Have I posted this before? I feel like I have but I spent some time this weekend importing old Tragically Hip bootlegs into iTunes and it reminded me of how fully and completely (get it?) I used to be into the Hip – trading bootlegs, traveling around to attend different concerts, studying Gord’s lyrics like […]
I wasn’t her biggest fan but, as someone says in the MetaFilter obituary thread, her music was the soundtrack for many a high school dance. Her talent and success can’t be denied either. Here’s her isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know?” which is pretty amazing. And here’s my favourite Whitney Houston song…
Not sure how this blog turned into “Piracy Week” but here’s another related article – this time listing 10 musicians (including some pretty famous names) who all support downloading of music to one degree or another.
Following yesterday’s post about “No Copyright Intended”, here’s another relevant article from Forbes.com (via MetaFilter where, come to think of it, I may have originally got the “No Copyright Intended” link as well.)
A good article on the changing understanding of copyright in a non-commercial, remix-focused culture. I mean, when I made my Hawaii montage video, I thought nothing of using a couple songs (a surf tune by the Ventures and a Beach Boys medley) to backdrop my video. I don’t expect to make any money from my […]
I don’t watch David Letterman too often but happened to catch Paul McCartney’s son making his US network TV debut the other night and was impressed by this catchy tune. (And yes, he totally looks like his old man!)
With this post’s title, you see how hard it is to capture a “lyric” as I usually do with Music Monday posts when the subject of the day is a Bobby McFerrin freeform vocal jazz improvisation in front of 50 000 people. I found this via Reddit’s Frisson sub-Reddit which is dedicated to those moments […]
Other than those opening lines about it being “cold, cold, cold” (today was +5), I think this is my theme song for the next couple weeks. Oh, and there’s also the line about “You’re caught up in the Internet/You think it’s such a great asset/But you’re wrong, wrong, wrong.” Not sure how much I’ll be […]
While Justin Bieber and especially Cee-Lo Brown were “interpreting” Beatles songs on New Year’s Eve for a TV audience of millions, three music legends – Steve Tyler, Alice Cooper and “Weird” Al Yankovic – teamed at a charity fundraiser in Maui to perform in front of a small crowd (filled entirely of people with camera […]
It’s one of the most remarkable Christmas songs of all-time as well as my personal favourite (but did it make its writers rich as some think a hit Christmas song inevitably does?) Here’s the first in a six-part story of how it came to be (the other five parts should come up as you finish […]
