Archive for 'Music'
The Forgotten Grammy Winners
I was looking at the results from last night’s Grammy Awards and I thought some of the winners deserve more attention than they got during the ceremony…
Best Native American Music Album
Totemic Flute Chants
Johnny Whitehorse
Best Hawaiian Music Album
Treasures Of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar
Various Artists
Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album
Live! Worldwide
Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience
Best Polka [...]
Posted: February 11th, 2008 under Music.
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New Albums Coming in 2008
Yet again it’s time for my annual list of upcoming album releases. I do this as much for my own sake as I do for anyone else… it’s amazing to me that there’s no good place to find out about music release dates. There’s lots of places that try but they are never complete or up [...]
Posted: February 7th, 2008 under Music.
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Everybody Loves Lists
Let’s face it, top ten lists are blogging gold. Just hit any of the popular social bookmarking sites… digg, delicious, reddit… and I guarantee there’s at least one top ten list on the front page. Always quick and sometimes controversial, people just love the lists.
And on that note, I think it’s time I unveil some [...]
Posted: December 3rd, 2007 under Music.
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A Smart Way to Use iTunes Smart Playlists
My digital music collection has long surpassed my archaic, third-generation, 20GB iPod’s capacity. Conveniently, iTunes recognizes this fact and offers to only sync a selection of my music for me. The problem is that iTunes always seems to pick the same songs every time I sync… meaning that any new songs I’ve added usually don’t [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2007 under Music.
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2007 Albums Update
Back in January I posted a list of albums set to release this year… I thought it was time to update it with new dates and even some new albums that I’m looking forward to. Almost everything released so far has been good, but only The Arcade Fire have been great. Unfortunately I missed tickets [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2007 under Music.
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Whistle Solo!
I’m really only posting this to push the St. Patty’s Day post down, but I do have to say that this song, Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John has the best whistle solo in recent memory. It’s not that I really like the song, I just respect those bands with the courage to rock [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2007 under Music.
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