Another way to look at the John Vs. Paul battle that has been my muse this week: Who wrote more of their #1 hits? I’m going to focus on the 27 Beatles songs that reached #1 in either the US or the UK (in many cases their songs reached #1 in both.) It’ll be easy [...]

I just came up with an idea of one way to settle (I’m joking of course, I don’t expect anything to ever settle this debate) the age old John Lennon Vs. Paul McCartney debate about who contributed more to The Beatles music. Or at least who wrote more of their most popular songs. I’ve been [...]

This isn’t exactly a “gear review” but that seems like a reasonable category to put this. I was just browsing Amazon looking at effects plug-ins for using in my home recording studio when I came across the Waves Mercery TDM Software bundle which costs over $10,000. I am familiar with some of Waves plugins and [...]

Continuing the John Vs. Paul series I started yesterday with Please Please Me, this is The Beatles second album, 1963′s With The Beatles. With The Beatles (1963) The Beatles second album had 8 originals and 6 cover songs just like their debut. It is considered by most Beatles fans to be one of their lesser [...]

Last week Michael Jackson’s three week streak at the top of the US album charts was ended when former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry knocked him off by selling 269K copies of Leave This Town in it’s debut week. But this week, Jackson is back at #1 with his greatest hits collection, Number Ones. Jackson [...]

Some of the comments for my last post about The Beatles songs that Paul McCartney wrote have lead me to the idea of doing an album by album series on who contributed more to each Beatles album; John Lennon or Paul McCartney. I’ll start off at the beginning with The Beatles debut album, Please Please [...]

One of my biggest “pet peeves” is when people assume that John Lennon wrote and sung all of The Beatles songs. Of course people who really know The Beatles music don’t think this but it’s a very common assumption among many casual fans. I’ve often heard people refer to Beatles songs that Paul wrote & [...]

The Flaming Lips performed some new songs at the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival: “Silver Trembling Hands” “Convinced of the Hex” Both “Silver Trembling Hands” & “Convinced of the Hex” will be on the band’s forthcoming double album Embryonic and they are now available (as of today) for digital download online on Amazon.

The Yard Dogs Road Show performed twice (Friday & Saturday) at FloydFest 8 (FloydFest is an annual music festival based in Floyd, Virginia.) Many felt that their vaudeville show which mixed sword swallowing, burlesque dancers, and great music was the highlight of the entire festival (which ran from July 23 through July 26 and also [...]

Michael Jackson topped the UK album charts for the 5th straight week with the greatest hits collection The Essential Michael Jackson. No other album has topped the UK album chart for so long this year. Jackson didn’t just get the top spot, he also had five of the top 20 and ten of the top [...]