The upcoming version of iTunes will enable podcast subscription (reported by the BBC).

I’m back after an incident affecting my vision. Nothing to elaborate on, but I am on the mend.

For everyone who hasn’t seen this: Two of the worst logos ever designed.

I’m not sure who has been begging for a reissue of the live Badfinger disc Day After Day, but it’s out again from tomorrow, 10 May. The original issue of this CD predated any of the Apple reissues—I seem to recall it being the first time any Badfinger recording was released as a compact disc.

The tapes for this show (a 1974 appearance at the Cleveland Agora) were spirited away by departing guitarist Joey Molland, who, in the late 1980s, radically reconstructed the group’s performance, overdubbing guitar and vocal parts and replacing substantial parts of the drum track (to the chagrin of the other key member of the group, drummer Mike Gibbins). It would be interesting to have the original tapes as a second disc.

The affidavits of the surviving parties for the court case surrounding this release make for fascinating reading.

Carl Magnus Palm has an announcement about the Frida Polar catalogue remasters (notably, Frida ensam).

And, if you’re fortunate enough to have a proper, viewer-responsible NBC affiliate (i.e. if you live outside Cleveland), the overnight feed of Saturday Night Live is the 1975 episode containing ABBA’s appearance. WKYC is probably airing another Matlock in its place.