Archive for the 'music' Category

Separated at birth, part II

April 28th, 2008

Following up on the booking agent and singer, we have the guitar player and entrepreneur.

Jukebox the Ghost’s Tommy Siegel and Citizen Agency’s Chris Messina:
Tommy Siegel and Chris Messina

Apparently they have a triplet, Josh Roth.

Samantha Murphy’s digital freedom spot

January 12th, 2008

Great work, Samantha!

TenEleven things to do in San Francisco

December 13th, 2007

San Francisco* has all kinds of interesting events going on. Here are some of my favourite off-the-beaten-path activities:

Storytelling

Porchlight

Science

Ask a Scientist
Down to a Science (haven’t been yet)

Music

Paul’s San Francisco House Concerts (yes, that’s me)
Drew Pearce’s House Concerts 
Songwriters in the round, hosted by Heather Combs

Literature

Writers With Drinks

Talk Show

The Heather Gold Show

Tech

SuperHappyDevHouse
BayCHI  

* Okay, so a few of them are just out of town. 

I somehow forgot the Long Now’s Seminars on Long Term Thinking. These are excellent, and I’m even a Long Now charter member.

Sam Shaber as 13-year-old Scottish boy

April 4th, 2007

Enric Teller shared a video of Sam Shaber goofing off at my most recent house concert.

Anya Marina house concert photos

February 9th, 2007

Eric Carter and Enric Teller posted some photos of last month’s fantastic Anya Marina house concert.

New album release

January 10th, 2007

Did you hear Bob Dylan is releasing an album of Sarah McLachlan covers? It’s called Mumbling Towards Ecstasy.

Music business takes a few steps in the right direction

November 5th, 2006

While the big four record labels are still stuck in the previous century, technology continues to democratize the music industry. Not only do we have cheap multitrack recording software and online distribution, but we’re seeing some interesting funding models as well.

In September, Wired covered Nettwerk’s return to good-guy status, helping the Barenaked Ladies break free of their label (and make $6 per CD instead of under $1).

TechCrunch ran with news of SellaBand, a German company that brings the distributed funding model (of, say Prosper or Kiva) to music.

And this week, my friend Travis reminded me of Amie Street, which introduces demand-based pricing (get in early to get cheap music). And it’s all MP3s, no DRM.

(See also my previous post on recommendation services.)

Free Kendall Payne Concert

September 21st, 2006

Theresa Ballin writes in to let me know Kendall Payne will be performing a free concert as part of St. Joseph of Cupertino School’s “Family Fun Festival.”

She’ll be on from 1-3 pm on Sunday, October 8.

Day and Night (Out)

September 7th, 2006

I received this email from the Howie Day mailing list:

HOWIE PERFORMING AT ‘NINA’S NIGHT OUT’
Howie will be playing “Nina’s Night Out” sponsored by Mix 94.1,
with all proceeds to benefit the Rape Crisis Center.

Oh, the irony.

top 20 CDs of 2005

April 16th, 2006
  1. Luke Doucet/Broken (and other rogue states)
  2. Kyler England/Live Wire
  3. Jason Mraz/MR. A-Z
  4. Sylvie Lewis/Tangos & Tantrums
  5. Libbie Schrader/Taking the Fall
  6. Samantha Murphy/Somewhere Between Starving & Stardom
  7. Josh Rouse/Nashville
  8. Pocket Dwellers/PD-Atrics
  9. Erin McKeown/We Will Become Like Birds
  10. Sarah Harmer/I’m a Mountain
  11. Kathleen Edwards/Back to Me
  12. Emm Gryner/The Great Lakes
  13. Great Big Sea/The Hard and The Easy
  14. Adrianne/Down To This
  15. Charlotte Martin/Darkest Hour
  16. Anya Marina/Miss Halfway
  17. Tristan Prettyman/twentythree
  18. Krister Axel/Permanent Friday Night
  19. Peter Bradley Adams/EP
  20. Dave’s True Story/Nature