Facebook Preps For Music Strategy Launch September 22 is the date Facebook is expected to finally discuss their developing music strategy. Nobody is really able to explain anything at this point, but it is expected to deeply integrate music services...
When your favourite bands have vocals distorted, sing with marbles in their mouth, sing in falsetto, or rap extremely fast, it is hard to determine exactly what they are saying. This is of course of vital importance when coming up...
I often listen to music based on my mood and my surroundings. If I’m doing writing at a computer and can’t handle lyrics being thrown at me (sidenote: it’s embarrassing writing “P-p-p-poker face” into a professional report), I thrown on...
Damon Albarn’s DRC Music Project Via Stereogum – Some tracks have been released onto SoundCloud from Damon Albarn’s musical mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Long story short, Albarn took a bunch of producers (guys like Dan the Automater)...
Given the vast number of bands that I like, it can be tough a) affording the shows and b) knowing which band is swinging by on any given night. One needs to be active in reading music news sites (such...
Jamie XX Does Radiohead Remix Another gem from Jamie XX – dropped on BBC1’s Essential Mix over the weekend. Jamie finished his excellent 2 hr set with a debut of his remix Radiohead’s Bloom. This track will apparently be released...
I’ve come across two older yet interesting articles from the Economist, both of which I’ve connected into one blog post. The first article deals with the ever rampant file sharing and how the music industrial is coping with it. The...
Leeds & Reading Wrap Reading and Leeds happened this past weekend – and I’m almost 100% sure that if you’re reading this, you weren’t there (prove me wrong!). Headliners were Muse, The Strokes, My Chemical Romance, plus piles of future...
Music writers have often spoken about the power that a man feels behind a guitar, how it serves as both a phallic symbol and an almost spiritual source of release. Over time came the guitar with not one, but two...
PHM gets taken over by rank amateur Pete is on some sort of Euro-Trip-meets-Weekend-at-Bernie’s vacation and the Morning Music Notes are being done by some person named “rich”. I don’t think it’ll work, personally, but time will tell. Arctic Monkeys...
I finally saw (500) Days of Summer this past weekend. Upon finishing the movie and managing to survive the urge to kick in the teeth for every past girlfriend who screwed me over, I realized that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt continues...
Just What He Needs: Kanye West – The Musical Some artists have a massive ego. And then there is Kanye West. In some ways, the critical praise that accompanied My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was the worst thing that could’ve...
Shocking/not-so-shocking news. Steve Jobs, the head (and the face and the body) of Apple, has resigned, effect immediately. Taking over is Tim Cook. Jobs has been fighting much publicized health issues, starting with a rare form of pancreatic cancer which...
Label Rejects the Beatles, Comes to Senses in 2011 with Paul McCartney Paul McCartney, of Wings Beatles fame, is releasing a new ballet called Ocean’s Kingdom (via Hollywood Reporter). The label that is helping McCartney release it is Decca, the...
I just felt my first earthquake! For those who didn’t have the pleasure of feeling the power of some almighty angry God the Earthquake, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake that was centered in Virginia hit just before 2:00 pm, with aftershocks...
