I tried to poop the party but my Las Vegas hotel’s internet connection got cut off JUST as I was about to hit the submit button and announce to the whole world who won American Idol 😉 Ah, the benefits of being in the same time zone…
Oh well. Now I’m home and rested, let me say I am so glad Fantasia won. Ahem.
I submitted a track to PenguinRemixed competition and left it at that for a week or more. I just checked the site and amazingly, found that I wasn’t at the bottom of the charts but somewhere closer to the middle. I don’t expect to get into the coveted top 10, and don’t qualify anyway since…
I went to HMV’s sale and picked up the following: Blue Lines by Massive Attack Protection by Massive Attack Odelay by Beck Acoustic Soul by India Arie Liquid Skin by Gomez Talkie Walkie by Air (Bah. Premieres Symptomes is now going at the same price and I paid Import rates for it) Best Kept Secrets…
SXSW Music panel. Panelists: [Gerard Cosloy](http://www.matadorrecords.com/), [Amrit Singh](http://stereogum.com/), [Sean Adams](http://drownedinsound.com/), [Maura Johnston](http://idolator.com/), [Carrie Brownstein](http://www.npr.org/music/), [Jason Gross](http://yeweiblog.blogspot.com/) *[Official description](http://2008.sxsw.com/music/conference/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=MP060342): Music blogs have emerged as tastemakers by incorporating unfiltered opinion, audio/video playback, and immediate publishing. As their initial impact expands into the realm of record labels and event promoters/sponsors, can they retain the personality and quirks that…
Just had a smashing good time at Jazz at South Bridge Road. Surprise surprise, Anne Weerapas was singing. I was telling my friends that she had a CD and Lush 99.5FM was playing her music as well as other local jazz singers’. Just then, she announced her CD was on sale at the club, and…
Though I am not a massive Radiohead fan, I applaud the band for taking music to the masses in a new way. As you may have heard, their latest album, In Rainbows, is available for free download. If you feel they deserve something, you can decide how much to pay them. While there’s been much…
Aghghgh! Look at who’s performing after the screening of the movie, ‘Before the Music Dies’. I’m a big fan of Erykah Badu because she’s different from the typical R&B/soul diva. Her lyrics can be pretty ‘cleva’ too (as she says she is, in a song)- even if some tracks are, as a friend puts it,…