For further evidence the music industry loves shooting itself in the foot look at incoming new royalty fees about to be applied to internet radio stations. The little independent stations will obviously be hurt, but quite a few commercial stations will have to turn off the music because they won’t be able to afford the […]
Robert Randolph and the Family Band drop into Riverside Theater in Milwaukee to play tonight. It’s a double bill with Ziggy Marley. Ziggy maybe a fine, capable musician, but I really don’t want to see him. According to his website Robert Randolph closes the show. I don’t have tickets yet so I will have to […]
Rage Against the Machine reunited last weekend at California’s Coachella festival. They let their music speak–mostly. But the far Left, militant lead singer Zack de la Rocha couldn’t keep his mouth shut telling the audience, “They [Bush administration] should be shot as any war criminal should be.”
Is it okay to question his patriotism?
Rage guitarist Tom […]
If you watched the last episode of Battlestar Galactica you noticed Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” emerge at the end. It’s my excuse for a musical interlude.
Jimi Hendrix’s greatest song is his cover of “Watchtower”. It’s electric (pun unintended) and blistering. His guitar shimmers, shines,
Yet the song does stand on its own. Years […]
Trent Reznor continues pushing music anyway he sees fit. On the last Nine Inch Nails album With Teeth he released the tracks to “Only” and “The Hand that Feeds” so people could remix it. He’s doing that again with “Survivalism” off Year Zero. He also plans to release the tracks to all the songs off […]
While waiting for Battlestar Galactica I’ve been watching some of the Grammys. The Dixie Chicks won Song of the Year. I see the voters needed a way to strike out at the Bush administration and conservative America. Surprisingly none of the Chicks mentioned anything about Bush, the war, or all the “abuse” they brought upon […]
My how Christina Aguilera has classed herself up. No more “Dirrty” Christina. Instead we have the blond bombshell giving fellow celebrities a lesson in how to get out of a car. Britney, Lindsay? Please pay attention.
“Christina Aguilera Shows Female Celebs how to Get out of a Car in a Short Dress!”
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The year isn’t complete without some TAM Awards. These are the most arbitrary awards in the entire blogosphere. The only criteria is I think these were the best albums, books, and weblogs of 2006. There are no nominations and all decisions are final. Like everything, there’s always next year. Let’s start with the best albums […]
Time magazine put together an “ALL-TIME 100 Albums” list. James Joyner notes Pink Floyd is missing. That’s just the start. There’s no Aerosmith, no Guns ‘n Roses, no Van Halen, no Def Leppard, only one Metallica album (Master of Puppets) and it’s not even their best one (…And Justice for All), only one Oasis album […]
Britney Spears can’t sing, but she’s not a complete idiot:
Almost immediately after we heard Britney Spears was finally going to ditched (sic) her leach of a husband Kevin Federline, we heard of the now famous sex tape.
Federline has already been approached by a porn mogul in the U.S. to buy the tape, but choose to […]
I’m on a video kick today. Only this time I’ll only link to the commerical for the Dixie Chicks’ documentary that was nixed by NBC because it is “disparaging to President Bush.” The network is willing to air Saturday Night Live skits that could easily be described as “disparaging” (and not funny like the opener […]
I’m going to take Pete Townshend’s advice and not see any rock ‘n roll dinosaurs anytime soon:
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the famously loquacious songwriter said he doesn’t want to watch “old guys in their self-congratulatory mode.”
The Who just wrapped the first leg of their North American tour, and will resume the trek […]
Electric Six’s cover of Queen’s “Radio Ga Ga” popped onto my latest Pandora listening session. It’s very cool. They added a cool, up-to-date vibe to the song.
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Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired’s music weblog Listening Post wrote something so out-of-wack, so bizarro that I immediately yelled, “BS!” to my computer monitor. What did he write? This,
With all of the RIAA’s bellyaching about the volume of files shared over these networks, it’s easy to forget that one of the reasons people were so […]
Let me preface this by stating the political opinions of famous musicians and celebrities have as much weight with me as President Bush’s opinion of the greatest hard rock band ever*–and there is a correct answer. Still, I laughed when I read Dave Mustaine will title the next Megadeth album United Abominations:
“I was watching TV […]
