MusicRadar Daily: Tone Balls, X-Factor predictor, MJ's Twitter seance
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MusicRadar Daily - 13 October 2009
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Tone Balls - dust bunnies that collect in guitar bodies
(From Boing Boing via tomporter)
Can YouTube predict the X-Factor winner?
(From TechRadar via tomporter)
Them Crooked Vultures: fan-filmed footage from Boston House Of Blues show
(From Blabbermouth via ChrisVinnicombe)
Fiction soundtrack: can Nick Cave reinvent the audiobook?
(From BBC via tomporter)
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Tweance, the Twitter seance, aims to contact Michael Jackson
(From The Telegraph via tomporter)
Bob Dylan to debut song on NCIS
(From Pitchfork via tomporter)
Previously on MusicRadar Daily: USB uzi album, YouTube hits a billion, goodbye Spotify?
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