Saturday, January 5, 2008
Want to know how to get your terrestrial radio program on the internet? Follow the lead of the great organ player Jon Hammond and use Google video. Now that’s old school baby — gotta love it!
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“Master jazz percussionist Max Roach has died after a long illness. He was 83 years old. Roach’s rhythms helped define the bebop jazz movement of the 1940s, which he pioneered alongside legendary performers Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins.”
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
Clockwise from left: Bill Bentley, Corey Scribner, Brett “Big Schwag” Wagner, and Peter Colan
My iPod just “shuffled” onto a Heavy Rotation radio show I produced in early 2006, hosted by Bill Bentley & Peter Coplan (owner of the former Heavy Rotation Records in Studio City, CA where we recorded the shows). On show #2 Bill […]
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Finally, a Sirius Satellite radio player application for Apple OS X. The fine folks over at NiceMac.com made my YEAR when they came out with this little gem. I’ve been a loyal Sirius listener for a couple years now and am thrilled that I can take it with me on my MacBook wherever I go.
One […]
Headed back to Steamers Cafe in Fullerton, CA last night after many, many months of absence. Was good to get back out and hear some live jazz.
Andrea was still working the door and sat me up front to hear pianist Rob Mullins‘ Quartet featuring Ron Eschete on 7-string guitar, Jeff Littleton on bass and Evan […]
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The world is abuzz with talk of Apple and EMI’s DRM free deal. Sounds like a step forward for the music industry, but it got me to thinking–is non-DRM music worth a nearly 30% premium in price?
Let me do some math here…
1,000 songs purchased with DRM from the iTunes store = $990.
1,000 songs purchased […]
Who needs camera angels when you’ve got treadmills? Congrats to the band “OK Go” for their “Most Creative” win in the first ever YouTube Video Awards. Take a looksee at their winning vid.
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Apple head honcho Steve Jobs just put out a nearly 20 paragraph *essay* with Apple’s (read: Steve’s) stance on the Digital Rights Management (DRM) issue facing iTunes and the rest of the online music distrubution world.
Let me save you some time and boil his long-windedness down…
Universal, Sony BMG, Warner, EMI — the ball is in […]
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Steve Jobs is busy announcing the new Apple iPhone (or whatever Apple plans to call it) while I watch the event unfold blog-style on MacRumorsLive.com. The phone has an incredible list of features:
Video
Music
Photos
“Visual” Voicemail
WiFi & EDGE
Bluetooth
Email (autoswitch between imap & pop mail)
Crazy “Minority Report” style touch screen (not stylus but finger) interface with this weird […]
Friday, December 29, 2006
I know a lot of folks have already seen this video, but I can’t stop watching it. Trying to pick up some techniques to transfer over to the guitar…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mEKMz2Pvo
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