I found out some very disturbing news today that might make me have to rethink this whole Ryan Adams thing. In an open letter on her myspace page, Courtney Love accuses Ryan Adams of stealing “850,00$” from her. Now I’m not sure how much that is in the real world but it [...]
I’m not really sure what to make of the new Gnarls Barkley video for “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul” (not to be confused with that Jewel song, of course.) The animated heart is definitely cool but I wonder if the video could have been done without the dialogue. Actually, I could have done [...]
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the fact that the music industry in its current incarnation is going downhill faster than a flaming child on a greased sled. With the advent of the Internet, I know that downloading music for mere pennies (or for free, if you’re a pirate, arrr) has become the [...]
Fans of Tori Amos have long been aware that she’s got a close friendship with the writer Neil Gaiman. Gaiman is likely best known for the graphic novel series The Sandman, and Tori inspired the character Delirium in those novels. So, you take Ms. Amos’ incredible talent for writing lyrics that don’t so much make [...]
Paul Westerberg, frontman for The Replacements, is the latest addition to the ranks of musicians harnessing the power of the Interweb to provide new music to fans.
Yesterday, Westerberg released a single mp3 file on Amazon.com for instant download, for the low, low price of 49 cents. The file is 49 minutes long and contains over [...]
code.google.com, which is typically used to house open source software for geeks like me, has teamed up with Radiohead to do something atypical (which is somewhat typical for both parties) and has released “House of Cards” up on http://code.google.com/radiohead. The technology behind the video is insane and the distribution mechanism for getting it out [...]
A few years ago, a friend of mine remarked that he had just seen James Brown in concert. Even though I like James Brown, I would never think to see him in concert. My friend reasoned that he wanted to see JB before he died. Turned out that he made the right [...]
