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I celebrate weeks like this when there is something for me to be excited about as I report the latest sales figure from the iTunes Music Store. What has me excited? The return of The Black Keys!...
View ArticleEminem Regains #1 Single, Album at iTunes
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View ArticleLaurie Anderson Announces Collaborator Competition For New Disc Homeland
When I first heard "Oh Superman" back in the 1970s I thought it was somebody's idea of a joke. In some ways it sounded like, at least to me, a take-off on the European electro-pop that you could...
View ArticleThe Alchemist at Work: The Music of Martín Perna in the Digital Era
The alchemist at work is engaged with the world, taking materials discarded, thought useless, combining and recombining those materials and making something of value from them. My grandfather, a brick...
View ArticleSearching for the “Perfect” Mother’s Day Gift? Here Are Some Ideas
While Mother's Day isn't going to drop off the calendar, it does get harder and harder to find great gifts. Food, wine, and going out are typical ways to honor moms and your local market or spirits...
View ArticleKaty Perry and Glee Kickoff The Summer At #1 On iTunes
Some of you might wonder if I get tired of complaining about the songs and albums found in the weekly iTunes Music Watch. The answer is hell yes I do. I’m so tired of it, in fact, that I won’t spend a...
View ArticleEclipse Soundtracks and Eminem Dominate iTunes Music Store Charts
My daily series Verse Chorus Verse has been rebooted and I’ve been incorporating some playlists into the series in addition to proclaiming one song my “Song Of The Day.” As I skim the list of songs,...
View ArticleThe Rockologist: His Purple Highness Said What?
For my first Rockologist column in awhile, I thought I’d write about Prince. Anybody remember him? Anyway, a week or so back his Purple Highness made some news with his comments in an interview with...
View ArticleThe Black Keys Return Top 10 Albums; Eminem Continues Dominance at iTunes...
I celebrate weeks like this when there is something for me to be excited about as I report the latest sales figure from the iTunes Music Store. What has me excited? The return of The Black Keys!...
View ArticleEminem Regains #1 Single, Album at iTunes
So what do we have this week? Eminem is once again atop the singles and albums chart, something we’ve seen with regularity since Recovery was released earlier this summer. On the singles chart,...
View ArticleDownload Radiohead’s New Album On Saturday, CD And Vinyl To Follow March 28
Radiohead’s long awaited new album — their eighth studio release overall and the band’s first since 2007′s In Rainbows shook up the recording industry with its then revolutionary new distribution model...
View ArticleMusic Site Review: Concert Vault
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