Category: music
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Pandora Mobile highlights awesomeness but also severe lame-itude
Do you know Pandora? If you’re in the United States, where Pandora is legally available, you may have come to enjoy this awesome uber-customizable music radio over the past years. If you’re not in the U.S., perhaps you’ve discovered the beauty of anonymous proxies :cough:, which I’m not going to mention here :p. But perhaps…
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A music solution that’s so brilliant, no wonder why the music industry has shunned it
The other day I got a (yet another) piece of inbox spam on the otherwise cool service last.fm. And no good can come from spam, right? Not sure what got into me, but I actually went to the site (which I’ll not name, so as to not potentially give them any customers). And you know…
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A cappella birthday silliness — much of it composed by me
Back in high school, I was not only a band geek, but a choir geek as well! But I did far more than just sing your standard choral music :-D. I loved composing, arranging and teaching, and often performing short songs in vocal quartets, and I founded my very own singing telegram business (“The Birthday…
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Great ways to discover and (legally) listen to music online
Here are a few thoughts on music services I’m in love with online. CAVEAT: Many, if not all of these only work in a limited number of countries due to lame licensing complications… typically the United States, often coupled with Canada and/or the UK. And it’d be wrong, oh so wrong to use proxies to…
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Katamari Damacy – Why is the music so hard to find?!
Updated July 2021 to add this playlist 🙂 This morning at work I was chatting with a colleague about my morning commute, and I don’t know what got into me… but for some odd reason I confided that I wished to be a big katamari ball, rolling my way to work and grabbing everything in…
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[Music] Instrumental Jazz Soloists – If you can’t sing it, don’t play it
I’m guessing most of you probably just think of me as an Internet geek, but I used to be a classical pianist geek, choir geek, and jazz pianist geek. I have performed over 200 times, won a bunch of Bach festivals, and studied under jazz greats Ashley Alexander, Frank Mantooth, and others. This does not…
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Fair use, mashups, and profits – why hasn’t anyone figured this out yet?
Lots of us love music and we love to share it; I think that’s even more powerful than simply “grab lots of music for free”—it’s the sharing that excites us, motivates us. Music is a shared experience! Why, then, hasn’t anyone made it easy to share music snippets legally from a simple iframe, a simple…
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Don’t Download This Song! (listen to another gem by Weird Al Yankovic)
Unless you’re a fan of the RIAA or a bitter, clueless artist… I urge you to run, er, click, not walk to go hear Weird Al’s new ditty: “Don’t Download This Song.” [warning: music autoplays]. I’m looking forward to the music video promised for this evening, but in the meantime, you can hear the song…
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Brave Combo rocks in countless ways. Here’s why you will love them, too
Brave Combo is 26-year-old (!) “hot jazz quintet, a rollicking rock’n’roll bar band, a Tex-Mex conjunto, a sizzling blues band, a saucy cocktail combo, a deadly serious novelty act, a Latin orchestra, and one of America’s dance bands par excellence.” [see their bio page] But they kick ass for many other reasons, too. For those…
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Yet more awesome a cappella & an affordable music studio
First, a quick note to those SEOs who are still reading my blog hoping for detailed Google search-related tidbits. It’s still unlikely. If I ever do post nuggets of search wisdom here, I’m sure you’ll hear about it :-D. With that said, Google is moving ahead to improve communications, both internally and externally; I recently…