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How I’m currently buying/listening to music

It’s a complicated mess. Regular, “you have a new/old album and I want it” type of stuff I use iTunes. I can buy it from my phone or laptop, it gets auto-downloaded to my other devices, no DRM, 1-click buying and they have iTunes Match that puts all my music in the cloud… to be [...]

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Oh It’s Every Review I’ve Ever Known

To the beat of the Turnpike Troubadours “Every Girl”. for reference [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Every Review Well it was released in the morning late October San Antone Aw it’s every review I’ve ever known Well it was released in the morning late October San Antone Aw it’s every review I’ve ever [...]

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Larry Hooper – Stillhouse

I rarely take the offer when people want to send me a CD, so it was fate (and a little of feeling like I know the guy from the FB and the Twitter) when Larry Hooper not only sent me his new album, but that I stuck it in for a good honest listen. Nothing [...]

Lost Highway loses Hayes And Bingham

I’m not much on being a “news outlet”, but this is too huge to pass up and I think it has more depth to the story than just two guys leaving a record label. There’s so much about this that makes sense… and yet so much that doesn’t. As reported by William Michael Smith of [...]

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Adam Hood’s new album – The Shape of Things

I love Adam Hood and this isn’t a album review. Now that we got that out of the way let me tell you that this new album, The Shape of Things, that comes out in a few weeks is his best work to date. His voice is stronger than I’ve ever heard it and his [...]

Kickstarter is the new Dave Chappelle

Chappelle had been doing fairly funny movies early in his career, but when he got his own show on Comedy Central in 2003 he took the world by storm. By 2004 you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing someone quoting “I’m Rick James, bitch!” In the peak of his career he fled to South Africa, claiming [...]

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Planning Some Shows For The Fall/Spring

Lots of people are asking about what shows I have lined up to put on over the fall/spring, so I figured I’d catch everyone up now that I have a little direction. With all my talk of “musicians need a different money model”, I figured it was time to quit talking and start doing. Starting [...]

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