This will possibly be the end of GPS companies such as Garmin and Tom Tom (their stocks have already plummeted since the announcement):Google also announced that soon, any search for a song or band will result in a stream of the song being returned from various partners which will be able to be played in […]
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An Annual Tradition On This Blog Somewhere Around This Time of Year
Well, definitely last year anyhow and I think back in 2006 too from the look of things. I'm sure I did this in 2007 too but the post wasn't tagged, keyworded or referred to in any identifiable way. (Uhm, NP: “First Snow of the Year” – Hawksley Workman by the way.)
Friday Fun Link – iNudge (Sept 25, 2009)
iNudge is a pretty fun web-based music making program. Or to put it another way, WELCOME TO MY RAVE!!!
A Couple Interesting Ways to Analyse Individual Beatles' Popularity/Contribution Within the Group
Here's a couple very quantitative way to determine which Beatle added more to the group…– assign point values in descending order based on who wrote each of the Top 50 Most Played Beatles Songs on last.fm (Paul has a slight edge over John)– using the Beatles #1 album, count who wrote more of their #1 […]
Friday Fun Link – Obama's Reading List for His Holiday in Martha's Vineyard (August 29, 2009)
Sorta interesting but not as cool as hearing what's on his iPod.
Radiohead – Inexpensive Charity Single and a Free Song Too
Radiohead is no stranger to innovative music practices. Recently, they've done a couple more…– a one-off charity single, “Harry Patch (In Memory Of), to support the British Legion, an anti-war song written using the words of the UK's last surviving WWI soldier, Harry Patch who died earlier this summer.– and a brand new song, “These […]
Music Monday – "You talkin' about Hammer/You talkin' about a show"
Shea thought I was joking when I said I wanted to go see MC Hammer play our local summer exhibition here in Regina. I wasn't…but I didn't make it so I guess this clip I found will have to do:I recently blogged about songs I could listen to over and over and “U Can't Touch […]
Friday Fun Link – Which Songs Do I Have The Most Copies of On My Computer? (July 31, 2009)
I'm trying to free up some space on my hard drive (70 GB of music on a 200 GB drive will do that to you) so am looking through my duplicate MP3 files (which make up ~10 GB of that collection). Looking closer, I see that there are a few songs that I have no […]
Who's Gonna Save Me? Ten Songs I Could Put On Repeat and Listen to Non-Stop
We all have those songs that are so catchy or that have great lyrics or that we connect with so strongly for other reasons that we could put them on repeat on our music players and just listen to them over and over (in the old days, this same effect was accomplished by taping the […]
King of Pop Dies
There's tons of commentary all over the web after the news broke that Michael Jackson died today. I don't have much to add but here's a couple random thoughts….– like probably a million people, “Thriller” was my first “real” record (I'm not counting Mini-Pops and crap like that – er, except I loved the Mini-Pops […]