If you’ve been watching TV at all in the last few weeks, I’m sure you’ve seen the new Amazon Kindle commercial (YouTube). It’s a pretty cool stop-motion production featuring the song Stole My Heart by Little & Ashley. But here’s the thing: How come nobody’s talking about the fact that it’s almost exactly the same… Read more »
Posts Tagged: music
Paul McCartney at The Hollywood Bowl (with Set List)
Last night I got to fulfill a lifelong dream of mine: I saw Paul McCartney live in concert. The show was at the Hollywood Bowl, which is just about the best venue for a show imaginable. For days the news forecast lots of rain, but the skies were crisp and clear all evening (although it… Read more »
How You Like Me Now?
There’s an excellent Kia Sorento commercial right now featuring a sock monkey and a monster (and some other kid toys). They go bowling and the sock monkey gets a tattoo. The best part, though, is the song. It’s How You Like Me Now, by The Heavy. You can find it on the album The House… Read more »
Friday Five: Irish Songs
Goodbye Mrs. Durkin – Irish Rovers Finnegan’s Wake – Dropkick Murphys The Orange and Green – Irish Rovers Black Velvet Band – Irish Rovers Seven Drunken Nights – Dubliners
Living Under a Rock
With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love movies. Yet,… Read more »
Friday Five: Favorite Christmas Songs
Linus and Lucy – Vince Guaraldi Trio It Happened in Sun Valley – Glenn Miller Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Petula Clark Happy X-mas (War Is Over) – John Lennon Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley
The Killers at the Hollywood Bowl (with Set List)
Last night I went to see The Killers at the Hollywood Bowl. My father-in-law got us amazing seats, right in the center on the lower level. I had to go to dinner with a client at work, so I missed the opening act, The Psychedelic Furs. But, just like when I saw Green Day a… Read more »
iTunes Tuesday: Good New Songs
I’ve already written about how you can use one playlist as the basis for another, and now we’ll put this ability to a good use. We’re going to make a playlist that will let you hear all the good new stuff. These are the songs that you’ve added recently, that you’ve rated highly, and that… Read more »
iTunes Tuesday: Simple Tutorials
If you’re just getting started with iTunes, the hands-down best place to learn how it all works is the Apple website. The “Find Out How” section offers dozens of video and text tutorials which will get you up and running quickly. You can learn how to import music from your CD collection, edit your music… Read more »
iTunes Tuesday: iPhone Music Streaming
No matter how hard you try to keep your music library organized, compressed, and free of ABBA, eventually you’re going to have more tunes than you can fit on your iPhone (or iPod, or any other mp3 device). The most recent iPod Classic has a capacity of 120GB, which can certainly hold a lot of… Read more »
Friday Five: Favorite Coldplay Songs
“Viva la Vida” “Life in Technicolor ii” – from Prospekt’s March “42″ “Death and All His Friends” “Lovers In Japan / Reign Of Love”
iTunes Tuesday: Create Playlists Quickly
In the previous episode of iTunes Tuesday I explained the difference between Smart Playlists and user-created playlists. Basically the key difference is that Smart Playlists are ones that iTunes creates for you based on criteria you define and user-created playlists are ones you make by picking and choosing songs. Today I’ll show you a couple… Read more »