Exclusive First Listen: Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse Team Up With David Lynch : NPR Music

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Dark Night of the Soul

Exclusive First Listen: Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse Team Up With David Lynch : NPR Music.

In addition to Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, other artists appearing on Dark Night of the Soulinclude James Mercer of The Shins, The Flaming Lips, Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Julian Casablancas of The Strokes, Frank Black of the Pixies, Iggy Pop, Nina Persson of The Cardigans, Suzanne Vega, Vic Chesnutt, David Lynch, and Scott Spillane of Neutral Milk Hotel and The Gerbils.

The Indie Colouring Book

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The Indie Coloring Book

The Indie Coloring Book

Cool! I’ll have as much fun as my 2 year old colouring in illustrations by Bon Iver, The Shins, Broken Social Scene, MGMT etc. In fact, Edie might not get a look in cos she’ll mess it up :P
Royalties go to a charity chosen by the artists.

Tauranga .NET User Group

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The next Tauranga .NET User Group session is “Getting started with Silverlight for Developers”.
Location: Spectra Data Solutions, Level 1, Corner Devonport Rd and Elizabeth Street (above Air NZ travel agency – entrance off Elizabeth St).
Free beer and pizza from Microsoft.

The last session was “Tools I can not live without”. There were quite a few tools covered, several I hadn’t seen before that I’ve been meaning to check out since. Here’s Eamon’s list of “Development tools he uses everyday” and Joel’s “Dev Tools I can’t live without”.

One tool that didn’t get a mention that I use reasonably regularly is Expresso a Regular Expression Editor and Tester. I’m terrible at Regular Expressions and Expresso enables me to develop what I need. It’s free too.

Kraftwerk are coming to NZ

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Kraftwerk, Auckland Town Hall 26 November!

I missed them at Big Day Out a few years back. They were on at the same time as Jane’s Addiction so I thought I’d catch a bit of both but I was in a great position for Jane’s Addiction and they were grabbing me more than I expected so I didn’t fancy trying to push through the crowd to get to Kraftwerk.

I probably would’ve ended up hearing a bit of both and seeing nothing outside the super top anyway but I’ve always regretted not seeing Kraftwerk as I didn’t think I’d get another chance.

Maybe Tanuki’s Cave beforehand for some yakitori mmm