April 1, 2010
CDs are DEAD! Long live CDs! A paradox. A puzzle for consumers, for distributors, and especially artists. Music, use to be strictly a live social gathering. But, since the invention of the radio (and to some degree printed music)… music is also private. We take it with us in our cars, on our phones, and [...]
March 15, 2010
What is MusicBrainz? It is a user-maintained open community that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata in the form of a relational database. If you don’t know what all that means, you should read the first tutorial; here. With that introduction, I’ve lost half of my readers to the first article. On [...]
March 1, 2010
This a two part MusicBrainz tutorial in two posts… the why first. What is MusicBrainz? It is a user-maintained open community that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata in the form of a relational database. Let me explain what a relational database is: A relational database matches data by using common characteristics [...]
February 15, 2010
One of the oldest websites on the internet catering to Japanese music fans is closing down. Paul Wheeler, webmaster and writer of Rock of Japan posted this on February 6, 2010. I’m planning on closing down Rock of Japan in May. Rock of Japan has been going for over ten years now. I’ve enjoyed it. [...]
July 10, 2005
We live in an interesting and fast paced musical time. I find it reminiscent of the ’60s and it’s real life musical legacy. Which wasn’t limited to The Beatles and the British Invasion but encompassed the shaping of songs through arrangements, the birth of a genre, and the songwriters of the times. Remember, I said [...]
