Entertainer of the Year: Taylor Swift
on Nov 20, 2009 in News BMI Award CMA Award CNN Entertainer of the Year Fearless Madison Square Garden Song of the Year Taylor Swift Most country music stars find themselves stuck in a niche market of southern music lovers. Often mainstream pop fans avoid the southern accent, upright bass, and slide guitar of country music. Then, there’s Taylor Swift. Just last week she won...

Mindy Smith, the Voice of an Angel
on Nov 18, 2009 in Artists Amazon Billboard Come to Jesus Country Dolly Parton iTunes Just Because I'm a Woman Long Island Mindy Smith MySpace Southern Stupid Love The Tonight Show Once again, Nashville comes up big with another great artist. Perhaps at first Mindy Smith seems to the fit the mold of a stereotypical southern girl with a guitar, but two main qualities separate her from the rest: her catchy song writing and her an...

MySpace Considers Charging for Music Streams
on Nov 17, 2009 in News DRM MySpace Paid Model Top 5 Places to Find New Music MySpace Music easily made the Top 5 Places to Find New Music, but soon the popular social network may not be one of the best places for discovering new music. In the midst of record labels struggling raise profits, we’ve faced the creation of...

Say G.O.O.D. Morning to Violet Nine
on Nov 16, 2009 in Artists Adam Levine Any Wonder Big Sean Dashboard Confessional Fiona Apple G.O.O.D. Morning G.O.O.D. Night Get Him Back GOOD Music Images of Me John Legend Kanye West Muse Out Loud So Pop U Layer Violet Nine On June 2, 2009, Malik Yusef released his second studio album G.O.O.D. Morning, G.O.O.D. Night with help from GOOD Music and Kanye West. The release included tracks featuring famous artists such as Adam Levine, Big Sean, Kanye West, and John Legend.

Welcome to the Bungle
on Nov 13, 2009 in Artists California Epic Faith No More Golem II: The Bionic Vapor Boy Mike Patton Mr. Bungle None of Them Knew They Were Robots Rock Band Typically we feature upcoming bands, but today let’s take a step back to the oh-so-glorious 80’s and 90’s. In fact, this band formed in the 1985 and has since disbanded, but during their prime years in the 90’s, My. Bungle sto...

Full Service Has What You Need
on Nov 12, 2009 in Artists 311 Austin Full Service Gymnasium Romona Texas The Earth Still Wants You Trumpets Full Service, a reggae-fusion-rock-funk-etc. band from Austin, Texas deserves being checked out. They’re growing in the Austin music scene and spent some time in Philadelphia writing and recording another new album even after recently releasing ...

Taylor Swift Brings Home BMI Award
on Nov 11, 2009 in News BMI Awards Country Fearless Kanye West Love Story Nashville Song of the Year Taylor Swift Tennessee VMA Awards Kanye West couldn’t stand up and interrupt this acceptance speech. Last night, November 10, Taylor Swift received Song of the Year for her popular single, “Love Story”, at the BMI’s Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee...

Don’t Miss The Daylights
on Nov 10, 2009 in Artists Alternative Cemeteries of London Coldplay Goodbye Summer Indie Rock Synth The Daylights Have you ever heard the musical equivalent of a soap-opera? It’s the type of sappy music that drags on and on with cheesy lyrics and unoriginal chord progressions, the kind of slow songs played at middle school dances across the country. Not ev...

Philadelphia Features The Peace Creeps
on Nov 9, 2009 in Artists Autumn of Love Bulletproof Hindustani iTunes MySpace Philadelphia Pop Psychedelic Rock She Dreams the World The Beatles The Peace Creeps Psychedelic rock a isn’t long gone memory of the 60’s and 70’s. The Peace Creeps keep the dream of many alive by producing some of the greatest psychedelic rock of the 2000’s. Based out of Philadelphia, they’ve received...

Ryan Calhoun, New and Noteworthy
on Nov 6, 2009 in Artists Alternative i iTunes L.A. Rock Ryan Calhoun Slipping Away Thy Symphony I always love when I rummage through the great melting pot that is music and stumble upon something promising. If you listen to a song you can pick out the various influences (yes, even classical traits exist in modern music). Sometimes the mix can b...