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Shovels & Rope rocked out the Neptune tonight

Oct

2013

First time at the Neptune, nice small venue, plenty of parking nearby. The acoustics aren’t awesome but a great place to see a band. And Shovels & Rope blew the f$%king doors off the place. They were loud and had great energy. Love their songwriting and their stage presence and interplay. We first became hooked ...

Prince put on a great rock show at the Showbox last night

Apr

2013

Great show last night, I feel very fortunate to have seen Prince in a small venue. A rocking show — just his current small backing band of 3 women on drums, bass, and guitar. Opened with a few classics, including a nice variant on “I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man”. A lot ...

What to do with my boxes of CDs?

Aug

2012

Back in about 1990, I sold almost all my vinyl when I went fulltime to CDs. I did keep a few treasures — some Beatles, Floyd, Yes (“Roger Dean covers!”:http://www.rogerdean.com/paintings/), Led Zeppelin. But I sold the rest and moved on. Every once in a while I pull a vinyl record off the shelf to show ...

Playing Zune tunes in the car

Mar

2009

I like the all-you-can-eat economics of my Zune player, it has allowed me to try a lot of music that I would not otherwise have heard. A problem for me tho is — I do most my music consumption in the car while driving. I have the Zune car pack and it is fine for ...

Microsoft Service Week — Part 1

Jan

2009

Doing my part to help Microsoft avoid more layoffs this week. Firstly, been working thru zune error code C00D12F5 – Google Search. Some DRM config problem and all the published KB articles and forum pointers failed. Finally contacted the Zune guys directly and they were super helpful, even took my machine into their labs for ...

I'm a sucker for musical instruments

Jul

2008

C-Thru Music home page — an interesting midi keyboard. way more natural key arrangement.

Yamaha Tenori-ON

May

2008

TENORI-ON – DIGITAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT- EACH — love interesting musical instruments, this one looks way cool. Pricey tho

beats per minute tagging

Mar

2008

nytimes article today mentioned beatunes at www.beatines.com, and also a roundup at snipurl.com/228ai.

MIDI drumpads and other stuff

Jan

2008

Midi Madness — some wildly cool devices here that I would never use.

Stuff I want but don't need — musical instrument edition

Jan

2008

* Q-Chord — looks like a blast * Self-tuning guitar — I think I actually need a self-playing guitar

New Zunes

Nov

2007

Microsoft One-Ups Apple’s IPod Engraving — oh well that will hurt Apple share big time. I don’t really understand what MSFT is doing. Anyone who gets a Zune instead of an iPod under the tree is going to be sad. The consumer asset MSFT has is in the gaming space, people love their XBOXes, I ...

Eagles album available in FLAC

Nov

2007

The Big Picture | The Eagles Disintermediate Major Labels — one of the buying options at EaglesBand.com is flac, awesome.

Good Press for Lala

Oct

2007

Free Music Now! Lala.com’s Plan to Give Songs Away Could Upend the Industry

Stuff I want but do not need — music edition

Sep

2007

* Headphone Guitar Amp For Quiet Shredding — these are very useful * I wonder if I could run jam sessions through these * Amazonmp3 beta of course.

Stuff I Want But Do Not Need

Jul

2007

* French Ranges – Lacanche Stoves — beautiful ranges * Pioneer music tap — in the sonos, slimdevice space * d3o shock responding polymer — absolutely no need for this but it is cool * Van Hoy Snap Lock Knife — cool opening mechanism * Casio Youtube Camera * Belkin Vision Router — i hate ...

Ignition blog roundup

May

2007

* Tong Family Blog: Best Seattle Restaurants — I use SeattleWeekly for recos but this is a good list too. Remember when CitySearch nee Sidewalk was actually useful for restaurant reviews? * Lala’s music streaming plans get covered in TechCrunch * Phil keeps knocking out Beyond411 features. And the app hasn’t bloated! * Rich offers ...

RIAA: More full of S#@$ than ever before

Dec

2006

it is hard to feel sympathy for the industry when they are actively working both ends of the revenue stream at once — whacking users to get us to pay more, and whacking artists to pay them less — The Big Picture | RIAA: More full of S#@$ than ever before

Ford, GM, Mazda add ipod support

Aug

2006

Ford, GM, Mazda add ipod support — about time. Is there any reason 5 years from now the entire entertainment center of a car won’t be replaced by an ipod? basically the manufacturer will install speakers and an amp and a connector for inserting ipods. all that expensive multidisc player hoo-ha will be gone. similar ...

Recent software/services of note

May

2006

Jon Udell discusses web-based presentation software. S5 continues to intrigue me, if someone ran a hosted S5-like service I think i’d dump powerpoint Mobile Seatguru now available. cool. World of Warcraft the new golf? I kind of doubt it. Jungledisk — using amazon’s s3 as a backup service. way cool. WinSCP — the best FTP ...

EW's Best Music Websites

May

2006

Their list of best music websites — and a file of them all that you can import as firefox bookmarks.