Funny blog post today by Bob Boilen of All Song Considered about Bad Band Names…a perpetual source of amusement for musicheads. What got Bob going was a band called The Dodos, whowere DOA until he heard them play at South by Southwest in Austin.
Of course, poorly-named bands have been around since [...]
Archive for the ‘Rock'n'Roll’ Category
When Bad Names happen to Good Bands
Posted in Comedy, Humor, Movies, Musicians, Pop Music, Rock'n'Roll, blogging, tagged All Songs Considered, Bob Boilen, Death Cab for Cutie, Eric Idle, Monty Python, Neil Innes, The Dodos, Toad The Wet Sprocket on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life imitates….Video Games? The Guitar Zeroes
Posted in Digital Media, Gaming, Musicians, Pop Music, Rock'n'Roll, technology, tagged Guitar Hero, Guitar Zeroes, sacred harp, shape note, technology on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am perhaps the only person in the blogoverse to look at this and think immediately of the shape-note singing tradition that was developed in America in the 19th century. Back then, they used differently-shaped notes to teach people who couldn’t read music to sing; today, thanks to Guitar Hero, all [...]
The Key(board) to the Stones
Posted in Pianists, Rock'n'Roll, Travel, tagged airline travel, chuck leavell, New York Times, rock and roll, Rolling Stones on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ON THE NE CORRIDOR LINE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN PHILLY AND NEWARK – While I’m wrapping up a day trip to NYC I stumble across a charming little article written by keyboardist Chuck Leavell buried in the “Business Travel” section wayyyy in the back of Tuesday’s New York Times.
I’ve always been a fan of Leavell’s, who [...]
EMI & Radiohead: "Sticking It" to The Fans?
Posted in Copyright, Digital Media, Music Media, Musicians, Rock'n'Roll, technology, tagged digital_music, downloads, EMI, Radiohead, Wired on November 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday’s entry was about the news of a majority of fans deciding that the right price for Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want experiment was zero, although now the band is disputing those figures.
So, if zero is sublime for fans, what’s ridiculous? A poster to Wired’s Listening Post music blog the other day got it right: [...]
Somewhere, At the End of "In Rainbows…."
Posted in Copyright, Digital Media, Rock'n'Roll, Web 2.0, tagged Digital Music News, downloads, EMI, Jerry Del Colliano, Magnatune, Radiohead on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
….didn’t lie a pot of gold for Radiohead’s “pay what you like” strategy. Give them props for trying, but as Digital Music News reported yesterday, 62% of the downloaders of the English progrock band’s seventh album (only available via Radiohead’s website) paid nada for it.
Bubkus.
Zilch.
On the other hand, that means that 38% DID [...]
The Huckabee Band-wagon?
Posted in Politics, Presidential Candidates, Rock'n'Roll, music education, tagged arts education, Boston Globe, Daily Iowan, Maria von Trapp, Mike Huckabee, presidential politics, Rolling Stones, Washington Post on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Huh. Little did I realize that when I posted about Ark. gov Mike Huckabee actually putting music and arts education on his campaign agenda, that he was becoming the It Guy among Republican candidates. The Boston Globe editorialized enthusiastically the other day, saying “when the former Arkansas governor starts talking about [...]
400 musicians, 1607 voices…and Bruuuuuuce!
Posted in Composers, Festivals, Milestones, Musicians, Pop Music, Rock'n'Roll, Singer-Songwriters, U.K., Virginia, public radio, tagged Adolphus Hailstork, Bruce Hornsby, Chaka Kahn, Jamestown, Jen Chapin, Jennifer Higdon, John Corigliano, John Duffy, Mike Seeger, Ricky Scaggs, Scott Miller, Virginia Arts Festival, Vusi Mahlasela on May 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: 15 MAY 07: Fred Child has been on location from the Virginia Arts Festival, broadcasting Performance Today from WHRO in Norfolk, along with some select excerpts from the Festival.
The Queen may have gone home, but this is actually the big “America 400th” weekend in Virginia. The actual anniversary date of the Jamestown landing [...]
Alberto Gonzalez, meet Peter Gabriel
Posted in Musicians, Politics, Rock'n'Roll, Song lyrics, tagged Alberto Gonzalez, Peter Gabriel on May 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Strange is your language and I have no decoder
Why don’t you make your intentions clear
With eyes to the sun and your mouth to the soda
Saying, “Tell me the truth, you got nothing to fear.”
Stop staring at me like a bird of prey
I’m all mixed up, I got nothing to say [...]
Musicovery
Posted in Digital Media, Music Discovery, Pop Music, Rock'n'Roll, Singer-Songwriters, Web 2.0, tagged Eric Burdon, Eros Rammazzoti, Music Discovery, Musicovery, Nanci Griffith, Richard Thompson, Stevie Wonder on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Stumbled across a fascinating, if bizarre, new music-recommendation service today, along the lines of Pandora, Last.fm, and (look over to the left of the page) Fine Tune. Only this one, “Musicovery,” is based on moods – when you log on, a little “mood-o-meter” pops up, and you can pop your cursor down [...]
Gobsmacked by Goodstock
Posted in Festivals, Musicians, Pop Music, Rock'n'Roll, West Virginia, tagged 60s bands, Artie Kornfeld, Goodstock, Mind Garage, music festivals, West Virginia, Woodstock on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, enough about Russian classical musicians and snarky critics for a while. This morning my friends at West Virginia Public Broadcasting breathlessly announced a big ’60s-revival festival called Goodstock 2007 — coming this July to the burg of Summersville, West Virginia. Turns out that ’60s psychedelic and proto-Christian band the Mind [...]
-
Recent Posts
ClustrMaps – Worldwide Visitors
Category Cloud
-
Recent Comments
More on Guitar Hero … on More on Guitar Hero – th… bkr on The RIAA – They Can… Steve on The RIAA – They Can… ThumMeister on ASCAP & BMI – Mining… Bonni McKeown (Barre… on ASCAP & BMI – Mining… Tags
Pages
-
I am ROEDEO on del.ico.us
Meta
Subscribe!
-
Blog Stats
- 12,108 hits
-
