Morning Music Notes – Writing About A Genre I Know Nothing About

Something new from Boots, who is touted as the man behind a lot of Beyonce’s recent album. He has a new track called Howl, which is what I do at the moon every 28 days – damn lycanthropy.

Howl has a beat that jumps genres a few times. Although not an overly catchy song, it’s original and worth a listen.

Morning Music Notes
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That didn’t take long – iTunes Radio is the third most popular music streaming service in America. However, it only has an 8% market share, far behind Pandora’s 31%. (via Yahoo)

Keith Richards, who must be well over 100 now, is going to write a kids book. Not sure if the Rolling Stones guitarist can cast his mind back to a pre-electricity era when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, when he was last a kid – but good luck all the same. (via Hollywood Reporter)

I’m not sure who was excited by this news or the appearance, or why I’m just finding this out now, but Justin Bieber crashed SXSW over the weekend. Yay? (via NME)