Category: Music

Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful Life by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole I remember the exact time I first heard this song, it was at Maui Mini-Golf in Maui, Hawaii, on the first night of our …

Hurt by Johnny Cash (originally by NIN) My gateway drug from hard rock to Johnny Cash. What an introduction to a larger than life voice.

Dogs by Pink Floyd My favorite Pink Floyd song, from my favorite Pink Floyd album.

Squirm by Dave Matthews Band https://open.spotify.com/track/?si=3972fd0ef53c4418 Perhaps the best Dave Matthews Band lyric of all times: Above all things If kindness is your king Then heaven will be …

Hocus Pocus by Focus A lot going on here: whistling solo flute solo yodeling wild guitars

Emergence by Sleep Token Ok, more pop metal. I’m not sure how Sleep Token flew in under my radar. Even In Arcardia went into high rotation pretty quickly. Probably doesn’t hurt that my daughter …

Concrete by Poppy Yes, some pop metal in order for today. Bury me six feet deep Cover me in concrete please Turn me into a street

The Torture Never Stops by Frank Zappa Yeah, it feels like a The Torture Never Stops kind of day…

Good stuff! Sounds like a Ben Folds cover…

I don’t go to many concerts any more, but I still keep mostly up-to-date with Dave Matthews Band shows via bootlegs. Props to Dreaming Tree.org for doing all the leg work. Ironically, my external …

The last time I needed to mass convert some music files was about 10 years ago when moving some bootlegs off of optical media onto a network drive. Ripping a CDs worth of lossless SHN files to WAV …

I ask Matthews if he ever pictures his own death. “Yeah,” he says, “I think I do. I think about the people I’d leave behind. I need to stop making friends, so I can outlive all the people I care …

Out today, so good. The Jesus He Knows Me cover is kinda epic.

Still one of the best things on the internet…

Just a guy making a bluegrass cover of that Don’t Stop Believing song… in the shower. Nothing to see here. Can’t look away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0zH6G10qLw

Great stuff!

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Rush! Mercy, this version of 2112 from the Clockwork Angels Tour is tight:

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Finally got around to checking out Alabama Shakes on Austin City Limits. They were spot on as usual. But, I stuck around for the second act with Vintage Trouble, a band I hadn’t heard of previously. …

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I was considering replacing my aged computer speakers. So I went to amazon and searched for Computer Speakers and sorted by rating. The first hit in the list turns out to be folks selling the speakers …

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On the title track of his new solo disc, the Pink Floyd guitarist manages to turn an everyday annoyance into a serviceable hook. He speaks with NPR’s Scott Simon. Source: David Gilmour Plucks A …

Pure awesome…

Dave Grohl is my hero. Unstoppable.

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Yes, KISS minions! Moar please.

Hmm, I went to 13 DMB shows over the years, and never got to see Halloween live. #sigh.

Interesting stuff… You’ll listen to the 1975 song “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” differently after this! Source: Researchers identify all the emotions in a Pink Floyd song before discovering this about …

He’s not Roi, but he plays the part pretty well.

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That’s the place where I want to always be… [We’re] somewhere in between trying not to suck and not sucking. Source: Dave Matthews on Summer Tour: ‘We’re Trying Not to Suck’ | Rolling Stone

“B.B. may be gone, but that thrill will be with us forever,” Obama said. “And there’s going to be one killer blues session in heaven tonight.” Source: What do Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill …

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Knew it was coming, but it still makes for a super sad day for music. I was lucky enough to see him live 3 times. RIP. “King of the Blues” legend B.B. King is dead in Las Vegas at age 89, his attorney …

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Whoa, I think my head just exploded.

And on most days, my musical ability maxs out at pushing the play button. Amazing.

Like everything else Pomplamoose, perfection!

Whoa, never heard this cover before. Love the original, love this cover too.

And to think I got hooked on “Ain’t No Sunshine” because it was in a video game commercial… In 1970 the singer was a guy in his thirties with a job and a lunch pail. Then he wrote ‘Ain’t No Sunshine,’ …

Slightly absurd, but very listenable. Les Claypool performs at Rush’s Hall of Fame ceremony - YouTube.

How did I not know they covered Bohemian Rhapsody? Sweet.

In case Hayseed Dixie’s covers of ACDC stuff wasn’t quite country enough for you…

I used to keep all my music on my mac, but after downsizing to a smaller (but zillion times faster) SSD drive, I can’t seem to jam everything in any more. So, I’ve been using a portable 500Gb USB …

Man, 4/21 can’t get here fast enough for their new album.

Wonder if its too late to get my kiddos into metal.

Sweet!

Clears things right up for me.

Is this a record number of people in a Tiny Desk Concert? Very entertaining to hear and watch.

CodePen - #DaftPunKonsole. I played with this far longer than I probably should have.

Alabama Shakes Are Back With New Album ‘Sound and Color’ - Speakeasy - WSJ. Can’t wait. That single sounds pretty rockin'.

The ‘Super Mario World’ theme song played on floppy drives is just bananas.

The Inspiration Stream | Veerle’s blog 3.0 - Webdesign - XHTML CSS | Graphic Design. Man, I wouldn’t mind having one of these! I’d also like to pay $4.00 to see them.

_Under the Table_ at 20: Revisiting Dave Matthews Band’s Most Important Record : Articles : Relix. Geez, now I gotta go pull it out for a listen, and try to stop thinking about being old.

If you the thought the original was super catchy, omg!

Still missing you, Roi. via LeRoi Moore - Gravity With John Mayer - 9/6/07 - [MultiCam-Sync] - [Retro] - YouTube.

New Pink Floyd Album ‘The Endless River’ Out in October: Report - Yahoo Music. Fingers crossed.

Nice! via

Ride This Train: 1968 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive.

I’m pretty familiar older Genesis stuff, but I haven’t seen much of it live outside of a few Genesis tribute bands over the years. Now, a lot of good stuff is available on youTube, complete with HD …

Syracuse Jazz Fest 2014 lineup announced featuring B.B. King and more | syracuse.com. Great line up this year. Besides the King, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Trombone Shorty.

Jambands.com - Need We Say More? > Features > Boyd Tinsley: Reflections with BT. Great quote from Roi: Let’s take it to the next level…. What you did yesterday was yesterday. This is what we’re gonna …

Yes, please! Lost Album Gives Voice To A Johnny Cash In Recovery : NPR.

from the Day of the Dead 2013. Intense. I don’t think my nearly middle aged brain could handle that kind of stimulation in person.

I’m not a super big Bruce Springsteen fan, but his live shows are pretty amazing. Lately, he’s been doing a lot covers. Some awesome stuff in there… Royals Stayin’ Alive Highway to Hell

Whoa, how did I not know about the Vox music player on mac? Easy on the eyes, lightweight, plays FLAC, and scrobbles. Nice. In case you’re wondering why I don’t have nearly as many scrobbles as I used …

They do Shine on You Crazy Diamond, too! Pretty amazing cover using only 2 guitars.

Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here covered by a pair of rabbis.

Indeed.

I’m not really a LeAdd Rimes fan, but this tune is kinda catchy. The video is interesting because it was shot entirely on an iPhone 5. via

A little freaky and retro, but cool none-the-less.

Good music. Interesting video. Looking forward to the new album.

Interesting…

Turns out some marketing types heavily borrowed from the the Beastie Boys song Girls and used it in ad. While the abuse of copyright is pretty obvious, the girls as engineers message is worth …

5 year old covering Folsom Prison Blues

Fun stuff!

More awesome from Jack. Love his creative use of projector and foamcore.

IKEA or Death. Pop quiz, hot shot: is an IKEA product or a death metal band? I was only 9/20. Give it a shot.

Caught Beyond the Lighted Stage last night on Palladia. Good stuff. The baby pictures and interviews with parents were a riot.

The Real Burnouts Podcast “How many cooks do you need to make hamburger helper?” Ha!

Pretty awesome… kinda funny how he calls him David. via

Music is kinda cool, dancing is pretty wild too. via

Turns out there’s a lot more Mario Paint Composer covers. Here’s some Skrillex.

Kinda makes my head hurt. via

Heard this song on the radio again recently. Forgotten how good a cover it is. I hadn’t seen the video until just now. Its pretty cool, with some homage to Pink Floyd’s The Wall animations. Check it …

Been a while since Dave Matthews Band has made a video. Check out Rooftop: Bizarre, surreal, and addicting.

How have I never seen this before? Pink Floyd Money and Beattles Money covered by Dave Matthews Band. Too soon, Roi, too soon.

Well, the music part is pretty good…

Yep, Tuesday again! Time for another Monday Music Mashup. Oh, great, now I have to listen to Nevermind all day again.

Yep, its Tuesday, time for another Mashup Monday entry. Pretty smooth editing in this one.

I’ve been collecting Dave Matthews Band audio boots for a long time (15 years) and have hundreds (maybe thousands) of shows in my (not so well curated) collection. Its been wild to see just how good …

Looks like a Prius to me…

Super catchy. Hilarious animation. Via

Exhibit A Exhibit B Check out the behind the scenes, too.

Stumbled on her via her guest appearance on the new Will.I.Am album. Good stuff.

Yep, Pink Floyd and the Bee Gees. Cool in a ‘hurts your head’ kind of way.

Brad Paisley’s ‘Wheelhouse’ Of Good Songs — And Intentions : NPR. I’m admittedly not a big country fan outside of Johnny Cash. But, I caught the Fresh Air review of the album and it intrigued me …

The extent of my music playing ability is pushing play. My younger brother got all the music talent. Here’s a clip from one of his recent solo shows: PAUL CROWTHER AND THE SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES @ …

Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side,’ 40 Years Later : All Songs Considered : NPR. Concur that somehow this album just never gets old.

Still fresh, even though its 10 years old.

Regrettably, I was not able to make it one of Roger Waters’ recent modern The Wall shows. But, decent boots and youtube videos fill in the gap nicely. The one part I’m a little surprised that they’ll …

Umphrey’s McGee was in town a few weeks ago… The David Bowie cover was pretty sweet.

Johnny Cash postage stamp to be released this year

View Coin Guitar Picks by GuitarPickCollection on Etsy. Cool? Yep. Practical? Doubt it. Legal? Not sure. Isn’t it illegal to deface currency?

Man, that’s a lot of work there…

Caught some of this live the other night on Palladia, good stuff.

Supposedly, Darkside of the Moon was recorded specifically to line up with different events in the (original) Wizard of Oz movie, the phenomena was dubbed the Darkside of the Rainbow. I’ve even seen a …

Umphrey’s McGee - Syracuse NY at Ticketmaster. Hmm, oh, so tempting.

Two albums in high rotation this week: Gurrumul - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. I picked up Wiyathul as the Starbucks iTunes free pick of the week a few weeks ago. Most of these freebies are pretty …

Darn, Dave just tweated that the new album is gonna be late. Seems to be coming together, just taking a while to wrap up. Looking forward to some new stuff, regardless if I have to wait a little …

Just got some spam from the Warehouse regarding Dave Matthews Band some tour plans. Interesting, they’re opening at Darien Lake on May 27. Hmm, a two-fer at SPAC 2 weeks later (maybe a little Birthday …

I always said I’d buy a lot more music if it were priced more reasonably. Well, I just put my money where my mouth is. Recently I stumbled on the fact that Amazon MP3 announces super duper deals on …

Leroi Moore, saxophonist and founding Dave Mathews Band member, has succumbed to injuries from an ATV accident earlier this year. CNN story. Rest in peace, brother; you’ll be greatly missed. I’m sure …

A while back (years ago, in fact) I stumbled on Hayseed Dixie (probably via KPIG, the home of all things good.) They’re a bluegrass band that covers all sorts of rock music, including AC/DC (their …

Recently, while digging through the Live Music Archive for something new to listen to, I stumbled on Umphrey’s McGee (excellent website too!). I had see the name a lot on both the Live Music Archive …

Via digg, here’s a list of 20,000 free music videos on youtube. I’ll take their word for it on the 20,000 part, I didn’t count. A bunch of good stuff: bruce, pink floyd, dmb, ben folds, johnny cash, …

A while back I found Apocalyptica, good stuff. Today (via fark), I stumbled on Judgement Day (sic). Same idea, but equally interesting. Their trailer video on youtube rocks. Looking forward to some …

Fark had a pointer to this article, where they have some the same of old story about the popularity of Dark Side of the Moon. The newsworthy bits are a new upcoming book, The Dark Side of the Moon: …

My iTunes update said the John Mayer performance from the Today Show last week was available for download. On the off chance it was a freebie, I fired up iTunes and poked around. Turns out they want …

Caught a great interview and in studio performance of Ray LaMontange on NPR this morning. I’ve enjoyed his special brand of vocal since I saw as a Dave Matthews Band opener a few years ago. I highly …

Cool interview (via) with Fenton Williams, the Dave Matthews Band Lighting Director and Scenic Designer. Some of the lighting plan is determined ahead of show, but most is improvised in real time to …

While checking the link for the official Pink Floyd site for the last article, I stumbled on two news items: Syd Barrett. I hadn’t heard that founding member Syd Barrett recently passed away. The site …

I knew that Nick Mason of Pink Floyd fame was into cars, but I didn’t know he was doing new car reviews. Here’s an entertaining article (via NYT DriveTimes) where he reviews a Nissan Micra C+C (not …

Hmm, I’d say it was about 75% suck, unfortunately. Turns out that BigScreenConcerts are just crappy concert DVDs, shown in 4x3 with a digital projector. If this was supposed high def digital film …

Tom Petty is doing a fan club type thing called The Highway Companions Club. Sounds very similar to Dave Matthews Band’s Warehouse. Supposedly gets you better seats, but no guarantees; probably extra …

No, not the movie, David Gilmour concert tickets… davidgilmour.com reports: US tickets gone in 60 seconds Thanks to the power of computing technology, the remainder of the tickets via TicketMaster for …

A while back, I was on Gizmodo and found a company that was offering to trade used CDs for an iPod. Too good to be true? Millennium Music has their exchange rates posted for CDs to a number of iPod …

You may have heard that Dave Matthews Band recently did an extra night their Red Rocks tour finale as a benefit for the Katrina hurricane. Reuters reports what you may not have heard, was that …

Thankfully, my iPod MINI still works great. But, Apple is no longer selling them. Its replacement is the iPod Nano. pretty spicy, 2gb or 4gb flash (and 8gb rumored to be coming soon), color screen, …

Before I forget again, I dusted off my brain and pulled out all my ticket stubs to compile the list of all the Dave Matthews Band shows that I’ve attended. July 26, 1998 Saratoga Performing Arts …

I almost passed on Dave Matthews Band concerts this year. Since Ticketbastard has made it just about impossible to get good seats (with their no camping policies, inept clerks in person, and an inept …

Via Fark, femalefirst.co.uk reports that Pink Floyd has turned down offers of up to 150M Pounds (aka $262M ) to tour the US. Nutz. Let’s hope that this just a dirty rumor. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Between MTV and aolmusic.com, I got to see Pink Floyd’s performance at Live8. Breathe, Money, Wish You Were Here, and Comfortably Numb. Freaking amazing. Even thought its been 24 years since the last …

Whoa, big news, ladies and gentlemen. A while back I saw a rumor that Pink Floyd was reuniting to play for the upcoming Live 8 benefit concert. Like most Pink Floyd reunion rumors, I thought it was …

A while back, I stumbled on Apocalyptica. 3 words: heavy, metal, cello. Doesn’t get much harder than that. They’re probably most known for their Apocalyptica Plays Metallica album. I thought it was …

Spotted a plug for Blue Floyd in a the pinkfloyd2 group at Yahoo. Their sample cuts sounded pretty interesting, almost like cross between Pink Floyd and Phish. They were in the Syracuse area a few …

Yesterday, I was updating iTunes on my PC and noticed that there was also an update to the iPod software. I think I missed the last update, so I figure its probably a good time to get caught up. So I …

Nancies.org reports that Ben and Jerry’s is rolling out another Dave Matthews Band themed flavor, Dave Matthes Band Magic Brownies. Hmm, the name is a little suspect considering usually tries to down …

The Dave Matthews Band put up a new site to promote their next album. Not much to see other than a decent video that has some sound bites from all the band members. The teaser bits of new songs in the …

Here are some awesome (both in terms of beauty and expense) prints of Pink Floyd artwork at RockOptic (like the name!) On their site they also have some background stuff on the artist who does Pink …

Stumbled on the Festerhead online radio station this morning. Was looking for some good Hawaiian music (missing Maui, sniff…) Usually I tune into Hawaiian 105, which I listened to alot when tooling …

Caught the execellent Pink Floyd tribute band, The Australian Pink Floyd Show, last night. They’re pretty good. They rambled straight through all of Dark Side of the Moon, a few selections from Wish …

The latest Ipod innovations include ratcheting up the drive space (tops out at 60Gb) and adding a color screen for displaying photos. Check ’em out: http://www.apple.com/ipodphoto/ The photos idea is …

Saw a John Mayer / Maroon 5 / dj Logic show Tuesday night at Darien Lake. The show was great. We missed most of the dj logic show due to late arrival. Not really my kind of music anyway, so no tears …

Just learned through my favorite news source, Fark, that Gene Simmons has new solo album coming out. A**hole hits the stories this Tuesday. Alleged guests and collaborators include Bob Dylan, and the …