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This is a must see documentary for music fans… I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, U2\’s The Joshua Tree is like a soundtrack to my awkward adolescent years, and The White Stripes are one of the best bands of the last 10 years, in my humble opinion. Great stuff.
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Music, hurricanes, and the web
The other day I was doing housework while listening to my iPod. An amazing, mind blowingly great song by Bob Dylan popped on. I don’t recall having heard it before, but I’ll never forget it. It’s called Hurricane, and it’s about eight and a half minutes long. I liked it so much that I listened [...]
Pandora vs. Sirius: what's your online music listening style?
Free online music service Pandora has amassed an impressive 20 million users in its three years of existence, according to TechCrunch (citing Twitter!).
Back in July, I gushed in an article entitled I’ve fallen in love… with Pandora, noting the killer combination of attributes included the fact that it’s easy, powerful, addictive, and info rich:
This is [...]
Because it's Friday: The Flatliners
The Flatliners are amazing, rocked out to them the entire ride into work this morning. I’m a sucker for an aggressive ska/punk beat, and these guys are tight, melodic, and know how to write killer hooks. This is Freds Got Slacks.
"It's clear now that the Web has once and for all replaced TV's role in the music business."
That quote is pulled from a ReadWriteWeb piece talking about how the lonnnnnnng awaited Guns n’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy, has just been released through the band’s MySpace profile page.
It’s a pretty extraordinary statement, and helps to highlight the immense role that the Internet now plays in promotion, marketing, and commerce, particularly with regard to [...]
