Kanye West “808s & Heartbreak” Review

In three months Kanye West has stirred up a ridiculous level of hysteria surrounding 808s & Heartbreak, putting the album’s hype on par with any other release this year (almost). That being said, the album is just as much an experimental artistic venture as it is an experimental study in digital market and consumer behavior [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 22:10:49

Blog posts (122) | Videos (5)
 

Holy New Music, Batman!

This week is like a new music explosion. Seriously- between Guns n’ Roses’ (really Axl Rose and bunch of other dudes- but not Slash) ... for Image via Wikipedia You may not dig the new one. The album is on Auto-Tune overload. Hey ... sites to main stream music media. Barry Manilow’s, The Greatest Songs of the Eighties, follows in line [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 20:10:54

Tant que le sang coule dans nos veines

Ever since Digital Technique introduced me to Julian Cely and his single "Pour Elle," I've half-followed him; as arguably shamelessly designed to " ... ," presumably another song from his planned more R&B next album (edit: French Wikipedia says "Mantra ... to make a few more songs (though chronology wise they aren't post-"Billy"). My favorite of those [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 02:09:00

Grizzly Bear

Artist:  Grizzly Bear Hails From:  Brooklyn, NY Musical Style:  Indie Rock, Folk, Pop For Fans of:  The Shins, Elliot Smith, ... of rewored songs and covers by such artists as CSS, Band of Horses and Atlas Sound.  With their last EP ... in cyberspace: Grizzly Bear website Myspace Wikipedia Where you can find them on tour:  Jambase [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 01:00:05

Sofia Albam Solo Tracks

Last week, I blogged about Sons of an Illustrious Father, the Nyack teens who were born on a cargo train rumbling through Mississippi in 1910, ... about their new recordings, because of the way the tracks were mixed.  In my opinion, the new songs ... , but her songs do have a way of sneaking up on you after a few tracks (quite possibly like a wolf silently [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 13:00:04

Works For Me Wednesday

By now, I think most of my friends online have heard of Pandora, but I wanted to share it with the Works For Me Wednesday crowd ... . So what is this Pandora, you ask? The Wikipedia can explain it much better than I. It is “ ... me songs that are similar in style to that song. It is awesome!! I also enjoy listening [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 12:01:20

Please make it stop.

I really don’t care how many albums they’ve sold or what awards they’ve won, I’ve never really gotten the whole Green Day thing. I’ve never liked a single one of their songs. Ever. No, not even When I Come Around. And while I’m sure there’s plenty of people out there that look fondly upon Green Day purely for the nostalgia [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 04:38:23

Book Notes - Jonathan Carroll ("The Ghost in Love")

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books ... : IS THAT YOU? by Rebekka Bakken The best love songs are usually the simplest. The lyrics rattle around ... , these songs can tell you things about yourself you might have already known but needed another mind [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 18:45:08

Note Books - Catie Curtis

The Note Books series features musicians discussing their literary side. Past contributors have included John Darnielle, John Vanderslice, and others. Catie Curtis is a Boston-based singer-songwriter. Her latest release, Sweet Life is the most positive album I have heard all year (and made a perfect soundtrack to the Obama campaign for me) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 14:50:52

The Waterboys rule!

When I wrote a post about having discovered the now defunct band Tarkio, a commenter (possibly Jonathan?) ... with 27 songs on it) on Amazon.com. I just received it a couple of days ago, and finally got some time ... me, and I think that McGowan's and MacColl's performance captures it to a T. According to Wikipedia [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 12:10:52

How Nashville Star Got Jeffrey Steele Into Best Buy

The Internet and all its MP3s and videos and blogs have definitely changed the way people discover new music ... . I went to his Web site and saw that he’d written so many of these country songs I loved,” she said. “Then I went on Wikipedia to get some background on him, and went to Rhapsody to listen [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 23:08:50

"Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar" Trailer + Pete Drake's 'Forever' (from SFTASG 1966)

Second Fiddle to a Steel Guitar (1966) Directed Victor Duncan Original Music Audrey Williams ARTISTS & SONGS mp3 conversion of video audio feed “Little” Jimmy Dickens A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed John Henry Carl and Pearl Butler Don’t Let Me Cross Over Just Thought I’d Let You Know Curly Fox [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 20:36:57

dear rihanna and chris brown saw you on the american teen grammy little girl vote awards ... is it that neither of you mentions each other on your wikipedia? how is it that you're gonna sit in the front row ... every secret. risk. jump. its called falling in love for a reason, singers of songs. models [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 11:21:33

Music To Feed Your Soul During Crucial Design Moments

AUTHOR’S NOTE: At points, I wanted to add more/subtract songs from this list, but somehow I just couldn’t do it. I know there are multiple songs by the same artists, but there’s just something about this list ... instrumental. And on that note I give you today’s post, “8 Songs.” Not all of these songs are the type [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 23:29:42

Hairspray December 1, 2008

Posted by pinoyblogero in Entertainment. trackback I’ve watched the movie last night on HBO, with my parents and my older brother ... as Tracy Turnblad. Hairspray features songs from the Broadway musical written by Marc Shaiman and Scott ... on the article from, and courtesy of Wikipedia. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Viva El [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 01:38:24

Geek T-Shirt Collection #5 - Last.fm

This T-shirt I got thanks to my wife, it was sitting at their office for some reasons I should probably not disclose ... interesting music application for the iPhone. About Last.fm From Wikipedia: Last.fm is a UK ... profile of each user’s musical taste by recording details of all the songs the user listens to, either [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 15:17:40

What I'm Reading Now?

Yesterday I finished reading a book, which was sent to me by Tracee Gleichner from Pump Up Your Book Promotion ... Fiction genre. I visited Wikipedia last night and found out that books in the Urban Fiction genre are mostly full of street or gangsta language, like what you hear in rap songs! I'm not sure [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 04:03:00

Spread the Christmas Spirit and Positive Wishes

In about 40 days, depending on when you are reading this post, it will be Christmas. Christmas has been and will always be my favorite festival ... Christmas songs; one of the first few cassette tapes which I bought in my childhood day. And basically every night I would play Alvin and the Chipmunks’ Christmas songs and follow the story lines inside [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 07:17:20

Book Notes - Deb Olin Unferth ("Vacation")

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. Last year one of the most interesting books I read was One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 15:23:45

I’m not like everybody else

I’m not like everybody else Trawling through some old music I found some songs by the mid 70’s to early 80’s band, Jimmy and the Boys. This band was from Sydney, enjoyed minor commercial success with the song “They Won’t Let My Girlfriend Talk to Me”, but were better known for their live performances. In the words of Wikipedia [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 21:46:59

What is the Rolling Stones' signature song?

Editor's Note: This is a special guest post from Otis!You know how arguments like this get started ... ."Now, there are a ton of songs by the Stones I could identify by their opening five notes and even more I could pick out using one lick. To the general public, though, there are fewer songs that stand out as purely [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 09:20:00

Killdozer @ Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin, TX - pics & setlist

"Killdozer are a three-piece band hailing from Madison, Wisconsin - the dairy state, of all places ... of reality with songs you may remember from your past, bringing you back to those fond memories ... beer), Michael pointed out that they, Killdozer, a reunited band who (according to Wikipedia) were [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 04:03:41

GNR uploader Kevin Cogill pleads ‘guilty’

p2pnet news view RIAA | Music:- “Years of procrastination and outrageous gossip, much of it true, have surrounded Chinese Democracy, ... to Wikipedia (admittedly not the most reliable source) six of the songs had been made available ... Kevin Cogill, who the FBI said confessed to uploading the nine songs last summer to his music site [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 14:17:05

Metro Detroit: Newsmakers Nov 30, 2008

Detroit Free Press: If you have any interest in the Feb. 24 Detroit mayoral primary, you'll want to tune in to WADL, Channel 38 ( ... ) AllAccess.com / Wikipedia: Radio legend BILL DRAKE has died from lung cancer at age 71 in LOS ANGELES. DRAKE ... , writes WIKIPEDIA. Later, BARTELL BROADCASTING, who owned WAKE -- that he had programmed to number [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 20:29:28

Rock Dreams : Guy Peelaert 1934-2008

"Rock will always represent the extravagant, the flash, the fantasy. That's what it's all about. These pictures are a memento to that dream ... ...but the late author’s estate denied the rightsThe songs wound up on the second half of Diamond Dogs instead where, as the titles indicate, the 1984 theme was prominent." - via Wikipedia A gallery [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 19:05:00

My year in lists

1 December 2008 in music | Tags: 2008, jaarlijst, top 10 albums 2008 Well this was a hard one ... for my missing socks. I could explain myself in a lengthy analysis of their preppy short songs with Paul Simonesque African influences, but you can go to Wikipedia for all that. What it boils down [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 22:12:57

Inbox cleaning: 652/763

Okay, it’s for dogs. But it strikes me that a wireless accelerometer necklace (belt clip? ... up the pace. In some of the blues and jazz songs I’m listening to, the guitar strings are slapped ... /to-the-left-of the radical symbold is called a vinculum. I never knew. (Wikipedia did.) I found this out while [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 22:44:40

World AIDS Day: Remembering Sylvester—The Queen of Disco

On this World AIDS Day, I am pleased to join other activists in celebrating the accomplishments of one of our own, Sylvester James, ... , his repertoire of Bessie Smith songs in tow. After leaving The Cockettes, Sylvester performed ... Sin” which reprised Sylvester’s greatest Cockette solo songs, took place at the San Francisco [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 08:34:10

Hairspray

December 1, 2008 Entertainment   I’ve watched the movie last night on HBO, with my parents and my older brother ... as Tracy Turnblad. Hairspray features songs from the Broadway musical written by Marc Shaiman and Scott ... on the article from, and courtesy of Wikipedia.   Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 01:20:54

Digression: the trick (part 3) (and final)

One last thing on ideas. The easiest way to get an idea, I’ve always found, is to look for a good one that somebody else has had, ... ; you other folks, thanks for indulging me. Well, let’s see ahm … you know some songs come ... P.S. The rest of the trick? Smoke, mirrors, and Wikipedia. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 18:11:08

Teenage Death Songs: “Teen Angel” by Mark Dinning

Part one of a grisly series. The teenage death song, or “splatter platter,” was popular in the late 1950s and early ’60s ... , but not always, the narrator of the song. Others define the genre more broadly–the (lousy) Wikipedia article on the subject stretches the definition so far that it includes songs such as “Seasons [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 06:01:54

Strange similarities

For some reason yesterday an old recording popped up into my memory. It's of Jean Sablon singing "Rendez-vous sous la pluie" ("Meeting in the rain") ... " (the song) dates to at least 1929, and possibly earlier, according to Wikipedia. Yet there is a striking similarity, at least to my ears, in the tune of at least the first two lines of the songs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 16:41:00

The Killers “Day & Age” Review

If only the Killers could be as big and important as they seem to think they are ... , was all pop hooks and dance rhythms that had some good songs, and it gave them enough recognition to inflate ... . One of the first songs on the CD, the Hot Fuss sounding “Human”, is a buzzing new wave song [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 19:49:40

Publicist: I Started All The Rihanna/Jay-Z/Beyonce Rumors!

Well isn’t this interesting. Known publicist Jonathan Hay is dishing all the goods about how he initially started all the publicity circus around Rihanna with lies and rumors–and it was really all a ploy to put his producer friend on.  Producer friend, of course, happened to have done Rihanna’s break out “Pon de Replay” song [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 19:30:13

Top 10 Free iPhone Apps - November 27

It hit me today that a site with nothing but lists, should include iTunes lists. Nothing too fancy - just the top 10 whatever I feel like from iTunes. I’ll try to do these regularly, mixed with the other lists, but it should make for an easy way to stay on top of what’s popular. #1. Cube - fernLightning (iTunes Link) [ mzl [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 07:59:01

via woopwoop: Julee Cruise “Falling”From “Floating Into The...

via woopwoop: Julee Cruise “Falling” From “Floating Into The Night” (1989) From “Twin Peaks (Season One) Soundtrack” (1990) ... of her songs. Early life and career Cruise studied French horn at Drake University and performed ... . Positive reaction to “Mysteries of Love” led Badalamenti and Lynch to write and produce additional songs [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 01:01:28

Copyright monster gets Quote Unquote Records

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Host companies depend on their customers to survive ... Ever Donation Based Record Label and, says the Wikipedia, is an extension of Rosenstock’s DIY ... , so some of you might have noticed that none of the links to download songs work anymore [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 11:49:36

Bob Dylan sings Yesterday .... The McCartney Dylan love-in!

' It had no words. I used to call it 'Scrambled Eggs'. - Paul McCartney "The only thing you done was Yesterday and since you've gone, you're just Another Day." - John Lennon "Scrambled eggs, Oh, baby how I love your legs." - Paul McCartney His Bobness performs a version of the Beatles song "Scrambled Eggs" [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 06:29:19

Gary Lucas, Tommy Ramone, James Chance... tonight

Gary Lucas Lucas has played and collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Chris Cornell, Lou Reed, ... . Lucas co-wrote two of the songs, "Grace" and "Mojo Pin", from Jeff Buckley's popular and critically ... Lucas album Songs To No One, which charted internationally with worldwide sales approaching 100,000 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 19:29:13

The Week in iPhone Apps: Back to the Grind Again [IPhone Apps]

Back to the usual review this week, after our 20 Essential Apps list last Friday ... their sudden inspirations for songs about not getting sufficiently laid. Four Track offers all the controls ... Wikipedia article on something that I planned to read on the subway, only to find the page totally blank [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 01:47:00

Fomer Devo Frontman Mark Mothersbaugh To 'Whip It!'; Write Score For New Ellen Page/Drew Barrymore Comedy; Nashville Singer Landon Pigg Plays BF

We haven't followed the Drew Barrymore-directed/ Ellen Page-starring roller derby comedy "Whip It!" too closely for many reasons. 1) ... of Detroit recording studio Ghetto Recorders is supposedly recording some songs (the film was shot in Detroit). Other groups whose songs will be featured in the movie include, the Nashville neo-soul [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 18:40:29

Misunderstanding Communism III: It’s not anti-individualism

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Misunderstanding Communism Image via Wikipedia The most scary concept for anyone who considers communism seems ... who gives you such great images as people having to wear the same clothes, sing the same songs and share [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 10:30:32

Manic Street Preachers Richey Edwards is dead

p2pnet news view Music:- Manic Street Preachers’ guitarist Richey Edwards has been declared officially dead ... Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore, who, “still dedicate songs to Edwards hoping he might one day ... Centre,” says the Wikipedia. “Lamacql asked of Edwards’ seriousness towards his art, and Edwards [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 16:01:02

The Top Ten Reasons iTunes Sucks

The Top Ten Reasons iTunes Sucks By Scott Gilbertson November 5, 2008 Categories: Software & Tools ITunes sucks ... next to songs; by default they lead to the iTunes Store. Sure you can set them to point to your library, but how much cooler would it be if they led to a Wikipedia page or a band’s homepage? The library [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 18:55:41

Chinese Communists on Chinese Democracy

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- China’s Global Times, published by the Communist party, ... and desist letter, and cooperated with the FBI in its investigation. According to Wikipedia (admittedly not the most reliable source) six of the songs had been made available in some other form [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 16:32:21

M83 & School Of Seven Bells @ Triple Rock 11/22/2008

Seeing a band twice while they are still touring the same record can be a dicey affair ... of the older songs played during the night. And while all these tracks sounded amazing, it just seemed ... ), with fewer extended breaks between songs, and Anthony [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 15:00:34

Hairspray

I’ve watched the movie last night on HBO, with my parents and my older brother ... as Tracy Turnblad. Hairspray features songs from the Broadway musical written by Marc Shaiman and Scott ... on the article from, and courtesy of Wikipedia. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 03:45:31

The Ting Tings | Awards and Nominations

The Ting Tings is one of my favorite new bands. They are the great pop band from English. But they are success in several other countries. I like listening to their songs. Their songs are simple and fun. That is why ... from wikipedia. Please enjoy it. * MTV Video Music Awards 2008 o Video of the Year [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 02:49:59

Audioplayers are easy, right?

I love music. Not the playing or writing part (since I'm a talentless sod) but the listening part, the discovering part. Music kicks ass. Back in the nineties when I still used Windows, I was one of the many WinAmp 2.X users. I could drag files from my harddisk or CDs into the playlist and listen to them [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 19:42:53

Girl Talk's Legally Questionable Album Not Scarce Online

In recent weeks I have noticed Girl Talk's Feed the Animals at a number of download stores ... over 30 seconds, and many last just a second or two. (To see which samples are used in the songs, follow along at the album's Wikipedia page.) Label and artist insist the album is protected by the fair [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 23:05:16

1 - 50 of 122 Posts
Page: First | < Preceding | Next >
0 | 1 | 2