My big head has been working overtime lately (for no apparent reason, as usual), and it’s time to share my new pet theory:
My claim is that over the past hundred years or so, the development of Anglo- and African-American popular music can be divided into highly predictable cycles.
You see, I figure that roughly, […]

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Here’s a song I wrote a couple of months ago. It’s a collaboration with my nephew, really. He’s 15, and he asked me to write a song for a school project. They were making a fictional short film about a dysfunctional family, and the song was meant to reflect the teenage daughter contemplating suicide. […]

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Create Digital Music pointed me to Alltop, a headline aggregator with a really nice music page.
As CDM says, a great alternative to my already overloaded RSS flow in Google Reader.

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Muxtape

I can’t see them lasting very long due to the intricate legal web that entangles the entire music industry, but the guys over at Muxtape (I’m assuming they’re guys here) have set up a cool service where you can create your own mixtape by uploading a maximum of 12 mp3s to their servers for streaming.
It’s […]

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