Kelly Clarkson, the first American Idol winner, has a breakout hit called “Since U Been Gone” that you’ve probably heard. It’s totally addictive and I think may just be this year’s Hey Ya. Even my indie rock friends all adore the track (even Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing fame puts it in his top three [...]
I was happy to see Kathryn’s documentary project just released a preview.
Merlin turned me onto The Wrens a year or so ago (and it looks like he’ll be opening for them next month), and I’ve grown to love their music. The preview gives a good insight into the band and really does start to [...]
I can’t help but notice that Napster’s iPod attack ads bear an uncanny resemblance to political attack ads. The Napster ads don’t tell you that their music files are loaded with DRM that won’t let you really “own” the songs at all and they ignore that many folks rip their CD collection to their iPod [...]
Steven Levy over at Newsweek has a great article on the iPod’s seemingly non-random random function. See I wasn’t crazy when I wrote about the rock block, but I do recall a couple people wrote me explaining much of the same thing Levy heard. I took a few courses on statistics and understand how these [...]
There no better news than hearing there’s a new release from the Kleptones.
I haven’t heard it yet, but just started the torrent downloading.
Update: It took hours to come down via BT (bittrickle). I’ve only gotten through three tracks, but it’s amazing so far, tons of classic samples. And Andy’s on it for a fast [...]
I’ve been logging every song I listen to over on my audioscrobbler account for almost two years now, and I discovered a really cool random feature.
There’s a feature called “Personal Radio” that lets you stream songs from a user’s profile (you have to be logged in to see it, and you might need to donate [...]
I want to spare you from reading another indie-heavy best of 2004 music list, so instead of recounting my absolute favorite albums this year, I decided to highlight all the little guys I enjoyed this year. These are my favorite unsigned or small label bands that started out as a person in their apartment with [...]
Merlin’s post about the Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make is incredibly spot on and mirrors my own problems finding samples from new bands to listen to, finding tour dates in my town, and trying to find tickets to shows.
The only bands I can think of that do it right are The Long Winters, [...]
Every once in a while, iTunes seems to start playing two tracks from the same album in a row, even though I’ve got it on a global shuffle, going through 1600 tracks. It seems to happen periodically, and I wonder if somewhere in the darkest reaches of the iTunes codebase they’ve written a “Twofer Tuesday” [...]
Am I the only one that hears U2’s new song, where Bono starts it off chanting “uno dos tres catorce!!!” and instantly thinks he sounds like an idiot?
Maybe to an irishman that doesn’t speak spanish the way the words kind of rhyme sounds good, but when I hear it, I translate it, and any song [...]
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