August 1, 2009 – 12:13 am Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, from the June 12, 2009 World Science Festival event “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus“. Also on stage are panelists Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University; the James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences at McGill [...]
October 19, 2007 – 9:53 pm Don your polyester pants and John Deere hat and saunter over to the Great American Music Hall this Sunday at 7:30 PM for a little Southern Culture on the Skids (“SCOTS”). For those “undst-familiar”, the SCOTS sound is best described as surf-a-billy, a mix of rock, surf guitar, and “y’all guessed it”…hillbilly. Always a zany [...]
October 9, 2007 – 3:34 pm Scott Beale posted this on Laughing Squid back in September and it’s been stuck in my head ever since — Devo covers “Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones on Saturday Night Live (1978). Full credit to Scott for the find.
September 30, 2007 – 1:02 pm I finally checked out Amazon’s new MP3 music store today and have to say that I was pretty impressed. The main attraction of Amazon’s MP3 store is that all music, much like regular CDs, is DRM-free which means you can copy and share the music without technical restriction. (Of course, traditional music copyright and use [...]
September 27, 2007 – 11:56 am Apple just released Update 1.1.1 for the iPhone which includes a host of new features including the new iTunes Wi-Fi Store. Music search, preview, purchase, and download at the touch of a button. Amazing. And dangerous. (Sorry for the blurry image. Seems my Cannon digital camera decided to go bad today.) UPDATE: People with hacked [...]
September 5, 2007 – 12:38 pm Here’s evidence that music licensing laws are completely outdated. The movie Mr. Bean’s Holiday currently playing in theaters probably won’t win any Oscars but I believe that one of the title music tracks, “Crash” by Matt Willis is pretty good. I learned about it through a Mr. Bean video released on YouTube earlier this year [...]
Alanis Morissette covers the most ridiculous song ever created. If I didn’t hear it on Energy927 this morning I wouldn’t have believed it… Original Black Eyed Peas, “My Humps”. Right. OK then. [tags]alanis morissette,energy927,music,mcnitt[/tags]
September 12, 2006 – 8:33 pm Lots of new announcements from Apple today at it’s “It’s Showtime” event including a new line of iPods, iTunes 7 ready for download, and “iTV”, Apple’s new move into your living room. View Steve Job’s complete keynote address. [tags]itv,apple,itunes,ipod,mcnitt[/tags]
