glen has put together really short audio clips from 20 cover songs. can you guess who/what?
Category Archives: music
George Bush’s iPod
The BBC checked out what was on George Bush’s iPod and invited readers to suggest songs for him. Among the picks: I’m a Loser, by Beck Criminal, by Eminem Lawyers, Guns and Money, by Warren Zevon I Want It All, by Queen
house concerts web site
i spent a day and change putting together a web site for my house concert series. it’s pretty spiffy, if i do say so myself. among the reasons why: valid XHTML and CSS RSS and iCal feeds clean interface nice URLs (REST, perhaps?) creative commons-licensed
fuzzy math, RIAA style
moses runs the numbers: There is only one logical integration of all these statistics with the recent Soundscan data: even though actual point-of-purchase sales are up by about 9% in the US – and the industry sold over 13,000,000 more units in 2004 (1st quarter) than in 2003 (1st quarter) – the Industry is still …
The Economist on MGM v Grokster
The Economist, fresh off their SemaCode scoop, rips in to the music industry’s legal “strategy”: But even if the entertainment business manages to coax more users into paying for legal downloads and succeeds in court against Grokster and StreamCast, its problems are unlikely to go away. True, a Supreme Court ruling in the industry’s favour …
finding venues to play
i’m often asked for the names of venues for musicians to play in. i have a small list of my own, but it hasn’t been maintained lately. however, there are several great resources out there: venues in San Francisco from the Red Devil Lounge venues along the west coast (CA, OR, WA) from BAB News …
music for march and early april
all shows are in San Francisco, except when otherwise noted: 3/20 Libbie Schrader @ Red Devil Lounge 3/24 Tiffany Joy and Iari @ Camera 12 (San José) 3/25 Tegan and Sara @ The Independent 3/26 Iari @ Cafecito (San José) 3/28 Julia Lau @ Biscuits and Blues 3/30 Steve Poltz @ 12 Galaxies 3/31 Steve …
flickrrrrrr
i’m one of the cool kids now. i have photos on flickr.
band names with numbers in them
zero one zero 7 U2 3 3 Dog Night Gang of Four MC5 ben folds five five for fighting sister seven L7 finger 11 eggs 18 matchbox 20 20/20 sum 41 level 42 june of 44 black 47 BR5-49 B-52s 54-40 60/40 salem 66 september 67 Star69 blink 182 801 5678s 10,000 maniacs
Artists Break With Industry on File Sharing
Artists Break With Industry on File Sharing: One musician, Jason Mraz, said half of the fans who pay to see him in concert heard about him through illegal downloading, according to the court filing.