This week’s Tom’s 10 theme is Give and Receive: Links below to much free music (Christmas and otherwise) as well as some stocking stuffers for the geeky guy in your life. Have a great holiday wherever you are and kick some ass in 2012! Cheers Tom
Saatchi & Saatchi LoveMix
Our holiday gift to clients and friends this year is a double-volume-download of 25 original songs written by bands and solo stars from our network of offices. It’s pretty awesome bunch of songs all written to the themes of Love and Hope. I’m not just because our band has a song on it… C’mon, it’s free! Enjoy and share!
Sleigh Bells | Born To Lose
I loves me some Sleigh Bells. They still haven’t returned the top-end of my hearing that got ripped out of my tympanum at their Coachella set. Enjoy their (not at all holiday related) new tune Born To Lose, a hint of new LP Reign of Terror.
Earmilk’s Top 100 Dance Tracks of 2011
I love Earmilk almost as much as I love my dog. In fact, it’s a dead-heat somedays as I never have to feed Earmilk or give it a bath. Earmilk is counting down and giving away their picks of the 100 rump-shakers of 2011. 10 tracks a day leading to Christmas.
Charlie Brown Christmas on lastfm | Vince Guarldi Trio
Only a serious Scrooge doesn’t like Christmas time in the world of Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang. I used to dance my eight-year old ass off to the Charlie Brown theme song and sing along to these tunes from Vince Guaraldi Trio during the CB Christmas special.
Radiohead (were never gonna) Occupy Wall Street
Radiohead’s brand is so powerful that they’re almost like a big, massive multi-national corporation, but with riffs and cool videos. The hoaxster behind the ‘Radiohead gig for OWS‘ is revealed – an interesting case of brand-power, assumed intent and the speed of information.
Road Inc: Interactive iPad Museum of Cars
I love Cars, The Cars and Cars by Gary Numan. I also love Road Inc, an interactive experience on iPad with classic cars and sweet things to play with. This app points the way to where the coffee table art-book will go in the future.
Mini iPad?
Our ads and apps are about to get even more intimate. A really, really, really small incredibly good-looking tablet? Derek Zoolander seems to think so…
FetchNotes: Organising for the Twitter Crowd
Organise your notes and thoughts and lists using a Twitter-like system, which claims to make sense out of random jottings and the piles of lists you make. You can sign-up for the very deep beta version and watch it evolve. I know that there’s a serious multi-player game in here somewhere….
GiftRocket: Personalised Gift Certificates
Want to do that last minute gift that makes it look like you put lots of thought into personally selecting just the right thing? GiftRocket is seriously saving my ass, cuz it lets you select a business-specific gift card for your loved one’s present. US-based at present (get it? PRESENT?) hehehe…
GeekGift: 80s Video Game Circuitboard Watches
Know a Nerd with a semi-full Christmas stocking? Dip and Turn Switches were fixed onto circuitboards to fine-tune the behaviour of old-skool digital stuff and now make stunning bling on groovy retro-watches.