Sony BMG hates piracy so much it sues its customers, installs vicious rootkit malware on their computers (including mine), pays companies like MediaDefender to flood P2P networks with fake music files, creates DVDs so riddled with copyright protection they won’t play in normal DVD players, and oh yeah, supports the power-hungry RIAA.
So I have to […]

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Lili Haydn’s debut, Place Between Places, comes out on Nettwerk Music tomorrow.
Haydn is a singer, songwriter, violinist, human being, etc.
We don’t like this genre of music, but that doesn’t mean you don’t or won’t.
Check it out.

She’s on Jay Leno tonight, but you certainly don’t watch Jay Leno, right?

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Annuals are one of my all-time favorite bands, and the musicians from Raleigh, NC are getting ready to release a new EP, Wet Zoo, on April 1 (Canvasback Music).
The five-song EP starts out with three brand new Annuals track and ends with two tracks by the band Sunfold, which features songs written and sung by […]

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Aussie six-piece The Cat Empire are enjoying platinum success in Australia with their latest album, So Many Nights, which hits the U.S. on 4/22 (Velour Music Group).
Here’s the video from the first single:

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Wolfkin’s Brand New Pants is highly recommended.
The Danish group has echoes of Kraftwerk, David Bowie (the Bowster, as we like to call him) and tracks like “Coyoacan,”  which arouse influential suspicions ala The Beta Band’s head bopping Scot rock.
Put that in your pants and rock it. And here’s a taste for ya:
Wolfkin : The Great […]

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South Pasedena’s Mario Martin Zelaya sent us his acoustic guitar CD, Calafia’s Moods, that includes fancy latin-influenced guitar work on “Cabrillo Beach” and a stirring cover of Steely Dan’s “Do It Again.” And how can you not love a singer-songwriter who samples Flipper dolphin calls into his songs (”Valcamonica”)?
We don’t have any of those to […]

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I first met and heard David Dondero play about five years ago in a cramped apartment in Ames, Iowa with a hardwood living room floor serving as a stage. Dondero opened and then joined Son, Ambulance (Saddle Creek’s Joe Knapp) on “stage” with accompanying guitar as Knapp tinkered at his keyboard.
Dondero is so grounded in […]

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Social Media and Blogger Relations 2.0
WestGlen Power Professionals Lunchtime Seminar
Wednesday, March 26th at 12:00 p.m. Embassy Suites Hotel Minneapolis-Downtown
RSVP is closed
Charged with creating viral buzz for your brand’s products or services but not sure how to navigate the constantly changing world of Internet communications and social media?
Outreach to consumers via blogs, consumer websites, […]

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Dropping their first studio album in 5 years, Berkeley’s Counting Crows are back today with Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings (Geffen), and they don’t care if you missed them at all.
And while Mr. Jones may have been snoozing on the porch, Adam Duritz and company weren’t going to end their career with a Greatest […]

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UK electropop band Temposhark release The Invisible Line on Defend Music today.
It’s a retro take on electropop, but maybe too retro, with not enough edge to keep me listening. I’m not hearing the darkness and despair that made their earlier peers so successful, and perhaps the sound is too poppy and the lyrics rely […]

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