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I am a fanatic user of Last.fm. Whenever I listen to a song either on my MacBook or my iPod, this information is sent to the Last.fm service which dynamically creates the chart shown above. It shows the artists I’ve been listening to during the past week. Here is what I feel about some of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “What I am currently listening to…”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/07/24/what-i-am-currently-listening-to/” });

When I was 19-20 (i.e. more or less the same age as my current students) I started composing music and the result was my first ever album released in 1995 pompously entitled “My Contribution to Art” featuring the following tracks:

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Orange has launched a contest. Winning the quiz will lead to you obtaining tickets for the Mondotek concert. Check it out here.
You can still buy tickets.
Les billets a Rs 450, et Rs 1,000 en VIP, sont disponibles, dans les magasins Blue Steel, au Pizza Dot Kom et MC N Ben a Beau Bassin, au Paradise [...]

Hello world! well, first i’d like to apologise for my interrupted blogging pace, actually am designing a new theme for the blog (so that i get aquainted again with css / php / xhtml ) i will try to post more regularly though
Now, you might be wondering about the title right? no? [...]

Aujourd’hui je vais vous presenter un groupe de rock Anglais, malheureusement tres peu connu et qui tristement n’existe plus (comment ca je detruis le suspens des la premiere phrase? :P) bref, découverte d’un coup de coeur musical
Le groupe est (était, erf T_T) composé de quatre membres:
Stuart Jones - Guitare / voix
Owen [...]

Have you heard about Musiquey?
If not, well, this site’s concept is quite similar to Skreemr. You can search for a song / artist then listen to the song, really cool

But hey, aren’t there download links for the songs on that screenshot?!
Well actually that’s almost right, except that they do not yet “officially” allow [...]

Since the dawn of Rock N’ Roll (Hard Rock, Metal…), sex and drug have always been associated with this music. Pioneers of Rock Music like The Who, The Yardbirds, Alice Cooper, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple,…just to mention a few, were all associated with drug and sex. This legacy [...]

I always wonder how much does the gears of professional guitar players cost. But I never bothered about calculating them, so I thought it would be a good topic for my blog The heck is that different guitarists have completely different gear setups which varies greatly in costs. I [...]

The event which I’m looking forward the most in 2008 is the purchase of my new Electric guitar. I have the option of buying it locally or from the U.S.A. A friend of mine from the U.S agreed to buy a guitar for me, because he will be back to Mauritius in [...]

So I’m reviewing Alter Bridge’s ‘Blackbird’ album as part of the MBB ‘Theme of the week‘.

Blackbird is Alter Bridge’s sophomore album, released on 9 October 2007. With the song “Rise Today” as first single released on 30 July 2007.
Here’s the track listing together with their individual ratings (based on my personal opinion & a [...]