Archive: 2003

Meet Jenny Toomey, musician, artist, and political activist. As the Federal Communications Committee plans to further deregulate the bounds against complete corporate media consolidation, the public threat remains as insidious and invisible as the deliberation process within the Beltway.

This rare gem of a compilation CD not only showcases the talents of female performers from Joan Baez to Aimee Mann, and crosses genres from punk to bluegrass, but the proceeds benefit families who have been affected by domestic violence.

Gary sat alone in the dark, guitar in his lap, drink in his hand. It was how he spent most of his time. All really. Gary was a member of the Orefice family, and obvious drawbacks of the name aside, being a member of the Orefice family was both a blessing and a curse, in Gary

In less than six months since first gracing the stage, Hookah Brown has gone from Rich Robinson

As the strobe lights flash and the confetti rains down on the crowd, singer Wayne Coyne pushes the audience into a full chorus sing-a-long exclaiming, ‘humiliation is nothing to fear!’ He should know, leading the house along with a hand puppet of a nun, while he dons a classic white suit stained with fake blood. And this isn’t New Years, or a Halloween show…it’s a Wednesday night in April where a packed house dances and cheers along side frogs and cows and every costume imaginable.

In the mid 1970

The Old Man of the Mountain, New Hampshire’s natural stone profile that looks like a gnarled human face, fell from its mountainside overnight on Friday. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the damage, but it has long been aware that the natural profile could slide. There had been several efforts over the years to stabilize it. The profile, about 40 feet high and 25 feet wide, was one of the most photographed sites in the state and was considered New Hampshire’s state symbol, appearing on travel brochures and even the state quarter. It was located in Franconia State Park, about 70 miles north of Concord, and to the west of Interstate 93, about 1,200 feet above Profile Lake.
“You don’t think about it much, but it’s what everybody comes to see, it’s our thing. And now it’s gone,” quoted a resident of Franconia, NH.
Source Yahoo.com.

Sunday April 13, 9:00AM, the Concord River. The put in was a bit flooded over, well that may be an understatement, the put in was a lot flooded over. Just barely enough room to back the SUV in. With all of the snow & rain we have had, the Concord has flooded over it’s banks.

Good boots are a critical element for attaining a more pleasant hiking and camping experience. In the course of the last few years I

High Mountain Park Preserve sits in Wayne, NJ, on 1154 acres of protected land established by The Nature Conservancy in 1993. This hike is really close to Manhattan, maybe 35 minutes drive over the GW Bridge in the Preakness Range of the Watchung Mountains.

A review of the English Lager I brewed back in December for my springtime enjoyment.

Hip Hops biggest names come together in this summer

On the gossip front, an up coming wedding involving two of the most identifiable names in music will take place shortly. Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall who and British rock and roll Hall of Famer Elvis Costello plan to marry, according to sources. Krall’s “Live in Paris” won a Grammy award in February for best jazz vocal album and has always had one of the sexiest and smoothest voices going, along with fantastic piano chops. She met Costello at last year’s Grammy awards ceremony. No specific date has been set for the wedding.
Source Yahoo.com.

Observers are calling the launch of Apple Computer’s digital music service the iTunes Music Store an overwhelming success, Billboard Bulletin reports. The service, which went live Monday, sold an estimated 275,000 tracks at 99 cents apiece in its first 18 hours, according to major-label sources.
All songs — including exclusive material and videos from U2, Eminem, Sheryl Crow, Bob Dylan, Sting, and others — can be previewed for free as 30-second samples. All can be burned to a CD and are automatically synched to an iPod.
The feat is especially remarkable when considering that the offering is available only to the limited universe of users of Apple computers. The launch thereby sets the stage for a race between a host of media and technology companies to create and effectively promote similar services for the much bigger Microsoft-equipped PC market.
“There is going to be a race to see who can get to the Windows market and start to replicate this,” says the head of new media at one major label. “The question is [whether] someone else wants to put up the kind of money that Apple is to let people know they’re there.”
Apple says it plans to make iTunes compatible with the PC by the end of the year. Sources tell Bulletin that two major labels have already cut wholesale agreements with Apple for the Windows version of the service.
Source Billboard.com.

After spending a year travelling the globe, Paul McCartney will wrap up his tour behind 2001

John Medeski has contributed an original, jazz flavored score to Dr. Sax and the Great World Snake, a double-disc reading of a lost screenplay by legendary American writer Jack Kerouac. Graham Parker, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jim Carroll, Robert Hunter, Kate Pierson and Robert Creely are the musicians and poets who have lent their voices to the project. The screenplay is based on Kerouac

Even before before the tragedy in West Warwick, RI, that left ninety-nine dead,-metal band Great White wasn’t everybody’s favorite band of the moment. However, The band has just announced they will jaunt out on a summer outing that will benefit the victim

Modest Mouse, Hot Hot Heat, Sahara Hotnights, !!!, the Kills, Radio 4, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Northern State, and the Pattern have been tapped to perform at the Village Voice’s third annual Siren Music Festival, set for July 19 at Coney Island, N.Y.
As with last year’s edition, which played host to Sleater-Kinney, the Donnas, and the Shins, the free, all-ages festival will feature performers from noon to 9 p.m. on two outdoor stages at the Coney Island amusement park.
More acts are expected to be announced for the festival in the coming weeks, and local bands and DJs will be added to the lineup. Past editions of the festival have also featured art exhibits and multi-media installations as well as late-night burlesque shows and other special events.
For updates and more information, visit the event’s official Web site at Siren.com
Source Billboard.com.

The Austin City Limits Music Festival, in its second year will feature more than 100 artists over three days, September 19-21. The festival is a spin off of the 25 year old Austin City Limits music program on public television. The confirmed artists include: R.E.M., Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Beth Orton, String Cheese Incident, Beta Band, Spoon, Patty Griffin, Los Lobos, Nickel Creek, Mavis Staples, Alejandro Escovedo, Ween, Robert Randolph and Gomez.
For more info visit – Aclfestival.com.

London-based dance-music brand Ministry of Sound (MoS) has begun offering almost 100,000 tracks for legitimate download from its Web site.MoS relaunched the site Monday, declaring its ambition to become the “No. 1 global legal music download and streaming site.”All five majors are offering content to the service. Users can purchase downloads for 99p ($1.57) apiece from http://www.ministryofsound.com. Tracks can be burned to CD or transferred to a portable device. Alternatively, a monthly payment of 4.99 pounds ($7.94) gives the user 500 credits; permanent downloads cost 100 credits, while 30-day timed-out downloads are 10 each.Pay-per-view streaming for the broadband version of MoS radio is priced at 1.50 pounds ($2.38) for 24 hours of access (during which time users can connect up to 10 times); other pay-per-view content, such as videos and DJ mixes, carries the same price.
Source ETonline.com.