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Is it just me or are these ads for ugly clothing deeply pornographic? Here are the shots that didn’t get published, and yes, some of them have nipples in.
http://americanapparel.net/gallery/photocollections/models/index.html#
This is why you should never feed your dog chocolate.
The team over at AudioTuts have put together a great list of 11 totally free VST Synths. It can be hard to find a good synth plug-in, and there are plenty on the market that will have you wondering why you ever parted with your money.
polyIblit is a subtractive synth with alias-free oscillators, and sine, triangle, sawtooth and pulse waveforms. It’s a VST 2.3 plug-in for PC. Get it here.
Crystal Soft Synth is both a subtractive synth and a frequency modulation synth with a semi-modular design. It features graphical editors, temp sync for envelopes and delays, and built-in effects such as chorus and echo. Get it here.
ASynth is a virtual analog synthesizer with two oscillators and three filters. It’s technically donationware, but if you can ignore a nag screen this synth is practically free. Check it out here.
Oatmeal is a simple subtractive synthesizer with two oscillators. Despite its simplicity there are plenty of parameters to tweak and it’s even skinnable, if you’re so inclined to tinker with your VST plug-ins visuals. Get it here, near the bottom of the page.
Ticky Clav is a virtual clavinet synthesizer—it recreates the famous clavinet sound you’ll know from Stevie Wonder’s Superstition. Though it does attempt to recreate the clavinet sound there’s plenty of room for tweaking and there’s an included wah-wah effect. Get it here.
Synth1’s web page may be unreadable unless you know Japanese, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a good, free choice. Synth1 features two oscillators, FM and ring modulation, four types of filters and distortion effects, among many other things. Check it out here.
Satyr VA is a virtual analog synth with two oscillators with FM and ring modulation, delay and two filters. The Satyr is the second plugin on the page—check out the screenshot to see this synth’s cool medieval design. Get it here.
Adonis is a four-waveform synth with ring and FM modulation and some built-in keyboard settings so using a MIDI controller is much easier. The Adonis has a built in arpeggiator too. Get it here.
How can you not try out a synth that looks like Alieno? Alieno is well-suited to lead lines and special effects as a monophonic synth with advanced step-modulation. Alieno features six oscillators, two multisaw generators and several built-in effects such as delay, vibrato and reverb. Get it here.
Xhip isn’t pretty, but it’s an analogue subtractive synth that’s smooth and punchy all at the same time. If you can handle working with the basic interface until a makeover is released, you should check it out here.
Helix is an aliasing-free synth with forty two modulation slots and advanced distortion controls. The whole synth is designed in stereo, so the sound is always big and wide. It’s considered one of the kings of free synths. Get it here.
We have made a few changes here at Inappropriate Bunny. The site will no longer focus on just music, it will become a directory of everything COOL!
You will also notice that we have changed the blogs theme. We have gone with a basic theme, however you will notice the bunny is not on the site yet. Stay tuned cause it is ony a matter of time before he pops up.
If you have any cool stuff you want featured on Inappropriate Bunny make sure you send your links to steven (at) inappropriatebunny (dot) com.
These are some of the funniest songs ive seen in a while. Check it out!
I had been wandering in a bit of a musical wasteland for a while. As my last petulant whine probably made obvious, there’s not a lot of juice for me in the pop orange, and it’s easy to get trapped listening to the same few albums in your collection, or to find yourself just scrolling back and forth through your music folder totally bored of everything.
What this means is the moments of pleasure when someone introduces me to a musician I (a) hadn’t even heard of, and (b) immediately love, are all the more glorious for their scarcity. I remember a close friend of mine at University (now scarily close to a decade ago) introduced me to a band called Ben and Jason that I loved who made four albums of whispering, heartfelt, gushing love songs and then faded into obscurity. I was at their final gig at the Jazz Cafe in Camden, where their small but loving group of fans packed in to hear them play, and it was one of the oddest experiences of my life, with literally everyone in the room singing along, half of them in tears (what me? no never honest), including the band, who had to leave the stage for a bit of a cry and a hug before coming back for an encore…
What brings all this to mind is the recommendation by a friend of mine that I look 
up Erik Truffaz, an awesomely complex Swiss born jazz trumpeter. Having ignored this for long enough (as I usually do with good advice) I finally got hold of a copy of Arkhangelsk - his latest album. It’s pretty similar stuff to The Cinematic Orchestra that I was on about the other day… Crystal clear production focusing on acoustic instruments in ideal or unusual ways - like trying to get as much breath and wind sound out of a trumpet, or just letting glockenspiel notes play out into a pool of reverb - dragging you into a reverie only to lift you up out of it, nodding your head as though you knew how to dance, with a drum and bass beat, or furrow your brow with a jaunty piano riff, only to soothe you back down with a key change and a vocal drop. Listening to it I was gripped with the dual enthusiasm to tell everyone else about it (including the person who told me about it, which was received with tired nods), and to be in his band. So far I’m halfway to fulfilling those two ambitions.
Wow, just when ithought Radiohead were about to jack it all in and stop making music (as Radiohead) they turn my fears upside down with a performance of their new song ‘Super Collider’. Radiohead who have been touring this year as a follow up to their newest album release ’In Rainbows’ performed ‘Super Collider’ as an encore in Dublin. The song as played live, is a Yorke solo on the piano, however, we have seen this before and no doubt they will be experimenting with a full band performance, at least i, personally, would hope so.
The song combines well structured piano chords and melodies with the typical, genius vocals that are trademark Yorke, however, the song lacks some of the depth created by the whole band in the rest of their live set. Nonetheless, another triumph. Check it out for yourselves.
Nobody told me how quickly you stop being young… I’m 27 now, and I can’t listen to pop music, watch Channel 4 for more than 30 eyebrow raising seconds anymore without feeling mystified as to how anyone could find the overenthusiastic shouting entertaining. A line in one of the jingles on the jazz station on GTA 4 said it well for me (computer games are for grown ups these days), “music from the days when musicians could actually play their instruments, rather than just dance like strippers”. Not that I have anything against strippers.
Three examples that really stand out for me, and that I wish more people knew about so they’d be popular and get loads of money and more people would know about them and try to emulate them so the music industry skewed in the direction of actually creative music are (gasp…)
1. Tom Waits - He started out being a pretty traditional blues man, sat at the piano telling stories and playing music, the narrative blending into the music, as in the excellent album, ‘Invitation To The Blues’, which was recorded in front of a live audience. Since then he’s grown more and more experimental and unusual, a trend which for me peaked with his album ‘Rain Dogs’, something that was in my dad’s collection of tapes, and got a special place in my mind from being played a lot when I was a kid.
These days he’s erring on the side of pretentious, but I think that’s a minuscule price to pay for three decades of creativity from a brilliant lyricist and blender of genres.
2. Polar Bear - I’ve got to confess a bit of bias being a saxophonist, but these guys seem to be pretty approachable even by the non-jazzers I’ve introduced to them. Something about the catchiness of their riffs helps sugar-coat what could be the difficulty of their unusual time signatures and the glitchy noises they throw into their tracks. They’re playing on the South Bank in London this Thursday, if anyone feels like giving me a ticket, that would be fabulous…
3. The Cinematic Orchestra - This is a project of Ninja Tune’s J. Swinscoe (I think that’s spelled right), and they’ve made some of the most beautifully produced, rich and complex albums I’ve ever heard. I’ve been compulsively checking ebay to find a copy of Every Day on vinyl and complete my collection. This is my stoner music, James - moving between focusing on the sound of one lone oboe, or being brave enough to establish the background for a track with just the drum-kit before extrapolating it into a whole sonic landscape (sorry, cliche) of overlapping rhythm and harmony is not something I can imagine will happen on the inevitable solo album from the winner of American Idol…
I do appreciate that people don’t always want to listen to such challenging stuff, I don’t always have the energy for it, but when I want to listen to music, I like a little depth in there.
Lily Allen admitted today on her Myspace blog that she was actually very drunk at the Glamour Awards in London on Tuesday night. The last time Lily posted on her blog she was actually defending the fact that she’s not a drunk. Come on Lily who are you trying to kid! What can I say, you are finally living up to the rock and lifestyle everyone used to talk about. Your young and in the music business, so of course your supposed to get shit faced in public, its like part of the job.
The day after despite still having a hangover she stated to the press, “Was quite fun though, from what I can remember. Need fry up now.” So go and have you greasy fry up and we will see you next week to do the same thing all over again!
