Category: Music
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Aweditorium: Great Music Discovery for iPad
Devs keep on cranking out top-notch apps for the iPad that simply wouldn’t happen on another platform. This time up, we’ve got Aweditorium, an app that takes great music and supplements it with good (yet minimalistic) visuals to make for a great music discovery experience. Aweditorium supplies music, biographical information and photos on new artists,…
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The New Dork: Entrepreneur State of Mind (Jay-Z & Alicia Keys parody)
Oh man. This has “Zeke’s personal anthem” written all over it. For the unfamiliar, the song being parodied is here. YouTube link
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Guitar Loot
These were the fruits of my Christmas haul: I got a 1973 Yamaha FG-260 12-string acoustic (same kind recorded on Boston’s “More Than a Feeling”) from my stepdad and a 1986 Washburn G-IV electric from my uncle Dan Sweeney. They’re both great guitars, definitely more than a beginner could hope for. The electric is fresh…
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Creating Tunelog, a Music Industry Blog
For the last week I’ve been working a lot on a new project of mine: a blog providing commentary on the changing face of the modern music business. I’m calling it Tunelog, which will be at tunelog.net once I’m ready to launch. I have a few reasons for doing this right now. I’ve enjoyed keeping…
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Review: “Battle Studies” by John Mayer
It’s been a while since I posted a music review, but here’s one worth mentioning. Battle Studies is a good new offering from John Mayer – stylistically different from his previous albums, not a pretentious attempt to answer his double-platinum, Grammy-winning release, Continuum. Musically, Battle Studies strikes me with its layered tones that create a…
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