Don’t let people mess you ’round.
Rather depressing that music like this can be huge north of the border, which it is, but disappear without a trace here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. Change!

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Yeah, I’ll buy that.

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…and so am I. Atrios:
Appetite for Destruction was released 21 years ago. Sgt. Pepper’s was released 41 years ago.
Guns & Roses is now officially an oldie. I think I’m gonna go lie down for a while…

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So I finally went out and bought “Guitar Hero.”
Guitar Hero III, actually, the one with Slash on the cover. On sale over at Circuit City, and since I turn 41 in a week I figured it could be a birthday present to myself. I also figured the boy would also want to play it. I […]

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Any Brian Wilson heads out there?
When I was a kid the Beach Boys were one of the first “rock and roll bands” I listened to, the usual stuff - surf, fun fun fun. Endless Summer. Wasn’t until later I got into Brian Wilson, then went back and listened to the band’s records in a completely […]

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OK. See, now, I have to respond to this, even though as a general rule of thumb I only comment in threads here on the blog. But BeingReal has called me out - or called my hair out - and this requires action.

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And just in case you’ve got time to burn this afternoon, perhaps you’d like to relive your youth (or my youth) by watching three hours of MTV from 1983.

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So I recently transferred all the music on my desktop computer to my laptop, and last night I’m going through the laptop music files, eliminating duplicates, etc., when I notice that a bunch of the songs (I’m using Yahoo’s free music player) are marked with exclaimation points. WTF?
Try to open/play the files, and a notice […]

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Via TPM, how do we know the recording industry is dead and asking to be buried?
Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has fought back in court rather than write a check to avoid hefty legal fees, the industry is taking its argument against music sharing one […]

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With apologies to Mr. Costello.
We were coming back from the beach vacation when the little girl started getting fussy. Music soothes the savage baby beast, so I turned on the radio. It was the first time I had listened to the radio in quite some time; since I got the MP3 player three years ago, […]

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