If I were a decent guitarist (not even close), I’d probably be like my friend Brian, who spends his every spare minute playing in a band. Most of the time, though, he’s helping people select lumber or providing counsel on paint and caulk selection at the local building supply store.
That’s his day [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Middle Earth – It Ain’t About The Money
October 31, 2006Middle Earth Music Hall and Shiloh’s Head To Court
October 30, 2006Update: Middle Earth wins court case
What started as a promising cohabitation has become an increasingly bitter dispute between the Middle Earth Music Hall and its upstairs neighbor, Shiloh’s Restaurant. Each has filed suit against the other, and the spat threatens the future of both Bradford, Vermont businesses.
Shiloh’s claims the music from Middle Earth is so [...]
Today’s Free Download – Stonewall
October 27, 2006“Blessings for Pearls” is the first single from Stonewall’s demo disc. The band spent several fruitful weeks at Exsubel working with Shamus Martin. There are more to come, but this is currently streaming at MySpace, and I’ve taken the liberty of making it easier to download. It’s got the punch and crunch I’ve [...]
Deep Catalog Experiment Works For UMGI
October 26, 2006It happens all the time. I get a craving to hear some old, forgotten song. A few weeks ago it was “The Saints Are Coming” – the original version by the Skids – and it’s nowhere to be found online. Wal-Mart, the closest so-called “record store” in my small town, obviously won’t have it, and [...]
Local Rhythms – Spooky Night
October 25, 2006Halloween brings out the child in adults who never got over playing dress-up in grade school. Their affinity is likely due in no small part to the fact that, as holidays go, Halloween is just about the best there is.
Don a costume, grab a bag and go door-to-door, demanding candy. How can you [...]
Today’s Free Download – “Have You Had Enough?”
October 25, 2006Two weeks before the election, AlgoRhythms waxes political with a link to a lovely little ditty recorded by Rickie Lee Jones, Tom Maxwell and Ken Mosher (with Andy Paley producing). “Have You Had Enough” bops along like the Squirrel Nut Zippers (whose own song “Hell” is an apt sountrack for the last six [...]
Sansa Rhapsody Caveat – SD Expansion Worthless
October 20, 2006OK, I love my new S250R, but today I learned something that made me love it less. Sandisk advertises the MicroSD expansion slot as a way to add memory to the device. The documentation describes a process for dragging and dropping tracks to the card.
First of all, the supposed device integration breaks down [...]
Today’s Free Download – Ingrid’s Ruse
October 19, 2006In honor of Saturday’s show at the Heritage, here’s a taste of Ingrid’s Ruse, one of the finest bands around these parts. You’ll need to go to their MySpace page, where three out of four songs are available for download. My favorite is their cover of Richard Thompson’s “1952 Vincent Black Lightning,” but [...]
Local Rhythms – Farewell, Ingrid’s Ruse
October 19, 2006The good news is that Ingrid’s Ruse, one of my favorite area bands, is finally putting out an album. The bad news is that their CD release party, which happens this Saturday at the Heritage Tavern in Charlestown, is also their farewell show.
Real life calls many a talented musician home. Singer/guitarist Ingrid Ayer-Richardson [...]
Hands-On With Sansa Rhapsody
October 19, 2006The new line of Sansa Rhapsody portable media players represents the strongest challenge yet to Apple’s market supremacy. One of the iPod’s key strengths is its’ integration with the iTunes Music Store. The Sansa devices, ranging from the 2 GB E250R to the 8GB 280R, are built to work seamlessly with Real’s Rhapsody music subscription [...]
