To be honest, it seems like purchasing CDs, real, tangible CDs, is a dying trend. People like iTunes (well, I don't). They're satisfied with hearing a song once or twice on Youtube, and not actually getting the hard copies of the music they like.
"Hey, wait! Weren't you the one who wrote an article on Grooveshark, an online tool for listening to music, just a couple weeks ago?"
Guilty as charged. I often hesitate to buy CDs, especially when I'm just exploring new artists, because I don't know if I'll ever want to listen to the music again after...
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There comes a point in the career of most musicians where someone will compile an unbelievable amount of stuff in a box and market it to the salivating masses for some outrageous price. And we, like idiots, will go and drop the money for material that has never been commercially available before, so we can show it off to other people.
This past week Columbia Records released a massive Miles Davis retrospective box set. It includes all 52 of the albums he recorded for Columbia on 70 CDs, the CDs are even designed to look like miniature vinyls, along with a...
I was never a huge fan of 104.1 WBCN. In high school I was a devoted listener to 107.3 WAAF, and I listened, not by choice, to Rock 101.1 when I worked in a kitchen. I went to college and worked for 91.3 WKNH, and since I’ve been out all I listen to is 92.1 WFNX. Now, maybe over the course of my dialing I stopped on WBCN to hear a few tunes, but overall I never really became attached to WBCN. Read More »
As the warm weather escapes us, we look to the fall and then the dormancy of winter. Well, don’t start hibernating just yet, jump on the ole Interweb and listen to some new singles from Pearl Jam, Weezer and Radiohead.
In anticipation of their new album Backspacer, out September 20, Pearl Jam sounds like they are in rare form. Single “The Fixer” has had some strong reception from audiences this summer and is doing well on radio play. Many speculate that this is a return to more alternative roots for the band. It certainly sounds like their catchiest song in quite...
I always find it funny how music works between America and England. Kings of Leon are from America and have been huge in England for years, but they just are making waves on their fourth album over here. Whereas a band like Muse has been doing very well in their home country of England and just now are doing well over here pending the release of their fifth album. It is a shame that America doesn’t just jump on the wagon with some of these bands earlier on. If England digs it, then it must be great.
As I mentioned earlier,...
