You Know All That Pre-Release Album Hype We’ve Been Getting from U2? Never Mind. No Album in 2014.

It sure smelled like U2 was getting geared up with an album release.  The soundtrack song.  The Super Bowl commercial.  The new single/video.  The Academy Award performance. The rumours of a late winter/spring/late spring/summer release. Yeah, well, never mind.  Billboard says they’ve heard from multiple sources that U2 is going back into the studio to [&hellip.. more

This Week’s Top 11 Playlist: 07 March 2014

This week’s whine:  Please, please let this winter end.  I just want to drive a car that’s clean inside and outside for just a few hours. Okay, I’m done.  Now let’s dive into this selection of new tunes, hand-picked by me just for you.  Thanks to Mediazoic for the hosting, too.. more

The US Claims We’re a Nation of Pirates and Thieves. Again.

From FYI Music News: Once a year a powerful American lobbying group drafts a hit list of foreign countries that it claims impede the fair trade of American culture and the remuneration in full to copyright holders in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and elsewhere in the land of the obese. And, once again, Canada is on [&hellip.. more

A Brief History of Billy Corgan Losing His Mind

He’s not going to like this.  Definitely not.  From Noisey: Back in the 90s, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan capitalized on a nation of despondent weirdos with his outsider-friendly alterna-rock songs. But as time went on, Corgan swam so far out into his own ocean of lunacy that even most of his diehard fans wouldn’t [&hellip.. more

Random Music News for a Friday

Here’s a quick roundup of some of the stuff going on today: Yes, Adam Lambert is the new Freddie Mercury. Ozzy’s UK mansion has been flooded. It’s time for another World Cup song for the English side. Want to make your own hit music? There’s an app for that now. Here’s a shoot-out comparing some [&hellip.. more

I Like This: Brody Dalle

Brody (Mrs. Josh Homme to some of you) has an album entitled Diploid coming April 29.  Here’s another taste.. more

Ten Musician Hot Sauces

In terms of stuff, musicians will put their name on a number of things. Look at Kiss for example. But hot sauce seems to be a more personal thing. Musicians seem to really get into the sauces creation and for those who endorse or make the stuff, there is a sense of pride involved. Here’s [&hellip.. more

There Was an Interesting Deal in the Music Streaming World This Week

When it comes to selling/marketing/promoting music these days, the more data you have, the better.  This is why Spotify shelled out some major dollars this week to acquire Echo Nest, one of the Web’s premiere data collection/analysis organizations when it comes to music. Billboard explains: [I]mplicit with the Echo Nest acquisition is that Spotify believes [&hellip.. more