Hey Luke Wilson!

Hey Luke Wilson The Dan come down hard on Owen Wilson in an open-letter to his brother Luke. I’m surprised they couldn’t agree on The Royal Tenenbaums (the other Wes Anderson movie that the Wilsons don’t have to be ashamed of). Best. Open-letter. Ever.

A Top 10 List of Music for Friday

I put this list together as joke for my job so that the QA department could test a Top 10 List manager I worked on. Some of the albums are a little old (some aren’t even out yet!) and it’s in no particular order but I thought I’d share it with you. All of the [...]

Punks not dead, it just smells funny.

18 years after the first time I saw the Circle Jerks in concert (1985 at Buffalo State College), I saw them again and eventhough they played pretty well, I was left unimpressed by their political rants and basic attitude towards the audience. We were half way into this Iraqi conflict and you really got the [...]

Pandora

A friend at work sent me a link for a new music site called Pandora. Seems to use complicated algorithms to take an artist or song and bring back similar songs based on several factors. I’ve been listening to it for a few hours now trying to teach it what I like. It’s doing an [...]

Music For Rent

Because I deal with online music services as part of my job, I have used most of them: MusicNet, MusicNow, Napster, iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic and MusicMatch. MusicMatch, MusicNet and Rhapsody are all mostly-subscription services – you don’t own the music but you can listen to a million different songs anytime you want as often as [...]

Happy Birthday Jerry

8 more days till Darien! And 14 more days to Jen’s birthday!!

Hello Buffalo News Readers!!

Today, my new friend from the Buffalo News, Mary Kunz, did a short blurb on me and the research I’ve been doing on the Grateful Dead‘s performance with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Klienhans Music Hall in Buffalo, NY in March of 1970. Recently, her brother George emailed me about the page (he must be [...]

Aloha MP3s Up!

Finally got around to mixing down my recording of Aloha at Mohawk Place from May. You can take a listen over here. Let me know what you think!