1 Giant Leap
One of the benefits of being somewhat home-bound for a year has been to explore what’s been happening in the music world lately. “Lately” meaning since I got out of college – 20 years ago. I learned...
View ArticleiTunes store arrives
Just paid for and downloaded my first album from Apple’s new iTunes Store. For years I’ve been arguing that the main justification one has for copying (illegally) MP3s is that you’re pissed that you so...
View ArticleiTunes RSS Generator
Apple iTunes just released a generator that creates RSS feeds based on genre. You can get separate feeds for new releases, top sellers, etc. What’s RSS? Click here for an explanation.
View ArticleSharlene Hector – I Wish
Coca-Cola Company has scored a winner with a new feel-good ad that’s been playing these Olympics. When I first saw the commercial I was riveted. Who was that woman? What a gorgeous song! The answers...
View ArticleSting and 2000 Investment Bankers
Bank of America investment conference 2004. Last night, San Francisco. Big, very big tent. “I’m Sting. I sing for money.” Thank God for that. How much do you think they spent on this conference? 5...
View ArticleImogen Heap – Just for Now (Live Acapella)
Check out this amazing performance of singer Imogen Heap, layering tracks over each other live.
View ArticleChristine Kane at BlogHer
All day Friday at the BlogHer conference in Chicago I kept running into an interesting seeming woman named Christine Kane, who mentioned that she blogged about music. Christine’s eyes are penetrating;...
View ArticleImogen Heap – Goodnight and Go
Here she is doing the same song live on David Letterman. From the Speak for Yourself album.
View ArticleChristine Kane Live – Right Outta Nowhere
Found this great video of Christine Kane performing live “Right Outta Nowhere”. I wrote about meeting Christine and BlogHer a few months ago. She performed a week ago at the Freight and Salvage in...
View ArticleInterview with Allee Willis of Bubbles and Cheesecake
I first met Allee Willis in the mid-nineties when we worked together on “Willisville”, a virtual world of 19 or so wildly amusing fictional inhabitants of a town by the same name, accessible only...
View ArticleFeist Counting to 4 on Sesame Street
Love this song from the Apple ad. Now Feist takes it to Sesame Street. (link) One, two, three, four monsters walking cross the floor I love counting, counting to the number four Are you counting?...
View ArticleSteve Martin and Bela Fleck, Banjo and Bluegrass
Love banjo. Love bluegrass. Love Steve Martin. Love Bela Fleck.
View ArticleStraight No Chaser
Straight No Chaser – 12 Days of Christmas Best holiday music ever. Straight No Chaser. Just released album, “Holiday Spirits”, available on iTunes, Amazon, the usual places. Love the original song...
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