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Opeth: Heritage (2011) Opeth has been pushing the boundaries of Swedish metal scene with their progressive approach for a couple of decades, but with they most recent offering they actually grow out of their genre of birth. On Heritage the distorted guitars are not quite so distorted anymore, singer Mikael Åkerfeldt has swallowed the vocal [...]
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- Tagged as: Damnation • hard rock • Heritage • jazz • metal • Mikael Åkerfeldt • Opeth • progressive rock
Facebook and Twitter are still the mainstream of social networking. Diaspora is the independent alternative gathering pace. I have used Diaspora actively for couple of weeks now, and I’m quite excited about it. Diaspora combines neatly the best half of basic functions from both Facebook and Twitter. Google+ has in turn borrowed quite a lot [...]
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- Tagged as: #occupywallstreet • Diaspora • Facebook • Google+ • Occupy Wall Street • open source • social media • social network • Twitter
Life Before the Dinosaurs is a blog by Art, who’s seven years old. Art dictates the heavy paleontology stuff to his mom, who does the tedious work of typing.
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- Tagged as: arthropods • Early Paleozoic • paleoblog • paleontology • Precambrian
Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins, with Levin and Harrison A Scarcity of Miracles (A King Crimson ProjeKct) Is A Scarcity of Miracles friends tinkering or the new incarnation of prog rock band King Crimson? In the view of band’s legitimate self-skipper Robert Fripp, apparently something in between, because it is designated the genus of King Crimson [...]
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- Tagged as: album • Gavin Harrison • Jakko Jakszyk • King Crimson • Mel Collins • progressive rock • ProjeKct • Robert Fripp • Tony Levin
Finnish rock group Eleanoora Rosenholm will perform their first ever UK gig. The band will play their apocalyptic murder ballads at Ja Ja Ja Club in the Lexington venue in London on the 26th of May.
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- Tagged as: Eleanoora Rosenholm • Pori • Retro Stefson • Young Dreams • YouTube
Belgium, a country that has tried to form a new government without a result for a year now, and a home for the European Union and NATO. Finnish journalist Janne Toivonen is doing a half a year deal as a trainee in the European parliament’s web communications. At the same time he’s keeping personal blog [...]
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- Tagged as: Belgium • blog • EU • Europe • Janne Toivonen
Easter here again… Marillion’s 1989 song Easter captures the feel of this time of year: the Spring, the hope, the light. The song’s about the tensions in Northern Ireland. I think things have fortunately settled somewhat since making this song.
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- Tagged as: Easter • Ireland • Marillion • Steve Hogarth • Steve Rothery • YouTube
The stuff that’s been going down in North Africa and Middle East has sprung especially one song to my mind. It’s Every Bloody Emperor by Van der Graaf Generator. VdGG is a progressive rock group formed in the late 1960s and brought back from the dead in the noughts. This song is from their comeback [...]
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- Tagged as: dictators • Middle East • North Africa • Peter Hammill • pro-democracy • propaganda • uprising • VdGG • YouTube
