
While no schedule (or groupings) is set, the competition is scheduled to begin on July 7, with the venues for this year's tournament announced on Wednesday.
Mexico and the United States are always favorites to make the final, but Gold Cups in the middle of World Cup qualifying tournaments can be a little less predictable. In 2009, Mexico needed penalty kicks in the semifinal to advance past Costa Rica (before defeating the U.S. 5-0 in the final). In 2005, Panama made their only final appearance before losing to the United States.
- patrickvollert - Jan 28, 2013 at 6:30 AM
Panama did not show its best football in the Copa Centroamericana. Being position as #1 in the UNCAF region, its a shame that Panama ended 5th in this competition. Its true that the coach Julio Dely Valdes was trying out different players from the original 1st squad since the next qualifying round for the WC 2014 is coming just in two weeks, but the results gave a really bad image of the team situation.
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Omnitek Engineering Corp. has appointed Chesapeake, Virginia-based TFC Recycling as an authorized installation center for its diesel-to-natural gas engine conversion systems in the region.Omnitek Engineering also said that TFC Recycling will purchase diesel-to-natural gas engine conversion kits for its own fleet, as well as perform engine conversions for customers that utilize TFC's affiliated fleet maintenance operation.
Omnitek expects to commence shipments in the current quarter.Omnitek Engineering is accelerating its conversion center partnerships throughout the United States and Canada since receiving EPA approval for its diesel-to-natural gas engine conversion technology for the widely operated line of heavy-duty Navistar DT466E and DT530E engines.
The company expects to obtain EPA and CARB approval for additional diesel engine models to address the anticipated increasing demand from trucking fleets that operate with other diesel engine models.
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So I've just recently bought a Windows 8 touch screen computer. A strange problem has occurred after a week's use - as soon as I plug in my adaptor to charge the battery, the screen goes black, yet the computer keeps working. When I unplug the adaptor, make the computer go to sleep and open the lid again, the screen is lit up (when it runs on battery mode). Could I have changed the sleep/hibernate mode settings by accident or something?
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Posted March 9, 2013 at 11:37PM
Guess, it's a HP machine?
Plug in the charger, power up, then boot up.
See if it works then.
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One thing to note, when you plug in the charger, and the 'mains' is already on, it will do no good to your machine. Always connect the transformer to your laptop first, then, connect the transformer's three-pin plug to the mains socket. Swich on at the 'mains'.
Killed an old router of mine by not following this simple rule... :)
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