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Oh joy! Angry Birds is finally on the PC! It’s available through the Intel AppUp Store for $4.99 (less than €4). By the way, the Intel AppUp Store is just an “app store” for Windows PCs, which I didn’t even know existed until 10 minutes ago…

Here’s a complete guide on how to get Angry Birds on your PC.

I anticipate a lot of hours wasted throwing birds at pigs…

(Source: CrunchGear)

Last Saturday I got to see KT Tunstall live for my first time. The gig was in the Radisson Live Lounge, and although I didn’t think it was brilliant, it was a very good show altogether, well worth the €20.

The show was opened by The Pictish Trail, of 28-year-old singer-songwriter Johnny Lynch. I can only describe his music as… odd… but more knowledgeable people say it’s “a sonorous mixture of acoustic-driven balladry and lo-fi synthesised pop” and “a post-summer trove of sun-warped electro, anamorphic folk”. I say it’s a bit bizarre, and a good example of that is his latest EP, In Rooms, that consists of 50 songs, each 30 seconds in length. He played a couple of them last Saturday (Birds, for example), and for some weird reason I feel like buying the EP.

After this opening, it was time for the main act. This was the first gig of the tour and KT and the band started it with some songs from their new-ish album, Tiger Suit, which, I have to confess, I wasn’t at all familiar with. That’s something that’ll have to be corrected in the next few days, I say. A few songs into it, the band got out of the stage and left KT by herself to do her solo thing. One of those songs was a lovely version of Other Side of the World (I apologize in advance for the sound quality, but my camera is really not good for concerts because it messes up whenever there’s drums involved):

Still up there by herself, KT performed the fan-favourite Black Horse and the Cherry Tree, complete with all the pedal-magic we’re used to. Great stuff:

With the band back and after a couple more songs, they said goodbye only to be cheered by the few hundred people there until they came back for the encore. It was a small once, but they ended beautifully with Suddenly I See:

The full setlist went something like this:

Come On, Get In
Glamour Puss
Uummannaq Song
Universe & You
Lost
If Only
Difficulty
Other Side of the World
Scarlet Tulip
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree
The Entertainer
Saving My Face
Madame Trudeaux
Push That Knot Away
Funnyman
Fade Like A Shadow

Encore
Close To Me (The Cure cover)
Suddenly I See

I’m keeping an eye on Youtube for more videos (because mine got the sound all messed up). Stay tuned for more.

Radiohead’s latest album, titled The King of Limbs, is now available for pre-order, and it comes in two versions.

The digital version is available in both MP3 (320kbps) and WAV formats. The price is £6.00 for the MP3 version and £9.00 for the WAV version.

The physical “Newspaper Album” version comprises two clear 10″ vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve, a compact disc, many large sheets of newspaper artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork, and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradable plastic to hold everything together. It will be shipped on May 9th. A digital version is also included in this “Newspaper Album”. All this will cost £30.00 for the one with the MP3 digital copy and £33.00 for the WAV version.

The digital version of The King of Limbs will be available for download on February 19th (that’s next Saturday!).

The album goes on general, old-fashioned release on March 28th.

I miss the good old days when Radiohead released In Rainbows as a pay-what-you-like download, but am feeling quite tempted to get the “Newspaper Album” edition. A band that I’ve been listening for so long surely deserves the money.

Moullinex – Catalina from Moullinex on Vimeo.

One can only be amazed with the impressive Kinect hacks that people come up with. And this music video by Moullinex is a very good example. The “data points” were captured using the Kinect, and after some clean-up (like eliminating the background) they used Cinema 4D to animate the frames and then After Effects for the final touches. The whole process is described here, including the project files.

It reminds me of Radiohead’s House of Cards, although this one was done using just a Kinect, instead of the “64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute” used in the Radiohead video.