More free music than you can shake a stick at
... and I'm really good at shaking sticks at free music. If you have an Xbox Music subscription make sure you install the Music Deals app. Back in November Microsoft released 100…
Tag: Music
Speaker building lite
I’ve ticked one more thing off my list of nerdy things I’ve been wanting to try: building speakers. Admittedly, I didn’t do the full building experience this time, choosing instead to start…
When will we run out of songs?
Here's a thought: at some point we'll run out of songs. Sure, there are a bunch of reasons why this won't happen, but it's still one of those random thoughts that entertains…
Random luck or good targeted advertising?
I was checking out some tracks on Rapsody. Evanescence was playing and a vampire movie was the the sponsor. I’ll wager I’d get the same advert if I were listening to Liberace…
Crowd-sourced music video
You can either treat your fans as a necessary evil, or you can embrace them. The Japanese band Sour went one step further and made their fans the stars of their latest…
Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”… on a violin… metal style… in the subway
This is fantastic. Rock on violin dude! Michael Shulman describes himself as a “neo classical shred violinist & dancer”. Whatever it is, I like it. :)
Free music from Harvey Danger, Jane’s Addiction and Nine Inch Nails
It's been a while since I pulled down some good free music. I stopped obsessing over every Mercedes Benz Mixed tape and haven't gone on a mash-up bender for years. Yesterday, however,…
My new favorite way to listen to music: Pandora
I love listening to music, I have gigabytes of tracks stored on my Home Media Server but there's a catch: who has time to look through nearly twenty-thousand tracks to pick out…
And album title of the year goes to…
... Fight Like Apes! With an EP title like "David Carradine Is A Bounty Hunter Whos Robotic Arm Hates Your Crotch", how can you not love these folks? The quirky title might…
Mashuptown – more mash-up music than you can shake a stick at
A couple years ago I got hooked on music mash-ups when a coworker pointed me to the work of Party Ben, a DJ who, until recently, had a mash-up show on San Francisco's…
Free music time
In case you were snoozing (I sure was) Mercedes-Benz mixed tape 16 is out.
The soundtrack for my life
Saw this on Christopher's site (he saw it on Trina's site (she got it from her brother-in-law (he saw it on CC Chapman's site (he got it as a chain mail from…
Rodrigo y Gabriela
I'm stuck listening to Metal all day today, and it's the fault of a pair of Mexican guitarists. Tuesday night Paula and I went to see Rodrigo y Gabriela in downtown Dublin. …
Old news: Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 11 is up
I downloaded this one at the beginning of April, so Mercedes-Benz's mixed tape 11 is certainly not brand new, but hey... it's free music. Grab it while it's still there.
MBMT10
I went to the effort to copy/paste nice album art for Windows Media player for each of the mixed tapes (they only come with Adobe Reader art for printing) so I thought…
MBMT9
Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 9 is out along with some other interesting news: MB is branching out from the music business into the spoken word. Early December Mercedes will publish its first volume of text tracks…