Heavy Rotation: Band of Horses, Killers, Bon Iver

Just to keep y’all updated with what’s in heavy rotation in my iTunes/CD player:

The Band of Horses.  These guys were recommended to me in 2006 and i choose to ignore all talk and hype and discover them on my own 2 years later.  But at least now there are 2 albums for me to enjoy [...]

Raconteurs - the new Led Zepplin?

I love Jack White. I think he’s the best guitarist of my generation. There is no wonder to me why The Rolling Stones asked him above all others to participate in their recent movie with them. He rocks.  His band, The White Stripes, is really him with his wife who plays drums.  It’s good but [...]

The Crue is Smart

Sure they’ve done some dumb stuff, but check this out - they released the single from their latest album, Saints of Los Angeles, both in the video game Rock Band and as download on iTunes, Amazon and elsewhere. In the first week it was downloaded 47,000 times on the Xbox alone compared to 10,000 times [...]

Prince vs. Radiohead

An interesting post here about Prince’s behavior on YouTube. Many people don’t know this but Prince is a Nazi on YouTube.  Anything about him, any song, any mention and he issues a takedown notice.  None of his songs are on YouTube.  This hurts the Qloud experience, so obviously i know about it.
But things got interesting [...]

Phoenix is rising

My favorite band of the past few years, Phoenix, is coming out with a new album and have posted the first track on Facebook of all places.  Go check it out here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phoenix/19227674432

“Just Enough” is the new “Big” - but can it work?

They should draw an equation: What level of fame do you need to achieve to keep doing what you want? Because you don’t want any more than that.
if you get too famous, you have people wanting to take a picture of your butt on the beach.
(Tina Fey

These are quotes i read from Grant’s blog [...]

My new favorite radio station

I was always hearing from my friend Gum that there is this kickass radio station in Minneapolis called The Current. Living in DC, i never got into a station as they were all basically Clear Channel crap.  Seriously all the channels in DC play a limited playlist of Top 40 or mainstream music.  This [...]

Grandmaster Flash’s Science

Everyone’s a pioneer in their own way.  This is from a quote i picked up in this month’s Wired Magazine.  In 1973 Grandmaster Flash invented Turntablism:
The DJ’s at the time were picking up the arm and dropping it down exactly on the break of the song. But i was dancing, and i noticed everybody’s head [...]

American Idol’s Top 10

My thoughts on the Top 10. It turns out i don’t need to post my thoughts, but Television Without Pity summed it up perfectly for me:
…when Amanda sings, I feel like I’m in a bar; when David Cook sings, I feel like I’m in a club; when Brooke sings, I feel like I’m [...]

Music lessons from Seth

Speaking of music (my last post was), a good blog post from Seth Godin about music lessons. To read it all, go here. The main points were:
0. The new thing is never as good as the old thing, at least right now.
Soon, the new thing will be better than the old thing will [...]