Events5 Apps Tap the Internet’s Infinite Playlist
Wired: 5 Apps Tap the Internet’s Infinite Playlist
Hip-Hop’s First Female Celebrity
NY Daily News: “hip hop’s first female celebrity” cashes in on Warner Music’s forgotten promise.
Gloria | Disillusion
I could write an entire editorial about the nuances of attempting a complete sonic redefinition, so I won’t bore you with the details (yet!) and I’ll get back on topic. I’m not sure I can succinctly express to what extent I love Gloria, but it’s not often that I hear an album so ground breaking that my review of it turns out to be full of general and fundamental ideals about music. I think this album will be hit or miss for most of you. It will challenge how you think metal should sound; so much so that you may even try to claim this isn’t really metal… but you’d be wrong. See, for me, this is the best kind of metal I never thought existed. To quote Disillusion’s MySpace page: this sounds like “David Lynch on Metal”.
Yahoo Wins Music-Streaming Case Appeal
CNET: Yahoo comes out on top in music-streaming legal tangle with Sony
Big Bucks In Music Publishing
NY Times: In this modern age of declining music industry, the big bucks nowadays lie in tying up publishing rights.
MySpace Buys iLike
NY Times: MySpace will acquire the popular social networking music application iLike
Uplifter | 311
I feel that I have to start this out with a disclaimer; I’m a huge 311 fan. There is a very good chance that my opinion about anything they put out is going to be biased seeing as they are my favorite band. You can take that for what it’s worth and I hope that instead of discounting my point of view because of it…you’ll feel that being a fan for 16 of the band’s 19 year history gives me at least a little credit to write this and gives you some energy to get off your ass and check out 311’s music.
Quitting While Ahead
There’s a good chance you’d never guess that I’m a big fan of Radiohead. I mean, I’ve never written a review of their work and I’ve mentioned them maybe once on the entire site. Well the truth is I love the band and I think any Obnoxious Listener would at least appreciate their work, even if they can’t bring themselves to embracing their unique style… or should I say styles? Radiohead has redefined their sound more times than Donald Trump has filed for bankruptcy. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem as though they have it in them any more. I just read at the Guardian News that, “Radiohead have no plans to release another album, Thom Yorke has revealed. Long-playing records, it seems, have ‘just become a real drag’.”
‘Wizard’ Invented Guitars That Electrified Popular Music
Washington Post: Les Paul, 94. ‘Wizard’ Invented Guitars That Electrified Popular Music
Beardfish
With similarities to bands like Yes, Supertramp, and (most aptly) Frank Zappa, Beardfish is a fresh, new take on classic prog rock.
