So I’m wondering if Liz Strauss has really great taste in blogs? After all this is second time one of my blogs was selected by her to win her SOB blog award. First time was over at my A.Connector site. So what gives? Does Liz have like really impeccable taste like me? Can it be [...]
I was asked by Jack Mangan a good friend of mine if I’d like to contribute some audio commentary on Joe Murphy’s 1 year memorial. I thought about it and just didn’t “feel it.” I don’t know why-maybe just not in the audio mode these days. It doesn’t matter. So who is Joe Murphy? Joe [...]
Leg Up listener from Germany-Ulrike sent this gift of Easter candy. You rock Ulrike!
Had my first real connection with Utterz. I’ve used it and replied to some of my friends several times, but today just listened to a reply from Rich Palmer and I really loved it. Rich answered a question I left home regarding his post on Boston Stoker coffee. He told a great story, I [...]
Future of Music and music as a stream advocate Gerd Leonhard has just published this new book which is a collection of essays on the distribution of music in this post Napster online P2P world. You can buy a copy or download .pdf for free. Gerd’s ideas on this space are quite brilliant and [...]
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Ryan a new member of Xacti Users Group I’m part of has really nice VOG(his term for video blog). He posted this really touching piece on a memorial in honor of a young boy that was tragically murdered in Honolulu by his neighbor. rather than saying, “hope you enjoy it”-I’ll just say watch it and [...]
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Your Brooklyn Bluesman friend is certainly eclectic in his musical tastes. Don’t really cover much jazz in my Getting a Leg Up podcasts. Not because I don’t love tons of it(I do) just because I feel I need to maintain some kind of boundaries to keep me from flying off into the vortex(or some such [...]
If you used to shop the import record stores like I did(warning:If you don’t know what a record is please skip down to post below with nice video-:) ) you’ll probably remember the fanzine Trouser Press. Well it’s been on the web for a while and serves as online encyclopedia for all those prog, foreign,indie, [...]
I wrote a few days ago that musical genius and Net savant Trent Reznor is involved in new project which is trying to embrace fans and offer them some options and value without the excesses of the record industry. Saul William’s The Inevitable Rise and Fall of Niggy Tardust, produced and accompanied by Trent is [...]
The Muddy Basin Ramblers are one of the more interesting bands here in Taiwan, in that they play jug band-style traditional blues music. Some talented people are on board including Poagao who’s photos I often feature. They are doing live show to celebrate the release of their 1st CD. Come out and join the fun [...]
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