The Johnny Cash Project

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Saved a quick blog post draft about the The Johnny Cash Project back in April of last year when I first learned of it. The collaborative project site describes it: Working with a single image as a template, and using a custom drawing tool, you’ll create a unique and personal portrait ...

10 great Independent Record Shops

Monday, September 20th, 2010

The record store -- you know, those non-iTunes meatspaces where you can kind of touch and hold music -- is rare and dying.  Except for Independent record shops.  These shops sell physical music formats to people other than top 40 lovers who have no computer.  In other words, they sell to music lovers. Flavorwire did ...

Just the sites from Techcrunch’s guide to music on the web

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Techcrunch recently posted a post about music sites called "Your Guide to Music on the Web -- Part 1".  Here are the sites it includes: Pandora Last.fm Deezer Finetune Amie Street Jamendo SoundCloud TheSixtyOne Project Playlist Jiwa.fm Jogli MixTube Lala Musicovery CitySounds.fm Jango RadioBeta TheRadio Aupeo Tun3r Play.fm Some of the sites/services are very similar and some are naturally better than others, but all are worth briefly checking  if you admire tuneage.  ...

Beta Testing the Free Music Archive

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

I signed up for and have just been invited to beta test the Free Music Archive. The Free Music Archive has launched into public beta.  Right off the bat I must say it is by far the best designed and most comprehensive source of podsafe music I've ever encountered. Jason Sigal, ...

Music site We are Hunted focuses on album art

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Found out about We are Hunted from the 37signal's Signal vs. Noise Blog, who say, basically, the real draw here, the thing that sets We are Hunted apart from other similar music sites is its large album art.  But the S vs. N Blog doesn't point out what the site ...

A Digg for Indie Music: TheSixtyOne

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Techcrunch has just reviewed thesixtyone.  I suggest you go there if you want details on the ins and outs of how thesixtyone operates, but basically the service is like a Digg for indie music on steroids. A user gets so many heart points to heart up, or help make popular, songs ...

Not content with ‘content’

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

The term "content" -- referring to material that constitutes a publication or document for an audience -- is abhorrent. Applying the word "content" essentially cheapens the writing, music, video or whatever other form of media one is taking in and attempting to gain a life enriching experience from it. The ...

Free Rhapsody Alternatives

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

For streaming music on demand, Rhapsody reigned supreme for a long time.  That time, I believe, is now over.  For one thing, Rhapsody has no downloadable client for Mac.  You must stream from their site.  But the biggest letdown is the cash money it costs.  Sure, it is a richer ...

Songbird releases version 1.0

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I've been using Songbird for some time now. It's basically an open source iTunes with Firefox built in.  Today they released version 1.0.  If you want to know more, check out their website or the TechCrunch post/review.  It is a fine piece of cross-platform software for music and audio ...

No Free Dr. Pepper for Me

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Dr. Pepper promised everyone free Dr. Pepper if Guns and Roses released their album, Chinese Democracy, in 2008. G n' R at long last delivered, but not Dr. Pepper, at least not for me.  I tried foolishly for too long yesterday to get some at http://drpepper.com/freedrpepper .  The offer ...