(part 212 in a 1001 part series)
Jaymay is a jazzy folk singer with quite the pleasant voice. This song is nice and catchy. Nothing else really left to say. It’s just a nice little song.
“Gray Or Blue” by Jaymay

As a lifelong fan of The Beatles, I’m always surprised to come across a song I am less familiar with. This is the case with “Rain,” a fantastic, if lesser-known B-side found on the “Paperback Writer” single. While I have heard this song a small handful of times, it’s certainly not as ingrained [...]

(part 168 in a 1001 part series)
Up until about a week ago, I had not heard of The Fairer Sex, a jangly indie-folk-pop group from Lawrence, KS. But then again, I was definitely interested since I know two of the members from high school and college days. Nice to see another local Lawrence band [...]

Premise: take videos of famously awesome musicians (namely guitar heroes) and completely replace the audio with your own terrible guitar solos. He does a really good job syncing up the timing so it looks like Clapton/Stevie are actually playing this crap:
Check it out before it gets yanked:
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and this one:
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In many ways, people have ‘Sweded‘ movies for years on YouTube. Whether it was those kids who did a shot by shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark, or Gus Van Sant remaking Psycho, or kids in the backyard playing, the idea of Sweding has been around a lot longer than the advent [...]

Every week, the All Music blog posts a music-related advertisement from an old magazine. Usually they’re a pretty funny look at retro ad stylings and trends of the 70s and 80s.
But this week, as a proud Fender Rhodes owner, the ad caught my attention.

All of a sudden my home keyboard rig feels mightily inadequate.
Check out [...]

Every once in awhile I think the meaning of slang words becomes so ingrained that we tend to forget the origin or evolution. Or in some cases I feel the meanings of two similar slang words intersect and become interchangeable to the point that no one knows which one to use. Such is [...]

Yet another Song of the Day essay. To read the full review and hear the song clicken Sie hier.

In the summer of 2006, the ethereal Icelandic music group Sigur Ros came back home after a long tour around the world to play a series of free unannounced concerts. Heima, documents those shows… check out the film now streaming on YouTube (and linked below) in its entirety. Pretty amazing and inspirational for [...]