Stan's List

engadget has a QuickTime movie of XP booting on an Intel-based iMac.There is some doubt until the check for $7,000 is delivered (for the first to boot XP on an Intel Mac), yet it is pretty convincing.

Single of the Week

The United Kingdom’s Editors build a wall of incessant guitar that could be easily mistaken for the earliest sounds of U2. On Munich, vocalist Tom Smith commands the song with a voice that could pass for the offspring of Interpol’s Paul Banks and avant-crooner Scott Walker. The singular energy and moodiness of Editors make them perfect for our “free” Single of the Week.

Discovery Download

Gary Nichols knows his soul music. Raised in Alabama, Nichols has been performing since he became a teenager. His upbringing was steeped in the sounds of Muscle Shoals—the Alabama recording studio whose classic style has become synonymous with soul music—and his own paying and performing is a swampy mixture of Wilson Picket and Texas blues-guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn. I Can’t Love You Anymore is our “free” Discovery Download.