McLuhan and Vinyl? I know - I sometimes stretch an idea to its snapping point but isn’t that why I bother to type all day?
Here goes - As I sit on the panels I’m invited to, I often forget to remind myself, that at the heart of all my discussions about music and technology the [...]
White Fang
More new music on the second hour of this week’s Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. This show is devoted in its entirety to Portland bands. Just a handful of the hundreds of amazing bands in this city. Portland take a bow. I’m on 94.7FM with resident DJ Squid every [...]
The night before Halloween and more new music on the second hour of this week’s Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. In this show you’ll hear cuts from Friendly Fires, a remix, Future Clouds & Radar, Black Sheep and Portland’s Red Fang. I’m on 94.7FM with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday [...]
Friendly Fires
Even more new music on the first hour of this week’s Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. I’m back with some new music from the CMJ Music Conference in NYC. This week you’ll hear cuts from Friendly Fires, Love Is All, O’Death and Portland’s The Old Believers. I’m on [...]
MSNBC ran a story today on online music, how to find it, how to listen to it and of course the best music blogs - and yes The Moose gets the honors…. It’s interesting that the article’s subtext is about finding music in hard economic times…here’s an extract.
Image: Kim Carney / msnbc.com
“When Washington state publicist [...]
Boing Boing posted a story about Wal-Mart ending its use of DRM wrappers on its MP3 download service and how, for its customers, there is now the inconvenience of backing up those MP3s by burning them to disc. If the files are not saved that way they will no longer be available via the Wal-Mart [...]
If this is just a PR stunt by Axl Rose’s handlers I have a feeling that the public image of the RIAA will once again be badly damaged. The story here doesn’t even make sense. It appears that a takedown notice was sent to Cogill in June and the songs were removed. Cogill was [...]
Big Mike Sullivan proving that the Genie is out of the bottle…
Ok, more promo MP3s for your listening and downloading pleasure. The Moose is transitioning servers but things seem to have gone smoothly. The reason for the transition is that our traffic has grown exponentially thanks to you our readers and listeners. The one piece [...]