Caught In The Net: Elisa Bray
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On Foals' page are the videos to their singles "Hummer", "Balloons" and "Mathletics". As each video comes with an embeddable code, fans can post favourite videos on to MySpace pages, blogs and websites. More than 2,000 videos are so far available on the site, and editorial content and footage will be regularly updated and added.
You can browse the site by artist or genre. Features and other editorial content are provided by Thisdayinmusic.com. Worth checking out is the quirky section "On This Day" on the site's home page, which has artist-related and music stories from the same date on previous years and a "random fact" of the day – useful for pub quizzes and Trivial Pursuit. It's the first record-label site of its kind, and it will be interesting to see if other major labels follow Warner's example.
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If you have time on your hands and want a lesson on London, the Dublin-based singer and songwriter Chris Singleton wins top prize for ingenuity for his Twisted City Tour. His album Twisted City is available to download free and each song – a stop on the Tube line – is inspired by a London location. A PDF guide to the Twisted City Tour can be printed off, and at each stop you can listen to the relevant track and learn about the area and what inspired the song. Go to http://www.singletonmusic.com/twistedcitytour/.
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