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…
Last night, I went to Jazz Alley to see the Bad Plus in concert. It was a last minute call, but one I am glad I made because they were really good and it had been a while since I had been to a concert. For those of you that don’t know the Bad…
When I heard that Radiohead was selling their album online in a bid-type of environment rather than through traditional channels like CDs and online pay-for-download, I was very interested to see how consumers respond. Radiohead fans are passionate about the music and very different (in my opinion) than the people who like music from Brittany…
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…
I am sending this entry while I am my first concert at the Showbox in Seattle. The band is called Golden Smog and they are a really fun alt-county band although right now they are covering a version of David Bowie’s "Starman". What a great venue and a great night. Highly recommended for anyone who…
It took forever for music companies to realize that CDs were a dying breed and that if they didnt move their music collections to the digital world, someone would do it for them without their permission. Finally, they are putting their collections on the web with the help of services like iTunes, MSN Music, and…