The Smashing Pumpkins are releasing a 44 song album called Teargarden by Kaleidyscope one song at a time (one new song a week) beginning with “A Song For A Son” this week. Billy Corgan on what this new song is about: “I think it’s got something to do about not having any kids and thinking [...]

Over 1.2 million copies of Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream have been sold in the US in just two weeks (it stayed at #1 in it’s second week with over 500K copies sold.) This begs the question; what in the hell is wrong with people? Who are these million+ idiots who would buy this [...]

Remember when the Grammys meant something? I don’t. The Grammys have always been rather ridiculous, actually. To give you some idea of how much BS the Grammys were even back in the day; in 1969 something called “Little Green Apples” by someone called Bobby Russell beat out a little tune called “Hey Jude” by a [...]

On Saturday I wrote this article about the Susan Boyle phenomenon and how it shows how superficial the average CD buyer is. Now that the album sales numbers are in (and they’re even higher than people projected they’d be) I thought a good way to showcase the ridiculousness of it all would be to show [...]

I figure a lot of folks are looking for Christmas albums at the moment (safe bet, isn’t it?) so I’ve compiled this list of the 10 current bestsellers in the Christmas album niche (basically I’ve picked out, in order, all of the Christmas albums on Amazon’s bestselling music list to come up with these ten [...]

Lots of folks are buying Susan Boyle’s debut album (it’s currently at #1 on Amazon’s bestseller’s list) even though it’s a style of music that most of the people buying it have no real interest in and certainly would not buy if it was by some random person they had never heard of. I think [...]

Despite Michael Buble’s new album (Crazy Love) coming out on Friday (rather than Tuesday) he was still able to get the #1 spot on the new Billboard album charts. He beat out Kiss (which debuted at #2 with Sonic Boom) and Toby Keith (who debuted at #3 with American Ride.) Yes, there are people who [...]

The latest Britney Spears single “3″ (which is the only new track on her greatest hits compilation due out on November 24th) has debuted at #1 on the US singles chart. It’s the first non American Idol song to debut at #1 Lauren Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing)” accomplished the feat in 1998. “3″ is [...]

If you use a Mac and you want to get into recording & mixing your own music (or upgrade the recording software you use now) you should consider Apple’s Logic Studio instead of Pro Tools. This is extremely intuitive software that comes with all of the tools you need to make professional sounding music (except [...]

1966 – Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde At 71 minutes, Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde fits on one CD. Of course with CD’s becoming increasingly irrelevant, what does that really matter? Which leads me to a bit of a meditation on what constitutes a double album in the digital era? How long does an album [...]