A scouring of the Opera website, looking for new and cool widgets to trick out the Opera 10 Alpha this afternoon, led me to a realization — there are all sorts of social networking music sites out there, and I’ve never, ever looked at them. So, I went and signed up with last.fm. Here’s myContinue reading “On Joining Last.fm”
Category Archives: Music
On Getting in that Christmas Mood
I realized yesterday, with some surprise, that Christmas is merely five weeks away. I’d say it snuck up on me, but it didn’t. Not really. Four months ago I was writing about Christmas products — ornaments, nutcrackers, even calendars. Last month, I wrote about Valentine’s Day stuff. Pretty soon, I’ll be thinking about the summerContinue reading “On Getting in that Christmas Mood”
On the Ultimate Time Waster
I learned to do something amazing and remarkable last weekend. I figured out how to use Audacity to create OOPS music tracks. OOPS? you say. What’s that? you ask. OOPS stands for “Out of Phase Stereo.” It’s a way of flipping one channel of a stereo music track, to create a new, third stereo musicContinue reading “On the Ultimate Time Waster”
On Songs Morphing Back and Forth
First, a random housekeeping note. The hajj in 2010 is scheduled for November 14th to 17th. In case you were planning on visiting Mecca in 2010, that’s the time you should go. The real reason for this post? The Chicago Cubs. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam wrote a new song about the Cubs — “GoContinue reading “On Songs Morphing Back and Forth”
On Another Free Coldplay Song
I came into work this morning, to find in my e-mail inbox the Coldplay newsletter. There’s a new free song to download, “Death Will Never Conquer.” It’s an odd song. Piano based. Sounds like a ragtime-like riff on a Southern spiritual. It also sounds unfinished. It’s amiable. But, hey, it’s free!
On Wake Up Music
Sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I have a song stuck in my head. Today’s song? Oasis’ “Let There Be Love,” from Don’t Believe The Truth. And now I’ve just discovered that Oasis’ seventh album, Dig Out Your Soul, releases in October. I really need to pay more attention.
On Discovering a New Band
I have odd listening habits. Take, for instance, the BBC’s Scotland Introducing podcast, which plays music from unsigned Scottish bands. I’m not sure how I found this podcast, but it’s the kind of thing I’d be interested in. Scottish bands like Travis are just really my kind of thing. On the latest episode, Vic GallowayContinue reading “On Discovering a New Band”
On Viva La Vida
Coldplay’s fourth studio album, Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends, came out on Tuesday. It was thanks to either Mojo or Q that I discovered Coldplay. Probably through a concert review, and whatever was said was intriguing enough that I imported The Blue Room from the UK. So, after Parachutes and “Yellow,”Continue reading “On Viva La Vida”
On Elbow and The Seldom Seen Kid
It must have been a review in either MOJO or Q. It must have been. Because, otherwise, how would I have ever heard of Elbow? Early 2004 I bought their second album, Cast of Thousands. And it was amazing. It was dark and moody Britpop, what Coldplay and Radiohead aspired to but could never quiteContinue reading “On Elbow and The Seldom Seen Kid”
On Musical Tastes
After watching “The Doctor’s Daughter,” I downloaded the latest episode of Radio Free Skaro, to see what Warren, Steven, and Chris thought of the episode. For anyone who’s not listened to an episode of Radio Free Skaro, they break down a bit like this: 0-10 minutes: They talk about the Doctor Who episode 10-35 minutes:Continue reading “On Musical Tastes”