When it comes to listening to digital music iTunes remains the dominant player, not because it offers a particularly brilliant service (it offers a particularly poor one in my book) but because the proprietary obsessed Apple are behind it and the general public’s love-in with the company’s products seems impervious to criticism. In the download market Amazon, eMusic and a few other smaller players take up the slack, if we conveniently ignore by far the biggest supplier of music downloads. But for all that the days where you feel you must own your music collection might be coming [...]
I woke up to the sound of rain, a gentle rain. I stayed in bed a while and listened. I could also hear Gracie's deep sleep breathing and every now and then a sigh. Today is Mother's Day. It is the day I honor my mother and my memories of her. Last week my friend and I went out to dinner. She mentioned it was her mother's birthday and how much she still misses her. She said no one told us it would be this hard. Every year I post the same entry about my mother. At Easter [...]
Frank "Bongolong" Long Remember the early days of ratty old vinyl sharity? It was a time when it seemed fewer than 100 people were digging deep in their dusty crates to find rarities and items that slipped through copyright standards, ripped them at as high bitrates as their connection could take, and shared them with the world. These bloggers were celebrities. Visitors never knew what to expect, and even the most rabid record collectors were astonished at the things they could hear. Most of those sites are gone now, as [...]
By the time that George Jones left Mercury and signed with United Artists in 1962 for his chart-topping “She Thinks I Still Care,” he’d been steadily minting hits since his 1955 debut, “Why Baby Why.” A two-and-a-half year run on UA produced sixteen singles, which the label managed to stretch over nearly five years of releases. All thirty-two sides – sixteen A’s and their flips – are included here in their original mono. Jones continued to be a steady hit maker (sometimes charting both sides of a single), but he also had his share of misses and obscure B-sides. This [...]
The United States Army Band has been the premier musical organization of the U.S. Army since 1922 when Army Chief of Staff General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing directed that it be formed to emulate the premier European military bands he had heard during the First World War. The Band has been known as “Pershing’s Own” ever since. The Band provides musical support for US leadership, including all branches of government and for a spectrum of national and international events in support of public diplomacy, community and international relations, recruiting [...]
Carol of the Bells (for 12 cellos) - ThePianoGuys Get our brand new album on Amazon: http://amzn.to/QoFwML (please leave a review) Order this album on iTunes: http://bit.ly/Xa3oYo Download the MP3 single of this song here: http://thepianoguys.com/newsto re/songs/steven-sharp-nelson-m p3/christmas-cello-digital-alb um.html Get PianoGuys T-Shirts, Wristbands, Sheetmusic here: http://thepianoguys.com SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE Channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscri ption_center?add_user=thepiano guys Follow ThePianoGuys: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pianog uys Twitter: http://twitter.com/pianoguys Website: http://www.ThePianoGuys.com "I love these two carols (Carol of the Bells/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) - they were made [...]
Little Boots is back with a second album. She took to her Tumblr account to tell us all what she's up to: " Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year break. I’m about to disappear for a couple of weeks for a pre-emptive holiday so thought I would give you a quick update before I go. Well its officially finished. Mixed, mastered, the works! I’m so happy and proud of the album and seriously can’t wait to share with you. I can’t thank you all enough for you patience and support, its been [...]
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Last night was one of those when will I ever get tired nights. Luckily, TCM kept me occupied with a slew of B science fiction movies. I got to see The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Tarantula, The Incredible Shrinking Man and It Came from Outer Space. It was around two before It returned to Outer Space so I could go to bed. I love those movies as bad as they are at times. That's the fun of them. In the Creature, a favorite of mine, the jungle is filled with howls and the sounds of animals. It is overgrown [...]
The xx ha estado muy generoso en estas fechas, primero nos presentaron un cover a "Last Christmas" de Wham! y ahora nos regalan un EP titulado The xxmas que se puede descargar gratuitamente desde iTunes . Ahí podemos encontrar un edit a "Sunset" por parte de Jamie xx . Enjoy. ♩ The xx - Sunset (Jamie xx Edit)
Somehow I managed to miss this over Christmas! This is a great take on Wham's Last Christmas by The XX. Its really shouldn't work but somehow it does. The tinsel, tack and terrible mullets of the original replaced with something of a darker nature. It's like Joy Division covering Winter Wonderland ! Enjoy Share | www.highwayfive.blogspot.com
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While you were sitting around with your family in a food coma during Christmas, Star Slinger was making this holiday anthem. Sampling one of the most famous lines from Home Alone 2 "Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animal & a Happy New Year," Star Slinger drops the line right onto a proper house beat. It's the perfect track to make NYE set jump off. Download: Star Slinger - Ya Filthy Animal
A Good Foot Christmas 2012 @ Alex's Bar 12/25/12 | Video by: Magic Milk I watch quite a bit of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations + The Layover and wonder at times where I'd take Anthony in Long Beach to get drunk and have a good time. He always seems to end up at random cities on "holidays" so I figure if he were in Long Beach on Christmas night I'd take him to Good Foot Christmas. For the non-locals and non-versed in LA Funk events, Good Foot was a 13(?) year running monthly [...]
It seems there's been some quality free music dropping over the Christmas break. And by break, I mean the week-long period where I ate myself into a stupor and didn't think for a minute to check the interwebz for any new music. Happy holidays! Before I send myself off to an island for some New Years celebrating though, I thought I'd break you off with one of the better releases, Curren$y's 3 Piece Set EP. Short and sweet this one - three tunes, each featuring Spitta's [...]
Photographic Evidence by Melissa Brawner The White Water Tavern Little Rock, AK Dec 7th-9th 2012 ABOVE: Shane Sweeney and Micah Schnabel from Two Cow Garage FROM BEHIND THE LENS - I was [...]
In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield Merry Christmas RanDummies and mighty blogaruu readers! Hope you are still getting your turkey sweats on. While you do, why not enjoy this piece which I wrote for an Irish paper recently. Pants off. Trifle. On! A Hollywood Christmess Story Is that Slash? Hmm. Is he looking at me? [...]
Whilst most of us were busy opening presents and stuffing our faces on Christmas Day, Frank Turner was (and still is) giving out a gift of his own. If you head over to the Xtra Mile Recordings website right now, you can snag yourself a free download of 'Four Simple Words' - a track from his forthcoming album - and a demo recording of 'Cowboy Chords'. If you've seen Frank live over the past year or so then you'll have probably heard one, if not both, of these songs. The fourth-wall breaking 'Four Simple Words' looks [...]
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Words: Saam Das I can think of little else more melancholic than doing work spreadsheets and drinking a can of beer alone at 10.45pm. Frightened Rabbit are one of those few things that threaten to be more melancholic than my current plight. Their mix of emotionally devastating lyricism and quietly hopeful instrumentation is a joy in its own way. Here, they offer up a free Christmas download/single of sorts, 'She Screams Christmas'. We only [...]
What do you think Taylor Swift did for Christmas? She probably rolled around in a bathtub full of money while Harry Styles serenaded her with an a capella rendition of "They Don't Know About Us," then she wrote a heartbreakingly gorgeous and sad ballad about it, right? And yet, while she was doing that, everyone in America was buying copies of her latest album Red ! Lots and lots of copies of it, copies for themselves and their brothers and sisters and parents and BFFs and loved ones and even [...]
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