Archive for March, 2011
John Mayer At The Staples Center, Los Angeles 03/25/10
John Mayer performs at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, on March 25.
Bob Dylan, U2, Bruce Springsteen Featured on Songs For Japan Album
Bob Dylan, U2, Bruce Springsteen and R.E.M. are among the artists featured on the the Songs For Japan album, a charity compilation for victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which was made available today on iTunes. Dylan’s “Shelter From The Storm” feels like an appropriate pick for the album, as do John Lennon’s remastered [...]
Songs You Need To Hear: Eilen Jewell, “Queen Of The Minor Key”
“If Neko Case, Madeleine Peyroux and Billie Holiday had a baby girl who grew up to front a rockabilly band, she’d probably sound a lot like Eilen Jewell,” raved The Washington Post about Eilen Jewell, a golden-voiced singer-songwriter from Boston, who released the acclaimed Sea Of Tears in 2009 and Butcher Holler: A Tribute To [...]
Sin Fang: Icelandic Folkie Gets Freakier
Sin Fang “Always Everything” Iceland’s Sindri Már Sigfússon has sidelined his previous project, Seabear, and dropped the “Bous” from his current project to emerge fully as Sin Fang. On his second album (fourth counting Seabear releases) Summer Echoes on Thomas Morr’s German label, Morr Music, Sin Fang sounds more like an “Icelandic Devendra Banhart” than [...]
Google Music Closes In On Launch
Earlier this week, we wrote about Apple’s forthcoming cloud locker and also mentioned Google’s hopes and dreams for the music space. While Google Music was recently discovered in secret, now CNET reports that the search giant’s service is “nearly ready to launch.” Google’s one holdup, CNET and others have reported, is that they’d like their [...]
Watch Tom Waits’ Rock Hall Of Fame Speech, Performance
The good folks at Twentyfourbit have posted the video to Tom Waits’ acceptance speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, with music legend Neil Young inducting him into the hallowed institution. Included in the clip are two musical performances (“Make It Rain” and “Rain Dogs”), as well as Waits’ full [...]
Lady Gaga Takes On The Country Music Market
Lady Gaga was “born this way,” y’all. The platinum pop star, who makes startling career moves for breakfast, has created a country-fied, version of her latest anthem to liberation, “Born This Way.” Gaga debuted the “Country Road Version” of her song last night at midnight via her Twitter account. The modified single features slide guitar, [...]
SXSW Conference: Arriving At A Sustainable Music Culture
If music conferences seem blasé, it’s because there are so many of them these days. But South By Southwest, arguably the granddaddy of them all (chronologically behind the New Music Seminar but culturally ahead), still has something to say. Two panels in particular painted varying pictures of the record industry, that ancient thing that built [...]
Software Review: Toontrack Classic EZX
Toontrack Classic EZX List Price: $89.00 www.toontrack.com The Classic EZX brings the sound and feel of ‘70s-era drums to your sessions via the extremely popular and user-friendly EZ Drummer program, by Toontrack. EZ Drummer operates as a virtual drum kit plug-in within your DAW, and provides you with a realistic-looking drum kit that allows auditioning [...]
CMA Songwriters Series Brings Legendary Tunesmiths To New York City
(Songwriting legend Bill Anderson) From the press release: NASHVILLE – The CMA Songwriters Series will bring some of Nashville’s legendary hit makers to New York City’s Joe’s Pub on Wednesday, May 11 (6:30 and 9:00 PM/ET). Bill Anderson, Dean Dillon, Steve Wariner and Craig Wiseman will join host Bob DiPiero in sharing the stories behind [...]
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