YourMusic.com

All right. Seriously. Tell me the catch:
YourMusic.com
Your card is charged $5.99 a month. Each month, they send you a new CD from your queue. If you don’t have a CD in the queue, you still get charged the $5.99, but you can add a CD up until the day it’s supposed [...]

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Scoring, Scoring, All Day Long

I just returned from “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”. So-so movie, great performance by Laura Linney, wonderful score by Christopher Young. He came up with some fantastically subtle cues. Unfortunately, everyone in the theatre talked for, like, the whole time. Blech.
I don’t want to jinx my recent foray into getting my [...]

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Selling England by the Pound

Money problems are looming large right now on their way to being solved. Thanks, Bank of New York!

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Suburban Home is YOUR Home!

Suburban Home Records is amazing. They have just lowered the price of many of the CDs in their catalog (including all Adventures of Jet releases) to $5.00. Here’s Virgil’s explanation for the change:
We are always debating the value of music. From spending 9.99 on Itunes for an album to subscription services offered [...]

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Back to the music…

Even though there’s so much else to say about Katrina…
Let’s talk for a moment about the fact that I just discovered Brendan’s remixes of “Once,” “Alive,” and “Black” on the Pearl Jam greatest hits album, “rearviewmirror.” This makes me think that ol’ Brendan should remix the entire “Ten” album to make it sound less [...]

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Alvaro’s Slideshow

Alvaro Morales, a New Orleans resident, has documented the before and after of Hurricane Katrina and has posted his 197-photo slideshow on the web, complete with commentary.
View Alvaro’s slideshow

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Stop the Insanity

This is moving in reverse chronological order. We’re at 09/08/05 now. Check out this clip from Oprah, who has sent some producers down to walk around the Gulf Coast: “Here’s the story…I wanna take the dog…We’re gonna take him and two other dogs that we met here and we’re going to send him [...]

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"Throw Up Both My Hands…"

I put my new song up, but screw that. This is the only song that matters to me right now.
“Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)”
Download from iTunes.
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Rockets, moon shots
Spend it on the have [...]

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"Heart Around It"

A few days ago, one of my students sent me some lyrics he was working on. In about 10 minutes, I had written a melody for him and had recorded a rudimentary demo in GarageBand. I don’t know — I felt like Carole King and George Goffin combined!
Yesterday, he sent me more lyrics [...]

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