The Lake Ontario Waterkeeper organization is utilizing music to bring awareness to the fight for clean, swimable, drinkable water. They’ve created a music web site with the purpose of bringing together people who love music and care about clean water.
Founding members of the club include: Broken Social Scene, Sarah Harmer, Bill Frisell, Gord [...]

Something about me you probably don’t know, is that I am absolutely terrible with song names and album names. Personally, I blame my iPod and digital music. You don’t have to pick up an album and insert it into some machine to play it anymore. Lengthy playlists dilute albums and lose them amongst orphaned songs. [...]

The Twitter account for Day & Night Blog is a great source of new music news, and you can follow them in more places than just Twitter. They’re also on Facebook, Myspace, and SoundCloud. Some of the music they cover: M.I.A., The Sea and Cake, Blur, LCD Soundsystem, Broken Bells, Band of Horses and a [...]

Chris Bro runs a web site called NEXT that hosts a show that aims to find your next favorite song. Each week, Chris compiles a list of songs which you can then stream from his web site. He also hosts the NEXT show on The Peak radio station in New York. After you listen to [...]

First let me say that I have been denied! my mp3 player for a coupla YEARS because I left it out in the rain and a teenager is not cheap, at all.  So I just listened to my playlist on the computer with my headphones.  Cool.  Well, seems my sons can’t keep a set of [...]

The Black Keys have been around forever, but I think this is their best release and I’m hoping they send me a copy of their upcoming album, Brothers, so I can do a Steamy live review. Here’s their first single off the record, Tighten Up, as performed by a dinosaur with moves that could rival [...]

I am sitting in my living room and have had so much going on lately that I haven’t got to sit down and give this band the time I think they deserve.  In today’s day of Metal, it’s a most pit of what “metal” means to the individual.  Bullshit, metal is metal and Lumadeski is [...]

I know that every writer, of any kind, has days (Hell, mine’s been about a week now)!   Joy and Jayson had their first gig under my management at the Perry County Volunteer Fire Dept.  It went well and we got another gig from it.  I have a story on that in the works and they [...]

We are out of the closet!  Yup, it’s official, we are bringing some awesome! folk and indie to our culture and making an impact on first sight and sound!  I am managing Joy and Jayson’s career and I want to thank them for choosing me and trusting me.  I don’t put my name on something [...]

This is an amazing video and a beautiful piece of music:

Ben Meyers is a 17-year-old who spent a month putting together this video that combines improvised percussion—done on the lockers, doors and other various parts of his school—with piano and xylophone melodies. It’s all played by him, recorded separately and edited together in the [...]