Category: Music

Categories
Music News shopping

Today is Record Store Day 2009

RECORD STORE DAY 2009 takes place today.

It’s the day that celebrates all things vinyl and good about music.

Many artists are releasing albums (or re-releasing, as in Green Day’s case) on Record Store Day in order to increase awareness of how these independent music retailers are still a vital part of the music scene.

Heck, even the COACHELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL will be running their own record store this weekend in honor of Record Store Day.

Some of the other artists releasing albums today include Bruce Springsteen, The Decemberists, The Smiths, Jane’s Addiction, and Bob Dylan.

How important are vinyl records to today’s musician?  When CBS’s 60 Minutes recently interviewed Coldplay’s Chris Martin, the camera caught a glimpse of Coldplay’s “Rules”.  One of the rules was “Promo/review copies to be on VINYL”.  Makes sense, as that makes pirating just a bit more difficult than if the copies were sent digitally.

Related posts:

Categories
Music TV

American Idol Singers Ranked

Victor Balta at Comcast has RANKED ALL 82 OF THE AMERICAN IDOL FINALISTS SO FAR,  FROM WORST TO FIRST.

We can all agree that the top ten of all American Idols should be these folks, even if some of the specific ranking numbers may need to be tweaked a little amongst the top 5:

  1. Kelly Clarkson
  2. Carrie Underwood
  3. Chris Daughtry
  4. Clay Aiken
  5. David Cook
  6. Jordin Sparks
  7. David Archuleta
  8. Fantasia Barrino
  9. Ruben Studdard
  10. Tamyra Gray

Me, I would rank Archuleta, Fantasia, Ruben, and Tamyra a little lower into the teens.  Just didn’t see what all the fuss was about.

Continue reading “American Idol Singers Ranked”

Related posts:

Categories
Games Music

Game: Guess the Mix

Here’s another game you can play on long car rides:  GUESS THE MIX.

Come up with a themed mixtape consisting of 10 songs.  The theme can be anything you’d like:  cars, breakups, cooking, songs that feature cowbell…anything you’d like the theme to be.

There are three ways to play this:

  1. Play the mix for your friends.  This option allows everyone to hear the songs that you’ve chosen, and is the best version to play if your friends do not have a large musical brain to pull from.
  2. Tell your friends the track titles.  This option is for the more experienced player, as they will need to know what those songs sound like on their own.
  3. Tell your friends only the artist names.  This is the most advanced option, as it will require your friends to determine what songs from those artists would combine into a single theme.  For hardcore players only.

Related posts:

Categories
Games Music TV Video

Two Golden Shower Videos

Golden Shower was a Brazilian band that hit the net in the early 2000’s, and over the next few years spent some time creating interesting mashups of video, electronica, and graphics. 

In 2002, Golden Shower released the song and video entitled TOTAL CONTROL, and began to win even more awards and recognition for their work.  The video is a tribute to the classic Tyco TCR race sets from the late 70’s-early 80’s.

Those of you who remember those Tyco TCR race car sets should have fond memories of the excitement an awesome TCR layout could be.   And it was always your friends who had the cool track setups, wasn’t it? 

Continue reading “Two Golden Shower Videos”

Related posts:

Categories
Funny How To Music Video

How to Mow The Lawn

Here are some different looks at how to properly mow your lawn and trim the hedges. Don’t want to be smuggling a basket of that plastic Easter grass, do you?

For the women:

Commercial #1:

Commercial #2:

Bushes, the Norman Cook remix:

Continue reading “How to Mow The Lawn”

Related posts:

Categories
Music News Websites

Where do Ticket Scalpers Get Their Tickets?

Nine Inch Nails’ lead singer Trent Reznor has not been shy in the past about airing his opinion about other musicians or the music industry in general.  More often than not, he’s been the one willing to talk about the elephant in the room that everyone else ignores.

So it should come as no surprise to anyone – let alone Nine Inch Nails fans – when TRENT POSTED A MESSAGE ON THE OFFICIAL NINE INCH NAILS MESSAGE BOARD explaining exactly what happens when NIN goes on tour with regards to what they do to minimize ticket scalping.  As part of Trent’s post, he includes a number of links to ticket scalping-related news articles that offer additional insight to the problem.

It’s refreshing to hear a band’s opinion of the whole mess. Here’s what Trent has to say about how the whole thing works:

Continue reading “Where do Ticket Scalpers Get Their Tickets?”

Related posts:

Categories
Music News Video Games

Making Money at Guitar Hero

If you’re a band trying to make it big by touring college campuses (like I LOVE COLLEGE‘s Asher Roth) or just waiting to sign a deal with a label (and finding out with a music royalty calculator that you owe more to the label than they’re paying you), then maybe you need to rethink your game.

Maybe you need to focus your energy on making music for Guitar Hero and not for CDs and MP3 downloads.

Why?  Because that’s where the real money is these days.  Video games and music tie-ins.  Heck, the music-related video games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and others pulled in US$2.3 billion in three years.

Continue reading “Making Money at Guitar Hero”

Related posts:

Categories
Funny Music Video

Video Fun: Wedding Reception Dances

We’ve all been to interesting weddings.

Some I’ve attended were memorable due to the groomsmen (they were all in a band together), the catering decorations (the official photographer was taking pictures of all the wedding guests licking the ice sculpture over the course of the evening), or the bride sharing with everyone about the types of tranquilizers she was on that day.  I even have a tale to tell about what songs NOT to play at a wedding reception, but that’s a different story for a different day.

For now, take a gander at what these wedding receptions were like.  They all seem like fun, don’t they?

I think what we can take away from this is that what you think is an original idea may already have been done. So if you’re thinking of doing a fun dance at the reception, try to be a bit original.

BRIDE AND GROOM’S FIRST DANCE is BABY GOT BACK

Continue reading “Video Fun: Wedding Reception Dances”

Related posts: