Say 'No' to ACTA

"If you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad, let us introduce you to their Big Brother, ACTA.

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has already been signed by several countries, poses a dangerous threat to the inherent freedom and openess of the Internet. Under ACTA, ISPs and websites will be given more power to track what we do online, while forcing them to turn over our information and reporting our activity to the authorities -- all in the name of copyright protection! While we respect the rights of creators, ACTA's ill-conceived provisions will have chilling effects on free speech everywhere."

...now it's not just the EU, but also Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerlandand the United States.

Sign a petition and say 'No' to ACTA

Merry Christmas

It would be no christmas without Jimmy Eat World. Enjoy the holidays, my friends, and see you all soon :)

Editorial

Because I have a little bit of free time on my hands, I've been thinking about changing the blog layout a bit. I'd like to make a new background consisted only of album covers, just like the current header. So I'd like if you all threw in some ideas in the comments, because it'd be cool if it represented the taste of all of us. So please, share with me your all time favourite albums or albums you consider the most essential in general (e.g. Sgt. Pepper, Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, some Dylan's classics, Weezer's Blue Album or my favourites Antics by Interpol, Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, The Killers' Sam's Town etc., etc...)

I have enough ideas on my own, but I'd prefer if you all contributed. :)

Ah, Nostalgia...

About a year and a half ago, my music blog, Awesome Rock Music was shut down. Using a link from the Wayback Machine, I was able to piece together an image of the ARM front page as it looked not long before DMCA shut it down. Here ya go!



Those were the good ol' days... RIP Awesome Rock Music 12/15/08-03/12/10

Czech Republic wins world ice hockey championship!

In dramatic fashion, the Czechs have returned to the top of the hockey world. On Sunday night, they ended a 27-game Russian win streak at the IIHF World Championship, holding on for a 2-1 gold medal victory, and claimed the crown for the first time in five years.



Sorry, I had to... :P

The very first post on my very first blog.

For Sam, Sparkle, King Uta, Cornell, Lenwë, st. tropez, Chris, Miky and all the others I'm sorry I forgot about...

Well, I'm not good at writing, but it's slightly less frustrating for me to write in English than in Czech, so anyway, I'd like to say a few things... Sam's blog Awesome Rock has been taken down thanks to the jerks from blogger (just like Rock Hall of Fame before that), and so our little so-called community needed a new place to meet. Luckily, I happened to have some free time on my hands to start this new blog today, because the shoutbox just seems to be the easiest and most convenient way to share music we like. Besides, I didn't like the idea of invading and annexing another blog.

Since this is the second time that "our" blog has been shut down, I thought that this time we did it without direct links to rapidshare and other hosting services under the posts, just myspace links etc. so that this site doesn't get deleted again. If anyone of you has some thougts or if you are willing to contribute here, just let me know, I would gladly give you the admin rights because I don't mean to run this thing alone. If you have any ideas about the blog, I'd be pleased to hear them...

Joining a song I enjoyed...