By Marvin Marks on Apr 29, 2009 in Music News | 0 Comments
“Do You Realize?” by The Flaming Lips (who formed in Oklahoma City in the early 1980s) is set to become the “official rock song” of Oklahoma despite some opposition from some truly idiotic conservatives (yes, “idiotic conservatives” does seem somewhat redundant at this point.) These fellas are opposed to “Do You Realize?” because of lead [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 28, 2009 in Music News | 2 Comments
According to this story Creed has reunited and they are working on a new album tentatively titled Full Circle. There’s been a lot of truly awful music released in Creed’s absence, but it looks as if they are back to show everyone exactly how you’re supposed to make godawful cheesy as hell music. The questions [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 26, 2009 in Features | 0 Comments
This is ridiculously awesome. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do:
By Marvin Marks on Apr 24, 2009 in Features | 0 Comments
More marijuana radio on Last.FM, but this time I got my brand new fancy headphones, some good stuff to make things more appropriate, and some good news about Senator Jim Webb of Virginia “putting marijuana legalization on the table.” Tagged “marijuana” on Last.FM: Kottenmouth Kings – “All About the Weed” Their Last.FM page says that [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 22, 2009 in Features | 2 Comments
I love the “tags” on Last.FM, they allow people to tag songs, albums, and artists with any tag they want. Over time those tags accumulate and you can play back a “radio station” based on whatever tag you want. Today I’ve decided to see what music people have tagged “marijuana” by playing the “marijuana” radio [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 13, 2009 in Gear Reviews | 1 Comment
While everyone says you shouldn’t mix your music on headphones, if you decide that you want to do it that way anyway (or you at least want to get a rough mix down with headphones) then you should definitely consider Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones. They are widely known for being great mixing headphones (because they [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 11, 2009 in Features | 0 Comments
2009 is now more than 1/4th over. So here’s a little look at some of the albums that have already come out this year (or are about to come out but have already been leaked online) that you may want to check out if you haven’t yet. Each of these is among the top 53 [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 9, 2009 in Music News | 0 Comments
MyContent.com is a new website that’s launching this summer where artists/bands can upload their music & videos and make that music (and/or videos) for sale at any price point they choose. This could be a good way for artists/bands to sell their music without having to sign up with a soul (and money) sucking label. [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 9, 2009 in Features | 2 Comments
One very cool feature of Last.FM is the ability to check the popularity of artists in different countries. It’s interesting to see how popular different bands are in different countries. Unfortunately they don’t seem to make it easy to find these country charts (in fact I’m not sure they even link to them at all?) [...]
By Marvin Marks on Apr 8, 2009 in Music News | 1 Comment
The Beatles albums have finally being remastered and they will be released for sale on CD on September 9th, that’s 9/9/9 of course. That is also the same date that The Beatles: Rock Band game is coming out. Each of the CDs will include a short documentary (in QuickTime format) about that particular album that [...]