I have returned from cottage country to realize that none of my predictions came true….yet. Without further adieu, your Morning Music Notes. Michael Jackson’s Thriller jacket has sold for $1.5 Million dollars. The rumours of the jacket’s ability to transform...
Good morning faithful reader(s). As Glastonbury weekend descends upon the UK, I realized how I needed to go to a place where there is lots of mud, poor toilet facilities, and a Lord of the Flies style leadership is implemented...
Orange (the mobile phone company, not my favourite colour) have made a t-shirt that can charge your phone. Invention of the year or what?! Through the magic of magic science, vibrations (like sound waves, Einstein) are converted into electrical voltage,...
On the heels of her typical drunken, poorly received opening concert, Amy Winehouse has cancelled her European comeback tour. Having not released an album since her second album, Back to Black, took the world by storm in 2006, fans were...
Brazilian iPod-commercial party band CSS have returned with a new single, called Hit Me Like a Rock. As a big fan of their infectious first album, and unfortunately missing them at Lollapalooza (due to immigration issues on their end, not...
Those sneaky devils from Radiohead have released the video of a new, unreleased track. The track is called Staircase, and features not one but two drummers. The second gentleman is Clive Deamer, who Radiohead drummer Phil Selway has been an...
It’s Tuesday, which means we’re still closer to Monday than Friday, but we can be happy by filling our ears with sounds from the following new album releases: Bon Iver – Bon Iver: Hopefully you listened to this album from...
Huge English rock festival Glastonbury is this upcoming weekend. The weather forecast? Rain. It seems everything is right in the world. All we need is Amy Winehouse to show up drunk, and then the predictable events can unfold. U2 have...
Clarence Clemons passed away at the age of 69. The saxophonist from Bruce Sprucesteen’s E Street Band had a stroke from which he never recovered. Springsteen has stated “With Clarence at my side, my band and I were able to...
We’ve all seen it at concerts – bands using their Macs as a band member, to help them with drum loops and other technological things I won’t try to explain (only because it’ll confuse you, not because I don’t know...
Those kooky, er, Kooks, from the UK have announced their 3rd album, which is due out in the fall (or autumn, if you will). The album is called Junk of the Heart, and will be out on September 13th, which...
Rebecca Black’s Friday video has been taken down from YouTube. This is unrelated to recent possibly related riots in cities such as Vancouver, but it is because of legal disputes. Amazingly, it is NOT a copyright issue, with regards to...
As mentioned on Twitter (whatever that is), Coldplay noted the following: “We’re releasing a new song called Major Minus on Monday 27 June. It’ll be on the Every Teardrop CD and 7″ singles (and iTunes) PH” This is basically a...
Lincoln Linkin Park have said that their next release will polarize people. This is a far cry from their usual releases, which everyone agrees are terrible. Metallica are set to release an album with Lou Reed from the Velvet Underground....
….City and Colour – Little Hell. It seems like whoring himself out playing secret shows and release cd parties turned out well for Dallas Green. He sold 20,000 albums. Number 2 was Adele (with 17K), while Lady Gaga fell to...
