Pandora, the online radio network, now has a cool video series of Great Places to Hear Live Music. First posts are of The Canyon Club near L.A. and Buddy Guy’s Legends club in Chicago. blog.pandora.com/archives/podcast/video
Ringo Starr, Dave Stewart, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, along with Echo and the Bunnymen, […]

Rock Band X360 & Special Edition Music Video Game is being released, and in a big way too.  Here’s a great article by Sterling McGarvey from Sept. 7, 2007.
EA’s eagerly anticipated music title is coming to a city near you:
Next week in Las Vegas with the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards, Rock Band tour buses, […]

Let’s recognize a CybersMusic moment in rock history…
The year was 1981. MTV made its television debut at 12:01 am on August 1st.
The first video shown was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.
Another one of my favorite MTV videos was “Money For Nothing” from the 1985 multi-platinum album Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. […]

Larry King Live hosted Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with Olivia Harrison, Yoko Ono Lennon, and Guy Laliberte, the founder of Cirque du Soleil, and celebrated the first year anniversary of the show LOVE, the brainchild of George Harrison and Guy Laliberte, a high tech blend of modern circus theatre set to an exciting mashup of Beatles music […]

From the Rhino Records June Newsletter @ www.rhino.com:
ATLANTIC RECORDS’ 60th ANNIVERSARY

The late Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947, and within a decade the company had become the country’s preeminent R&B label.
Rhino will celebrate the influential imprint’s 60th anniversary with several releases beginning this month. The new documentary American Masters - Atlantic Records: […]

Yeah I know this is an unusual post for me, but I was pretty amazed to see Miss USA debut on the Miss Universe pagent last night with a Gibson Les Paul.  Of course, it was a custom finish with a US flag on it, and it was so cool to see an american guitar among […]

Complete with a red carpet reception, American Idol really kicked the hype machine into high gear with their final show of the season.  It was no surprise that Jordin Sparks won; she’s a fabulous vocalist with an award winning smile.  The atmosphere inside the Kodak Theatre was crackling with electricity from former American Idol winners and contestants, plus […]

Maroon5 are back and they’re hot!  Did you see them last night on American Idol?  Makes Me Wonder how they wound up on that show?  Maybe Melinda Doolittle can sing backup on their tour, now that she’s been eliminated from the competition? 
Now with a new album slated for release on May 22, Maroon5 is burning up the Billboard […]

Kelly Clarkson sang  a cover of Patty Griffin’s  “Up To The Mountain” on American Idol last night with special guest Jeff Beck on guitar.  Now there’s an artist I never would have expected to see on that show. 
But it was a special event, in that the American Idol show is using their star power to […]

Well, American Idol finally voted Sanjaya off.  It should have happened weeks ago.  The others are far better singers, but I guess he had the charm factor going for him. 
I saw the funniest thing on the Tonight Show last week.  They brought on Haley Scarnato after she had been voted off the show, and had the […]