THIS BLOG IS ABOUT THINGS I LIKE
Keep it simple in post, but interesting in performance.
These were my two favorite Grammy performances:
Eminem, Lil Wayne, Drake and Travis Barker. I won’t hold my breath waiting for a full length album of collaborations.
Pink really shined with a voice I never knew she had and an outfit, if you can call it one, that not too many can pull off (not literally).
Due out March 9th, “Valleys of Neptune” will be a real treat for music lovers and Jimi Hendrix fanatics. I fall somewhere between those two. The album has one shy of a baker’s dozen (that’s still just twelve for those of you confused) and is a “snapshot into part of Jimi’s life that has rarely been heard” (according to THIS article from spinner.com)
For those of you who “get” the subject line, here is an extra treat…
Well, I suppose this would fit under the category of “enjoying life”. It’s funny. and not just because I say so.
iWant.
That is what apple is banking on.
So thin. So light.
I am not talking about Laura Flynn Boyle
A new way of experiencing the interactive world is finally here. Rumored to be called the iSlate, and the Itablet, the iPad (it’s correct name) has finally arrived. Well, if you order one it is not going to arrive until March.
It’s a larger iTouch, or a larger iPhone, without the phone, or a small computer, or..what exactly is it? It’s new. It’s cool’ It’s innovative. It’s unnecessary, but it’s revolutionary. I don’t need it, but I want it.
you probably will too.
check it out…
Below is a great track from the band My Glorious Mess
Click the link and dig the track. It’s also featured as today’s Official Song of the Day!
LISTEN BELOW and download from your favorite digital retail outlet – itunes, amazon, emusic
THEN…
It’s crushed red pepper. Love and Logic took things into their own hands and came up with a great video for the Adam Lambert song, ‘What Do You Want From Me”
This is what I want from you:
Go to their facebook page and become a fan (click that link) and then go and watch the video, tell your friends and watch it again while sharing on all your favorite social networks. It’s gotten over 60k views and is up to be on MTV-U, so help these guys out.
The video is below, but make sure to WATCH it HERE
Below you will find the official video for OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass”
For those of you who might not know the phrase, “This Too Shall Pass”, it appears in a few different instances: Some would cite King Solomon, others Abe Lincoln. As for myself I will cite, the author of ‘The Know-It-All: One Mans Quest to Become the Smartest Person In The World’, A.J. Jacobs. He talks about it in said book. I recommend it. Buy it or borrow it.
The video is off of the New Album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed live and features the Notre Dame marching band. Directed by Brian L. Perkins and OK Go. You can get it at iTunes http://bit.ly/okgootbcots
or just watch it right here
and OK GO released an open letter – worth reading HERE – They talk about how you cannot embed the video on blogs and the issues they face as a band dealing with a viral campaign.
Most of the time I am posting useful tips on music, living and travel, but I wanted to share an interesting email that I received this morning about how I might need to warp my photos…specifically the example they give is a child into a cat.
Although the service could be useful in some instances and I understand the product, I am going to vote against their marketing. The site also references a women into a lion. There are some other humorous examples as well, check it out for yourself.
Some useful information later…I promise
I was reading this on NPR and it was too funny not to repost – enjoy and I promise MY WORDS will be posted next time =)
Last year, I hired a Portland psychic to help make sense of the future of music. If you want to see how many of her predictions came true, you can watch the video here.
This year, I’m in New York City. And, even though there’s a soothsayer on every street corner, I have yet to build up the nerve to invite him or her into my apartment so that I might inquire about The Magnetic Fields.
Instead, I’ve decided to use my own non-psychic but highly intuitive abilities in order to reveal what secrets 2010 has in store for us. So, without further ado, here are my predictions for the coming year in music:
1. At least one more of my NPR Music cohorts will claim that Transference might be Spoon’s best album yet.
2. Billy Corgan and Jessica Simpson will co-produce one of the following: a baby, an album, a clothing line, a short-form erotic film, a sick feeling in my stomach.
3. The backlash against Vampire Weekend will not be musical, but academic. Graduates of community colleges, ITT Tech, DeVry, University of Phoenix and the like will form bands, write about their experiences in school, and see whether journalists get as worked up and defensive about four guys who didn’t go to an Ivy League school.
4. Bands will release smells. In the spirit of scratch ‘n’ sniff and Smell-O-Vision, and in an attempt to force music fans to make tactile instead of digital purchases, bands will sell vinyl and CDs encoded with their scent. Sure, you could download the upcoming Joanna Newsom record on iTunes, but will that digital format come with her foot smell? No, it won’t. And you would definitely buy the vinyl format of the next Interpol or Walkmen record if those LPs reeked of the band members’ armpits! You read it here first: The music industry has been saved!
5. Following in the footsteps of Monsters of Folk and Roky Erickson’s collaboration with Okkervil River, large groups of men from various bands will get together and play music with one another.
6. Musicians will realize that it’s easier to tweet a concert to fans than to actually perform for them. Example: @JensLekman: Just walked on stage. @JensLekman: Tuning. @JensLekman: Just played my first song. @JenLekman: Even though you didn’t hear it. @JensLekman: It was better than anything I’ve ever done. @JensLekman: Tuning. @JensLekman: I love you, too. @JensLekman: I have one more song. @JensLekman: Thank you, goodnight!
7. Bands will start reading comments sections of message boards, blogs and articles in order to find out what people are saying about them. The comments will form the inspiration for their next album. This way, fans will realize what they’ve always secretly thought to be true: that their opinions about the music are as important as the music itself. When the album is released, fans will get to comment on the music that was based on their comments. About the new album, one commenter will note: “I really don’t like the line, ‘I think their music is crap.’ “
8. Wondering how we can lump women performers together in a way that’s totally 2010? The marketers behind Midol will wake up and realize that they’ve been missing out on years of cross-promotion with American Idol. Thus, American Midol will launch, alleviating the need to ever compare female artists to anyone but each other.
9. Hozac Records will have its day.
10. A dog or cat will finally get a record deal. The first label to say the words, “We signed a cat” will get $10 from Monitor Mix. But only if you really sign a cat and put out its record.
