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Fifty-five is hardly old age, but it would appear old enough to get Robyn Hitchcock thinking about a few things.

Goodnight Oslo, the beloved British acid-folkie’s second album with the Venus 3 – guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Scott McCaughey and drummer Bill Rieflin, all poached from the extended R.E.M. family – is rife with allusions to death, time passing and the wilder nights of Hitchcock’s youth. He’s said the creepy title track was inspired by a speed-fuelled romp in Norway many years ago with his old Soft Boys bandmate Morris Windsor (who guests here, along with the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy and Harvey Danger’s Sean Nelson).

"Saturday Groovers" relishes in smelling "the smoke from the lungs of the Saturday groovers" with jubilant, T. Rex-like swagger, then situates the reminiscence in a present fraught with "heart disease and gout." "16 Years" turns a cold eye upon "16 years when all I got was high." The lingering "Your Head Here," meanwhile, could be staring down into a friend’s casket and confronting the inevitable: "Life is all I own / You walk a thousand miles and you’re alone."

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If you’ve only seen videos of Katy Perry singing "I Kissed a Girl" and "Hot N Cold," looking like the love child of Zooey Deschanel and an anime character, you might take her for a lightweight. She giggles, does exaggerated pantomimes of femininity, and jumps into cakes at award shows. Nothing about her screams gravitas
But Perry doesn’t mind underplaying her hand. While she was "failing"—being dropped by three record labels before the age of 24—she was taking notes the entire time. And when she arrived at Capitol, she made sure to land on her feet.
"I Kissed a Girl," the first single from her album "One of the Boys," spent seven weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 during the summer of 2008 and has sold 3.1 million downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The follow-up single, "Hot N Cold," reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 and has sold 2.9 million downloads. Her third single, "Thinking of You," shipped to radio Jan. 12; it has sold 97,000 copies.
Her album has sold 806,000 copies since its release in June, but if she was hitting 15 years ago, she’d probably be reaching Alanis Morissette levels of album sales.
That change in the music business is not lost on Perry. "People got burned by too many uneven records," she says. "I personally can’t live without iTunes."

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Nine Inch Nails will tour later this year with the reunited Jane’s Addiction, NIN frontman Trent Reznor wrote in a post on the band’s Web site.
Although he stopped short of saying the band was going on something more than a hiatus, Reznor confirmed these will be the last NIN shows for some time, and that they will be "much more raw, spontaneous and less scripted" compared to last year’s "Lights in the Sky" tour. "It’s time to make NIN disappear for a while," he said.
Dates have not yet been announced, but Reznor says the tour will take the bands "across the globe."
The pairing with Jane’s Addiction was inspired by NIN’s stint on the maiden Lollapalooza tour in 1991, which was headlined by Jane’s. The band broke up for the first time shortly thereafter, only to reunite minus original bassist Eric Avery in 1997 and again in 2001.
"These performances essentially created and defined the term ‘alternative’ rock in the U.S., created an ongoing festival franchise that is still thriving (Lollapalooza), set the stage for Nirvana to shift popular taste a few months later, and were really f*cking FUN to play and attend — truly the best times I’ve had," Reznor wrote.

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EDIT: Feeds are up, adding to iTMS now.

EDIT: So we’re back, finally… So Later today or tomorrow I’ll post the links for the feeds, right now I have to finish setting everything up.  But damn it’s good to be back!

So I was planning on, and pretty much did, kill quantumRadio.  Fear not as I’ve reversed the decision!

Anyways I’m changing the general format of the site around, it’ll be more about blogging music news and stuff instead of the sessions, though don’t worry we’ll still have session, that’s the main reason why I re-launched qR

I’ll be uploading all the sessions later this week, and an all new Euro session by the end of March.

And the reason I decided to re-launch quantumRadio is because of the song Master Blaster – Everywhere.  Inspiration, gotta love it.

Also note: the old feeds for the sessions will not work anymore, I have no plans for fix this.

Download Euro Session 1 – We’re back!
Tracklist:

1. Flip n Fill – Field Of Dreams
2. Baracuda – La Di Da 2007 (Groove Coverage Remix)
3. Basslovers United – Insanity (Flowtex Radio Edit)
4. David Guetta – Baby When The Lights Go Out
5. Elena – Before I Sleep (Frank Knebel Edit)
6. Elissa – I Dream (Club Edit)
7. BassHunter – Var Är Jag (Where Am I)
8. Bitter Sweet – First Sight
9. Brothers – Dieci Cento Mille
10. Capital Sound – Give A Little Love
11. Caramell – Explodera (Som Dynamit)
12. Ceres – Dancing With An Angel
13. Dancing DJs vs. Roxette – Fading Like A Flower (Radio Edit)
14. DJ ADK feat. Linda – You Came (Vorwerk Rmx)
15. DJ Lhasa – Guilia (remix)
16. DJ Quicksilver – Always on My Mind
17. E-Type – Life
18. Erika – I Don’t Know (Radio Mix)
19. Franky B – Lifes For Living (Alex M Vs. M Vs. Marc Van Damme Remix)
20. Fun Factory – All For You (Close To You 2)
21. Koko – Open Your Eyes
22. Paul van Dyk – Let Go (Radio Edit)
23. Prezioso Ft. Marvin – Voglio Vederti Danzare (Radio Version)
24. Rocco – Counting The Days
25. Aluna – All I Need Is Time
26. Daft Punk – One More Time

Download Session 8

1. Cascada – A never ending dream
2. Groove Coverage – Moonlight Shadows
3. ? – Without you
4. Cascada – Everytime we touch
5. Groove Coverage – Poison
6. Fresh Fox – Queen of the night
7. Exotica – Can you imagine
8. Cinza – You and I
9. Alice DJ – Better off alone
10. Club Connection – Girl of my dreams
11. Fantasy Project – Dum di da
12. ? – Lumea Ta

Download Session 7

1. Aquagen ft. Rozalla – Everybody’s Free
2. Armand Van Helden – Hear my name
3. Groove Coverage – The End
4. Barcode Brothers – SMS
5. Benni Benassi – Whats inside of me
6. Haddaway – What is love
7. Paul Van Dyke – Rave Mix
8. Trancestral Project – Sequence #13
9. Paul Van Dyke – Techno Energy

Download Session 6

1. Astral Projection – Mahadeva
2. Darude – Burning
3. Paul Van Dyke – For an angel
4. Dan-J – Ey Iram
5. East Clubbers – Silence
6. Sonic Fire – Like one
7. Dan-J – Tracks of destiny
8. Jet-Z – Wiped Tears
9. Future Mind – Big Fat Bass
10. Fantasy Project – Somebody
11. Armand Van Helden – You don’t know me

Download Session 5

This is Part 2 of our valentines Collaboration.

There are no intros on this session yet.

1. Boomtang Boys – Squeeze toy
2. 2 Vibez – Always! (Be Mine)
3. Special D – Me and my Lover
4. Firstbase – Heavenly
5. OVD – Shining Star
6. Sarina paris – Dreaming of you
7. Barcera – Secret of Love
8. 2 Vibez – Just 4 You (Bass-T Remix Cut)
9. Dj Maurice – I Kiss Your Lips
10. OVD – How I Wish
11. Sarina Paris – True love
12. Dj Sammy feat. Loona – Rise Again
13. B-Charme – This Is my World
14. Astroline – Close My Eyes
15. Bob Sinclaire – Love Generation
16. DHT feat. Edmee – Someone (Furious F. Radio Edit)
17. Alice DeeJay – Celebrate Our love
18. Sarina Paris – The Signle Life

Download Session 4

This is Part 1 of our valentines Collaboration.

There are no intros on this session yet.

Playlist:
01. Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
02. Faith Hill – Breathe
03. Faith Hill – Butterfly Kisses
04. Lonestar – Amazed
05. Rockapella – Save Tonight
06. Rockapella – Wonderful Tonight
07. Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply
08. Aerosmith – Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing
09. Dj Sammy – Your My Angel
10. Diana Fox – Running On Empty
11. Cher – Believe
12. Carolyn Dawn Johnson – Die of a Broken Heart
13. Dj Sammy – Heaven