The Hunt for New (Christmas) Music: This is the seventh in our series of of posts on the very best music of the Christmas/Holiday season. There are a couple of absolute standouts on this list: The Tractors version of “Santa Clause is Coming to Town”, a live version of “Holiday Road” (theme from National Lampoon’s …
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COMT VI
The Hunt for New Music: Christmas One More Time, Playlist VI. Another playlist of great holiday songs. Play it loud. 18 Songs, 1 Hour
The Hunt for New Music: Mariah Carey sings “All I Want For Christmas Is You”
It’s not a new version. It’s THE VERSION. The most popular Christmas song of modern times. Thank you, Mariah.
The Hunt for New Music: Mariah Carey sings "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
It’s not a new version. It’s THE VERSION. The most popular Christmas song of modern times. Thank you, Mariah.
Annals of IP: Egyptian Music meets Hip Hop
Music: The production of music today often involves the process of sampling, a technique for copying a portion of a song (a chorus, a beat, a bridge) and blending that “sample” into a new piece of music. It’s not a new technique, but it’s far more widely used now than ever before and the reach for …
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The Weekend Concert Series: Jaime Cullum
The Hunt for New Music: We need new music. All the time. And for too long, we have not postyed a new Installment in the Weekend Concert Series. Enough. Here’s one to get things moving in the right direction: it’s the brilliant English musician, Jaime Cullum, featured Live at the Java Jazz Festival, Jakarta. He’s …
The Weekend Concert Series: Queen Live at Wembley Stadium
Editor’s note: A movie biopic of the rockband Queen and its’ legendary lead singer, Freddie Mercury, opens in theaters today. We have not seen the film yet, but we have seen–and featured, some three years ago–their astonishing concert at Wembley Stadium. You may not get a chance to see the film, but you certainly must …
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Turn It Down: Apple Music Loses A Top Executive
According to a post on re/code.com , Ian Rogers, former CEO of Beats Music (before it was bought by Apple) and one of the key players behind the launch of the Beats1 streaming service, has left the company. No reason was given, but certainly, the stress in that sector of the music business (i.e. failure to gain …
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The Pebble Beach Playlist
The Hunt For New Music: Pebble Beach is the automobile collector’s World Series–a one week cargasm with exhibits, concours, high-dollar auctions, tours, racing, and displays that every auto enthusiast should see at least once. The setting is magnificent (Carmel, California); the climate perfected; the hardware on display outstanding. You’ll need a week to take it …
The Songs of Summer (1962-2014)
Press Clips: Summer time means summer songs (somehow, always the most memorable tunes). What were the top summer songs of years past? NPR has a created a list of the best songs of summer. Give it a listen.