As a die-hard Radiohead fan, I of course went immediately out and bought their latest CD called In Rainbows online. However, after giving the requisite 4-5 listens, I am still struggling to see what all of the critics love about the album. In my opinion, it doesn’t come anywhere close to other Radiohead albums like…
During the time I worked at Yahoo, I spent two years refining my Launch radio station to the point that it was a great representation of my music tastes. However, now that I work at Microsoft, I have started using the Pandora radio station. It is a pretty cool music application. I have been rating and creating…
I decided late last night that this was going to be the year that I go to Jazz Fest in New Orleans so I am going the first weekend (Apr 29th – May 1). While the lineups arent the best that i have ever seen, it still looks pretty damn good: Saturday – http://www.nojazzfest.com/schedule/42906.html…
I just read this article and I seriously almost hit the ceiling in joy. Someone has found a legal way to play iTunes AAC files on MP3 players other than the iPod. YEAH! I have always said that I have no problem paying for music downloads, but if I pay for it I should…
Just saw this compilation version of Stand by Me on Gizmodo. As quoted from Gizmodo: It all started with a base track—vocals and guitar—recorded on the streets of Santa Monica, California, by a street musician called Roger Ridley. The base track was then taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grandpa Elliott—a blind singer from the…
It has been a long time since I have gone and seen a concert, so when a friend said that she had an extra ticket for the Decembrists at the Moore Theater in Seattle on Thursday night, I couldn’t pass it up. The funny thing is that I honestly had only heard one of their…