New music Wednesday
I’m always looking for new music based on my current tastes, which is one of the reasons I love iTunes new Genius feature. But I use other means to find new artists and albums… I used to rely on “what others bought” at Amazon.com, but now I subscribe to cnet’s Crave feed. Almost every day they include albums with free downloads from the cnet download site… sometimes the artists are good, sometimes not, but I’ve found some great new albums this way. For example…
Sharon Little:
Drew Andrews:
and Horse Feathers:
I’m especially loving folksy music lately, listening to a lot of Hem and The Weepies. Not sure why, but it fits my state of mind these days.
NaBloPoMo – Day 1
It’s that time again – November is the REAL National Blog Posting Month, and I’ve signed up like I did in March. I think this will get me back into the swing of posting more often, because I’ve been very neglectful lately.
Mom’s here visiting this week, so naturally we’ve been spending a lot of time with my brother and his family. Tonight we went down to Conseco Fieldhouse for a free Blues Traveler concert. Ryan and I saw them ten years ago at the Horde Festival, and they were just as good tonight as they were way back then.
They only played for an hour, but they played some old favorites along with a couple of songs from their new album. The girls enjoyed their first concert, dancing along to the music and generally being as cute as they could be. Emma is not so happy with crowds and loud noises, apparently… after about 45 minutes or so she stuck her fingers in her ears and said “TURN TOFF”, which I took to mean she wanted the noise to stop. I love being there for first experiences like this… the girls’ reactions are always surprising, and always entertaining.
Filed under blog, hometown happenings, music, nablopomo, photos | Comment (0)Remember me?
I just started to log into the WordPress main page, and thought it very apropos that it should ask “Remember Me?” It’s been a while since the last post – I mean, here we are eight days into October and I have yet to post. I guess I haven’t felt very motivated to do so lately. Not that there aren’t important, weighty things to talk about, but I’m not the place you go if you’re looking for eloquent statements on the economy, politics, or anything else that’s happening in the world. No… you come to me for fluff.
So… who out there uses iTunes? *raises hand high* I’m a big fan – granted, I haven’t really tried any other music services, but I like the way they catalog my music and don’t see any reason to even try anything else. And now that they’ve come up with this Genius thing – which is, by the way, pure genius – I doubt I’d even look at anything else. I LOVE that I can select a song in my library, click a button, and it automatically pops up a list of other songs in my library that go great with the song I selected. I LOVE that it puts suggestions for similar artists and songs in the sidebar – in order to find new artists in the past that I might like based on my taste in music I’ve relied on Amazon.com, but that’s just not very efficient. Now it’s all in one place – found a song I like that’s similar to songs I already have? Just click the “buy” button and voila! It’s mine. I HEART IT SO MUCH.
Oh, and I bit the bullet and added to my iPod family. The 3rd gen iPod classic I have is kind of clunky and cumbersome to carry around when mowing or exercising, so I picked up a 1GB shuffle, in the new bright green. I planned to take it for its inaugural turn around the lawn lastnight, but it rained yesterday so I won’t be able to mow until Saturday. Maybe.
